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joining us. a cheerful, harmonious bipartisan start to the new congress this has not been. right now a spy balloon believed to have been sent by china is flying over the united states. yes, you heard the wall street journal travelers on a commercial plane first spotted the high altitude balloon on wednesday as it hovered over billings, montana. the pentagon has since confirmed the incident saying yesterday that it was tracking and monitoring the balloon but declining to say where it was currently located. a senior white house official tells nbc news that they are confident the balloon was sent by china, though the administration has not said so publicly. the official added president biden was briefed on the matter and followed the recommendation of his advisers that the balloon should not be shot out of the sky over concerns for the safety of those on the ground. the white house does say, however, it acted immediately to protect against the collection of sensitive information. this i
once a discharge petition has been filed and what the effect on the global markets will be, that now there s actually some chance this might not work. so global markets would have to reprice the risk of the united states defaumting. and when something like that happens you would expect stocks to go down and interest rates to go up. we should know by the end of this month, the beginning of next month whether we center to seriously consider a discharge petition strategy. you never want a risk to be reassessed in the united states go down. democratic congressman of north carolina, jeff jackson, thank you so much. up next, the high-profile opening in the biden administration. coming up on morning joe, the latest from capitol hill after house republicans removed congresswoman ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee. plus, what beijing said this morning about the spy balloon hovering over the united states, believed to have been sent by china. also ahead, vladimir putin