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rocked two countries. more than 2,200 are dead in turkey and syria. thousands more injured. weve got the latest details. a new republican criticism this morning of how the biden administration handled the suspected chinese spy balloon drifting for days over the u.s. before the military shot it down over the weekend. all this as president biden red december to address the nation tomorrow. a huge night for a star-packed grammy awards. thats bad bunny. well tell you who made history...

wind at their backs. im john berman, brianna is off, cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins here this morning. >> wind at their backs, we will see come november, i guess. >> a little. theyre hoping wind at their back this morning. what democrats are looking at the reason they might feel this way is based on the results of special elections here in new york. cnn projects that democrat pat ryan will win the battleground 19th district, a district that joe biden narrowly carri...

To find out how much china was able to collect. the balloon passed over extremely sensitive sites. its much lower than a satellite. how much intelligence did china get? that will be kind of a damage control assessment. third and finally, looking forward, youre going to see an effort made to kind of reverse engineer this in that how can we know about this sooner? when can we take it out? what more advanced capabilities might be added to this in the years ahead? how are we going to respond the nex...

Affects how the justice department can take actions against that individual. you cant just take them out of their office without creating a constitutional crisis. the vice president cant just jump in for some things, right? that doesnt happen here. so, yes, there are consideration toss what this does more broadly to the american political landscape, but at the end of the day they can still go after him, its just a question of do they have the facts and the evidence and what would happen if they ...