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
own. it is disturbing and a gap we need to address immediately. i m sure congress will get on top of it. they are being briefed today. much more we ll learn in the coming weeks. bill: why didn t we know it was going before? balloons have changes, right? they are flying high and slow and they can linger over targets they want to sur veil. yesterday judy wood worth asked president biden about the u.s. and beijing. have relations now between the u.s. and china taken a big hit? president biden: no. the idea of shooting down a balloon that is gathering information over america and is that makes relations worse. i made it clear to xi jinping that we ll compete fully with china but we aren t going to look for conflict.
endorsement deals, you know, their contract stuff. to me, you know, values, principles and morals is bigger than everything. i don t care about any of your bill: you just said lebron was lying. did you not see each other in a hallway? so this is what happened. i saw him on the court and then i left the court, right? and he was right behind me and my assistant coach was with me. i stopped to take a picture with one of the fans and he was walked right past me and didn t say a word. i wasn t expecting him to say anything nen way. bill: why didn t you take that opportunity to speak to him? because my back was turned and i didn t see him passing me. as soon as i turned around he got in the locker room. even my assistant coach said lebron just walked past you. i was like i wish we had talked. dana: you aren t afraid to
your conversations, when you are meeting, how often did it come up? so in the task force context, we very rarely talked about the origins. personally, it didn t matter to me when fighting the virus whether it was natural or it leaked. it matters for a lot of other reasons but to create testing and the vaccines, none of that was absolutely essential about where it originated so we didn t spend a lot of time in the task force talking about that specifically. bill: you gave a note to our producers before the show today and i want to use your words, correct me if i m wrong here, this is very critical stuff perhaps in the end. it is not outrageous to hypothesize that the virus could have been part of an offensive bioweapons program and leaked out accidentally. that seems that seems to be discounted by dr. collins and other people. i think the most likely explanation is that it was gain
they re not uncommon. i think data like people getting ill in november from the laboratory, if that proves true that coincides exactly when we know this virus hit china. the evidence is there. bill: why didn t you say this a year ago? i did say it a year ago. i was very clear that the only thing we knew was that there were no obvious fingerprints of this virus being evening nierd. i was very public it could have been a lab leak in distinction from dr. fauci who argued very convincingly that this was something that evolved in nature. there was no data that showed it evolved in nature and still no data that shows that. bill: the u.s. government knew that chinese workers in wuhan became sick in either october or november of 2019. that has to be clue number one.