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how he plans to expand democratic control in 2023 and how not to celebrate black history month. we will reveal our worst of the week contenders. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. let s start this hour with the breaking news of the night the united states has shot down the suspected surveillance balloon off the coast of south carolina. officials say a f 22 missile jet took up the balloon with a single air to air missile. at 2:39 eastern this afternoon. nbc s gary graham joins me now from washington, d. c.. with the latest. gary, it s good to have you with us. what do we know about that decision-making process to shut down this blue and the evidence to collect the debris? as you can imagine,, eamonn you get our learning that this whole process was a team effort, it was a multi agency effort. the faa turned off all the arrivals and departures from wilmington airport from north carolina, from myrtle beach, from charleston. the air force is the one that shut down the ballo
absurd notion that space lasers financed by the roth child family are the cause of wildfires in california. she has never equated vaccine mandates with adolph hitler. who s he really talking about there? the democrat defending ilhan omar before the partisan vote to remove her from the house foreign affairs committee. and president joe biden meet with the congressional black caucus for a discussion on police reforms. it comes a day after tyre nichols is laid to rest. and china is doing some damage control this morning. beijing says it s looking at whether a surveillance balloon that flew over montana is actually theirs. we ll have the latest and the response from the pentagon coming up next. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, february 3rd. i m sitting in for jonathan lemire. democratic congresswoman ilhan omar of minnesota has removed from the house foreign affairs committee. 218 republicans voted to back the resolution removing omar from the c
slow start, putting it bluntly, quote, welcome to the seinfeld congress. it is a show about nothing. the vote on congresswoman omar is one of the political squabbles unfolding while the nation ticks a day closer to defaulting on its debts. house speaker kevin mccarthy met with president biden yesterday, but there doesn t appear to have been any progress on the debt limit. the president did strike this optimistic tone while speaking this morning. start treating each other with respect. that s what kevin and i are going to do. not a joke. but a good meeting yesterday. we ll get latest ahead. also this morning, day four of that deadly ice storm across the south. cars are spinning out of control on highways. thousands of flights delayed and canceled. and in texas, nearly half a million people are facing the bone chilling cold without power. it is scary. definitely scary. i can say that. it is very slippery out here. probably one of the worst. we ll get an update from
democracy. the obamas making this rare return to the white house today. you see here, and meditating on the state of american democracy. i ve always described the presidency as a relay race. each of us tasked with trying to bring the country we love closer to its highest aspirations. what we share is so much bigger than what we don t. our democracy is so much stronger than our differences. standard language that some are saying hits different right now with so many election deniers running for office. also tonight, the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, dick durbin is here. so we have a lot going on in this hour. we begin though with the nukes. yes. specifically the risk danger and the scandal of a former president hoarding these stolen and top secret documents that are, we re learning now, more and more involving nuclear weapons. there s reporting that the fed seized documents about the nuclear capabilities of foreign nations which they say trump was holding i