more than 20,000 20,000 lives lost since monday s horrific earthquake. the lead starts right now. screams of joy amid the horror a mother and daughter found alive. coming up the miracle rescues. cnn is on the ground as crews climb through earthquake rubble in syria and turkey. and president biden takes his state of the union road show to rival rich florida and challenges a republican senator on his clear proposal to sunset all programs including social security and medicare. but first new images from the fbi as investigators begin to analyze that downed chinese spy balloon recovered from the atlantic ocean. and lawmakers begin to learn just how sophisticated the surveillance equipment onboard was. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. and we start with the world lead and new information about the chinese spy balloon shot done. it started analyzing the first pieces of its balloon, and senior officials say those parts could be used as evidence in a future possible crimin
good enough for rupert murdoch s local fox channel. that is tonight s last word, the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, the georgia grand jury report on the trump investigation. what it says about witnesses possibly lying under oath. what it could mean for the former presidents allies. then, president biden addresses those unidentified objects shot down over north america, the questions remain about dealing with this in the future. kevin mccarthy heads to the u.s. mexico border. democrats call it theater, while the real need for real solutions remain. the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. we begin with new revelations from a special grand jury s investigation into election interference by donald trump and his allies in georgia. fulton county district attorney, fani willis, launched this criminal inquiry two years ago. the grand jury heard from 75 witnesses through mountains of data for
what it says about witnesses possibly lying under oath. what it could mean for the former presidents allies. then, president biden addresses those unidentified objects shot down over north america, the questions remain about dealing with this in the future. kevin mccarthy heads to the u. s. mexico border. democrats call it theater, while the real need for real solutions remain. the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. we begin with new revelations from a special grand jury s investigation into election interference by donald trump and his allies in georgia. fulton county district attorney, fani willis, launched this criminal inquiry two years ago. the grand jury heard from 75 witnesses through mountains of data for eight months. today, three sections of the panels final report remained public. one of the keys findings was that perjury may have been committed by one or more of the witnesses. the report recomme
two of them in alaska in the yukon, they could see where they were unmanned and they said, it don t look like no intelligence collection device to me. same thing with the f-16, they got eyes on target over lake huron. i think, again, it was a policy decision the last few weeks, we have to do something to demonstrate our resolve, now they have to have new policy and think through what s a central way to deal with all this. let s talk about the initial incident, take a listen to what john kirby said about the chinese spy balloon today. we were able, and have been able, to recover much of the debris. which we will exploit. we ll study it, we ll learn from it. we also took advantage of the time that it was flying over the country to learn from the system itself, while it was in-flight. we collected on them while they were trying to collect on us. general, can you pull back the curtain for us, give us a sense of what the u.s. could learn from that debris? what the u.s. could learn fro
research as the president said? sure. the chinese intelligence balloon, a gigantic structure, tremendous persistent eyes on targets solar panels, communication to satellites, propeller systems, smart a. i. to guide its movement through airspace. that was in one category. and then the next three were in the wrong place in the wrong direction, the f got to look at two of them in alaska in the yukon, they could see where they were unmanned and they said, it don t look like no intelligence collection device to me. same thing with the f-16, they got eyes on target over lake huron. i think, again, it was a policy decision the last few weeks, we have to do something to demonstrate our resolve, now they have to have new policy and think through what s a central way to deal with all this. let s talk about the initial incident, take a listen to what john kirby said about the chinese spy balloon today. we were able, and have been