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
right now, two separate senate committees are drilling into u.s. and china relations. in the wake of that chinese spy balloon entering the u.s. just last hour senator jon tester made the stakes abundantly clear. china s a real threat and one we need to take seriously, which is exactly why we re here today. house members this morning receiving a classified briefing on the balloon ahead of a vote scheduled just a few minutes from now to condemn china s use of a spy craft. senators are set to receive an all members briefing of their own in about 30 minutes. all of this happening as the state department is revealing fresh details about china s surveillance program this morning. and just what the balloon hovering over the u.s. was capable of. in a few moments, i ll talk to former u.s. ambassador to china max baucus about what we can learn and the very real threat posed by china. plus, fading hopes for survival, days after devastating earthquakes rocked turkey and syria. the
we re not safe. if this is something that is that the white house is just kind of brushing off saying, oh, there s no threat. we re watching it. even the president was asking. can we take it down? he said. no there s the concern. obviously there s concern for american lives everywhere in any situation, but if this were to happen in china, if the us had something like this in china, they would have taken it down immediately. on that safety in i assumed, obviously wrongly, that nothing like this could ever happen because i assume that our airspace was vacuum tight and that the moment a speck of dust enters that airspace. it is shot down, so my big takeaway is if our enemies can get a slow moving balloon into our airspace, and who s to think tv concern about shooting it down, but but i also understand what michael waltz is saying. congressman waltz he s basically saying, look, this isn t over downtown l a. this is in a very sparsely populated area. the reason we know it s spa
[laughter] steve: how is that? hey, who is for the eagles? [crowd boos] steve: so many people have kansas city memorabilia on today. thank you very much. who likes fox & friends in the morning? [cheers] and here we are live from the bbiscuit in kansas city. i got married here, i used to work here and i m here to cheer on the kansas city chiefs. that s great. listen, what a crowd we have got today ainsley and brian. look at this. one of the people actually brought in the super bowl trophy. and this is what it is all about. of course, this is probably a bootleg or something. [laughter] can t possibly be real. so, anyway. we are live today from the big biscuit talk about kansas city that is going to be playing in nine days against the eagles. the people here even though it is 11 degrees, ainsley and brian. they are amped up and ready to win, right? [cheers] brian: you got some special guests coming down, too, right? steve: what s that, brian? brian: you have some s