minute since we had seen that as well. a lot to entertain us in washington. gillian turner in for sandra smith. tensions on the rise now as we fast approach a year of war in ukraine. stand strong. ukraine will never be a victory for russia, never. attack against one is attack against all. john: president biden blasting russian president vladimir putin for his assault on ukraine, but issue was left out of the speech. gillian: the president did not address putin s major nuclear warning to the west out this week, russia is suspending the nuclear arms control with the united states, opening the lid for potential weapons expansion. john: all of this as russian is looking to get a boost from communist china. xi jinping plans to visit moscow in the coming months. beijing wants to play the role of peacemaker. some skeptics wonder if xi might have another agenda and if biden will do anything to stop him. tiktok is here, the ford chinese battery plant is coming, farmland is
payloads with final information on the capabilities. todd: alexandria hoff joins us with the latest, alex. todd, ashley, good morning. the payload where the evidence was found, the fbi official says that remains underwater. what has been recovered at this point the wiring and small electronics. the u.s. officials believe the u.s. surveillance within tan is the intercept and listen in on american conversations. according to the pentagon for we know the people s republic of china gives these balloons for surveillance. high-resolution imagery the fly altitude balloons with intelligence operations. senates briefing, jon tester pushed for answers from the biden administration. i want to know if we knew what the chinese were trying to collect with that balloon come up with that reconnaissance ballooned. senator, thank you for the question. what we can probably get into details and a classified setting. you can say yes or no. you don t have to get into specifics, do we kno
after he opened fire in two different locations. he traveled to a mushroom farm where he opened fire and went to a second location and shot and killed three others. the victims were likely chunli zhao s co-workers. he was a disgruntled employee at one of the locations he shot up. i would like to offer my heart-felt condolences to the families of the victims. this kind of shooting is horrific, a tragedy we hear far too often, but today it hit home in san francisco county. brooke: the shooting comes just days after 11 people were killed in monterey park. we are learning more about the 26-year-old hero who stepped in to take down this armed suspect. huu can tran. he is recounting the terrifying moment standing in the dance studio and saw a gunman enter the building. i turned around and saw an asian man holding a gun, something came over me, i realized i needed to take the weapon away from him or else everybody would have died. when i got the courage, i lunged at him with b
for a democratic president. oh, i see. i know what you mean. and we ll have the latest developments from eastern europe as allies are at odds in sending tanks to ukraine. germany was going to block the tanks, now they re talking about letting poland send tanks. it looks like the tanks are going to be going to ukraine. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s monday, january 23rd. with us the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, and msnbc contributor, mike barnicle. mike is here for the morning, that s if he doesn t, you know. the irish good-bye with the jacket on the back of the chair. we ll see you in a few minutes. we re going to get to all of these stories. we have an awful lot to talk about. ambassador bill taylor is going to be talking about ukraine. let s talk first, though, about nfl playoffs. first, jonathan lemire, i ll go to you. there are two quarterbacks that did very well. patrick mahomes gutted it