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Information tonight about the chinese spy balloon shot down just off the carolina coast over the weekend. this as the u.s. intelligence community gets a first look at pieces of the balloons wreckage. cnn national security correspondent kylie atwood has our report. >> oh, my god, they shot it down. >> reporter: tonight, new details emerging about the chinese spy balloon that was shot out of the sky by a missile. >> see the smoke coming from it? >> reporter: its pieces now being recovered at sea a...

Voters dont feel the same way transportation secretary pete buttigieg joins me this morning ahead of the presidents state of the union speech this week. joining me are nbc news correspondent andrea mitchell. amy walter editor-in-chief of the cook report. democrat ig pollster cornelle bell er and lanhell chen. welcome to sunday. it is "meet the press. from nbc news in washington the longest running show in television history this is "meet the press" with chuck todd good sunday morning. a chin...

>> you know, as governors, how do you handle that? this is a federal big picture. talked about in the show. you want to know, right? >> sure. well, and i appreciate you talking about tiktok. we all have a chinese spy balloon in our pocket when we download that app. which im a little more worried about than this other balloon. but that is part of the problem. we often have to remind the president and by the way the president of both parties that states are here and the governors are here and, aga...

What they were trying to accomplish, obviously, was important enough to china to take the risk of something. this wasnt secret. they did it on such a grand scale they knew the united states would know and did it anyway. >> was it the right call for secretary blinken to postpone his trip? >> sure, but notice -- and i have a great deal of regard for secretary blinken, but you notice he didnt cancel it until it was public and there was public scrutiny. >> some argued it shouldnt have been canceled,...

Getting trophies. i missed it. i would have to say i spent a lot of anytime tie to show how empty my life is i rewind tape all the sunday shows and go through the sunday shows. >> ainsley: do you really? >> pete: except you asked whether i worked yesterday which means you exclude "fox & friends weekend." >> brian: did i watch. i heard lawrence. was lawrence on the show? >> pete: no. >> pete: pete revealed to you i watched one nation on saturday night. >> ainsley: lawrence has a show saturday nig...

South carolina, the navy is working to recover pieces of the chinese balloon shot down on saturday. the pentagon confirmed today that the balloon was spying on the united states. the department of defense also said that china had sent spy balloons into during bidens that the balloon have been hovering over north america for a week. it was first spotted on wednesday over mountain air force base in montana. now, the chinese government is condemning the decision to shoot down the blame. johns defen...

Wh well have to wait until we see, but an emboldened china that the united states wasnt going to take action and they decided to be aggressive this time around. >> no surprise, the official chinese reaction is that the united states overreacted. this is an interesting turn this morning, china admitted the balloon over latin america belongs to china and it was by mistake it entered latin america. what do you think about the chinese sort of line here, that these are weather surveillance balloons? ...

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You know, close to the entire continental united states. so that said, i dont see this as this huge, you know, breach of national security. from what ive read, these balloons sort of see the same amount as a, you know, as a chinese satellite sees. but the real challenge here is for president biden, i think, politically. >> absolutely. well talk about that. clint, right now, there is a debris recovery process happening. talk us through that recovery process. what can intel agents hopeful learn fr...

China and the United States must not allow the fallout from such provocative incidents to blow dangerously out of proportion and, as in the past, calm diplomacy is key.