top of the hour this thursday. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. we begin this hour with the new reporting of the chinese surveillance balloon, and the state department is confirming that this device was capable of monitoring u.s. communications. that is likely one of the new details that lawmakers are learning this morning. the biden administration is giving classified briefings on the issue on capitol hill a short time ago, and we will give you more of what we are learning in a moment, and with reclosely following what is happening in europe. the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is calling on the european allies to step up the assistance and talking about specifically what they could do in his mind game-changers. fresh off of the sales pitch in wisconsin, president biden is headed to florida to expect to drive home his pledge in particular to protect social security and medicare, and we will have more on that message from the white house ahead. first of all to nat
in a broader scope for those who have gone against the duty to protect and serve. we have to have strong wording in there so it cannot be preempted by state laws and loopholes, and we can really protect everyone nationally in our community. before you go with cnn, myself, covered so many incidents like this around the country, and one change that we have noticed, and i am not the only one to mention this is that sometimes the law, the courts, the police departments are reacting more quickly now. and do you see some hope of how memphis responded to this case of tyre nichols? i do see hope in that response, but let s not forget the activists and the community calling for that swift and quick response. so i would not do any benefit if i didn t say that if we didn t