exception in the rules of congress. we have the whistleblower testimony, the whistleblower does not wish that to be made. john: fireworks on capitol hill, barbs at the house weaponization subcommittee hearing. fbi under a microscope after several whistleblowers accuse the agency of unfair treatment. sandra: employees had security clearances revoked against the politicized rot. republicans accuse the bureau of a partisan agenda. we ll take it up with katie pavlich and ben coming up. john: first, the supreme court granting a huge win for big tech and a pair of liability cases as the fight to protect free speech continues on capitol hill. i m john roberts in washington, great to have you here today. sandra: great to be here again, john. good to be with you. this is america reports. nation s highest court has now determined that twitter was not responsible when third party content was posted on its platform by the terror group isis. john: and side stepping on a case
ends in a tragedy. just a short time ago, all four were found, but two were dead. authorities have not identified the victims, but we do know that a mother of six from south carolina crossed the border from texas with three of her friends for a medical procedure, but investigators believe that once they were in the city of matamoros, they were kidnapped. we have disturbing footage. it shows the terrifying moments friday when at least one of those americans was shoved into the bed of a pickup truck at gunpoint in broad daylight, and not far from the united states border. our correspondents are covering this from all angles. josh campbell, you are getting information from your law enforcement sources about the condition of the victims and where exactly they were found. reporter: yeah, abby. i have been talking to sources since this incident began on friday, and to a person, they said, look. we re holding out hope that we will find these four, but the situation was very grim,
live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. residents in and around myrtle beach are told not to collect debris from a downed chinese spy bloochblt that comes as we are getting one of the best looks yet at the shootdown of the balloon. you re looking at the footage right now. our u.s. fighter jets fired a single missile to crash the craft. right now military crews are scrambling to recover the wreckage. most of it sitting in 47 feet of water. oren lieberman is at the pentagon for us. back to the video we just got from c infer n in the last several minutes just to highlight the clearest image yet that we have where you can see the balloon is popped, essentially, destroyed. you can clearly see what appears to know the surveillance equipment dropping very quickly into the atlantic ocean. i suppose that gives the military, the pentagon, some hope that what they are hoping to retrieve out of the atlantic is salvageable and may offer some clues as to what the chinese we
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. spy balloon down. a single missile took out a chinese spy balloon that floated across america s skies this past week. that dramatic sound just off the coast of south carolina earlier today. recovery efforts offshore are now under way as u.s. intelligence officials want to gain insight what china was up to. president biden said the order to shoot down the balloon came directly from him. on wednesday, when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. cnn has team coverage of this very tense moment in u.s./china relations. i want to start with warren lieberman who is over at the pentagon. what are you learning about the recovery effort that is gong on? i say sum that officials want to get their hands on it as quickly as possible. absolutelily. but the debris, what was left of the payload, the length of three school buses has fallen in 47 feet of water.
included ukraine, iran, and the united kingdom. among them ten with classified markings between 2015-2016, some labeled top-secret the highest level of classification, they were discovered on november 2nd but of course that would have been six days before an election, the midterms. why are we only learning about it now? by the way they turned them over the next day, november 3rd. a lot of people knew, but not the american public. why were they in fact at the penn biden center to begin with? after ignoring questions about the scandal, the president finally broke silence yesterday. people know i take classified documents and classified information seriously. i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn there were any government records taken there to that office. but i don t know what is in the documents. i have turned over the boxes, they have turned over the boxes to the archives and we are cooperating fully. cooperating fully with the review. harris: it seem