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congress finally receives a classified briefing on the matter today. the senate being updated at this hour after the house was briefed earlier today. >> sandra: all of this as senior u.s. military and national security officials warn and have confirmed that spy balloon shot down off south carolina's coast on saturday was part of a major surveillance program run by china's military. so, what else are lawmakers learning in these briefings? we'll ask tennessee senator marsha blackburn and california democratic congressman ro khanna coming up. >> john: begin with lawmakers sparring over ...

so now here's what we know. the balloon is about 200 feet high, the pay load, which you saw suspended beneath it to gather intelligence was about the size of a jetliner. that debris, which is expected to include glass solar panels was spread out over the size of 15 football fields. may have included battery material, explosives that would detonate that vehicle. the pieces now on their way, some of them, to the fbi lab at quantico for analysis. so there's a lot of discussion about how this thing was brought down and whether or not it maximized our ability to understand what it was and...

how did this happen? >> that's an excellent question, katy. the balloon was able to get past our west coast anti-balloon defense system, the seattle space needle, but once it was here, we were able to keep an eye on it with our sophisticated tracking technology of going like this. >> our thanks to "saturday night live" there. there are rising dramatic tensions, however, between the united states and china after a white house decision to shoot down that massive spy balloon. we'll walk through what happened and take a look at the growing fallout. plus a powerful earthquake leaves hun...

virtual third. we'll have a round table in vegas and we'll bring you live pictures. later today, romney will pick up the backing of a fellow businessman who will give donald trump his support on monday when he says it's a great thing to be successful and employ a lot of people. whether trump's endorsement will mean anything, it's unclear. in a recent poll, 64% of voters will say that it will not. fireworks on capitol hill over the justice department's botched gun running operation. house republican darryl issa demanded that attorney general eric holder turn over documents in the fa...