tensions with china. nbc news was first to report the suspected chinese surveillance balloon hovering over the northern united states around montana for the past few days. china is now responding claiming it is a civilian airship used for weather research that was blown off course. but how credible is that claim? minutes ago we learned secretary of state antony blinken is postponing his trip to china for what was supposed to be a highly anticipated meeting with china s leader next week. the pentagon is set to hold a briefing in the next hour. we know the department of defense is tracking the balloon closely, even at one point discussing shooting it down. we even have air traffic audio from wednesday about a, quote, special mission. we just got alerted from salt lake tmu we re on a ground stop right now until further notice for a special mission going on over the livingston area. we don t know exactly when we can have our next departure. it is landing with a thud on capito
attempt to divide the west and help russia rewrite ending to the cold war. that meeting could be a precursor as summit with president xi jinping. wall street journal reporting that will happen in the coming months as china considers sending weapons and ammoto russia for the war in ukraine. john kirby on what is at stake. we are already concerned about the fact china hasn t condemned the invasion, they haven t enforced sanctions against mr. putin, we made it clear concern that we have seen indications that they might be considering some sort of lethal assistance. a burgeoning and deepening defense relationship between the two countries while mr. putin is prosecuting war in ukraine, that would have very bad ramifications. peter doocy is in warsaw, our morning, your afternoon, hi, peter. dana, president biden on the way into the round table meeting made his first comment about today s china and russia meeting in moscow and it is clear it is complicated. mr. president
Now on bbc news, dateline london. Hello and welcome to dateline london. Im ben brown. Were looking at two of the weeks big stories whats happening in russia as men flee the country after president putins call up of reservists to fight in ukraine and his threat to use Nuclear Weapons, and also the british governments announcement of sweeping tax cuts the most far reaching for half a century. Well, im joined to discuss all this with polly toynbee, columnist from the guardian, Stephanie Baker of bloomberg news, and Latika Bourke of the sydney morning herald. So, cuts to income tax, corporation tax, National Insurance and stamp duty and removing the cap on bankers bonuses. It will cost tens of billions of pounds. The government says it will boost growth, the labour party say it will reward the rich. Stephanie, lets start off with you. This is being called a gamble for growth. Is it a gamble thats going to pay off, do you think . Well, its certainly a gamble. I have real doubts about whethe
is just ahead. and a live look at wall street. futures board is back in the green following a volatile session yesterday. we ll look at the challenges the fed chairman now faces in trying to bring down inflation. good morning. welcome to way too early thank you for starting your day with us. there is a lot to cover this morning after a stunning day in washington and new york. first, we learn that new york attorney general latisha james filed a lawsuit against donald trump, the trump organization and three of trump s adult children. accusing them of fraudulent financial practices. we also learned of new developmentes from the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas has agreed to speak to the panel in the coming weeks. and finally, a major victory for the justice department and federal investigators. an appeals court is allowing the doj to resume its criminal probe of classified documents seized
stashed at his retirement home in mar-a-lago. a federal appeals court, just before we went to air, just ruled in favor of the justice department. the justice department can have access to roughly 100 highly sensitive classified documents that were taken from mar-a-lago. immediately we saw the appeals court issue this ruling. i was stunned to see it come out so quickly. it s worth taking a step back and recognizing just how extraordinary this moment, this day is. it was almost easy to forget that trump had never actually been indicted. never been sued, you know, by the state entity or anything like that, but today, things look different. that is where we pick things up this morning, on top of the legal setbacks from donald trump comes news from the january 6th committee that the wife of supreme court justice, ginni thomas has agreed to meet with the committee about her efforts to overturn the 2020 election. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it s thursday, joe and m