dana: why did the administration let it spend days floating over sensitive military sites? among those pressing the pentagon for answers is montana senator john tester. say yes or no. did we know what they were trying to collect, yes or no? yes. we think we know what they were going to collect, we don t know. that scares the hell out of me. we are building our understanding of what capabilities they have. i have a problem with the chinese balloon flying over my state, much less the rest of the country. mike: president biden down playing the incident. president biden: it is not a look, it is totally violation of national law, our airspace. once they come in our space we can do what we want with it. mike: we begin with bryan llenas off the coast of south carolina where the salvage operation is moving forward. good morning, bryan. good morning. the f.b.i. says a majority of the chinese spy balloon remains underwater spread out in two separate sections in
there is the wreck of the mary rose. it has come to the surface. and it s exactly a0 years since henry 8th s flagship the mary rose was raised from the bottom of the solent, after 437 years under the sea. the bank of england has been forced to intervene once again in the markets warning of a material risk to financial stability. the emergency move this morning will see the bank buy a wider range of government debt, in order to restore conditions in the markets. it follows on from yesterday s announcement of further meaures aimed at ensuring an orderly end to its emergency bond buying scheme. today the institute for fiscal studies think tank warnted the chancellor will need to make big and painful spending cuts to put the country s finances on a sustainable path. it suggests the chancellor could increase working age benefits in line with average earnings, limit public investment to 2% of national income and cut the budgets of every government department except he
thailand s prime minister attends the funerals of the children killed at a daycare centre last week. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. warnings of further attacks continue across ukraine this morning, a day after a wave of strikes by russia. yesterday, missiles hit cities across the country killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 100 more. air raid sirens have sounded across kyiv and other cities into this morning. the southern city of zaporizhzhia was shelled again overnight, with authorities saying one person was killed and public buildings including a school were damaged. work is under way across ukraine to restore electricity supplies damaged during monday s attacks. in his nightly address, volodymyr zelensky warned people to follow safety rules , saying the danger is still here, but we are fighting. later today the leaders of the g7 nations will meet virtually, and are expected to hear from the ukrainian president. mea
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. new developments in what is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for every one of the criminal investigations into the twice impeached disgraced ex-president and his campaign to overturn the 2020 presidential election that he lost. we are talking about all the ways in which ex-trump officials and aides and allies are trying to prevent investigators from getting the answers to some of the biggest questions around the capitol insurrection and donald trump s potential criminal cullibilities. the new york times reports the justice department has asked a judge to force the two trump lawyers to provide additional grand jury testimony as prosecutors seek to break through the former president s attempts to shield his efforts to overturn the 2020 election from the investigation. that is according to two people familiar with the matter. prosecutors filed a motion to compel testimony from the two lawyers, pat cipollone and patrick philbin last