underway to gather debris of the balloon. and that debris is estimated to roughly the size of two school buses. here s what president biden told reporters about the operation last hour. on wednesday, when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down. on wednesday, as soon as possible. they decided it might do damage on the ground. they decided that the best time was when it was over water. so that has been our limit. they successfully took it down. and i want to compliment our aviators who did it. and we will have more to report on this a little later. thank you. what is your message to china? i told him to shoot it down. on wednesday. yes, they said to me, let s wait for it to be now beijing is claiming that it is a weather research balloon. that we have seen floating over the united states. and beijing expressed regret that it accidentally drifted into u.s. airspace. but the pentagon and the secretary of state anthony blinken say that
gentleman. my interview with douglas emhoff as his role of the husband to vice president kamala harris. his thoughts and toxic masculinity, and his fight against antisemitism. i ve been in this role, being the first one, i m going to continue to lean in, speak up, speak out, and call out those who say silent. there s so many cowards out there who know better. emhoff also reveals aside if it s wife you may not know. closing in, donald trump s legal predicament thought a lot worse this week, just as he s about to speak to the sparse maga crowd at cpac former prosecutor and senator doug jones is here to discuss. when the city showed out. mary laurie laurie lightfoot did not make the top team in her bid for reelection. one of the candidates or did could county commissioner brendan johnson, joins us live. and 5 million bucks each. that s where the san francisco commission says should be play to black residents in reparations. we ll talk about. it i m jonathan capehart. this is
brown jackson as the courts new term begins tomorrow. i am jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. this sunday, residents and relief workers are on rescue missions, coping through the rubble as floridians grapple through the trauma and devastation left by hurricane ian. water came up to about here. when it got to there, the way they were saying on the news i thought it would eventually go over our heads. i called my daughters and i said goodbye. it was very traumatic. i went into the water and save three people. i lost one friend, i couldn t savor. she got washed away. the devastation is unbelievable. i was a paramedic fireman for 25 years. it is just unbelievable. nbc news has confirmed at least 77 deaths have been caused by ian and florida and north carolina. more than 800,000 floridians and tens of thousands in the carolinas remain without power. creating a new facet of this emergency. some hospitals in the area now scrambling to evacuate critically ill patient
right, now president joe biden is in el paso, texas visiting our southern border for the first time as president. amid a record-breaking surge in migration that has strained several american cities and giving republicans a line of criticism at this hour. migrant services center which is funded by fema s emergency food and shelter program, he s meeting with local officials, faith leaders, and non governmental authorizations who have been critical to supporting migrants, economic collapse in their home countries, we will check in on the presidents border tour throughout the hour. plus, with the drama of last week s protracted battle over the speakership behind us, the house is slated to take up a rules package impacted by the unprecedented concessions kevin mccarthy made to far-right members of his caucus to become speaker. of course, the question that emerges from that is how those concessions and the enduring chaos of the speakership battle will impact how this 118t
expected tomorrow. governor ron desantis is going to be put to the test, forced to actually do his job. when he s used to spending most of his time hanging out on fox news and owning the libs. the approaching hurricane is also changed the january 6th committee s plans. we have our hands on some documentary footage of roger stone laying out trump s plot to steal the election. which the committee is expected to show when the hearing is rescheduled. also tonight, the senate takes up the electoral count act to protect democracy. and we re going to try to answer this question of why republican lawmakers still genuflect to trump and promote his lies. we begin with florida, bracing for ian, a major hurricane that could submerge large portions of the gulf coast. and it will be a test of leadership. governing, you see, is hard. it s unsexy, and not always television friendly. and governing through a crisis, well, that is where the proverbial rubber meets the road. president bide