i am stephanie ruhle. welcome to a special monday night, our state of the union preview. there is now less than 24 hours before president biden s big speech at 9 pm eastern tomorrow. this will be his first state of the union before congress. one with the republican house majority. it comes two years into biden s first term, and late today, the president hinting at what they were telling the nation tonight. i want to talk to the american people about the state of affairs, what s going on. i want to say what i m looking forward to working on from this point on, what we ve done, and just have a conversation with the american people. with that, let s get smarter with the help of the insiders. former white house press secretary and msnbc host, jen psaki, and former chief smoke and host of symone on msnbc and peacock. michael steele, the only person at the table without a show here, we might want to talk. they ve been going to let you go first. jen, you re part of this admi
president hinting at what they were telling the nation tonight. i want to talk to the american people about the state of affairs, what s going on. i want to say what i m looking forward to working on from this point on, what we ve done, and just have a conversation with the american people. with that, let s get smarter with the help of the insiders. former white house press secretary and msnbc host, jen psaki, and former chief smoke and host of symone on msnbc and peacock. michael steele, the only person at the table without a show here, we might want to talk. they ve been going to let you go first. jen, you re part of this administration. tomorrow night comes at a pivotal moment in president biden s presidency, what does he have to tell the american people? what people are going to get tomorrow night s big, progressive, fold joe biden. what does that mean? it means they know that one of the biggest challenges right now is that they ve done a lot of stuff, accom
recovery efforts underway this hour for debris in the atlantic off the coast of the carolinas after the president ordered a suspected chinese bivalent to be shot down after hovering over the united states for several days. people nearby had their phones reeling, when fighter jets on the bloom around 2:30 eastern on the balloon off the coast of south carolina. au and senior military officials said the debris spanned seven miles. the u.s. is now working to recover that debris. a senior defense official tells nbc news that two of 22 raptors for the single missile took out the spy balloon as it flew at least 60,000 feet above us. the federal aviation administration paused all arrivals and departures at three u.s. airports in the carolinas. under an abundance of caution. it turns out president biden ordered the shoot down on wednesday. why did it take until today to carry out those orders? here is how president biden explained it a short time ago. on wednesday, when i was briefe
welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a remarkable news day with us. we begin with a brazen spy drama. straight to the pentagon, the briefing on a chinese balloon over montana. conducting press briefings in our temporary press briefing room while other primary location undergoes technical renovations and upgrades. we greatly appreciate your patience and flexibility as we work to install some long, overdue upgrades to the pentagon press briefing room. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call in options will not be available so for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and we ll aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward we ll look at ways to improve our briefi
new materials have been found at both mike pence s home and donald trump s florida resort. also on the other front, new details about the high altitude object shot down over alaskan airspace, plus, canada just shot down a similar objects flying in their airspace. we have new details from a news conference that just wrapped up. and a once in a century disaster, incredible stories of survival, devastating tales of lost in the earthquake that hit turkey and syria. i will speak with chef josé andrés, who is on the ground, giving survivors some hope and warm meals. i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. tonight, we begin with breaking news. canadian prime minister justin trudeau announcing hours ago that an unidentified objects being tracked over canadian airspace was shut down by the united states. canadian officials just got a press conference moments ago confirming that, at the u.s. canadian of craft that were scrambled a u.s. f 22 fighter jet successfully shot down t