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
underway to gather debris of the balloon. and that debris is estimated to roughly the size of two school buses. here s what president biden told reporters about the operation last hour. on wednesday, when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down. on wednesday, as soon as possible. they decided it might do damage on the ground. they decided that the best time was when it was over water. so that has been our limit. they successfully took it down. and i want to compliment our aviators who did it. and we will have more to report on this a little later. thank you. what is your message to china? i told him to shoot it down. on wednesday. yes, they said to me, let s wait for it to be now beijing is claiming that it is a weather research balloon. that we have seen floating over the united states. and beijing expressed regret that it accidentally drifted into u.s. airspace. but the pentagon and the secretary of state anthony blinken say that
government will now be attempting to recover its debris. reactions from washington are rolling in quickly. and with me now to share his reaction is the democratic congressman of nevada, stephen horsford. who sits on the arms services committee. he is also the chair of the congressional black caucus. welcome to you, sir. first, your thoughts on the action that was taken today and what you think should happen now. first, i want to commend president biden, secretary austin. and our entire officials at the pentagon for acting decisively to protect our national interests and sovereignty. and to ensure that we are doing everything that we can to collect now the debris and whatever intelligence they can get. from this surveillance balloon, the armed services committee is actually having a full committee hearing on tuesday. it was scheduled prior to this information around the emerging
duckduckgo helps keep companies from watching you as you brows. president and the pentagon are join tens of millions of people making the easy switch by downloading the app today. duckduckgo, privacy simplified. (upbeat music) saying about this incident and the implications of the already tense relations between the u.s. and china. congressman stephen horsford who served in the armed services committee will join us in studio. i am simone sanders townsend and this is something i have to say. we start today with breaking news. the pentagon has confirmed that a u.s. jet shot down the chinese spy balloon that was spotted floating over parts of the country this week. now the military shut the balloon down over the atlantic. off of the coast of the carolinas. this video that you are seeing right now, this is the video that appears to show the moment that the balloon was downed. a recovery effort is now
his office and his relationships to help bring republicans into this process. because we know to get anything meaningful done, it is going to take republican support both in the senate and the house. finally. we asked for the president to work with us on pursuing additional executive actions beyond what he already implemented last may which were great. but apply only to federal law enforcement and we need more guidance to local and state law enforcement. so i want to be clear about this for the president say yes to all three of those things? he agreed to our approach. and working with us and i believe on tuesday in the state of union with the family. nichols family in the gallery this issue will be a priority. congressman stephen horsford, streamer the congressional black caucus member of the earth s committee, thank you so much for coming to the green table today. thank you, simone. ahead, everyone, is this balloon incident escalates? i am going to talk to u.s.