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President Biden was asked about it not long after. Do you have anything to follow up with the object shot down over Alaska? President? Yes, yes.
Yes, yes. Yes. So, it's got to be out with joins us now with more on how all this played out and how the administration is handling it. So what else has the administration said about this object?
Well, here's what we know and understand. This mysterious object is the size of a small car. It was unmanned. It didn't appear to have the capability to maneuver itself within the wind stream.
And also, according to a U.S. official, it didn't appear to have surveillance equipment on board. So those are some significant details. But we really don't know the answer to the major question here, which is who was responsible for sending this up into the sky.
Listen to what the NSC's John Kirby said about that earlier today at the White House. 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.
Now, what he also said significantly, Anderson, is that this mysterious object was traveling at about 40,000 feet above ground. Now that is about 20,000 feet lower than the Chinese Bible and that we were all tracking just last week. And the significance there is that it was traveling at about the same elevation as commercial aircrafts. Therefor Pentagon and White House officials determined that it posed a threat to civilian aircraft.
And that is one of the major reasons that President Biden gave the order earlier today to shoot it down. What's up to have been down about 10 miles off the coast of Alaska. Is there a plan to recover? Do we know is there anything left to recover?
Yeah, it was taught down today around 1.45 p.m. and recovery is already getting underway. And the White House administration is really focused on recovery because there are just still so many questions. That's why recovery is going to be key here.
But it was shot down over frozen water. So what they're going to have to do is recover all these pieces that are on ice right now. That's going to be pretty complicated. This is Northern Command from the US military doing this.
This is the Alaskan National Guard taking part in as well, including the FAA and also the FBI. So there are a lot of questions on deck to try to do this recovery effort and figure out, of course, you know, what the heck this is and where it came from. There are some similarities to that Chinese spy balloon that we were tracking just last week because it came into US airspace. But right now it seems like a very different situation.
Anderson Kylie, I would appreciate it. Thanks for this now. As for my Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger, he's the senior plu- commentator importantly tonight. He's also a pilot in the Wisconsin International Guard.
So Congressman, do you think the President shooting this thing down with the right decision? What do you make of this object? There's a little- Yeah, I mean it's not the right decision. It's a mystery.
I mean, obviously, it doesn't appear to be a balloon like we dealt with all of last week. evidently hung around. I've heard that it's non-maneuverable. There's a lot of stuff out there on the internet on Twitter describing it, which I don't know if it's true or just rumor, but it's certainly to me looks like something that either China or Russia, you know, I guess it's quite possible that there could be some commercial entity that was testing something.
But given the proximity to military bases, stuff with our defense, it's very interesting. And I think there's a lot we may not even find out, but there's a lot to be learned. Is there anything, I mean, in this area in particular that would have been of interest to adversaries? Well, there's air defense.
There's military bases. There's fighter bases. There's some energy and intense stuff up there. Alaska actually plays a very important role in national defense, particularly when you're looking at it's West, you look at Russia, and you look at around the globe to China.
So yeah, I mean, it could be anything from that level. But I mean, it's really kind of an interesting mystery. And I think they made the absolute right decision to shoot it down. I'm not sure if it was shot down because of a commercial airline traffic, as they've said.
I think that's probably the right thing to say. But look, it's pretty sparsely populated out there. And you can always vector traffic around something. So I certainly think they saw it as a threat.
If it does turn out to be China or another adversary like Russia, what happens then? I mean, obviously countries probe each other all the time looking for trying to spy on each other. Should there be other action? No, I don't think it should escalate.
I mean, I think if it does end up being China or Russia, we obviously should be concerned. And I think we've made it clear, the president has made it clear, and DOD has made it clear, that we're not going to allow incursions into our airspace. And so if China wants to put something up, a balloon in some cases, or maybe possibly whatever the subject was, it's going to cost them that because we will defend our airspace. And I think that's the right call, because that's the way you actually stop this kind of encroachment from happening, is you make it clear it'll be a waste of money because we're going to take it down.
Do you think some, I mean, you were sort of indicating this, you know, the argument is, well, it was at commercial air-traffical level. It does seem like some of the reactions this may have been just based on the criticism the Biden administration have received for waiting on the Chinese spy balloon. It's certainly possible, but it's also, you look at, you know, did they gather intelligence when the spy balloon came over? Evidently we did.
And I think from that point, so you can allow it to traverse the country once, get whatever intelligence you need to, but we can't allow something like that again. So is it a response to political pressure? Possibly. I doubt the DOD would recommend shooting something down because of the politics of it.
I would think that at this point, we're making it very clear that you basically got one chance to fly something over our country and after that, you're not going to make it in. Yeah, coming soon, Kinsinger. I appreciate your time. Thanks so much.
I want to get perspective. Now James Clapper, former director of national intelligence and currently CNN, National Security Alice, also William Cohen, who served as defense secretary during the Clinton administration. How much interview was this about neutralizing a threat to the billionaire craft and how much about sending a message to the American population and also other countries? I don't think the altitude was really the dispositor factor here.
Let's assume that the object was flying at 50,000 feet or 60,000 feet. I think the answer would have been to shut it down anyway. So that may have been a factor involved, but I think that was not the dominant reason. I think sending a message to whoever sent this up, whether it was China or Russia or some other country, if you invade our airspace, we're going to take it out.
Now is it cost to what does? I'm sorry, Kinsinger said, there's a cost to them. This cost to us, those 500 missiles cost about 380, 400,000 dollars. So every time they put a cheap balloon up or some other object, we have to take it down.
It's not without expense to us as well. Now I doubt that that's the formula going into effect right now. I think it was right to take it down and I think it was right to wait on the other first Chinese symbol on the bottom. The US has released very few details about the object shot down.
Would they have photographed it before shooting it down? Would they have actually had eyes on it? Do you think? Well, I don't know.
Hopefully they did or had some indication of the nature of its payload. It would appear, though, that just from its size, that it didn't represent the technology that apparently was represented on the Chinese balloon. So I do think, if I may, just a broader comment, I do think it'd be very useful as this situation evolves. If the administration could devise a protocol that could be explained to the Congress and to the public as what the ground rules are on when and where and under what conditions we cheat one down or all those conditions that we wouldn't want to observe it for intelligence purposes.
Now, speaking purely as an intelligence guy, I was amused a bit by those who were complaining about it. The Chinese balloon being an intelligence failure, but yet also complained because we took the time to learn something about it and it's not like we can fly over China and observe one of their balloons. So this was an opportunity to gain intelligence. So I think that may have been a valid argument.
All to say, I think it would be a good thing if we had a protocol that could be explained both to the public and especially the Congress about this is a direct to ground rules. So direct to a platform. One can gather in the balloon incident. You can gather intelligence just by following the balloon, watching it, reading signals off it or something?
Well, yes, and if you can observe it up close and personal, you can learn a lot about, for example, if it had antennas on it, you can do forensics on the antennas and figure out the nature of whether that might have been a transmitter or a receiver, which is very useful to know if you're going to continue to glean intelligence on what just one of these things is doing. So the other part of this is there are ways to collect intelligence on a balloon that is not directly connected physically with the balloon itself. So if we have some insight into its launch facilities and the protocols that Chinese use when they launch, that's all valuable stuff. And particularly if you can connect that with the actual operation of the balloon as it's flying.
Secretary Cohen, do you agree with the Director Claprid that there should be some publicly announced protocols or at least explained protocols? I think General Claprid is absolutely correct in terms of making sure that Congress is on board. One of the things that's taking place is everybody's trying to be a quick draw on McRaw and come out and take them to the fastest gun on the West. And I think what we saw is this administration acting and our military acting with restraint to first understand what the object was in the Chinese balloon, see if we get intelligence that General Claprid was saying.
But there's something else that came out of that. We found out that we knew several years ago that they were doing this. It wasn't disclosed because we didn't want the Chinese to know that we knew. And that's something that's important.
So bring the Congress in, the big eight, and sit down with them and let them know what's going on in terms of how we're going to approach this in the future. You'll have less people coming out and being critical and political. Church Claprid, US intelligence officials indicated they don't believe that Chinese President Xi was aware of an order to send this by balloon over the US. If the latest object turns out to be China again, do you buy that that the president wouldn't have known that the president wouldn't have known that?
No, I don't. The Chinese setup is a pull-up bureau member who is the overseer, the senior overseer on behalf of the pull-up bureau for the entirety of the intelligence and security apparatus of China, which is mammoth. And it's multi, they have many, many organizations and agencies that are involved in this. So it's hard for me to believe that a pull-up bureau member was directly associated with President Xi.
We not have informed President Xi about it. So now I don't buy that. Interesting. Church Claprid, Secretary Cohen, I appreciate it.
Thank you. Good afternoon, guys. We have a break in news where the former president's legal team has turned over yet more classified documents, or documents, or documents marked classified to federal prosecutors. Also, the FBI is searching Mike Pence's home and what they found at the office where back in November, he said on National Television, he took no classified documents with him from the White House.
And a report from the Quag Zone, where survivors are still being found at hope, is losing out against time and the death toll is climbing again. Breaking news tonight, there's a late word that the dimensions of the former president's classified documents continues to grow his legal team turning over yet more items to prosecutors. This game at the end of the day in which the FBI agent surged Mike Pence's Indiana home two and a half weeks after the former vice president's attorney discovered about a dozen classified documents there. Today's search turned up another.
And just as a reminder, here's what Pence told ABC State and New York last November in that very same home. Let me ask you, as we sit here in your home office in Indiana, did you take any classified documents with you from the White House? I did not. I've seen that just because Sean Alexander joins us now with the latest on that and the breaking news.
So what do we know about these new documents and other materials that former president Trump's team has handed over the Justice Department? Yeah, we know that they were handed over from Trump's team to federal prosecutors in December and January. Crucially Anderson, that was months after the FBI search Mar-a-Lago back in August, and it really suggests that this effort to get classified material back, it still continues between Trump's team and the DOJ. So our team has learned this, that the handover included more documents with classified markings.
It also included an empty folder that was marked classified evening briefing. It also included a laptop belonging to an aide. And the reason that laptop was handed over is because it turns out the aide had copied some of those classified documents onto a thumb drive and the laptop, not realizing that they were classified. So both of those were turned over.
And that new detail, it really creates at this point more questions and problems about who had access to this classified material as the DOJ has been working to get it all back. Did this aide have access and does that add another wrinkle into the investigation, Anderson? The discovery that new documents tell us anything about the course and investigation into the form presence handling of documents. I think it signals here that this investigation is still maybe in the middle of things still very active here.
This indicates that Trump's team is still on alert that maybe other documents are still at Mar-a-Lago. You know, we're seeing the special counsel in this case, Jack Smith, really go full speed ahead. It was just this week that we even learned that he had subpoenaed the former National Security Advisor, Robert O'Brien. O'Brien had actually asserted a lot of executive privilege here, but this investigation is still wide-ranging ongoing.
And of course, at the same time, that Jack Smith is investigating the classified documents that Trump's home is also investigating January 6. We also mentioned the documents found at Vice President Mike Pence's home. What's the latest on that, sir? Yeah, so that FBI search was five hours today, and it yielded one classified document.
It also yielded six other documents that the FBI said did not contain classified markings, but that the FBI still took for further examination. The former vice president was not at home at the time he was actually a California visiting family, the birth of two new grandchildren. But, you know, Anderson, the fact that one classified document was found, it could actually complicate the situation for Mike Pence, because the Justice Department has to decide how to proceed here, and if there is any need to appoint yet another special counsel, especially since Pence is considering this run for president. And DOJ is really trying to treat all of these cases equally.
Trump's case, Biden's case, and what could potentially be a case against Pence. Just a question. I appreciate it. Thanks.
This comes a day after the Special Counsel and the former president issued a subpoena for Pence's testimony documents related to January 6. There's a lot to talk about, seen in senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Jennifer Rogers. So the new classified documents from the former president were reportedly copied over to a thumb drive and a laptop. The reporting is that the person who did that was unaware they were classified.
I'm not sure how they know that. But does this complicate the case from investigators in terms of who may have had access to them? Because if people were copying classified documents, isn't that a whole other level of oddness? It is.
It potentially expands the investigation because dissemination of classified documents is a whole other criminal offense. So if these documents were improperly disseminated to the person who had a laptop, that's one potential area of offense. And then what happened from there? Did this laptop actually send them elsewhere?
So I think there's both an expansion on the criminal investigation side. And then of course on the national security side, because they need to figure out exactly what possible spillage there was of this classified information. Prison Trump claimed on social media in January that he used to take home empty folders with classified markings as quote, a cool keepsake. One of the items that was probably turned over wasn't empty folder marked classified evening briefing.
What does the investigators are looking for empty folders mean to you or that they're finding empty folders? Well, when we first saw the take from the search warrant execution, there was there when it raises the question of where are the documents that were inside of those folders? You know, they're not supposed to be separated. There are folders for a reason.
It's to identify them as classified and also to shield their contents from anyone who might come across them. And so the fact that they were separated is itself mishandling of classified information. So the notion that he just kept the folders as cool things and then separated them and did something else with the classified information. I don't know why he thinks that's the defense of what's going on.
In fact, it's actually the mission of guilt. Vice President Pence's cooperate with the search of his home. Does that indicate anything regarding what his cooperation may be with his peanut? He received yesterday from the Special Counsel's office because he certainly has a lot of legitimate issues about executive privilege.
Yeah, I don't think so. I think he's treating them separately. I think he wants this classified information inquiry to go away as soon as possible. January 6th, I think he wants to go away too, in part because we're starting the political season for 2024.
But that he might actually be willing to stretch it out a bit and not be super cooperative. In other words, he might claim executive privilege and be willing to litigate that for the next few weeks if he thinks that'll help him with potential voters. So, you know, I don't think he's really thinking of them as in the same bucket. And honestly, DOJ isn't either.
Jack Smith is pushing ahead with his investigation. And I don't think he'll give Mike Pence any credit at all for being cooperative and a totally separate investigation being done by someone else at DOJ. Jennifer Rogers, appreciate it. Thanks so much.
Now, what's becoming your daily occurrence? George Santos, according to a senator telling another lie. New York Congressman told conservative outlet Newsmax last night that after his running was Senator Mitt Romney at the State of Union speech where Romney told him, quote, you know, belong here, Senator Kirsten Cinnemal offered him words of encouragement. Kirsten Cinnemal, as she was walking by the Senator from Arizona, she said something to the effects of hanging there by the other side.
I said, thank you. Thank you, Madam Senator. She was very polite, very kind-hearted as I've learned to see her. She's a good person, unlike Mr.
Romney. Well, today, a spokeswoman for Senator Kirsten Cinnemal said that did not happen. Quoting her spokeswoman, that is a lie. Now, here's footage from the moment on Tuesday night he appears to be describing a show of Senna walking in front of Romney as he passes Santos.
Santos does turn to Senna while Romney is talking, and while Senna turned in the direction of Senna's response, he says they did not actually speak. Next for us tonight, new reporting on the staggering number of people left homeless. The search for quake survivors, which continues in one father alone in the rubble. We begin tonight's coverage on the desperate search for survivors in Turkey and Syria with a heartbreaking image that speaks more than any words can to the horror of what's happening.
The man in this photo is a father. His name is Masut Hunches. He is sitting in the rubble, holding the hand of his daughter, who was crushed inside it. She was sleeping on her mattress, and that is where she still is beneath the bricks and the concrete.
His daughter's name is Ermach. She's 15. What do you do when the light of your life is ended? You try to hold on to it as long as you can.
This was a photo of them together before. No idea that it would one day come to this. Around the father, out of frame, rescuers picked through the rubble, but Masut couldn't take his hand out of hers. He couldn't let go.
The death toll from Monday's earthquake in Turkey in Syria is now climbed to more than 23,000. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, SMA, the quake may have left more than 5 million Syrians homeless, and her nickname is Turkey tonight. Nick, what are you seeing around you? What have you seen today?
It's been extraordinary watching the city slowly begin to fall into silence at times, desperately keeping the excavators, the crowds quiet, hoping they can hear something inside the rubble, a sign of life. And it brings an eerie ghostliness to huge areas of this town that used to be of millions at times during the day, but sometimes, in the case you're about to see, 109 hours after the quake. That brings out extraordinary moments of joy. Over 100 hours after the worst quake in nearly 100 years, and still there were lights that won't go out.
Make it feet a reminder this happened in everyone's sleep. And this new dawn so welcome, no better way to show you're alive than this smile. The crowds at each site larger, louder in success, now the number of living buried is smaller. Timodou's husband was pulled out moments before her.
They don't have to go far to be reminded how so many searches end. Preciousness of each moment of hope is most acute here, where military helicopters and ambulances form a stream rushing the injured to hospitals in other Turkish cities because so many here are crippled. We see a three-year-old girl conscious of two months old sister, the same. It is unclear if they know where their mother is, nobody here does.
Just how urgent they are. They try to take off another of their lives with another thing behind them. The old are rushed on too, but also too so tiny they share a stretcher. And on board must be carried from their arms.
They do fly without their pounds. About 15 patients in total this morning. I don't want to. Remember though, this is how most stories are ending here.
They are carried graves in a cemetery dug by hand and cardboard, even this a relative luxury in time of nothing. You're in the house! Two families are four who died in the same building. I don't know if you're lying for a long while.
Across this city though, the task of burying so many also urgent. Back at the same rubble site, another search has begun. This resident explains its interior. I don't know if you're still there, there's a lot of people.
Hope now is Fagetian's brother, mother and father. A nurse. She's been here since Tuesday. I've been struggling for five days.
Everyone has lost hope now and is sending me condolences. Officials told me they'd only find a corpse. And now two people have come out alive. We need professional rescuers.
The fibergate quit on us. We found those two just now with construction workers. I brought three body bags. Maybe I need them and a graveyard.
Into dusk, the dig inches carefully forwards, with no time limit or guarantee it'll find anything. The city centre swamped in dust and the heavy knowledge that the longer their patients and struggle, the less likely it is to be rewarded. In the coming days, for the people who are still there, who are still waiting, who have nowhere to go, what happens? It's really now, I think, that the shift is from finding those alive inside the rubble, less and less as time goes by fewer and fewer, to trying to eke out a life above the rubble for the millions who seem to still be in the ruins of this once thriving bustling city.
So much bigger since refugees moved here from Syria. We've got a sense just in the last hours, Anderson actually, of how things can deteriorate here. A false rumour started where we were, that a damn nearby had broken. That caused mass panic, everybody piling into their cars, trying to drive out of here.
Turn out, of course, to be incorrect. And then some local men were chasing other men who they believed were thieves who perhaps had used that brief panic to try and steal from some of the abandoned buildings here. A lot of desperation and tension, I think, growing the air at night, thick with smoke, food, sporadic, but here certainly. But the biggest question is where do you live?
Where do you sleep at night? When virtually every building you see is damaged in some way, if not flat, of Anderson. Nick Ben Walsh, thank you. I appreciate it.
Former Acina of course, Juan and Arwa Daman is the founder of an international network for aid relief and assistance, which works with children from conflict areas who suffered physical and mental harm, where teams are working in the ground. And Turkey, she's trying to get aid into Syria. Arwa joins us now from Istanbul. Arwa, when you first heard about this quake, I know you were actually in the United States doing work for your charity.
You spent so much time in the region. What have you been seeing and hearing from people in the ground? It's such a scale, Anderson, that it's like this multi-headed monster that no one really knows how to describe her even how to deal with. I mean, those of us who worked in the region, my office was based in Gaza on tip.
Two of my staff were in Hatai in Antakya, where Nick was just reporting from the day the earthquake struck. One of them, she was visiting her family. They barely got out alive. Their apartment is flattened.
My country manager ran out with his children as he said the walls were crumbling around him. I mean, my stomach fell. I felt physically ill. And right now, we've been trying to scramble to get aid into not just that area, but also, yes, as we were mentioning there across the border and to see her with very little resources, because our organization, not like so many others, who would normally be responding to this using our staff on the ground.
Well, our staff are now survivors and victims of what has taken place. We managed to get one truck out tonight. I've got more boxes waiting to go in the next 24 hours. I'm heading down there myself, but this is of a scale that I don't think any country or any organization is ever pre-equipped to handle.
What are some of the most immediate needs of people that you're trying to address? So what we're specifically doing is targeting families who for whatever reason are unable to access the aid distribution points, or they need specific items that aren't being distributed. So we've done calls out to our Enada families to be worked with. Remember, most of the kids we work with, they by and large have burn injuries and various other challenging injuries that make these conditions very difficult to cope with.
And they were all displaced by war already, so there's this very deep trauma. And then we've been reaching out to other families as well who have very specific needs. So whether that's, you know, topical cream for their burn injuries, whether they need battery packs because there's no power, and so they're not able to stay connected with the rest of the world, whether they're looking for, you know, coloring books and stuff to be able to distract their children, take that to, you know, we're taking down tents and mattresses and flashlights. Again, no power, candles.
I mean, just about everything that you could possibly think of. The need is so vast, Anderson, that it's almost impossible to wrap your head around it. And then when you look at the need that's inside Syria, I mean, that's just nonexistent right now. Yeah, I mean, that was going to be my next question.
We don't really know just how bad things are there. I mean, some groups are getting there now. Some groups are barely getting there now, Anderson. I think the UN sent over a handful of trucks through the one border crossing that UN aid can actually legally in theory go through.
That border was shut down for the first few days and it caused such fury and anguish inside Syria because people died. And they died because they didn't have the heavy machinery they needed. They died because they didn't have the diesel to run the heavy machinery that was already in country. They died because the resources simply weren't there.
That influx of international teams we saw coming into Turkey, which is extraordinary. That's not what you see inside Syria. There you see local groups like the White Helmets and residents trying to dig through rubble with their bare hands to cook with an apocalyptic scene at this stage. And still aid is not getting across that border the way it needs to.
And let's face it, every single humanitarian appeal for Syria from the day that the revolution then war broke out there. Every single humanitarian appeal has never been met. And that today, sadly, despite these circumstances, that hasn't changed. AORWIS group is INARA that's INARA.
R-A-N-A-R-A. R-A-N-A-R-A. Thank you. And if you want more information about AORWIS organization, the International Network for Aid Relief and Assistance is what it's called INARA.
The link for you is INARA.org forward slash Rapid Response. That's one word, INARA.org forward slash Rapid Response. Coming up, the newscasters that you're about to see, they're not actual newscasters. They're not even actual real human beings.
So what are they? And why are they pushing China's propaganda? Details ahead. We are all far more aware of the misinformation out there on social media and on a variety of platforms.
But tonight, a new way to spread falsehoods at research firms identified realistic appearing newscasters featuring AI-generated newscasters who are disparaging the United States. They're called deep fakes. And interestingly, the content of what they're saying is distinctly aligned with Chinese messaging. See you in Selena Wang.
Hello everyone. This is Wolf News. I'm Alex. On first glance, these look like news anchors.
And the top leaders of China. On second glance, you might notice something uncanny. And how their voices don't align with their mouth movements. That's because they aren't real people.
They're deep fake avatars made with artificial intelligence. It's unclear who's behind this. But last year, pro-China bot accounts sent them out over Twitter and Facebook. But this is the first time we've seen footage of a tiny fictitious fake person used in a politically motivated input operation.
This particular set of videos was promoted by an operation that we call Spamabaj, which we've been tracking since in 2019. And routinely amplifies narratives that align with Beijing's strategic interests. Research from Graphica issued a report on this broader campaign that says in part, more videos portrayed the U.S. in a negative light than focused on any other theme, presenting it as a law-breaking, hegemonistic, rat-by-civil strife, and failing in the fight against COVID-19.
This meeting is of great significance. They push China's geopolitical agenda. Gun violence has killed nearly 40,000 people. And exposed America's shortcomings.
The U.S. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence says AI is deepening the threat posed by cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns that Russia, China, and others are using to infiltrate our society, steal our data, and interfere in our democracy. Hey there. I'm Anna.
Hey there. I'm Jason. And these fake news anchors, they were made with technology from British artificial intelligence company, Santhizia. Let me show you how easy it is to create your own deep fake video.
So I'm on the Sintazia company website. I'm clicking on Create a Free AI video. And for the script, how about let's have the avatar say, Hi, I'm a correspondent for CNN. They say I'll get the video in my email in just a few minutes.
Hi, I'm a correspondent for CNN. Thanks, Anderson, for having me on your show. Sintazia's website shows that technology is mainly used for corporate training and marketing videos. The company said in a statement to CNN, the recent videos that emerged are in breach of our terms of service.
And we have identified and banned the user in question. Graphico says these news anchor deep fake videos are low quality and did not get a lot of traction on social media. But this technology is spreading rapidly around the world. A few years ago, the Chinese tech firm made this deep video of then President Donald Trump speaking Mandarin as a demonstration to promote their company's technology at a Beijing conference.
Chinese state media has even created a whole team of AI news anchors. They're showing it off as a novel new technology that can mass produce shows with these anchors that can work 24 seven. The proliferation of deep fake videos makes it dramatically harder to combat disinformation. Experts say it's used by foreign and criminal actors will only grow, bending our reality.
And I'm joined now by a natural human Selena Wang Selena. Thanks for joining us. The deep big videos you showed us at the beginning of your piece, you said they didn't get much traction, but the potential for this technology is kind of mind boggling. Yeah, it really is.
I mean, look, you could tell from those videos something was off, the mouth wasn't aligning with the voice, they were low quality, clumsily done. They didn't get a lot of views online according to Graphica, but what is so concerning here is how it opens the door for a whole new territory and information warfare. And this technology, it's only going to get better. There are so many ways that you can see bad actors taking advantage of this.
It's already been used to make it look like global leaders said things they did not. Last April, a deep fake of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky appearing to tell his soldiers to surrender was widely shared online before the uploads were taken down. And you saw there just how easy it was for me to create my own deep fake, literally a matter of minutes. And when I spoke to Graphica, the researcher said the biggest benefit for these kinds of pro-state spam operations is its efficiency, the potential to mass produce this convincing deceptive content.
So, I'm going to make sure you're coming up. Major sporting event is happening this week, and I'm told the Super Bowl, I do know that, or Harry and his team, is here to give us some of the interesting data about the game and probably make fun of me as well from my life. And I'll actually give it back. So, unless you've been preoccupied by Chinese by Blue and George Santos, you may have heard that there's a major live event happening this weekend.
Rihanna is performing live for the first time in about seven years. There's also the Super Bowl. It's said to be popular as well, which is probably why they chose it for Rihanna's return to the stage. There's a lot of anticipation building for Rihanna and for the game.
You're going to talk about them both are senior day report and unofficial NFL analyst Harry Antone. I understand you have a question for me, which is inevitably a way to mock me. That is correct. That's what we do here on Friday nights, even though it's your show they bring me in and I mock you a little bit.
So, let me, let me ask you. Do you actually know who's playing in the game? I do not. Okay.
We're going to give you, not Tom Brady. It's not Tom Brady. It's not him. He just retired.
I know I'm aware of that. He may be joining us on television season or so. But we're going to give you a little clue here. We have the logos.
We have the logos. Okay. Kansas City Chiefs and the Screaming Eagles. Yes, the Screaming Eagles.
Where are they close from Philly? Yes. Oh, my, Jake Tappers from Philly and I know he likes the Eagles. That's exactly right.
Phil Dot actually called the Screaming Eagles. No, they're just the regular Eagles, but I like the Screaming Eagles. I like the logos. Seems like a Screaming Eagles.
It does seem like a Screaming. Screaming in. Oh, with a nice apostrophe. Very nice creating things on the fly.
I like it. So when, when did pop stars start headlining the Super Bowl? So this to me is my favorite thing, right? Because you love halftime shows.
Much more so than the actual gang. Because I know who the people are in the halftime show. If I knew who the people were in the game, I would probably be. That's why we're going to, you know, we're going to work on that heading in the next season, right?
So the first season in which they actually sort of had pop stars was 1991, New Kids on the Block. That was the first 1991 with the pop stars because that was what they were doing before. Okay, this is interesting. So the first Super Bowl had basically these college marching bands.
It was Grambling. They were playing up with people. Do you remember up with people? Yeah, right.
Up with people performed four times at the Super Bowl. Four times. It was like a cult. It was American religion.
I mean, what was a lot of drug use in the 70s? Who was thinking that? I look, as popular as the game is, they decided, oh yeah, let's get up with people. You know, very jolly.
I listened to it earlier. You know, I just got like, it was just like a good time, you know. I mean, why not have it like a sit in Mardi Croft production? I mean, which were great, by the way.
They could have done a lot of different things, but they had marching bands. They had Al Hurt. They had up with people. It was just a fun, okay, all time as the Flintstones.
And this is a Super Bowl of firsts, I'm told. Yes, it is a Super Bowl of firsts. So, you know, we have two brothers facing off against each other on the Chiefs and on the Eagles. Wow.
We have the first time that there are two black starting quarterbacks. Interestingly enough, there were no black starting quarterbacks the first year of the Super Bowl anywhere in the NFL. Wow. So we've really come a long way on that.
And the Navy Flyover is going to be completely women. So we're making some good stuff. Now that I know the story is like the two brothers facing off, that's great. So the two black starting quarterbacks, that's fascinating.
I mean, this would get me into it. This is an educational experience. Who's going to win? So who is going to win?
At this particular point, the Philadelphia Eagles are favored by a point and a half over the Kansas City Chiefs. It's going to be close. And the thing that I'll tell you is the Super Bowls in this century have been significantly closer than the Super Bowls in the past. So the median margin this century has been seven points back in the last century.
It was about 15 and a half. I went to a special place. Well, remember, we do math on Friday nights. We did the lottery once and now we do Super Bowl now together.
Okay, we'll see who wins. We'll see. Harry, thank you. We'll see you very much.
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