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what the heck is that? those are the bad guys. are they friendly? the 10g network, only from xfinity. one giant leap for mankind. the top of the hour this monday. i'm jim sciutto. >> i'm erica hill. this morning the white house is refuting china's claims that they had illegally flown balloons in china airspace ten teams. the white house is calling that allegation flat out false. it is coming on the heels of the u.s. shooting down three unidentified objects over the last week. >> and it is not known if they have connections to the three others after the shot down surveillance balloon....

Any proof that he helped anything to prevent this? >> no that is the anger that is building, because it is not the earthquake that killed people, but it is the buildings that killed the people, and the late response of the search and rescue, and the fact that government has wanted to centralize all of the search and relief rescues in the way that decapitated all of the civil society in a response worse than 1999, and so people are very angry in turkey, and this is bleeding into the physical fight in turkey, and president erd wan is preventing from saying what he wanted to say, which is that th...

Understand it. it is a political process that president erd wan is allowing to play out. we continue to increase the pressure on turkey to free pastor brunson who has been in prison 578 days and the vast majority of that was without charges. we need to bring him home and be mindful of other americans who have been sentenced. we have a nasa scientists sentenced to 7 1/2 years and working for our state department awaiting trial. this has to stop or we need to rethink our relationship with turkey. >> julie: something needs to happen before there is a sentencing. once the sentencing happens it's t...

At his trial that began today he denied the charges of being a member of an armed terrorist group and military espionage. the 50-year-old originally from north carolina faces up to 35 years in prison. he is being held because he is a christian and the charges are weak. >> turkey's attempt to make a case against pastor brunson, when you look through it, it becomes clear they have absolutely nothing. >> we also spoke to brunson's daughter this morning in the u.s. waiting to hear the latest. she hopes it comes quickly to an end. >> bill: if the charges are so weak why put him on trial? >> this is...