coming. a plus, to moccasin style in danger. fulton county georgia tsn enis drawing signal about how the president could be indicted. for trying to overturn the 2020 election. but, this indictment is just another legal liability for the guy who can explicitly still pull in strong with the gop. joins me in studio a little later to break it all down. later, unmask a medical racism, how the color of our skin could be the difference between life or death. we re going inside the fight for fairness and health care. all this is much more is coming up. a good sunday morning to you all, i am katie phang. we are going to start today show with an urgent new message from president biden on the debt ceiling showdown. it s time for republicans to accept that there is no bipartisan view to be made solely, solely on their partisan terms. they have to move as well. all four congressional leaders agree with me that the default is not, let me say it again, default is not an option. i expect
we re not looking for a new cold war. and i make no apologies, and we will compete. and we ll responsibly manage that competition so that it doesn t veer into conflict. paul: let s bring in seth jones, senior vice president of the center for strategic and international studies and author of the book, three dangerous men: russia, china, iran and the rise of irregular warfare. seth, welcome. good to the see you again. so what lessons do you draw froa balloon episode, and should americans be reassured by the way it was handled? paul, i brought two major lessons from the balloon incident. one ises the only it is the only one of the few visible examples we ve seen of a much broader effort by china which views the united states as its major competitor to collect information including within the u.s. homeland. there has been extensive activity, and there continues to this day to collect information through the confucius institutes as part of the thousand talents program, as part
our vice president on that world stage. kamala harris in munich as the war in ukraine approaches but one year mark. will the u.s. continue to support ukraine? but the vice president is saying about russia s aggression. plus, more than two weeks since that fiery trains realm in ohio. officials are claiming the town is safe, but residents are telling a very different story. we ll have the latest from east palestine. and later, the mental and emotional strain on teenage girls. nearly one and three highschoolers reported seriously considering suicide. i want to know what can be done to help. all of that and more is coming up. a good saturday morning to you, i m katie phang, coming to you live at a new hour. thank you for starting your day with us. we are beginning today s show with some breaking news overnight. north korea launching a single ballistic missile towards the sea of japan. the provocation coming just as vice president kamala harris is speaking in germany, with l
at the top of the hour i bid you all a very good day from msnbc headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports, we have a panel of reporters and analysts joining us to go over today s major developments for you. we re gonna get to those, but we do have some breaking news to share as just moments ago, vice president kamala harris leaving munich after giving a keynote address to the annual security conference. now, as a war on ukraine s year nearing one year, the vice president reiterate the united states commitment to ukraine, while standing a strong new message against russian aggression. the united states has formally determined. that russia has committed crimes against humanity. and i say, to all those who have perpetrated these crimes, and to their superiors who are complicit in these crimes, you will be held to account. meanwhile, the u.s. is ending the search for debris from two objects shot down by the u.s. over alaska airspace and lake huron