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
i ll be watching you from my office at nine a.m., sunday show, 9 am for the saturday show. i m always in my office getting ready for the show. so, we ll be with me two days a week. so, that is good. silver lining, it s all good. yes. very excited about it. okay, my friend, have a good weekend, enjoy getting ready for both days next weekend. thank, you jonathan. thank you. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin with the breaking news, new questions and concerns this weekend after the u.s. military shot down a high altitude object for the third time in a week. canadian prime minister justin trudeau today said recovery teams are looking for the cylindrical object after a u.s. fighter jet shot it down over the yukon territory on his orders yesterday. canada s defensive history describe the object of smaller but potentially similar to the chinese spy balloon shot down off the carolina
markings to federal investigators, who also informed agents that it had been electronically copy to a laptop of a current trump aide. abc news learned, after the information was recovered, federal agents retrieved the laptop from the aid. the laptop was not retrieved on mar-a-lago grounds, the sources say. cnn tonight says, in addition to the folder, which was entitled, classified evening briefing, trump s team also handed over an unknown number of classified documents. it also reports, the aid, and owner of the laptop works for the save america pack. they copied the documents onto a thumb drive, and laptop, not realizing that they were classified. the phone drive, also, reportedly, given to investigators. i should say, nbc news has not re-confirmed this reporting. it is customary for us, and is reviewed circumstances such as this. for the first time, it raises the questions of classified materials, electronically, by trump in his inner circle. it is found in trump s possessi
first time that anyone has suggested that electronic copies were made of classified records and trump s possession. from the abc report, quote, trump attorney, james trust, turned over the classification markings to federal investigators, who also informed agents that it had been electronically copy to a laptop of a current trump aide. abc news learned, after the information was recovered, federal agents retrieved the laptop from the aid. the laptop was not retrieved on mar-a-lago grounds, the sources say. cnn tonight says, in addition to the folder, which was entitled, classified evening briefing, trump s team also handed over an unknown number of classified documents. it also reports, the aid, and owner of the laptop works for the save america pack. they copied the documents onto a thumb drive, and laptop, not realizing that they were classified. the phone drive, also, reportedly, given to investigators. i should say, nbc news has not re-confirmed this reporting. it is cust
compounded for one family. a husband dies from a heart attack days after his wife, a teacher, was killed in the attack. good morning, welcome to way too early. on this friday may 27th. i m jonathan lemere, thank you for joining us. we begin with the latest from uvalda. some of the key details provided by the texas officials in the first 48 hours of the attack have turned out to be an accurate. here is what has changed. texas officials first said that the attacker exchanged gunfire with a school resource officer before entering the school and then later said that the school resource officer engaged with the attacker, did not exchange gunfire. and yesterday officials changed the story. saying in fact that there was no school resource officer at all and that the killer walked into the school through an unlocked door, on obstructed, and simply began firing. the amount of time that the gunman spent outside before entering the building is also changed. we were initially told that