nearly a week after it was detected in united states airspace. u.s. military is now working to recover the balloons debris off the carolina coast, as china lashes out and suggested could retaliate. as you hear terry chairman jim jordan fires off his first subpoenas targeting the biden administration. the doj pumps the brakes on some of his other requests. it is cut the legs out from other republicans plain investigations? and later. democratic congressman does something rare in modern politics. hiring a former gop rival to join her team. she is here to talk about whether she could be an example for others in these times of extreme polarization. all of that and more is coming up. and a good sunday morning to you. i m katie. thing right, now the search is on for what is left of the chinese balloon. which the american military says it has been used to spy on our country. the tensions between our two countries are even more tense now than they were 24 hours ago. on saturday, an f
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 a
privacy, simplified. across the country today on what is being called a national day of protest. we are gonna bring you a live report on the protest itself in just a moment. but it comes just one day after the president signed an executive order attempting to protect access to abortion medication and emergency contraception. meanwhile, the january six committee is gearing up for its next public hearing on tuesday it comes after the panel heard after eight hours of testimony from formal white house counsel pat cipollone on friday. earlier today, on msnbc, mary trump discuss just how damaging this could be for the former president. to say that donald is terrified is accurate, and also an understatement. i think that this might be the first time in his entire life that, even he can t deny the walls may indeed be closing. and the witness is not coming forward, are increasingly important in terms of access, and in terms of their positions and his administration. and they are an
china has said that while the balloon did belong to, them it was a civilian airship for meteorological research. and they are not pleased u.s. rather the side. sky. we begin the coverage with gary grumbach at the white house and carrie circuit on capitol hill. good morning to both of. you gary, let s start with you. what is the white house saying this morning? white house and u.s. officials are not by the explanations for the chinese. they are firing back to a statement from friday yesterday. which called it protests and strong dissatisfaction that the u.s. was shooting. then we think it is here to call a weather balloon. already part of a statement here from a u.s. official. they, say the serpent was a crcc surveillance. balloon it purposefully traverse united states and canada. and we are confident was seeking to monitor sensitive military. sites it s over the united states and your many sensitive sites contradict the prc government through caribou that is a weather balloon.
that from the water. the navy will be involved in this, it will be a multi agency and an organization effort here and they will seek to recover this and see what they have here. gary for us, thank you gary. want to bring in quickly if i can marc polymeropoulos lisbon with us throughout the hour. mark if i, can i want to get final thoughts from you on this. what you are most concerned about looking ahead and i also want to get you to weigh in if you can about the benefits of being more transparent about intelligence gathering with the u.s. public. if you believe there are any? i think that previous vector is set something that was really important. talked about the use of authorize intelligence to what the biden administration has done for russia and ukraine. now is the perfect time to do that, and i think in this case. what we get from that debris field. evidence that this was chinese