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 a
balloon as soon as the mission could be accomplished without undue risk to american lives under the balloons path. i quickly want to say we are watching the president here, let s listen in. earlier, the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday, as soon as possible. they decided without doing damage to anyone on the ground. they decided that the best time to do that was over water, outside 12 mile limit. it successfully was taken down, and i want to compliment our aviators who did it and we ll have more to report on a little later. thank you. we are saying the recommendation was from your national i told them to shoot it down on wednesday. they said let s wait for the safest place to do. it wasn t this mean for china relations? so the president reiterated