oh, man he kicked it down now. he kicked it down. there s two of them. there was a shot at that. yeah. they got it. they got it. did you hear the noise? they got it. did you hear that noise? that was a missile. wow. the balloon was first seen last week saturday over alaska, by wednesday it was over montana, by friday over missouri, and yesterday, over the carolinas. defense department officials told nbc news that it clearly crossed over sensitive sites, including military locations. a massive recovery operation is ongoing down here from myrtle beach, involving the navy, coast guard, national guard, and the fbi. in just the last hour, a police spokesperson said they are working to secure the area to help the federal government recover hardware that plunged into the ocean with the balloon deflated. we re preparing for if this washes up anywhere on the coastline in the city. so that s the big reason that we want to, we re speaking on behalf of all of our pa
earlier this week. listen here. we know, as a matter of intelligence, that he is instructed the people s liberation army to be ready by 2027 to conduct a successful invasion. that says not mean that he is decided to conduct an invasion in 2027, or any other year, but it s a reminder that the seriousness of his focus, and his ambition. specifically speaking about the invasion of taiwan. how concerned are you about the possibility of, thus and how much do you think is factoring in here to how the u.s. navigates tensions? i m deeply concerned. that s one of the reasons i m going to taiwan as a member of the select committee on china in just a few weeks time. why it s so important that the president has been successful in inducing the chin the japanese, south korea s, filipinos, an australian, is it doubled down on their own defense preparations. our ability to maintain peace across the taiwan straight, and indeed, to maintain a free and
one of the things that was in the statement from the defense minister was talking about, he thanks foreign governments for giving so much material an weapons, but a lot of the defense preparations are being done by ordinary people, so yes, people are not panicked, but they re learning to fight. and this is something that the keeper, ukrainian government keeps reminding us, scolding the foreign media, we have been at war for eight years, this is not new for us, so a lot of ukrainians already have military training and refreshing and getting ready to fight in the streets if they have to. nbc s matt bradley joining us live from ukraine, we really appreciate it. still ahead, a major change in covid philosophy. the state that is dropping its mask requirement in schools. after having some of the strictest policies in the country. plus, we dive into trump s document destruction. new reporting on a bad habit of the former president that s also against the law. those stories and a check
the trump campaign was involved or working with the russians. the defense preparations bill filed today, will that head to the president by itself or will it be with other measures? i would have to defer to the senate on that one. we re passing that bill off on the floor of the house, whether or not they can take it up, that s more of a senate question. for senator mcconnell, his problem is calendar. it takes them a lot longer to do things over there than it does us. so he s got to manage his calend calendar. how about approving bills ins house we re moving our bill. will we have 11 bills for fy-17, and we moving defense first.