announced. and it s basing agreements with the philippines. upping our game against china, and in fact the biden administration is continuing the trump administration policies on this. there actually is some bipartisan consensus on what to do about china in the future. all right mark polymeropoulos, you will stick with me hopefully. general steph twitty, you are sticking with me as well. so thank you for that. we are following this breaking news everybody, top of the hour. 3 pm here on the east coast. i am yasmin vossoughian, you are watching msnbc. we are taking a look at images of the chinese spy balloon that was spotted over the carolina coast. we have now learned just in the last ten minutes or, so that spy balloon has in fact been shot down over the carolina coast. seems as if in the atlantic ocean, we are gonna wear now from u.s. officials that they are currently gathering up the debris or attempting to gather up the debris. as i five conversation was general tweety along with
there arriving in maryland today, that in fact he gave the greenlight to take down the spy balloon on wednesday but was advised that they needed to wait until it got to a safer area and which they would not cause harm to anybody on the ground when they in fact took this thing down. as general tweety has talked about us over the last, hour it s about three busloads big. and it s not a small piece of equipment that they were taken down, if you imagine it s being taken over, taken down overland it can cause significant harm to three folks on land more populated area has one of the reasons why it seems they waited until this thing got off their carolina coast off of north and south carolina coast. it was taken on over the atlantic ocean. we are getting reports that they are gathering that debris of course to assess in fact what china was actually going for. let me bring in general tweety
the way prosecutors look at what was happening on january 6th with donald trump? well, i think one thing to keep in mind, is unlike the committee that was really trying to document every moment of every day, to put together a comprehensive picture, for the american public and for history, prosecutors don t need to account for every minute. but they do need to do is prove each and every element of every crime a charge, i think even without knowing what happened about donald trump going to the capitol are not going to the capital, or what tony are not oh remembers it doesn t remember, if you can prove the elements of the offenses, you re done. and those elements of the crime of conspiracy to defraud the united states, doesn t require knowing whether donald trump is going to the capitol. destruction of an official proceeding, does require going to the capitol. line about so many false slates of electors, and even assisting an insurrection, which is based on tweety sent at 2:24 pm. so if