already with big super pac backing. it s growing, anticipation of the trump-desantis run. thank you for getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. because we have not been able to definitively assess what these recent objects are, the president wanted to act out of abundance of caution. we are working hard to recover the debris to better understand, certainly the capability of the surveillance balloon from the prc, but also the nature of these unidentified objects, to better understand, were they surveillance objects? what was their purpose? what are their capabilities? close encounters of the unknown kind less than a week after the u.s. military brought down a suspected chinese spy balloon off the coast of south carolina. the white house ordered the shooting down of three more unidentified flying objects over the weekend. what are these things? it s interesting, they would not call them balloons. they said, there is a reason
flight risk, or a possible surveillance risk, we ll take the action to defend our national security interests. are we on the idea to limit this, or do we want to use balloons ourselves in some circumstances? these objects can serve potentially we ll know what they are when we get them up but they can serve valid, completely benign purposes, whether it is scientific research. it s not about banning them but making clear the air space rules. want to get your reaction to beijing breaking news the last hour or two. the foreign ministry accused the united states since 2022 of flying balloons ten different times over chinese air space. can you respond?
some said all you have to do is up the punishment for violating what already faa required air space rules and restrictions. make it more than just a slap on the wrist. what do you think? how are we going to fun issue me? you can t find my. me drone went over return 27 at la guardia and hit an airplane you. don t foe who had the drone. but if you register it hear you. they re arguing if you register it, you would not, if you could recover it. but they re acting as if everybody is a wonderful person and would never do anything evil. we have people that can use these drones to do all kinds of bad things. until we can deal with that we have a security threat. security threat. and i know people don t like this but until we can fix that security threat, these drones have to be taken out of the sky. michael, thank you very minute very much. strong words. michael boyd. north of the border they re
a novel idea, christian bookstores coming together to create an app for christians. called idisciple allowing them to search for christian books without having to sift through tons of websites. it will stream media. the fee is donated to other christian nonprofit organizations. on black friday, you couldn t have any violence if you had idisciple. it wouldn t work. growing tensions in asia over china s controversial air space rules. sending fire jets to control their new air defense zone over disputed lands in the china sea after japan and south korea announced their military planes had flown through the zone with no interference from china. chuck nash is a retired navy captain. so thankful to have you today and for your service to our nation.
i want to get to breaking news here, and changes coming to the faa with regard to specific planes. we will go to jeanne meserve homeland security correspondent out of washington there. what are you learning, jeanne? well, this is fallout of the incident that we learned about yesterday where the first lady s flight got too close to a cargo plane in front of her, violating the air space rules. the faa is issuing a statement, and we are obtained it already saying that in future, flights carrying the first lady and the vice president will have to have supervisor oversight. that means that supervisor is going to be on hand to monitor takeoffs and landings and movement through the d.c. air space. this is also going to apply to other destinations when they are flying elsewhere in the country where that is possible. the rules already apply to flights carrying the president, and this is now being expanded to cover flights carrying the vice president and the first lady. once again, supervisors