across the network of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with me, i see you at the end of tomorrow. of tomorrow. it is that time of year when your books come out, and everybody can portal for pictures at the classmates of clay really judge there are cuts and senior quotes. these kind of voters alike time capsules. in a decade, you get to look back and remember when certain classmate seemed so incident innocent other seemed so awkward. and look what has happened since. mullets are back in style, who could ve known? well, there was a unique sort of class photo taken in washington. it was for a very small group of people the men and women who have been speaker of the house. that is speaker kevin mccarthy, posing with almost all of his living predecessors, there is newt gingrich, of course, who was speaker of the house from 1985 to 1999. there is nancy pelosi, who is speaker from 2007 to 2011. and then again taunting to this year. there is john boehner, who is speaking fro
i think i said this and someone earlier today, it s a donald trump method. we re whatever vile nonsense appears in your replies, is the fact of the matter. right. when the method begins with the with it will get with whatever vile nonsense, you re onto a winner. thanks to you for joining us this evening. it s that time of year when your books come out. everybody gets to pour over pictures of their classmates and quietly judge their haircuts in their senior quotes. these kind of photos are like time capsules in a decade to get to look back and remember when certain classmate seemed so incident innocent other seemed so awkward. and look what has happened since. mullets are back in style, who could ve known? well, there was a unique sort of class photo taken in washington. it was for a very small group of people the men and women who have been speaker of the house. that is speaker kevin mccarthy, posing with almost all of his living predecessors, there is newt gingrich, of cou
we have lots of news to, cover and lots of questions to answer, so let s get started. the u.s. military shoots a mystery object out of the sky for the second time in less than a week. now the races on to figure out exactly what was in the sky over alaska. what we know so far, plus new details about what that chinese spy balloon was truly capable of. plus, trump s legal team reportedly hands over additional items with classified markings and a laptop. it comes as an fbi search of mike pence s home turns out another classified document, and pence himself faces a subpoena in the january six special counsel probe. when all of these developments tell us about where these investigations are headed. and later, michael cohen, trump s former personal attorney, meets with the manhattan district attorney for the 15th time, will join us live this morning to discuss that and everything else circling around trump world as these probes heat up. all of that more is coming up. good satu
hunt is live with us with the breaking news. good evening, trace. we learned the balloon is just one of a fleet operated by the chinese military. with a significant game of spying on the u.s. in this game, many other countries in many other cases and the balloon shot down by a u.s. fighter jet on saturday was laden with sophisticated equipment to gather intelligence and possibly to transmit that intelligence directly to beijing. the tool package, the equipment package on that balloon, was enormous. we were not able to jam the transmissions. we don t know the extent of the program. as the u.s. navy continues to collect debris from the waters off south carolina where the balloon was brought down, it s emerged that some of the recovered parts were western made and had english writing on them. officials have not pickly name the manufacturer of those parts, but they have said they believe that manufacturer has a direct relationship with the people s liberation army of china.