good to be with you, i m katy tur. first it was the leaked memo from an air force general, warning his officers to prepare for a hot war with china in 2025. then it was news the u.s. is expanding its military presence in southeast asia, adding four more bases in the philippines on the doorstep of china. and now, the pentagon is faced with a chinese spy balloon first spotted over montana, which, by the way is home to one of the united states three nuclear silo fields. just a moment ago in a series of questions from reporters, brigadier general patrick ryder confirmed the balloon is not just drifting, that china is in control of it. the balloon is maneuverable. clearly it s violated u.s. airspace, and again, we ve communicated that fact to the prc. the fact is we know that it s a surveillance balloon. and i m not going to be able to be more specific than that. and we do know that the balloon has violated international airspace and international law which is unacceptable. we
we are coming on the air with breaking news on today s top story. for the first time, we will see secretary of state tony blinken on camera. you re looking at it live on the left side of your screen there. potentially reacting to that suspected chinese spy balloon, flying over u.s. airspace. also this hour, you ve got president biden in philadelphia after a better than expected jobs report. we re juggling all of it live here in the next 60 minutes on msnbc. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to bring in one of our chief white house correspondents, foreign correspondent janis mackey frayer is live in beijing, and gary locke, former u.s. ambassador to china. let s take a beat. lay out what we know so far about this chinese apparent supply balloon mystery situation. we are about to hear from the secretary of state for the first time on camera since he postponed his trip to beijing earlier today. the pentagon says they are still tracking this balloon. they also say it is no
ito territory and at the same time iran and china are now cozying up to russia. china s top diplomat today mate face-to-face with russia dictator vladimir putin and the wall street journal is reportin xi jinping is planning to visit moscow and meet with putin. fund they are. we are also learning that china may be on the brink of providin lethal aid to russia. to beat back in ukraine because they re not winning that war that they started. just yesterday putin pulled out of the new start training that was actually the last one in th u.s. and that country if contro agreement between the two largest nuclear armed powers an signaled the era of formal arms-control may be over a. raising some questions about whether we could be facing a ne nuclear arms race very national security council spokesperson spelled out what is at stake. with these alarming developments . we are already concerned about the invasion they haven t enforced sanctions against mr. hooton holding him accountable
i don t know. we will discuss that later over a during. thank you my friend, and thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. just yesterday, nearly two months to the day after his brutal fight for the speaker s gavel, house speaker kevin mccarthy put that hard-fought victory to work, and announced a piece of legislation that is at the heart of the republican platform. standing beneath the portrait of george washington, the speaker described the parent s bill of rights. so many times across this nation we found that parents were attacked, called terrorists, and they simply wanted to go to the school board meeting to be heard about what was going on. one thing we know in this country s education is a great equalizer. and we want the parents to be empowered. and that is what we are doing today. you have a say in your kids education, not government, and not telling you what to do. the irony here is almost too obvious to explain. here is a bill introduced by the speak