time on hbo max. join us here on cnn the week after the super bowl to find out who is talking next. welcome back to the 8:00 hour of the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with more breaking news. some of the first images we have seen of possible debris from that chinese spy balloon downed yesterday off the coast of south carolina. this video was shot by a south carolina resident just coming in this evening. this resident told cnn he saw a navy boat carrying what he believed to be debris from the balloon. cnn cannot independently confirm whether this is indeed debris from that balloon. we are reaching out to the u.s. navy for comment. in the meantime, this comes at the same time we are learning new details about when the pentagon learned about the balloon and when the president was informed about it. more on that in a moment. i want to begin in north myrtle beach, south carolina, and the focus of the recovery efforts. ca carlos, what can you tell us abou
The police broke us up. before they sped off, i took down the license plate. that s the first time i heard of chris george and his identical twin brother jeff who were the masterminds and the initial people to come up with this massive pill mill scheme that many others later emulated. it s fascinating. the film shines a bright light on what the brothers were do, the deadly consequences for thousands of people. how did you convince them to participate in the film? it took a long time. like i said, in 2009, about nine months after they chased me down i95, they became the target of the largest prescription drug trafficking case in u.s. history. there was a long investigation. they went to trial. they pled out. then some doctors went to trial. eventually, they wound up in prison. while they were in prison, i wrote a letter. remember that guy you chased down i95?