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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 zel...

But this is what ukraine feels that it needs for protection, and that is what zelenskyy is asking for in a very, i think, straight ahead way, and physically being there is a big signal. >> it is a big point that you make of the u.k. bringing along the allies reluctantly, and changing their minds on tanks, and we will see if that happens with the planes. and now, in the study of war, the open offensive says that it tends to have begun. and should folks be bracing themselves for second year of this war being perhaps bloodier than the first? >> i think that definitely, and the destruction so far ...