Seller more post over at the pentagon. So, has sadly become the norm over the last three years, the senate will be spending floor time and multiple rollcall votes on each of the following. An assistant secretary of defense the under secretary of defense, if you can believe this, alf file a closure of the incoming Inspector General for the pandemic recovery. Mr. President if we had aad nickel, a nickel for every democratic colleagues have claimed congressional oversight of the recovery programs was important, the cares act would have paid for itself. And yet, democrats blocked the confirmation of this Inspector General to look over the programs this week. So the senate will prepare to confirm these qualified people the hard way. Three years and counting of democratic heel dragging continues. Have course that will be plenty of legislative business before us as well. Senators will continue to monitor the Pandemic Response and discuss ways to help the nation pivot towards reopening an econ
we re not looking for a new cold war. secretary antony blink en meets for the first time since the president canceled his trip to beijing. i ll ask the secretary of state. plus, critical moment. there is no doubt these are crimes against humanity. the u.s. accuses russia of crimes against humanity as the war approaches the one-year mark. i don t think the ukrainians would collapse or fall. i think they ll continue to fight. will the u.s. and its allies defeat putin without boots on the ground? we ll get a report from the front lines. and primary fight. america is not past our prime. it s just that our politicians are past theirs. nikki haley is the first republican candidate to challenge donald trump, but she s not ready to criticize her former boss. the problem is the media wants everybody to be 100% trump or 100% anti-trump. i don t work that way. may the best woman win. i ll ask one potential candidate who is considering jumping in the race himsel
more than 20,000 20,000 lives lost since monday s horrific earthquake. the lead starts right now. screams of joy amid the horror a mother and daughter found alive. coming up the miracle rescues. cnn is on the ground as crews climb through earthquake rubble in syria and turkey. and president biden takes his state of the union road show to rival rich florida and challenges a republican senator on his clear proposal to sunset all programs including social security and medicare. but first new images from the fbi as investigators begin to analyze that downed chinese spy balloon recovered from the atlantic ocean. and lawmakers begin to learn just how sophisticated the surveillance equipment onboard was. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. and we start with the world lead and new information about the chinese spy balloon shot done. it started analyzing the first pieces of its balloon, and senior officials say those parts could be used as evidence in a future possible crimin
of the union claim. freeze federal spending. social security, as well. that is why biden s polls are so low. walt disney ceo slashing jobs. will rename reedy creek. disney will honor the debt. there is a new sheriff in town. the philadelphia eagles will take on the kansas city chiefs. people count us out, don t count us out. [cheering] ainsley: nice job, everyone. lawrence is there in philadelphia because the eagles are playing steve s kansas chiefs on sunday on fox 6:30 on sunday night. lawrence, they are fired up. we are loving the interviews. you know, we are so fair and balanced on fox that they sent a cowboy fan to philly to celebrate with them and they have been so nice. steve: absolutely and lawrence, we ve seen a lot of memorabilia for different teams that guy with the eagles hat, never seen anything like that. i want one. can you figure out where you get it and bring one back for me? i got you, brother. steve wants an eagle hat. ainsle
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