a little bit. talking to some people i know there. but the most indescribably, most exciting event of this entire week was it 5 pm, when i went to a middle school girls basketball game, which was the best basketball game of its kind that i ve ever seen. takes its place among soft six championship games that i ve watched as a young man. i mean, alex, why don t you tell me what middle school? is a public school over there. i don t want any goal to fall upon the school. but why did you tell me that the thing about washington is the girls basketball. go to the girls basketball games. i ll tell, you because i grew up in washington, d. c., and went to public schools in washington, d. c.. i was never get enough to play on the girls basketball team. it is a bit of a sore spot i would say, although i know the quality and class of those players. i was the least valuable player in my high school basketball team. i could never make one of these teams here, it s just amazing.
fitton is part equal watch we do not know which grand jury tom fitton who s a close trump ally appeared in today that s because tom fitton has interests with both specia tom fitton drafted a statement for president trump declaring how he won the election though he hadn t won the election yet. the draft statement which was sent on october 31st declares we had an election today and i won. and the fitton memo specifically indicates a plan that only the votes counted by the election dayhe deadline and there is no election day deadline would matter. an election day just after 5:00 p.m. mr. fitton indicated he spoke with the president about the statement. tom fitton actually suggested trump could claim victory by saying he won all the votes counted by a made up election day deadline and ignore all the other ballots, which is on the mar-a-lago front cnn reported it was tom fitton in trump s ear saying you can keep all the documents, they re yours, you own them. which turns out
absurd notion that space lasers financed by the roth child family are the cause of wildfires in california. she has never equated vaccine mandates with adolph hitler. who s he really talking about there? the democrat defending ilhan omar before the partisan vote to remove her from the house foreign affairs committee. and president joe biden meet with the congressional black caucus for a discussion on police reforms. it comes a day after tyre nichols is laid to rest. and china is doing some damage control this morning. beijing says it s looking at whether a surveillance balloon that flew over montana is actually theirs. we ll have the latest and the response from the pentagon coming up next. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, february 3rd. i m sitting in for jonathan lemire. democratic congresswoman ilhan omar of minnesota has removed from the house foreign affairs committee. 218 republicans voted to back the resolution removing omar from the c
chinese surveillance balloon that flew over montana. it comes as secretary antony blinken makes his first trip to beijing. plus, a new estimate on the number of russian soldiers who have died in ukraine. it could show how desperate vladimir putin has become in this nearly year-long war. meteorologists are predicting the worst wind chills in decades in the northeast this weekend. look at that. it could get as low as negative 50 in some parts. negative 50? the times said yesterday that the top of mount washington, negative 100, willie. now, you and i, of course, have done that in some of our you know, willie and i, sometimes we ve done the antarctica thing. we do that extreme, like, mountain climbing stuff. i forget what you call it. little rough for you. minus 100, willie. yeah, well, when we summited norway excuse me summited everest, it got close to that cold. thank god there were the sherpas who helped us get up there. it gets breezy up there, too. it
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