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Members, of course we know there are prayers coming in from all across the country and certainly in this community for the former president, as he goes through this. katie? >> it is a life and legacy of compassion and empathy. i think that is exactly, priscilla, what people associate with president carter and his long, well lived, live. thank you so much, priscilla thompson, this morning. now we turn to major news on the diplomatic front. the first official talks between the united states and ch...

Did you get a heart shaped looking metallic balloon for valentine’s day? If so that could be the last time as California is looking to ban mylar balloons by the year 2031.

Opportunity to be bipartisan on this issue of, you know, national security against one of the greatest threats to this country and the world, for that matter, and i think the fact the select committee was voted on by a large majority of democrats. so when we talk about particularly export controls and this balloon, by the way, had a lot of american parts in it. we know the hypersonic missile that went around the world with precision was built on the backbone of american technology. so theres a l...

Economically as well. i think my biggest concerns are we going to get into a full-scale war with russia? there were these reports we sabotage the pipelines not rush at some of that make sense will they respond? have they? where does that leave china and all of that? >> you think theres any amount of them is the ongoing coverage of the spy balloon to distract from other things maybe they dont want to talk about like the pipeline? like the three other identified objects like ohio, like inflation, ...

After chinas top diplomat criticized the u.s. response to the balloon in the speech to the leaders attending the conference including a bipartisan group of top u.s. lawmakers. >> joining me now from the munich security conference, chairman of the house foreign affairs committee michael mccall and chairman of the house intelligence committee mike turner. thank you both for coming on. >> thank you, pamela. >> congressman mccall, i want to start with you here. the u.s.-china relationship is a key t...

Shot it down and secretary blinkens trip to china was delayed, cancelled and chinas actions were condemned, but president biden this week stressed that the u.s. is not seeking a new cold war with china and plans to speak with president xi at some point. you just heard from congressman mccall how the tensions are right now between the u.s. and china, how bad the relations are. what should his message be to xi and do you think biden is right to lower the temperature with china in the wake of this ...

Balloon the same way they lied about china. its time for us to actually start being aggressive and letting china know what we expect of them. >> reporter: president biden leaves tomorrow evening for poland to mark the one-year anniversary of the russian invasion into sovereign ukraine. secretary blinken made it clear to his counterpart chinas help to russia is unacceptable. as of right now, jon, there are no plans for president biden physically to cross over into the border of ukraine when he is...

Russia. theyre certainly brazen in these efforts and occasionally sloppy but effective. over ten years ago they were hitting us with spear phishing e-mails. if you knew what to look for you could catch them but often times they were just as effective. really the key of chinas cyber espionage operations was just that they were brazen. they didnt bother to hide these efforts. the same is true i think with these balloons. clearly, someone messed up here because this was so visible it forced a very ...

>> well, i think weve seen china hack our pipelines for instance. a little over a year ago the government declassified its findings that china has been implanting itself in our network of pipelines not for intellectual property theft but to maintain a foothold in the event they would ever need to do something to those pipelines in the event of some larger geo political conflict say over taiwan. weve seen them hacking our businesses for years. i always say if you could see a balloon over every am...

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 weeks conversation. thank you so much, monica alba. on the heels of that, lets 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 ...