very hot topic for the house panel that is probing the most pressing threats that face the u.s. today. we should recognize that beijing seeks to divide the euro atlantic alliance. martha: that is a serious question, beijing seeking to divide us from our allies. we are going to talk about that in moments. house republicans also today busy day on the hill, as things get rolling the beginning of this february, there were grilling former twitter executives, this is quite a lineup they have got come on the company s role in suppressing the hunter biden laptop story and how they came to those conclusions. i think you guys got played by the fbi. five days after you guys take down the hunter biden story, 511 former intel official send a letter and say the hunter biden story has all of the classic earmarks of a russian information operation. the information operation was run on you guys. we could talk about civil rights, voting rights, abortion rights, instead we re talkin
by russian fighter pilots forcing down an american drone. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. get set to roll again, sandra. sandra: a breaking news two hours, john, and following through on that. the latest move by an american rival, and just like the spy balloon, critics are calling on the president to act. response can t we do nothing. our adversaries are going to be on the march as long as we let them. direct test of the biden administration to try to see what the limits are and it s a message of their displeasure, and a test to see if we ll respond to it. john: how will the white house respond to the criticism? sandra: start us off, jacqui, a lot could come up a few moments from new. no kidding, sandra. after the spy balloon, the biden administration responded by sanctionings some of the chinese entities involve in the airship of this. and russia hawks are saying the biden administration has to strongly respond to a fighter jet taki
general keane, i m not sure if you can see this, but we have a live shot now of this balloon going down. this balloon has been taken dow- oh, that s great. arthel: it is now i falling from the sky there over surfside beach, south carolina. so your reaction to this, sir. i m watching it. well, first of all, well done. congrats to the military for being able to do that. arthel: very dramatic, indeed. lucas tomlinson is live at the white house with the very latest. lucas. reporter: we ve just learned from this background call with pentagon officials that it was an f-22 fighter jet flying out of langley air force base, that s near virginia beach, that shot down this chinese spy balloon using a single sidewinder missile, a heat-seeking missile. some questions if there was enough heat signature off this chinese apparatus to be able to shoot it down with a sidewinder. but i digress. the shot-down happened at 2:39 eastern time off the coast of south carolina. very notable, it w
it s a political stunt and disservice to the american people. what a hideous miscarriage of justice, a majority power crisising influence over house committee assignments right on cue, squad members tried to out outrage one another with their full outrage. [screaming]. [bleating]. the white supremacy happening is just a bunch of racist gas lighting. they turn congress into a place of fear mongering. my voice will get loudered and stronger and my leadership will be celebrated around the world as it has been. so utterly disingenuous but predicting. the fbi to the epa suddenly crying foul. why? because their committee position was actually put to a vote. how dare they be held accountable for their own toxic words and abysmal record? naturally their dog eared scripts about racism and mysogyny. this is an extension of that record. there is nothing consistent about the republican party s attack except for the incitement of women of color in this body. don t tell me th
white house there, and the pentagon briefing, not quite yet on the russian fighter jet that downed the american drone but big questions as the video was released to the public over what the intention was of russia, where it is reported this decision was made at the highest levels of the russian government, not sure where vladimir putin himself was involved in that decision, according to those reports, john. big questions over what we are doing about the drone that is in the very deep waters there, whether or not we are going in to retrieve it and as parts from our pentagon reporters, that russian ships rushed to the location of that drone as it sunk to try to retrieve what they could. so looming questions at this hour, the pentagon briefing will be important. we ll get in there as soon as they dive into that new video. john: we don t have any ships in the black sea so us getting to it in a timely fashion would