administration acted indecisively and waited too long, letting the balloon float across the continental u.s. for days. president biden says the military advised him there would be less danger to the public in shooting down the balloon once it got over the ocean. lawmakers are reacting sharply and along party lines. i want to start by doing something that i don t do very often, which is commending joe biden for actually having the guts to shoot this down. that was the right thing to do. that is absolutely what the president should have done. unfortunately he didn t do that until a week after it entered u.s. airspace. they re saying we should have shot down the balloon the minute we saw it. i would use two words in answering these gop criticisms. they are premature, and they are political. presidents have the ability to go before a camera, go before the nation and basically explain these things early on, and his failure to do so, i don t understand that. i don t understan
right now on andrea mitchell reports live from munich, but reporting that the georgia special grand jury report has been made public today against the objections of the district attorney that it could hurt imminent prosecutions. the president will finally speak out about the chinese spy balloon and other shootdowns. will he explain his policy after bipartisan criticism? and here in germany, vice president kamala harris attending the munich security conference and world leaders gathering to talk about how to help ukraine survive russia s onslaught. i ll speak to the ambassador and richard engle from the front lines. good day, i m andrea mitchell in munich. it s 6:00 here. you can hear the bells tolling. world leaders, including vice president harris, gathering at a critical time in the war in ukraine. i ll be interviewing the vice president tomorrow on administration plans to help ukraine defend against russiaes spring i ve and hold vladimir putin accountable. breaking
it is sunday, february the 5th. i am ali velshi. we begin today with a big balloon! a major metaphor and a geopolitical turning point in the wrong direction. yesterday, at 2:39 pm eastern standard time the united states military f 32 aircraft flying at 15,000 feet used a single air to air missile to shoot down what the united states says was a chinese around balloon. roughly six nautical miles off the coast of south carolina, while within u.s. territorial airspace. the blue crafted to the atlantic ocean creating a debris field at least seven mile spread out in monthly shallow water. the recovery is ongoing. that includes navy divers, the coast guard, another manned and unmanned savage vehicles. fbi counter intelligence agency are also on board the vehicles. officials say there is plenty to learn from the debris. they add they have also been studying the balloon since it first entered u.s. airspace in the lucian islands of alaska on january the 28. the balloons, which had mane
trial, they tried to dismiss it, the laundries, several times. it has not happened. it will be fascinating. i think it s not for the money. it s for the principle involved and what may be discovered. fascinating to see if they actually get that letter and why the date would matter. the fbi had hit. patrick reilly has seen it. it s in the hands of the laundries family attorney. let us know if they get that letter. and cnn this morning continues right now. some people look at america and see vulnerability. the socialist left sees an opportunity to rewrite history. china and russia are on the march. they all think we can be bullied. kicked around. you should know this about me. i don t put up with bullies and when you kick back it hurts them more if you re wearing heels. i m nikki haley and i m running for president. so, good morning, everyone. it is a big day for nikki haley. for 2024, for nikki haley. poppy is on assignment. nikki haley is donald trump s first m
attorney general, we are always grateful in the show to talk to you and people from arizona. because it is real early right now in arizona. thank you for having the conversation. with us we appreciate. it chris mays is the new attorney general of. arizona we have a interview with the senator, bernie sanders, of vermont. it starts right now. and good. morning it is sunday, you are the. 14th not name in the east and 6 am and they. west are malleability. demonstrations around the country continue yesterday after the memphis police department released footage on friday night of the brutal beating of tyre nichols by five members of its own police force. yesterday, memphis pd also announced that it has permanently deactivated its scorpion units. the departments and the violence group that had been under scrutiny in life nichols death. all five of the police officers who were fired were arrested and charged with second degree murder of nichols. they were members of the scorpion un