we are coming on the air with breaking news on today s top story. for the first time, we will see secretary of state tony blinken on camera. you re looking at it live on the left side of your screen there. potentially reacting to that suspected chinese spy balloon, flying over u.s. airspace. also this hour, you ve got president biden in philadelphia after a better than expected jobs report. we re juggling all of it live here in the next 60 minutes on msnbc. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to bring in one of our chief white house correspondents, foreign correspondent janis mackey frayer is live in beijing, and gary locke, former u.s. ambassador to china. let s take a beat. lay out what we know so far about this chinese apparent supply balloon mystery situation. we are about to hear from the secretary of state for the first time on camera since he postponed his trip to beijing earlier today. the pentagon says they are still tracking this balloon. they also say it is no
can report a fairly significant headline from the president s speech over across the way. he said fly eagles fly, i thought it was an important message to get across to make sure they heard that. steve liesman, i ll go to you. you heard mem lay out the big economic picture here. why that s so critical. be our smart interpreter as you always are. why was this such a rocket ship in january? the expectation was something like 200,000 or less, we saw 517,000. what s up with that? you think you have fun covering the politics. how about the excitement of being an economics reporter these days. 187,000 is expected. you get this jaw dropping number of 517,000. the unemployment rate drops to the lowest level since 1969, then you re kind of scrambling to understand it. there s a lot of head scratching. the leisure and hospitality