against it rather than shoot it down. the president was only informed on january 31st as it approached alaska and ordered it shot down when safe. at other points along its path, the rust would not have had authority to take it out because it was over international waters. u.s. officials say we did not see the balloon for its entire journey across the pacific. despite president biden s staying quiet, vice president harris is weighing in telling politico she does not think the downing of the chinese spy balloon will have a major impact on diplomatic relations between china and the u.s. adding that she told chinese president xi gin bing on the sidelines of auto november summit that the u.s. seeks competition not conflict. and everything that has transpired across the last week and a half or so is consistent with that approach. bret? bret: jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. jacqui, thank you. stocks were up today on strong retail sales data. the dow gained 39. the s&p 500 finished
in congress, he shouldn t be lurking around the aisle trying to shake hands with the president, he should be sitting in the back of the room staying quiet. santos responded today. i want to play what he said. it s not the first time in history that i have been told to shut up and go to the back of the room. especially by people who come from a prifr lvileged backgroun. it s not the last. i m never going to shut up and go to the back of the room. it sreprehensible of him. it wasn t very mormon of him. [ laughter ] it s an interesting response. it s playing into the woke card. he is playing the woke card limbself. this guy is terrible. it is the case that there are people who get told to go to the back of the room for illegitimate season. if you lie, being told to go to the back of the room by somebody
defense pointing at the armorer and saying, that was the person who was responsible, ladies and gentlemen, of the jury, not the actor whose job is nothing to do with guns and bullets or anything like that. he was handed a gun and assured it was safe. how could he possibly have been consciously disregarding a known risk? that is, i think, some version of what you will see the defense say. danny and andrew, his dog, and vaughn, thanks to all of you. we love the dog. no comment. the president staying quiet. more information comes to light about the classified documents that were found at his home and former office. you are watching andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. (cecily) what s up, einstein? (einstein) my network has gone kaput! (cecily) oh, you tried to save a buck on it? (einstein) i got what i paid for. not so smart. (cecily) nah, you re still a genius. but, there is a smarter way to save. (einstein) oh?! (cecily) switch to verizon! for a limited time, get welcome unlimited fo
happen again. all the more important when less than half the states in the u.s. mandate holocaust education in school. what does it matter that there is an increasing lack of understanding or education about the holocaust? it matters because this is a plague. you ve got to understand how little things grow into bigger things. how people are taught to hate. anti-semitism is often described as the canary in the coal mine. it is an indication of a kind of rot that eventually consumes everything. for generations, many jews responded to anti-semitism by retreating, staying quiet. but those we talked to, even victims of hate say no. do the opposite. we have that friend s crazy uncle who is a blatant racist or anti-semite. and they ll apologize and we ll all roll our eyes and let it go.
election. trump s former secretary of state mike pompeo also met with january 6th investigators today. the panel has shown particular interest in talking to former cabinet members about conversations they might have had about invoking the 25th amendment. all of this comes amid the political fallout from the fbi search at trump s mar-a-lago home. let s discuss, and boy, is there a lot to discuss today. where to even start? i m going to start with the republican here at the table. the outrage came quickly. from republicans in the wake of the fbi search at mar-a-lago. but a few voices haven t have been absence. it s really interesting. you have the minority leader, mitch mcconnell, staying quiet at last check, saying he wanted to focus on the flooding in kentucky just recently. senators roy blunt, john thune, they haven t said anything about this. you have a lot of people in the republican side, i just interviewed one, congressman turner, outraged about this or conveying outrage, but so