announced. and it s basing agreements with the philippines. upping our game against china, and in fact the biden administration is continuing the trump administration policies on this. there actually is some bipartisan consensus on what to do about china in the future. all right mark polymeropoulos, you will stick with me hopefully. general steph twitty, you are sticking with me as well. so thank you for that. we are following this breaking news everybody, top of the hour. 3 pm here on the east coast. i am yasmin vossoughian, you are watching msnbc. we are taking a look at images of the chinese spy balloon that was spotted over the carolina coast. we have now learned just in the last ten minutes or, so that spy balloon has in fact been shot down over the carolina coast. seems as if in the atlantic ocean, we are gonna wear now from u.s. officials that they are currently gathering up the debris or attempting to gather up the debris. as i five conversation was general tweety a
north america and the united states or possibly drones? one of the chinese been up to and maybe the intelligence community knows but they have been shared that with the public because it s classified. i think it will be a lot of activity around the intelligence committee in coming days. yes, that certainly is a big question. i will bring marc polymeropoulos if we still have him. guys do we still have mark? back into the conversation along with general stuff tweety, i feel like mark you can weigh in on that question that then just posed which is, what have the chinese been up to up until now? considering we are now learning of this by balloon that is now subsequently been shot down. what else were they doing? so you know reportedly there has been other instances of a balloon like this, over u.s. territory. perhaps not as provocative and provocative manner because this kind of at the jet stream
capacities. i am not sure what information they were going to get from the balloon that we might not get from say the satellites. i think that this is i don t want to say par over course, this is something we probably the two nations engage in and they just got caught and it s an embarrassment for them. we have to see what was what that equipment is all about, what is behind it and what is the intelligence that they were gathering? that will tell our intelligence immunity and not more about their intentions. senator schmidt tweeted out that he is glad it s finally down, the damage has already been done. that we need answers from the biden administration on why it took this long to bring the chinese spy balloon down and ensure that this never happens again. do you agree with that? should it have been done sooner? i i don t know what intel that military had, they determined that it was a military or
circumvent what we are trying to do to counter intelligence activity. and that sense, i think it s hard to sort of revealed to the public all of the things that the chinese are doing. it s a very obvious and blatant attempt by china to collect the information, a very clumsy attempt that it has awaken i think the american public that these intelligence gathering activities. i would say the one thing we are seeing the biden administration do, it is not particularly regards to china we see it with the war in ukraine as they are much more willing to downgrade information and make it publicly available so that the general public has a better sense of what is behind u.s. policy and why the united states is saying things that it saying about the war in ukraine. and i think that sets now grading intelligence for the purpose of making a policy point our policy argument or to show how bad the opponents are in the enemies are, that is a good thing to do. i want to tell folks vector
there are no indications that people or vessels harmed, we are confident it was seeking to monitor sensitive sites. they are going to seek to recover, it all from a u.s. military official. you heard from the president earlier as he was arriving in maryland, he said specifically he ordered this blood to be shot down on wednesday but was told they had to wait until it was over a safer area. let s listen to that. on wednesday, i was briefed on the balloon, earlier the pentagon was shooting it down and on wednesday as soon as possible. they decided without doing damage to anyone on the ground. decided the best time to do that with auto in the water outside of the limit. six actually took it down and want to compliment the and we will have more to report on a little later. thank you. what is your message to china? you are seeing a recommendation