shoot down that chinese flight as soon as possible. the pentagon waited until safely over the atlantic. now there are more questions about why the white house did not brief the public about the situation with the present did not act sooner senator marco rubio believes try to use the aircraft to send a larger message. is not a coincidence this happens leading up to state of the union address. leading up to blinken s visit to china. chinese do this to be spotted they knew we would have to react to it as just a bullet it s a message to try to sum the world that we can do whatever we want in america cannot stop us. arthel: fox team coverage for you bright alexandria hoff has more reaction from lawmakers in china as charles watson, he is in south carolina with an eyewitness account of the shoot damper first up lucas tomlinson life in the white house with the reporting, lucas would you have? u.s. navy s dispatch three warships to calm the waters off of south carolina salvage cr
to the states and over key military bases, it was a citizen, a citizen that spotted it wednesday in montana, by the way the air force base in montana is where we keep icbms in combat ready minuteman missiles. so what is with the delay, what kind of intel did china get before the military shot down the balloon. these are all questions republicans want answers to. i think it s an open question this is not become public if the administration had not briefed the matter to congress thursday afternoon after was about to become public. whether the president would shutdown the balloon once he got over the atlantic ocean. the world was watching this just like they were watching the disaster withdraw in afghanistan were service members lost their lives and tens of billions of dollars of equipment were left behind is been disaster to disaster, people deserve ans answers. don t fall for the chinese communist party charm offensive the bedtime story that they tell out of touch global
nearly a week after it was detected in united states airspace. u.s. military is now working to recover the balloons debris off the carolina coast, as china lashes out and suggested could retaliate. as you hear terry chairman jim jordan fires off his first subpoenas targeting the biden administration. the doj pumps the brakes on some of his other requests. it is cut the legs out from other republicans plain investigations? and later. democratic congressman does something rare in modern politics. hiring a former gop rival to join her team. she is here to talk about whether she could be an example for others in these times of extreme polarization. all of that and more is coming up. and a good sunday morning to you. i m katie. thing right, now the search is on for what is left of the chinese balloon. which the american military says it has been used to spy on our country. the tensions between our two countries are even more tense now than they were 24 hours ago. on saturday, an f
any safety risks because there was an urgency here. this balloon is not armed, it does not pose some physical threat to the united states, even from an intelligence perspective. the chinese have much more effective ways of picking up intelligence from the satellites and otherwise. the fact that the president said what he said about taking care of it. now we have the physical fact that the balloon is heading towards the atlantic. these airports in north and south carolina are being closed for the moment. it does seem to set the stage and present an opportunity to have this shot down. it is really not a reversal. i think they ve been preparing for this and contingency planning. once it is not overland, it changes the calculus. general, weigh in for me if you will, you heard the presidents words there, we are going to take care of this. from your estimation, what is taking care of this look like and what are the risks and calculations going into that decision? i think what
announced. and it s basing agreements with the philippines. upping our game against china, and in fact the biden administration is continuing the trump administration policies on this. there actually is some bipartisan consensus on what to do about china in the future. all right mark polymeropoulos, you will stick with me hopefully. general steph twitty, you are sticking with me as well. so thank you for that. we are following this breaking news everybody, top of the hour. 3 pm here on the east coast. i am yasmin vossoughian, you are watching msnbc. we are taking a look at images of the chinese spy balloon that was spotted over the carolina coast. we have now learned just in the last ten minutes or, so that spy balloon has in fact been shot down over the carolina coast. seems as if in the atlantic ocean, we are gonna wear now from u.s. officials that they are currently gathering up the debris or attempting to gather up the debris. as i five conversation was general tweety a