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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 ...

the suspected chinese spy craft brought down a week ago. according to the white house this is about the size of a small sedan, a lot smaller than the balloon. it was not equipped with a significant payload, in fact, who or what yesterday's object belonged to is still up for question. >> we're calling this an object because that's the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it, whether it's a -- whether it's state-owned or corporate-owned or privately owned. we just don't know. >> well, the object's flight path over alaska was north easterly. it's unclear where it ...

hunt is live with us with the breaking news. >> good evening, trace. we learned the balloon is just one of a fleet operated by the chinese military. with a significant game of spying on the u.s. in this game, many other countries in many other cases and the balloon shot down by a u.s. fighter jet on saturday was laden with sophisticated equipment to gather intelligence and possibly to transmit that intelligence directly to beijing. >> the tool package, the equipment package on that balloon, was enormous. we were not able to jam the transmissions. we don't know the extent of the progr...

We got to go up in one of those fighter jets and here is a look. >> we're with the 162nd wing of arizona's air national guard in tucson training on emergency scenarios. properly getting in and out of the cockpit. >> counter clock-wise so it's going this direction. >> and the gear. >> and we suit up and then meet the pilots. and then it's takeoff in an f-16 jet up in the air, pulling 4 to 7g's. we're on a norad drill. lt. colonel leroy barnett and another pilot intercept a cessna that in theory violates super bowl air space. barnett explains why the air over the super bowl is shut down. >> it's...

Cockpit and the gear. we suit up and meet the pilots. and then it's take-off in an f-16 jet up in the air pulling four to seven g's. we're on a norad drill. they intercept a cessna that in theory violates super bowl airspace. barn met explains why the air over the super bowl is shut down. >> it's the importance of how many people are there, and outside of that, its national assets. >> u.s. home security secretary mayorcas visited phoenix and said 800 personnel are in place prepared for simple threats to chemical weapons. the man includes aviation and cybersecurity, cargo screenings and video s...