congress finally receives a classified briefing on the matter today. the senate being updated at this hour after the house was briefed earlier today. sandra: all of this as senior u.s. military and national security officials warn and have confirmed that spy balloon shot down off south carolina s coast on saturday was part of a major surveillance program run by china s military. so, what else are lawmakers learning in these briefings? we ll ask tennessee senator marsha blackburn and california democratic congressman ro khanna coming up. john: begin with lawmakers sparring over the politization of the federal government and whether the justice department has been weaponized against republicans. hello, i m john roberts in washington. let me be the first to say it, sandra, happy friday eve. sandra: and we made it to thursday. good to be with you, john. i m sandra smith in new york. america reports. republican-led committee says many questions need to be answered by the f
steve scalise will be here on the push to impeach dhs secretary mayorkas and now explosive testimony on the border and the illegal drugs that are pouring over it every single day. failed at your jobs, entrusted with the highest level of power at twitter, when you were faced with the new york post story instead of allowing people to judge the information for themselves, you rushed to find a reason why the american people shouldn t see it. we are talking about hunter biden s half fake laptop story. i mean, this is an embarrassment. i think you guys got played by the fbi. john: republican house oversite committee on twitter on hold for a moment due to a power outage on capitol hill. not before sparks flew as lawmakers tried to get to the bottom of why the social media giant suppressed the hunter biden laptop story up to the run-up of the 2024 election. happy wednesday. sandra: we ll let you know as the lights get flipped back on, this is america reports. three form
sandra: house lawmakers signing off on china, recently uncovered spy program, targeting u.s. military bases as well as beijing alleged cover-up of the origins of the covid pandemic. john: is congress finally taking seriously the national security and economic threat that china poses to the united states? nikki haley and ashley hinson are here to weigh in coming up. sandra: potentially historic day at the supreme court as justices hear arguments in a pair of challenges to president biden s student loan handout. great to be with you, john. john: good to be with you as well, sandra, especially, rather, on this busy tuesday. john roberts in washington. this is america reports. the court s looming decisions on the two legal challenges to the president s plan will test the limits of presidential power. also have widespread implications for the tens of millions of americans who could see their loans reduced or completely wiped away. sandra: critics of the handout say the
together. live to the white house as soon as the briefing begins moments from now. two of our blackhawk helicopters were involved in a crash during a planned training flight in kentucky that resulted in the death of all nine service members aboard the aircraft. the nine individuals we lost are children of god. they will be mourned and missed by their families, by their communities. sandra: fox news alert, waiting an update from the pentagon as well this hour after nine u.s. service members were tragically killed in the helicopter collision along the kentucky-tennessee border. sandra smith in new york. hi, john. john: john roberts in washington. collision last night around 10:00 local time. sandra: as two blackhawk helicopters, part of a routine training mission, we are told, involving a multi-ship formation with night vision goggles collided around 30 miles from the fort campbell military base where the helicopters took off. john: army officials say there will be a
questions from children. it comes as concerns over the president s age and ability to did the job if re-elected. hello, welcome. i m sandra smith. we have made it to friday. john, hi. did you say friday? we call it fri-yay here in washington. the president struggling with fairly simple questions about his grandchildren and even the last country that he visited during a take your child to work event at the white house yesterday. where are your grandsons or granddaughters? i have one in new york, two in philadelphia, or three no, three, i have one granddaughter who is, i don t know the last country i traveled, thinking what the last one i was in. um i was yeah, you are right, ireland. that s where it was. i heard you had to get back to the oval office. by the way, the one thing i thought when i got to be president, i get to give orders. but i take more orders than i ever did and you are right. sandra: all right. a few interesting moments and exchanges there.