effective use of air defense in kyiv with a missile being shot down, unfortunately killing one person. so you see we now got a tit for tat in both countries. the difference being that not since the beginning of this war has anybody in moscow been made to feel unsafe. no russian that deep into russian territory could have imagined that ukraine indirectly was capable of reaching the russian capital, jim. well, we should note cnn is reporting there is at least a low confidence assessment from the u.s. that ukraine was behind that drone attack on the kremlin some weeks ago. sam kiley in eastern ukraine, thanks very much. still to come on cnn news central, russia s famous and perhaps cutest potential spy spotted off the coast of norway. government officials warning people to stay away for the whale s own good.
joe biden doesn t seem to get it yet. this morning we re talking about three potential spy balloons being shot down within a week. what is the ccp up to? is this a test? by the way, i learned over the weekend that these balloons, the largest one that could fit three busses in it had that was shot down over south carolina last saturday, that balloon was able to snap images of our military installations and send them back to china in live time. so what john ratcliffe told us last week was spot on. they were using solar pan else panels forunlimited power, unlid energy to continue the surveillance program. we re talking about it with ron johnson, senate homeland security committee, he did get a briefing. we re going to find out what he learned. we will also talk with chairman michael mccall, the chairman of the house foreign affairs commit at this and we ll committee and we ll talk with jim banks, representative from
u.s. custody since 2018. a stem cell scientist. so waiting to hear back on the white house on that part there. now let s talk about who he was is. he s a princeton graduate. he was in his final year getting his ph.d. in history when he traveled to tehran in order to do research. this is when he was arrested back in 2016. on charges that he was a spy. or a potential spy. now he is coming home. and i want to read you part of a statement i think is moving. it s from his wife who put out our family is complete once again. our son and i have waited three long years for this day and it s hard to express in words how excited we are to be reunited with him. we are thankful to everyone who helped make it happen. and i want to make one thing very clear here. president trump has made releasing american prisoners in foreign countries a big part of his agenda. we know at least app dozen prisoners have been released
there s a deep state conspiracy is bruce ohr is a high-level manager in the justice department, he s not supposed to be conducting daily conversations with the potential spy or source, it is fbi. attorney general bar was handing cash to vladimir putin s secretary, ridiculous you have a high-ranking justice department official essentially trying to pretend he s james bond - 7, when you see that kind of involvement it makes you think something else is going on, that there are interior motives in the last thing it is worth pointing out is there s still more to come, so many gaps of information we need to know and i think there s going to be further investigations. a lot of this information is being used to get surveillance warrants and misrepresentations to the court that is punishable as a crime. ohr talks about the fact that steele was worried about congressional testimony former fbi director james comey was going to give.
he s not supposed to be conducting daily conversations with the potential spy or source. that s where the fbi the attorney general barr was handing off cash to putin secretary. it s ridiculous that you would have a high-ranking justice department official essentially trying to pretend he s james bond. when you see that kind of involvement, makes you think something else s going on, that there are a ulterior motives. the last thing, i think it s worth pointing out is i think there is still more to come, as you were saying. there is still so many gaps of information that we still need to know and i think there s going to be further investigations. i think these people ought to be worried because as you said, a lot of this information is being used to get surveillance warrants and misrepresentations. it s a crime. shannon: the 302s, ohr says be 21 is worried about congressional testimony that former fbi director james comey was going to give. jim, i don t know if you are able to read