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it was a good week. and thanks to you at home for joining us. as you are probably aware there is a balloon in the sky. it is a big balloon, about the size of two school buses according to the pentagon. it traveled from china, to the solution islands of alaska late last week, through the northwest canada, until finally being spotted somewhere over montana on wednesday. chinese officials said that the balloon was a civilian air ship used mainly for weather research and that it had just been instantly innocently been blown off course. the pentagon says that they are confident that it is a surveillance balloon. you know? for spying. flying at about 60,000 feet above ground and moving eastward across the continental u.s.. the pentagon has yet to confirm the balloons latest citing but the national weather service in kansas city and kansas city, missouri, said earlier that they have several reports of a large balloon on the horizon, and that the balloon is not one of their wea ....
it is a big balloon, about the size of two school buses according to the pentagon. it traveled from china, to the solution islands of alaska late last week, through the northwest canada, until finally being spotted somewhere over montana on wednesday. chinese officials said that the balloon was a civilian air ship used mainly for weather research and that it had just been instantly innocently been blown off course. the pentagon says that they are confident that it is a surveillance balloon. you know? for spying. flying at about 60,000 feet above ground and moving eastward across the continental u.s.. the pentagon has yet to confirm the balloons latest citing but the national weather service in kansas city and kansas city, missouri, said earlier that they have several reports of a large balloon on the horizon, and that the balloon is not one of their weather balloons. in neighboring kansas senator roger marshall said the balloon was above his state. the pentagon has yet ....
It could remain for several days. nbc news has learned tonight that the u.s. is taking precautionary measures to weaken the balloon surveillance capabilities, including these encounter intelligence measures to obscure its views and physically moving things out of its path. and we do not know exactly what it is doing out there but. we can guess. the pentagon would not get into specifics and said that it is manoeuvrable. and typically spy balloons flyover sensitive areas to collect information. tonight, the pentagon is confirming that the second balloon is currently transiting latin america and that it is also a chinese surveillance balloon. as for the one currently hovering over the continental u.s., we do not know what it was looking for in montana but it just so happens that montana is home to one of america s three nuclear missile silo fields, which is interesting. republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene has thoughts on what to do about the balloon, advocating for it to be sh ....
Capabilities, including these encounter intelligence measures to obscure its views and physically moving things out of its path. and we do not know exactly what it is doing out there but. we can guess. the pentagon would not get into specifics and said that it is manoeuvrable. and typically spy balloons flyover sensitive areas to collect information. tonight, the pentagon is confirming that the second balloon is currently transiting latin america and that it is also a chinese surveillance balloon. as for the one currently hovering over the continental u.s., we do not know what it was looking for in montana but it just so happens that montana is home to one of america s three nuclear missile silo fields, which is interesting. republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene has thoughts on what to do about the balloon, advocating for it to be shot down and saying, in rural america, there aren t people everywhere there s a land my next guest might disagree with that. joining me now is dem ....
To do it. and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. joining me now is sam nunberg, a former trump campaign adviser, who was interviewed by the senate intelligence committee just yesterday. and back with me, our david cay johnston, former prosecutor, barbara mcquade, and msnbc contributor, malcolm nance. i want to start with you, sam. thank you for being here, first of all. i want to get your top of line take on this new york times story yesterday. it makes perfect sense to me. if you re a republican or a democrat or know donald trump the way i did or worked for him those years, any president that hosted the russians, didn t allow american media in and then reportedly shared intelligence, if reports are accurate the day after firing jim comey. less than 24 hours after formally firing jim comey, it would be ridiculous if they didn t look into whether or not this was a counterintel ....