announced. and it s basing agreements with the philippines. upping our game against china, and in fact the biden administration is continuing the trump administration policies on this. there actually is some bipartisan consensus on what to do about china in the future. all right mark polymeropoulos, you will stick with me hopefully. general steph twitty, you are sticking with me as well. so thank you for that. we are following this breaking news everybody, top of the hour. 3 pm here on the east coast. i am yasmin vossoughian, you are watching msnbc. we are taking a look at images of the chinese spy balloon that was spotted over the carolina coast. we have now learned just in the last ten minutes or, so that spy balloon has in fact been shot down over the carolina coast. seems as if in the atlantic ocean, we are gonna wear now from u.s. officials that they are currently gathering up the debris or attempting to gather up the debris. as i five conversation was general tweety along with
has to be clear and i think we have been that we are going to be locked arms with our allies. everybody from ukraine to south korea to taiwan, to japan that these kind of i would say situations that engages in will not persuade us from living up to our international commitments. and the short term, i think things are going to get more tense and they have already been tense. it just brings our relationship to a new low, at least in the last 30 or 40 years. congressman jimmy gomez, congressman from california, we appreciate you jumping on with us. thank you so much. want to bring back and if i can get mark polymeropoulos, general staff to the as well into the conversation. and if the loosest ill and, now we want to talk to him as well. mark, i know you said you use these things before, these balloons. if you can describe for folks
ambassador or members perhaps have the chinese embassy. i think there is going to be a desire to move past this, there is going to be a lot of talk and a lot of rhetoric on this. that s understandable, a violation of u.s. sovereignty. but there is a lot to do with china, there is a lot on the agenda and so i think there is both sides that will quickly want to come back to the table. one thing jasmine, i think will be interesting is inside china itself, what happens? there is a very strong argument to make that the chinese intelligence services, chinese military has deeply embarrassed the chinese leadership will really actually wanted this meeting, with secretary blinken. we will have to see how this plays out inside china as, well certainly we are speaking from beijing recently, which did express some regrets. sometimes some people thought it did not go strong enough but nothing that will want to get over this or get passed this pretty quickly as well. mark, general, if you would sta
happens in the future if president trump comes back into power. so this investigation really has domestic consequences for us in the united states. but the world is watching as well and the sooner we get through this, the better it is noing to be for everyone. former senior operations officer with the cia, marc polymeropoulos and joyce vance, thank you fog being on this morning. it is the best story in sports right now. frances tiafoe. taking the tennis world by storm. wait until you hear his unbelievable back story if you haven t heard it yet. we re coming back with mary carillo and mike lupica on morning joe.
club. prosecutors say they have serious concerns about handle government secrets over to a third party. the department argues that the records seized from mar-a-lago last month are not the former president s personal records and he has no right to possess them. the doj also asked judge cannon to put on hold her order blocking the department from using the seized records and in its criminal investigation. while it contests her ruling to a federal appeals court. joining us now, former senior operations officer with the cia and nbc news national security and intelligence analyst mark polymeropoulos and joyce vance, also an msnbc legal analyst. good to you have both with us. joyce, the appeal or the appeal to part of the decision at least, what is the process on that? what is the timeline and do you think that the doj was right to