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top of the hour this thursday. i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. we begin this hour with the new reporting of the chinese surveillance balloon, and the state department is confirming that this device was capable of monitoring u.s. communications. that is likely one of the new details that lawmakers are learning this morning. the biden administration is giving classified briefings on the issue on capitol hill a short time ago, and we will give you more of what we are learning in a moment, and with reclosely following what is happening in europe. the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is calling on the european allies to step up the assistance and talking about specifically what they could do in his mind game-changers. fresh off of the sales pitch in wisconsin, president biden is headed to florida to expect to drive home his pledge in particular to protect social security and medicare, and we will have more on that message from the white house ahead. first of all ....
Countries across five continents will give you a sense of how vast this global fleet has been, and there were flybys that were revealing multiple antennas on board. the antennas are likely to collect the communications and geolocating the communications, and capable of signal intelligence operations. what that means is gathering information from electronic sources, and things like radar and radios an communication devices. and that is significant. we should note that we have been told by officials that the biden administration took steps to prevent them from taking communications that were encrypted and make sure that there were none happening in the vicinity of the balloon. when it is coming to who is responsible from the balloon, and they say clearly that the state department says it is a ....