getting some of our biggest clues yet about the directions special counsel jack smith is taking the politically fraught and complex and unprecedented investigations of an ex president by the justice department. there are major developments in both the january 6 investigation and the probe into the classified documents. we ll get to that in a minute. but we begin with what we know about the sprawling criminal probe into the capitol insurrection and the coup plotted by the ex president and his allies and including those in the administration and in congress. as the new york times reports, jack smith steps us the pace, sorting through a mountain of evidence from the january 6 committee and looking to interview witnesses that did not speak to the congressional panel. from that times report, quote, did former president trump consume detailed information about foreign countries wild in office? how extensively did he seek information about whether voting machines had been tampered
expected about 15 minutes from now. complete coverage tonight on the fox report. the latest news after two aerospace closures and to us u.s. military takedowns another high altitude objects in the last three days. the faa closed and reopened u.s. airspace over michigan today and montana last night. the u.s. military shot down two other aerial object, one over camera yesterday and other over alaska on friday. officials tell fox news the three latest objects are of unknown origin and smaller the chinese spy flight shot down after the coast of north carolina. lucas tomlinson live at the white house and bryan llenas in south carolina. china expert gordon chang is standing by with his analysis. let s go to lucas tomlinson first. good evening, a statement released saying the u.s. air force f-16 fighter jet shut down an object over lake huron. it s critical norad says this is the same object briefly detected on radar over the skies of montana, they tracked it over lake michiga
have acted out of an abundance of caution to protect our security and interests. the spy balloon in the prc was of course different in that we knew precisely what it was. these most recent onlts do not pose a kinetic military threat but their paths and proximity to sensitive d.o.d. sites and the altitude that they were flying could be a hazard to civilian aviation and thus raise concerns. so here s more of what we do know so far about these three new objects. the first was shot down on friday just off northeastern alaska over the arctic sea. it had been flying at about 40,000 feet and was described as roughly the size of a small car. the second also similar size to a small car, had been flying at the same altitude and was taken out over the yukon in canada on saturday. president joe biden coordinated that takedown with canada s prime minister trudeau. the object was small small and cylindrical in shape.
with more on that. good evening, u.s. officials tells jennifer griffin that forensics rather on the 200-foot tall china spy airship that traversed the u.s. for over a week allowed u.s. officials to adjust radar parameters to look for flying objects at higher altitudes. norad essentially turned up the frequency and as a result has started seeing blips on the radar over north america. for example given is equivalent to the movie hunt for red october. once the u.s. knew the frequency to look for they can hear the russian subs. in this case identifying the frequency of the china spy airship allowed the u.s. to adjust its radars to find more objects. the china spy airship was different with the objects over alaska and canada and according to u.s. official, spy craft had
debris, they said they were working on it they would get back. jon: u.s. officials say that object was first detected over montana yesterday and presidepresident biden gave the orders to shoot it down. the faa closed and reopened u.s. airspace over michigan today, and over montana last night. the u.s. military shot down two other aerial objects one over canada yesterday, and the other over alaska friday, officials tell fox news 3 latest objects are of unknown origin and smaller than chinese spy flight shot down off of the coast of south carolina on february 4. stay with fox news channel for the latest developments on this breaking story. jon: a celebration on the streets in rio de janeiro. this weekend ahead of braz brazil s world famous