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Technology and intelligence capabilities, why do they have this massive white balloon floating at 60,000 feet in which folks from the ground can actually see it? do they really think we were not going to spot this thing? senator schumer said of a gang of eight, which you are now a part of, will get an intel briefing. anything you can tell us about that? >> the roughing has not happened yet. no, there was nothing i can tell you about. it went when it does, i may not be able to tell you much. i ca...

What that means is when it got to this area just off myrtle beach, the water would essentially be like concrete. it would hit it with tremendous force and absolutely be miss shapen, torn apart, brokenen up by the impact. what does that mean for recovery? what it means is they have to get divers out there. 47 feet down, thats a good workable depth. that i have to look at this, figure it out, how many pieces are it in, where they are, assess if some is buried down in the muck below and come up wit...

The united states shoots down that suspected chinese by balloon. we will have the latest on the fallout. bidens big week. the presidents first state of the union address before a republican-controlled house and a historic shake and the democrats presidential primary calendar. congressman james clyburn and congresswoman debbie dingell are here to discuss it all. >> defying expectations the economy is coming along with a strong january jobs report. remaining imperil due to the standoff in raising ...

Attention was first noticed by the u.s. military last saturday as it was filing over alaska. on thursday when the overflight of the suspected chinese spy apparatus was made public by the pentagon, the balloon became a political hot potato. the burning question to shoot it down or not. the answer came saturday afternoon when some of americas most powerful stealth fighters, f-22s met the balloon off the coast of the carolinas and took it down with a single side winder missile. chinas foreign minis...

Now tell us what has been going on the capitol hill. what is the reaction been like since this really rich shot that our? in >> katy, reactions have been just pouring it mainly from republicans who are lobbying criticism of the body ministration, just two days before president biden is set to deliver a state of the union address. , certainly this issue will be at the backdrop. when he does, that was given mccarthy, the new speaker, sitting behind him along with of course president. harris republ...

Said he gave the order for the shootdown on wednesday and sort of left it up to the pentagon to decide when would be a good time to do it, but weve known this thing was out there since saturday. thats when this flight was first approaching u.s. air space. >> well, youre exactly right. and we picked it up in the aleutian chain, as a former navy if seal ive done operations there, its one of the most isolated parts of the earth, period. and then you go to montana. we a had plenty of opportunity to ...

For the nation. tara setmayer, lincoln project senior adviser, former gop communications director, and resident scholar uvas center for politics. and eugene daniels, msnbc political contributor, and political white house correspondent, and playbook coauthor. there is so much happening, and we dont have a whole lot of time. let me just say, conceived got to talk about the -- i was going to say jewish space lasers, but im at this by balloon. heres we had to say earlier. >> shannon, what began as a...

Be on the day of the state of the union. >> thank you. joining us now to talk about this and other hot topics, democratic strategist maria cardona and republican strategist alice stewart. thanks so much for being with us. >> hey, jim. >> alice, today we heard from senator ted cruz. he was criticizing president biden over his handling of the chinese spy balloon. republican senator j.d. vance slammed him on twitter for a dereliction of duty or worse for not shooting down the balloon. i think he ha...

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Continental u.s. and biden followed military advice and the white house spin is that u.s. gathered intel on this balloon as it drifted from the west to east and also that it wasnt getting anything that wouldnt be seen by spy satellites that all countries use. >> taking the other side, if questioning that local media noticed it in montana and whether wed have heard about it at all and whether theyd tell us. theres a lot of people asking could it have been shot down over rural parts of alaska and ...