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Lose all that weight after that. well have to get back to that. okay, all new this morning, we now mow the object that the u.s. shot down over canada was a small balloon with a payload. what is going on in north americas air space? were going to the map that out next. plus, big stars ahead of the big game. brian goes one-on-one with barstools dave portnoy coming up. ♪ muck tonight, tonight, and were dangs on the edge of the hollywood -- dancing on the edge of the hollywood sign. ♪ i dont k...

Beijing and washington is bigger than a balloon, it might prove much harder to deflate. go to cnn.com/fareed for a link to my washington post column this week. and lets get started. ♪ let me bring david milibrand and rich haas in the u.s.-chirn relations. now the president and ceo of the international rescue committee, richmond is a former top state department official, now the president of the council on foreign relations and the author of a new book which debuted on "the new york times" be...

You know, if it had limited maneuverability, speed, then it goes into the lump of an unidentified, you know, object in the air. were pretty confident they were a balloon. but its a big deal because what you can hang on a balloon, you know? and balloons, balloon warfare, you know, yeah, theyre slow, theyre easier to pick out than a high moving aircraft, but theyre still a threat. rachel: congressman, this is the, as you know, super bowl sunday. a lot of traditions around this day in sports, but t...

>> reporter: the white house is quite cautious in how they describe these unidentified objects shot down. we know president biden and canadian prime minister trudeau jointly authorized the shooting down of the object over canada just yesterday but so far the white house and the pentagon have been providing very limited information regarding the description. the white house -- an object i should say. an unidentified unmanned object that was downed and comes as some lawmakers like senator schumer ...

Indiana on the china select committee. were talk with stephen miller, hes has a thing or two to say about the china prop began taxeo joe bidens creative state of the union address which he will discuss. were talking with michelle daboya, the sideline -- nfl sideline reporter talking sports but she has also waded into the issue of politics, given the fact that so many sports leagues today are in bed with communist china. were asking the question, when is co corporate america going to get it. some...

Ways outperforming chinas advanced spy satellites. >> when you have something thats up at 70,000, 100,000 feet, you can see the horizon over 300 miles away, something you cant do with an aircraft. with a satellite, its pretty expensive. its expensive to launch it and you cant fix it or change it once its there. >> reporter: navy divers are combing the waters off of the carolina coast so they can piece together the so-called chinese weather balloon. unlike these weather balloons launched by hand ...

A weather balloon. but if the americans were right about that, what you see here is a provocation. you see china in an attempt to study american response to those kind of events. the study primarily not the military response, but the political response. the wreckage of that balloon is now being recovered from us waters, and he hope is the remains of the object brought down over canada and alaska will also be salvaged. perhaps then we will know who sent them and why. british mps have accused bbc ...

Period of years and establish military bases there. china would see that as an attempt to wring it in. secondly over in ukraine we have also got the russians are starting a spring offensive, although they havent announced it thats whats going on. in context these things may make more sense in terms of the chinese balloon, and i have no idea who was behind the cylindrical objects exactly whats going on. they certainly seem a low height at 40,000 feet also for surveillance, but it seems to be test...

Morning, but the winds above the tops of the mountains are actually quite strong, so we have to stay within the valley and the winds are going to actually drop, the quicker winds are going to speed up throughout the day and drop down into the valley, so we need to be flying early and landing early. for a complete novice, tell me what — is itjust obvious that if theres too much wind, the balloon will be uncontrollable? theres a lot of that. its not that its uncontrollable, it means that the lan...

Nfl, football and the united states military. yes, it can all be -- and you know what? it should be celebrated together. we celebrate america, rachel. rachel: yeah. i think about, i was watching that segment, and is i just kept thinking about my dad, 32 the-year veteran in the u.s. air force, the biggest football and sports fan ever, and i was thinking how can i get my dads name in there. [laughter] brian: oh, curbed. rachel: hes radioright there in arizona -- right there in arizona. hes been wa...