jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. hi, jacqui. hey, gillian, good evening to you. u.s. officials revealed today that the u.s. has not formally requested a phone call with chinese president xi jinping despite president biden saying yesterday that they expected to be talking soon. we re learning that they re hoping that secretary of state antony blinken will first be able to smooth things over and make contact with his chinese counterpart at the munich security conference next week. but, if no meeting ends up happening, it will be a telling sign of where u.s.-china relations stand. chinese spy balloon lifted from the ocean store from south carolina. quantico. we learned a lot already from the balloon by surveilling it while it was flying over the country. we re going to learn even more, we believe, by getting a look at the guts inside it. but u.s. officials are warning we may not learn much more about the three likely harmless objects sho
the a message to the ukrainian people that most of america stands with them. it was a message to russia and vladimir putin that the u.s. will continue to support ukraine militarily and otherwise. perhaps it was the a message for china. and other add adversary to not question america s willingness to defend democracy wherever it lives speaking of china. vladimir putin and xi jinping agreed to meet. joining us is dan hoffman. how do you assess the state of the war and the state of the region. we re tracking this horrific war of attrition with thousands of casualties on both sides. but really the story of the war is just the damage that russia has inflicted upon ukraine. deliberately targeting civilian neighborhoods and hospitals and maternity wards, that is why the ukraineanians are fighting on to force the russian out of their territory. but i think one story is that china is the big winner in this war right now, they are exploiting a weakened russia. which has been bloodied
migrant on his land. catastrophic leadership of the dhs secretary. she comes bearing in her ma. you are bringing in cookies. probably cooking these forever. the plan is to scream really loud every time somebody has the ball. both of the boys are on offense. come on over. come on in. pull up a seat, take a load off your feet come on over come on in. brian: port canaveral in florida keep the cruise ship. when we see a cruise ship it s full of illegal immigrants what we call housing. been a while since on a cruise. i wonder if they have a pool. steve: doesn t every ship have a pool? look at the top deck right there, brian. between the front part and back part. brian: how do they get up there from the dock. ainsley: salt water. you think a poll in your backyard it s all. steve: at night they drain the water. rather than haul a bunch of clean water from the land. they pump it full. you are absolutely right. i have been on those salt water crews. brian:
night. gusts of winds reaching up to 114 miles per hour. when you are standing for our values, you come under assault. florida governor ron desantis speaking out against woke ideology in the sunshine state publicly sparring with disney. you have these woke taking over institutions. grammys giving rihanna one for money. now shining bright like a diamond. some critics suggesting they outperformed rihanna. thank god i got my friends i don t even want to know what i did without them he could get lost. ainsley: that is old orchard beach, maine. if you are going out on the beach take your coat because it s 6 degrees. teams like negative 5 now. i hear we are getting snow in new york city today. griff, pete, so great to have you all here. pete: it s great to see you as always and great to see my buddy griff. griff: great to be on the couch. i wonder if there are any surfers out there. looks like a little ripple in the water. there is a colonel there. pete: i bel
here imminent explosion sending families fleeing in ohio. a train carrying dangerous chemicals derailing, forcing evacuations. several of the cars carrying vinyl chloride. and tonight, the careful operation under way at this hour at the site. trying to avert a potential explosion. tonight, news on that chinese spy balloon shot down by the u.s. by an f-22. the teams moving quickly to recover key pieces. the debris field more than 15 football fields wide. and what we re already learning tonight about the balloon, how it maneuvered. and the trained u.s. navy teams now using unmanned, underwater vehicles to detect whether there could be any explosives. martha raddatz right here with me tonight on what she s learned. here in washington, president biden on the eve of his state of the union address, after that very promising jobs report, and after some key victories, including that bipartisan infrastructure law. the white house knows many americans still are not feeling this. wh