support the administration are coming up with these sort of lame justifications in terms of what took place. listen, the american people, i ve been talking to them about this ever since this incident took place, they want to know really what happened, why did it happen, and what are we doing about it to make sure it does not happen again. the president has got to give some reassurance to the american people and maybe educate us a bit about this incident. we are trying to do it ourselves and help us understand some of the details and ramifications of it. but one of the things i want clarity on, what have we learned here about our own detection and our own surveillance of spy balloons going forward. are there places that are vulnerable. don t have to get into the specifics of it, but if there are, give the american people some assurances we found some gaps in the surveillance and detection capability and we are going to fix that as priority one. don t try to hide it.
0 out because it was jammed. are we to believe that this didn t get any communications out back to beijing because it was effectively jammed all the way through by either the intelligence agencies or the military? yeah, well, dealing with the first thing, it s obvious, i think, given the action we took against these three unidentified objects, we did not act accordingly when air space was about to be violated by the spy balloon in alaska, did not shoot it down, that reacted in i think what may be an overreaction to the others. he has to be absolutely clear what we are going to do about it. i don t think he s going to fess up to the fact that they may have made a mistake in permitting it to go across the united states. i believe he did, he s going to get questions around that. in terms of what did we learn and did we shut them down, i m not a technology expert but my gut tells me we would never know for sure about that until we get ahold of the devices which we have in our hands now a
bad this could have been. what investigators have done and they ve gone into the gunman s found. they found a rifle. hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and evidence he was building firearm suppressors. those attachments that are homemade. so that is disturbing, but then here at the dance studio what investigators have been able to find arecasings, a large capacity rifle and additional ammunition in the van. what we don t have more clarity on, stuck on, what is the motive? a clear motive. a shooter with a mental history and a lot of confusion why this place and right now, though he did have connection to the studio, don. how are people going about their lives now while facing this tragedy? reporter: you know, i think it s hard to talk about monterey park without talking about half moon bay.
what medications aside from the medications like and others additives is he on. the ventilator s quite uncomfortable if you are not on medications and sedative s. is he on medications to support his heart? that will be one key question that will be important to get clarity on. and number two, once again, what was his neurological status when he reached the hospital. was he already sedated from some of the medications he may have received on route? and that will help us prognosticate as well how long blackstone, we have video that we are seeing of damar hamlin giving out christmas presents to kids and we need to remember tonight that players like damar hamlin our heroes to adults and two kids. the discussion with kids tonight is going to be a painful one. absolutely. and it will be a painful one
they were involved, we re waiting to hear more details on that but rest assured, the griner family elated today that brittney griner is finally coming home, ana. there are a lot of layers to this story and have david whelan standing by to speak with us in a second. i do want to ask you, nick, about the prisoner who was swapped for griner. who is viktor bout, and why was putin perhaps willing to make this deal now? yeah, it is extraordinary, ana. at the worst time of the u.s./russia relations since possibly the missile crisis. while they are arming ukraine in a pitched war those killing russian soldiers that vladimir putin felt he had the political capital or space diplomatically to strike a deal like this and shows how valuable viktor bout has always been to russia. his past extremely hard to get clarity on. u.n. investigators, journalist, analysts have said this is the merchant of death. this is the lord of war, that s the title of sort of a quasi