good morning, everyone. it is saturday, february 11th, we re live in the cnn newsroom, and you don t have to adjust your tv, we re actually in the same set in the same place. no split screen. right. great to be with you as well. up first this hour, president biden ordering an prague to shoot down an unidentified object over alaska, an operation that he is describing as a success, and right now, there are way more questions though about what that thing was that got shot down and actual details about it, and keep in mind, this is the second time in a week that a u.s. fighter jet has taken down an object after the chinese surveillance balloon was brought down last saturday. ten miles off the coast of alaska, the federal aviation administration issuing a temporary flight restriction in the area as the military took action. officials say they don t know what the object is or who it belongs to. the white house says president biden was first briefed on the situation thursday
nina s got a lot of ideas for the future. and since anyone can create a free plan at fidelity, nina has a plan based on what matters most to her. and she can simply focus on right now. that s the planning effect. from fidelity. tomorrow morning, members say the house republican steering committee will meet to select committee assignments. by this time tomorrow night we could learn about the deals. carol: kevin mccarthy made. some of the agreement is public knowledge. what do we know about the side deals? gop leaders are not committing to releasing a public list of every concession kevin mccarthy made in his quest to become speaker. despite the fact that they have called for a more open and transparent government. some of the concessions were explicitly spelled out in the house rules package, which republicans did pass last night with the support of every republican except for one. some of the other promises that were made were done through more of a handshake deal. go
tomorrow, morning members say committee will meet, which means that by this time tomorrow, night we could learn more about the deals that kevin mccarthy made, which include key committee positions, in exchange for this party needs to some are not known, even the members. joining us is cnn capitol hill reporter, melanie zanona, what do we know more about these so ideals of the speaker movement? anderson, gop leaders are not committed to making a list of every concession kevin mccarthy made in his quest to become speaker. despite the fact they have called for a more open and transparent government. now, some of these concessions were explicitly spelled out and a house rules package, which republicans did pass last, night with the support of every republican except for one. but some of these other promises that were, made ridden through more of a handshake deal. gop leaders are insisting that there is an official master, list and wasn t aside, deal they tried to walk members
this one. system meltdown. the faa tries to get flight backs on track after a pilot notification system failed. what caused the massive outage that led to massive delays and cancellations? the dangers of tiktok. beyond suspicions that the child e chinese government can access your company, how the addictive content puts teen girls at risk of depression. republicans rolling out committee chairmanships and assignments with interesting and provocative picks. george santos is denied his first choice for a committee seat. his fellow republicans begin to call for his resignation. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead. major decisions under way on capitol hill. republican lawmakers say their party steering committee is deciding which republican members will sit on the most powerful committees in the house of representatives. it s giving us all new insights into the deals that now speaker kevin mccarthy may have made with his hardline opponents
that office. i don t know what s in the documents. laura: hold on a wilmington minute. the man who promised to raise the bar for ethics and trust in government. he is now feigning ignorance? i see nothing. i was not here. i did not even get up this morning. laura: more than two months after these ten classified documents were discovered, the public was made aware of this inconvenient truth. president returned dignity to government, had actually been derelict with government records or someone close to him was. now, when trump was found with classified documents, biden called it totally irresponsible. of course, the media has taken great pains to differentiate the biden situation. accidents do happen. it is not a good reason but it is a human reason. joe biden may never have known that these documents were in that box. other differences here, the volume of documents, the number is smaller. in president biden s case, he and his lawyers appear to have actually done the