pocketing the cash. [inaudible] hunter biden s business associate turned over a million collars to three of your dollars to three of your family members that the s not true. maria: he s shocked. coming up, trump s potential arrest and biden s influence peddling with oversight committee chairman james comer on his investigation into what exactly the ccp was paying for. constitutional law professor jon hand the turley on the two standards of justice today in america. and former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe on the impacts of politics driving policy. then, adversaries pounce on america s weakness. arkansas senator tom cotton on the national security implications of corruption in america as china s xi jinping gets ready to meet with russia s vladimir putin tomorrow. then panic on wall street. sticker shock on main street. emergency negotiations over the weekend on what bank could be next to fail as a new study says 200 u.s. banks could be vulnerable, an
the senate will get its own briefing later this morning. bill: the u.s. revealing the spy flight was part of a larger espionage program going on for years. china maintains it with as a weather balloon that drifted off course and traveled over sensitive military sites in the u.s. the pentagon says no chance. i can assure you this was not for civilian purposes. we re 100% clear about that. we are very confident we ll be able to detect these kinds of capabilities as evidenced by the continuing body of knowledge that we ve been able to build up on this. obviously that s something our intelligence community will continue to work closely on for this and any other potential threats. dana: bryan llenas is in myrtle beach, south carolina where crews are still searching for debris. we begin the aishah hosni on capitol hill and more on today s briefings as we get thursday going. hi, aishah. this all-house briefing got underway an hour ago and already seen some of these members e
senate on the china spy craft that flew over u.s. airspace or into it last week. all house members got a briefing about two hours ago. they have had a chance to go through some of that material more in detail. it is the senate s chance now. not until 12 days after the first flight crossed into our airspace republicans say the lack of transparency all around is abyss mall. i think the president should have gone before country and explained. here is what it is and what i decided to do about it and why. people would have understood it. they didn t tell congress until one of the news outlets ran with the story and it cut a diagonal path across the middle of the country and never explained to us it was coming or why. i mean to us the american public. harris: right now the senate subcommittee on defense is looking at why the military let it happen in the first place. since they say it happened before why couldn t they keep it away from montana for example? armed services and fo
years and did nothing about it. customers of which there were thousands were frustrated and they want answers. it s horrible to be sitting in an airport for five hours. it shows the lack of leadership. there was a major problem. a disconnect somewhere. this should not be happening this day in age. we shouldn t be having this kind of ground stoppage throughout the country. it makes no sense to me. dana: the hearing about begin in moments with one notable absence, southwest ceo jordan will not face questions because of a previous commitment. lydia hu has what to expect. hi. good morning. the hearing before the senate committee on commerce, science and transportation is scheduled to start around now. southwest chief operating officer is expected to apologize again for the holiday meltdown that stranded an estimated 2 million passengers over the christmas holiday. lawmakers will demand answers on why the budget airline was unable to adequately cope with the massive wint
voicing their concerns at school board meetings. another fish whistle-blower discloses that the fbi employees are being out of of the bureau for attending conservative political events. another fbi whistle-blower discloses the fbi accepts private user information from facebook without the user s consent and information is from only the conservative side of the political spectrum. martha: the committee s top democrat calling the baseless rhetoric that is dangerous. watch this. i m deeply concerned about the use of this select subcommittee as a place to settle scores. showcase conspiracy theories and advance an extreme agenda that risks undermining american s faith in our democracy. martha: two very different takes there. we have britt humes with us today, nancy mace who had a very interesting exchange about whether or not the twitter executives have medical expertise and marc thiessen joining me on set. we begin with david spunt live at the justice department where th