how he plans to expand democratic control in 2023 and how not to celebrate black history month. we will reveal our worst of the week contenders. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. let s start this hour with the breaking news of the night the united states has shot down the suspected surveillance balloon off the coast of south carolina. officials say a f 22 missile jet took up the balloon with a single air to air missile. at 2:39 eastern this afternoon. nbc s gary graham joins me now from washington, d. c.. with the latest. gary, it s good to have you with us. what do we know about that decision-making process to shut down this blue and the evidence to collect the debris? as you can imagine,, eamonn you get our learning that this whole process was a team effort, it was a multi agency effort. the faa turned off all the arrivals and departures from wilmington airport from north carolina, from myrtle beach, from charleston. the air force is the one that shut down the ballo
rachel: it s great to be back in new york city and the team is back here in studio and still cold in new york p. we saw the earlier photos of daytona and going why weren t we back there? it s true. pete: rock island due west of chicago in northern illinois. rock island, illinois. clearly on a river. i should know what river it is, i don t. google maps not updating fast enough. will: what did you say? pete: on the border of illinois and wisconsin. no, border of illinois and iowa. will: mississippi. pete: that little mississippi thing that goes from the top to the bottom in louisiana. yeah, rock island. rachel: somebody that also doesn t understand the geography of the united states or doesn t want to go places he should be is president joe biden who s saying, you know, i m just not going to go he officially announced he s not going to go to east palestine and here he is dismissing the criticism of the handling of the issue. three weeks now since the toxic train derailmen
think of that, a year, for a war that vladimir putin once assumed would last only days. the u.s. continues to fund the good fight, another $2 billion heading ukraine s way, but not without some growing resistance in congress and growing concern even among some nato partners and just over the last 24 hours our g20 fellow members. we ll ask ukraine s ambassador to the u.s. what she makes of all of this and whether patience is waning for all of this. she s here and only here. then, what to make of china s mixed signals on this ongoing war even as it dangles a 12-point peace plan to end the war. volodymyr zelenskyy says he would meet with xi jinping. we ll ask brigadier general patrick ryder whether that s a good idea and former defense secretary mark mark esper on why he fears china might have other ideas. then, the young ukrainian mom who become the face of a war in her own backyard back with us. but this time elena is in a different backyard. how she got to safety and who join
running? we have heard him say several times it is his intention. are you not believing this? how many times as have to say it until you believe it. he says he s not done. he is not finished what he has started. and that is what is important. look at all that joe has done, has accomplished. he brought us out of the chaos. he did that. he was elected because people want steady leadership. i think they saw that intro here they saw his character. so all that s left at this point is to figure out time and place for the announcement? pretty much. okay still top democrats are not convinced but according to politico his top aides potential democratic presidential candidates are mulling a plan b. alright, great to be with you guys today, to see you again. i want to talk about. okay we are talking about president biden, will he or won t he announce his reelection bid? why don t we listen to what he had to say he was inside of abc news and broach the subject, let s take a liste
a year of hope. a year of endurance. a year of unity. the year of invincibility. the furious year of invincibility. following a devastating year of russia s war of aggression, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy vows to do everything to win this year. if putin s goal was to devour ukraine, he s clearly failed. from the beginning he s underestimated ukraine and the west with severe consequences within russia. and you have been following the alex murdaugh murder trial, we re not going to get into that testimony. instead, i m going to tell you about what this case tells us about generational power and privilege and the oligarchs living among us in america. we begin tonight with the somber one-year anniversary of russia s illegal and unprovoked invasion of ukraine. the war remains the biggest threat to peace and security in europe since the end of the cold war. the scale of human suffering is unimaginable for so many. according to the united nations, nearly 18 million p