course? i think the president going to kyiv doesn t settle that problem once and for all. ideally, it would have been great had he shown up, you know, with senator mcconnell or somebody like that who is strongly in support of the war. again, it sends a reassuring message to ukraine about american staying power. which, jonathan, is critical for europe. europe has followed behind and with the united states for the most part. this is leading from ahead, and that is what is required in this instance. we are now past 6:00. welcome to morning joe at this morning. joe, mika and willie have the day off. i want to bring in katty kay, special u.s. correspondent for bbc news, into our live, rolling coverage of this presidents day and president biden s surprise trip to ukraine, one meant to show a real symbol of solidarity, katty, with kyiv, as it has weathered russia s invasion now for 12 months. yeah, jonathan, what a day for us to kick off presidents s day, to see these images.
jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. hi, jacqui. hey, gillian, good evening to you. u.s. officials revealed today that the u.s. has not formally requested a phone call with chinese president xi jinping despite president biden saying yesterday that they expected to be talking soon. we re learning that they re hoping that secretary of state antony blinken will first be able to smooth things over and make contact with his chinese counterpart at the munich security conference next week. but, if no meeting ends up happening, it will be a telling sign of where u.s.-china relations stand. chinese spy balloon lifted from the ocean store from south carolina. quantico. we learned a lot already from the balloon by surveilling it while it was flying over the country. we re going to learn even more, we believe, by getting a look at the guts inside it. but u.s. officials are warning we may not learn much more about the three likely harmless objects sho
she watched two of them die. they died in front of her. i got my daughter and she s alive. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. we begin with quite an update from mexico. two americans are dead this morning. two are alive though. they are back on u.s. soil after those four were kidnapped at gun point in mexico. we ll break down where they were found and what we re learning about the man who has been detained. later, the family of one of the survivors will also join us. more exposure for fox news. a trove of private text messages and e-mails have been revealed as part of a lawsuit against the network. what tucker carlson said about donald trump leading up to the january 6 attack on the capitol. also, a bipartisan group of senators are now trying to give president biden more power to ban tiktok in the u.s. cnn this morning starts right now. we gun with that deadly cud nap kidnapping of four americans in mexico. two of them have been found dead. the two
the president says he is ordering new rules to track and monitor such devices. we he have fox team coverage. jennifer griffin at the pentagon on more on what the defense department knows and does not know about what is in the skies. first up, white house correspondent jacqui heinrich with the president s message. good evening, jacqui. hey, good evening, mike. president biden revealed the three objects shot down since friday were most likely tied to private companies or research institutions. but he defended his choice to blast them out of the sky following chinese spy balloon. i gave the order to take down these three objects due to hazard to civilian commercial air traffic and because we could not rule out the surveillance risk of sensitive facilities. critics watching the president s remarks say he missed a golden opportunity to drive home the threat about china s spy program. in the last several weeks. i have been informed this is a program that our country has kno
shot down. the u.s. destroys the suspected chinese spy balloon that triggered a diplomatic crisis. the presence of this surveillance balloon is a clear violation of u.s. sovereignty and international law. what s the fallout for the critical u.s. relationship with china? plus, the president gears up for re-election. four more years. four more years. and trumpets a blockbuster jobs report. the biden economic plan is working. can biden convince voters that the economy is back on track? donald trump unloads on his would-be primary rivals. ron desantis got elected because of me. nikki suffers from something that s a very tough thing. she s overly ambitious. as the 2024 field takes shape, are they ready for the attacks coming their way? welcome to in inside polit sun sunday , i m abby phillip. at 2:39 yesterday afternoon a tense and dramatic diplomatic crisis ended with one shot from an f-22 fighter jet. oh [ bleep ]. those a missiles. they shot it down. they