see you in vegas. dana: good to have you back. no charges after a bombshell report finds president biden willfully retained and disclosed classified material. even worse politically it indicates biden s mental state is in decline using blistering words to describe his aptitude, important memory and diminished faculties. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. we start back there. bill: happy friday. a long one, huh? bill hemmer, good morning. special counsel report blowing open the national debate about the president s age. special counsel hur recommending against criminal charges in part because a jury might view biden as an elderly man with a poor memory, end quote. dana: even in the mainstream media the reaction has been harsh. they are no longer to ignore the age-old question is biden too old to be on the 2024 ticket? atlantic with a harsh headline. biden s age is now unavoidable. he looks like he is turning into a statue of joe biden. the im
welcome back to cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. new this hour. dramatic new details about the unidentified object shot down by fighter jets just miles off the coast of alaska yesterday. unlike the chinese spy balloon last saturday, this demanded more immediate action yesterday. officials say it was flying much lower at 40,000 feet making it a dangerous potential threat to civilian aircraft. now we are learning u.s. military pilots who approached the craft have given conflicting accounts of what they saw. this new report coming in from cnn national security reporter natasha bertrand. this is interesting. this is kind of unusual that these pilots saw different things and that is sort of, i guess, adding to the mystery of all of this. not even the pilots were able to identify what they saw. just to take you back for a sec. on thursday the u.s. defense officials sent f-35 fighter jets to try to figure out what this object was flying around near alaska. those pilot
that s a lot of money for back then. they have always been kind of expensive. let s talk about the food. do we have any metrics in terms of the favorites when it comes to food? i need ideas. we pull apparently everything. so, you know, normally it s political stuff i m interested in but take a look, the popular super bowl snacks, chips and dip at 75%. you mentioned chicken wings, 59%. i think i m going to have a few of those. pizza, 59%. mixed desserts, 56% and nachos at 55%. but chicken wings are my favorite. always the best. it s a tradition. it s like the thanksgiving turkey, and chiefs or eagles, do we have any sense looking at the numbers how this is going to break down, what s going to happen? yeah, so, you know, essentially what we have is, you know, how much interest is there in the eagles and the chiefs nationwide, and we can look at google search interest, 60% of the searches have been for the
fumble on the part of the it white house. any time you have an opportunity to present your message and make your case to the audience, you should absolutely do so. they re expecting 100 million people to tune into the super bowl. these are not just fox news viewers. these are middle america people, undecided voters, people in states where he really needs to get his message out to. the fact that he would not sit down to do this interview, i think he s missing a great chance to really get his case out there if he wants to run on his record. this is a great time to debate it. maria, let me ask you, speaking of the former president. he didn t do nbc, right? right. he didn t do nbc during one of those super bowls, but we saw, trump was really looming over a lot of the news this week starting with the state of the union. his former press secretary delivered the republican response, and then you saw
more than 100 million people are expected to watch the super bowl tomorrow. what will they be eating, joining us to run the numbers, harry enten joins us. marry, i know i ll be eating a lot. what it is has not been determined yet. i m thinking some buffalo chicken for sure. but what are you looking at? the other thing that s happening tomorrow is the game itself. are we expecting a close game, what do you see? i do think we re going to see a close game. obviously the spread is a point and a half in favor of the eagles. if you look at super bowls this century, we see that 55% were within eight points or less. that is a one score game, compare that to the 20th century, where 26% of the final margins were within 8 points. if you think the games have been