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good thursday morning im erika hill. >> im jim sciutto. happening right now, house lawmakers on capitol hill receiving a closed door classified briefing on the chinese surveillance balloon. this as cnn has new reporting on when u.s. officials were first warned about the threat. all of it sparking sharp criticism on defense and intelligence officials who were not aware of the depth of that threat. live on capitol hill with the latest. plus, incredible stories of survival out of turkey...

>> david scott. >> effries. >> so heres the thing you can see the tally chart on the right-hand side. we are making sure everybody has voted. we believe the magic number is 217. as you see right there kevin mccarthy has 216. when they start another roll call we will go back to that immediately but in the meantime lets bring in our chief congressional correspondent chad pergram chad do we appear to be one vote short. >> thats right. this is why it always takes a while at the end because...

his critics, though, ask one simple question, and i quote one of them. "who the hell is an unelected, failed minister to tell any of us what to do?" well, thats what i hope to discover in this conversation, at a moment when anything could change, and almost certainly will in politics. david frost, lord frost, welcome to political thinking. thank you. great to be here. well, lets begin with what is on everybody�*s mind. your old friend, the man you advised and whether he, borisjohnson...

Investors. thats why theres action in disney today. >> the trend is your friend, looking at the bigger picture. we just got weekly jobless claims in the last hour. how does this fit into the bigger picture? >> every week this is a tally of the first time claims for unemployment benefits. so it gives us a feel of whats happening in layoffs, still low. 196,000 a little bit more than expected but didnt expect many. this is still low in terms of layoffs. so outside of those kind of key names that yo...

Adams. >> jeffries. >> adderholt. >> mccarthy. >> aguilar. >> jeffries. >> alford. >> mccarthy. >> allen. >> mccarthy. >> laura: so as the vote goes through the as right now we should point out that we are waiting for a couple of key names to come up, as you know them, waiting for the bs lauren boebert which is lauren boebert and andy biggs, the c andy crain and the gs, bob goode and matt gaetz. and so youre going through this chad pergram and picking out those key names because if when we get t...

Economically for him to be able to do that and carry through all the promises in the 2019 manifesto are incredibly difficult and he has gone into that at length in his statement. clearly with that sentence he wants to suggest or signal to conservative mps he is not going to do some huge about turn, take the party in a different direction, and for those who back borisjohnson he says i will stay true to the mandate we have to govern that we were elected on in 2019. perhaps an attempt to just reach...

Counsel as well, including the vice president. a couple of key names whose interviews are yet to occur if they are to take place. the president likes to dismiss this as a media obsession, sarah sanders trying to say that again in the briefing room yesterday. the president pressed on these questions, claiming hes not impacted by it. take a listen. >> reporter: are you concerned about what the attorney general told the special counsel? >> no, not at all. >> reporter: did you talk to him about it? ...

Support military action in all circumstances. she laid out her case of why this is so critical. john boehner will have a hard time pulling along some of his members in the republican conference on the house side. the house should be the harder thing in terms of counting votes. nancy pelosi said this isnt about whipping, our term of votes for votes on capitol hill. it is bigger than that and i think its so interesting, thomas. if you look to other key names, you see the john mccain, the lindsey g...