he was released from a county jail on bail last night. but i m sure his lawyers are going to have a lot of questions because clearly, he had a constitutional right to be there to report the story. of course, waiting for more details in terms of what happened here. i just wonder, at no point in this time line did no one say this seems excessive standing there reporting and i was watching newsnation at the time. he was in the middle of a report and said we ve just been asked to stop reporting and i m stopping and then this happens. again, from what we could hear he was just being told he was being too loud. yeah. jason, thank you. it is the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m bianna golodryga. aim victor blackwell. the chinese spy balloon recovered in the atlantic, these are new pictures handed over by the bureau. officials say understanding its components could be important pieces of evidence for future criminal charges that could be brought. moments ago the s
more than 20,000 20,000 lives lost since monday s horrific earthquake. the lead starts right now. screams of joy amid the horror a mother and daughter found alive. coming up the miracle rescues. cnn is on the ground as crews climb through earthquake rubble in syria and turkey. and president biden takes his state of the union road show to rival rich florida and challenges a republican senator on his clear proposal to sunset all programs including social security and medicare. but first new images from the fbi as investigators begin to analyze that downed chinese spy balloon recovered from the atlantic ocean. and lawmakers begin to learn just how sophisticated the surveillance equipment onboard was. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. and we start with the world lead and new information about the chinese spy balloon shot done. it started analyzing the first pieces of its balloon, and senior officials say those parts could be used as evidence in a future possible crimin
she said there d been like 39 different versions and the world is waiting to see what it could go. we re going to take this opportunity to play some music from rihanna. let s just play it. i wish you could see him. there s a table covering his footwork down here. everybody is listening to this on the radio. that s why. we did it for you. you play a little beyonce you ll get victor wiggling a little bit. you might see something. all right, thank you, coy.
first on cnn former robert o brien a former national security adviser under the trump administration has been subpoenaed by special counsel jack smith. this is in relation to the investigations into classified documents at mar-a-lago along with trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. cnn s paula reid broke this story. paula, tell us what you know. reporter: well, victor, our colleague and i have learned o brien is sought as a potential witness in both a special counsel jack smith s ongoing investigations and it s clear why he could potentially be valuable in both of these probes, of course, he was a top official in the trump administration, but considered resigning after the violence on january 6th though he did stay on in the administration and also the national security council should have been involved in the handling of classified documents at the end of former president trump s
he was released from a county jail on bail last night. but i m sure his lawyers are going to have a lot of questions because clearly, he had a constitutional right to be there to report the story. of course, waiting for more details in terms of what happened here. i just wonder, at no point in this time line did no one say this seems excessive standing there reporting and i was watching newsnation at the time. he was in the middle of a report and said we ve just been asked to stop reporting and i m stopping and then this happens. again, from what we could hear he was just being told he was being too loud. yeah. jason, thank you. it is the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m bianna golodryga. aim victor blackwell. the chinese spy balloon recovered in the atlantic, these are new pictures handed over by the bureau. officials say understanding its components could be important pieces of evidence for future