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
handle it rather than did you do it, it seems kind of strange and see if he does anymore interviews. bill: tracking illegal migrants at the border is about to get more difficult. the biden administration is ending the use of one of its most critical and important border patrol surveillance, blimps at the border with mexico. bill melugin is on that story in mission, texas. what s up with this? good morning. these surveillance blimps are known at aero stats. there were 12 deployed along the southern border, now only four left due to a lack of funding. look at this video we shot of these stats considered a massive asset for border patrol. an eye in the sky. highly sophisticated cameras and technology. night vision, see for miles in all directions. they re highly effective at tracking evaders, smugglers and relaying realtime information to