will have more on this story as we get it. but firstb deadlocked on the debt ceiling president biden and republicans failing to reach an agreement to push the economy straight off the cliff. the morning, i m dana perino, bill is off today, good morning john let s hope cooler heads prevail before that happens. is america s newsroom, the lack of progress raising the specter of america s other default experts fear that said markets into a tailspin and trigger an all out recession. yesterday s talks do not yield an agreement that both sides say they remain optimistic. i felt we had a productive discussion. we don t have an agreement yet but i did feel the discussion was productive in areas that we have differences of opinion. i believe we can still get there i believe we can get it done. the most important thing we can do right now is agree that we have to avoid a default at all costs. because a dangerous default will trigger a job killing recession that will hurt milli
years and did nothing about it. customers of which there were thousands were frustrated and they want answers. it s horrible to be sitting in an airport for five hours. it shows the lack of leadership. there was a major problem. a disconnect somewhere. this should not be happening this day in age. we shouldn t be having this kind of ground stoppage throughout the country. it makes no sense to me. dana: the hearing about begin in moments with one notable absence, southwest ceo jordan will not face questions because of a previous commitment. lydia hu has what to expect. hi. good morning. the hearing before the senate committee on commerce, science and transportation is scheduled to start around now. southwest chief operating officer is expected to apologize again for the holiday meltdown that stranded an estimated 2 million passengers over the christmas holiday. lawmakers will demand answers on why the budget airline was unable to adequately cope with the massive wint
hovering over montana. there is a mystery out there. i m bill hemmer. i love your red. you got to pin on. dana: way to represent. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. the communist eye in the sky. the ball on does not pose a threat moving well above air traffic commercial air traffic. officials are advising the president not to shoot it down over concerns that falling debris from this balloon could hurt people on the ground. bill: the balloon entered u.s. airspace a couple of days ago and flew east into montana. not clear what it was doing there. the state is home to 1 of 3 u.s. air force bases with intercontinental ballistic missiles. dana: discovery days before blinken is set to visit beijing. china said it is looking into the balloon but general jack keane says he is not buying that. what we do know is they ve done this before. we know it s a spy balloon. it is going to depart at some time. we don t want this to happen again. shoot it down on the way home
over the western united states. it may have come all the way from china. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has details from the pentagon. hi, jennifer. good evening, gill i can t believe. the pentagon says it has detected and been tracking for the past several days a chinese surveillance balloon that entered u.s. airspace and appears to have been sent bye bye jing to spy on sensitive sites in montana. one of three sites where the u.s. houses it s siloed nuclear weapons. nbc first reported the news. a senior u.s. defense official just briefed reporters on the balloon which is still hovering over the continental united states. adding the u.s. government has very high confidence that this surveillance balloon was sent by the peoples republic of china. the balloon is currently traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground. instances of this kind of balloon activity have been
that saw the naming of a special counsel to investigate president biden s handling of those and other classified documents found at a private office of the current president and his home in wilmington, delaware. the most recent this morning at the same residence according to merrick garland. this afternoon he named robert hur special counsel and laid out a timeline of the case. on the evening of november 4th, 2022, the national archives office of inspector general contacted a prosecutor at the department of justice. it informed him that the white house had notified the archives that documents bearing classification markings were identified at the office of the penn biden center for diplomacy and global engagement. on november 9th, the fbi commenced an assessment consistent with standard protocols to understand whether classified information had been mishandled in violation of federal law. on november 14th, pursuant to section 600.2b of the special counsel regulations, i ass