lethal aid in its war against ukraine. it comes the secretary of state anthony blinken met with china s top diplomat this weekend. exchanging strong words two weeks after the u.s. shut down a chinese spy balloon off the carolina coast. earlier today, and i see spokesperson john kirby stress the importance of repairing the u.s. china relationship. the president said he billing to dock to president xi in the future. and he will. we still have lansing on occasion open with china as you saw yesterday in munich. that s important. particularly when there s times of tension like this. you want to avoid the risks of misunderstanding and miscalculation. secretary blinken issued a warning to china about its spy craft to. key house republicans today amplifying their concerns over the blue and being able to fly across the u.s.. the reality is that the administration admitted that after it had shut down the balloon that it should ve been more proactive. in the three subsequent shutd
war in ukraine. where he will be emphasizing the strategic alliance with our european allies and talking about this and the role again the china potentially could play in this war and conflict as well. definitely gonna be a dominant part of this week s conversation. thank you so much, monica alba. on the heels of that, let s bring in peter baker, msnbc political analyst and chief white house correspondent for the new york times. welcome, my friend. here we go, peter. in your new article. biden tries to calm tensions over chinese aerial spying. you say that the president wants to have a conversation with president xi to register his objections to the chinese surveillance machine. also to see the lines of communication open. you heard there s been no apology yet in that balloon being flown by china. how would you characterize this balloon battle and who s winning? there are domestic politics and there s international politics. the domestic politics for president biden are that he has
these guys were among hundreds of thousands of americans who have high-level clearances. high-level clearances that provided them as fairly low-level employees to access of highly classified documents. how can somebody who s a 22-year-old private first class or 29-year-old technical assistant access documents about programs that are so secretive their disclosure rocks the government to its core? and if you have that many low-level employees all looking at information about your vast invasive surveillance machine that the government will not talk about in public, how safe do you think that information is? it is almost the natural conclusion that one of them, among the hundreds of thousands, is going to decide to leak in the belief that what they re doing is ultimately for the public good. or at least to satisfy public curiosity. then if you are that low-level employee with that access to very highly classified supposedly superconsequential information, and you decide to let this stuff b
these guys were among hundreds of thousands of americans who have high-level clearances. high-level clearances that provided them as fairly low-level employees to access of highly classified documents. how can somebody who s a 22-year-old private first class or 29-year-old technical assistant access documents about programs that are so secretive their disclosure rocks the government to its core? and if you have that many low-level employees all looking at information about your vast invasive surveillance machine that the government will not talk about in public, how safe do you think that information is? it is almost the natural conclusion that one of them, among the hundreds of thousands, is going to decide to leak in the belief that what they re doing is ultimately for the public good. or at least to satisfy public curiosity. then if you are that low-level employee with that access to very highly classified supposedly super consequential information, and you decide to let this stuff
22-year-old private first class or 29-year-old technical assistant access documents about programs that are so secretive their disclosure rocks the government to its core? and if you have that many low-level employees all looking at information about your vast invasive surveillance machine that the government will not talk about in public, how safe do you think that information is? it is almost the natural conclusion that one of them, among the hundreds of thousands, is going to decide to leak in the belief that what they re doing is ultimately for the public good. or at least to satisfy public curiosity. then if you are that low-level employee with that access to very highly classified supposedly super-consequential information, and you decide to let this stuff be publicly known, how do you decide what to do with it? if you re so technically skilled, why not do it yourself? you re a computer guy. you re maybe even a computer geek, and i mean that as a term of endearment. why not post