good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we go directly to the pentagon and the briefing on the china spy balloon. 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. 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 up as quickly as possible. we will aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward, we will look at ways to improve our briefing operations and the facilitation and expect that our regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. again, we appreciate your patience and flexibility and extend our thanks to the department of the air force for allowing us to use airman s hall as our temporary briefing home. secretary austin returned yesterday from a very productive series of meetings in
thinks things will shake out. we start with a dramatic move that could have huge implications for the fraught relationship between the u.s. and china. the biden administration pulling the plug on secretary of state blinken s planned chip to china, just hours after the pentagon revealed it had detected a chinese surveillance balloon over montana. so right now the video, this video was taken in billings, montana, on thursday, although it s not clear if this is the balloon in question. obviously there s the balloon. that was secretary blinken who was supposed to leave tomorrow. that s now on hold. the u.s. has decided to monitor the balloon instead of shooting it down, even though it s apparently still gathering intelligence as we speak. a decision not sitting well some republicans. this is the fist time in my lifetime i ve ever seen anything like this, and it s very disturbing to know that it s still up there in the air near our military installations. the time is now, let
here with the chairman of the democratic national committee, jamie harrison. chris jansing is up right now. good day. i am chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. what looked like imminent diplomatic progress between the two most powerful nations in the world suddenly thrown off course by of all things a surveillance balloon. we ll get the latest on that and the briefing from the pentagon that we just watched live in the last hour. plus, the bitter, brutal deep freeze that could shatter records all over new england. in one spot windchills expected to drop so low they could cause frostbite in ten seconds. and a potentially huge shift in the presidential primary calendar sparking an intraparty battle ahead of the dnc s big meeting in philadelphia. i ll talk to the head of the dnc, jaime harrison about how he
and twitter at mitchell reports. up next, chris jansing will be here with the chairman of the democratic national committee, jamie harrison. chris jansing is up right now. good day. i am chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. what looked like imminent diplomatic progress between the two most powerful nations in the world suddenly thrown off course by of all things a surveillance balloon. we ll get the latest on that and the briefing from the pentagon that we just watched live in the last hour. plus, the bitter, brutal deep freeze that could shatter records all over new england. in one spot windchills expected to drop so low they could cause frostbite in ten seconds. and a potentially huge shift in the presidential primary calendar sparking an intraparty battle ahead of the dnc s big meeting in philadelphia. i ll talk to the head of the