white men. donald trump and parker carlson. one quick thing, i know you re about to start your show, i have to say, to be fair to tucker, wouldn t you to pummel ted cruz when you saw him unable to defend his wife after donald trump called her ugly? i mean ted cruz, it is not hard for him to kind of debase and self. i agree with you, great to see you as always my friend, great show. best of luck with your new book. we are going to talk about that next week. i m looking forward to it, mehdi. thanks. take care my friend. coming up on ayman, fighting back house republicans unfounded conspiracies and even forced biden to resign over yes, the surveillance balloon. congressman john garamendi is here to outline democratic plans to combat those efforts, plus new allegations against george santos. and the gloves are off for the prospective gop presidential field is already hitting each other left and right. joe biden is just sitting back and taking it all in. i am ayman mohyeldin
were lives in fear of two privilege white men. donald trump and tucker carlson. one quick thing, i know you re about to start your show, i have to say, to be fair to tucker, wouldn t you to pummel ted cruz when you saw him unable to defend his wife after donald trump called her ugly? i mean ted cruz, it is not hard for him to kind of debase himself. i agree with you, great to see you as always my friend, great show. best of luck with your new book. we are going to talk about that next week. i m looking forward to it, mehdi. thanks. take care my friend. coming up on ayman, fighting back house republicans want to investigate unfounded conspiracies and even forced biden to resign over yes, the surveillance balloon. congressman john garamendi is here to outline democratic plans to combat those efforts, plus new allegations against george santos. and the gloves are off for the prospective gop presidential field is already hitting each other left and right. joe biden is just
hello, everyone. thank you for joining me this sunday. i m fredicka whitfield. a dramatic takedown and now a race to recover pieces of that suspected chinese supply balloon. the u.s. military shooting it out of the sky on saturday just off the coast of south carolina. you watched it with us live. president biden on wednesday ordering the balloon to be destroyed as soon as possible. his top military brass advising the president to wait until it was safely over the ocean. efforts are now under way to collect the fallen debris which will be taken to the fbi lab in quantico for analysis. the balloon had made its way across the country after first being spotted in montana on wednesday. its appearance over the u.s. and the military operation to take it down complicating the already tenuous relationship between the u.s. and china. beijing accusing the u.s. of overreacting and expressing strong dissatisfaction over the balloon s destruction. we have reporters around the world coverin
the country has set a modest target for economic growth this year of around 5%, as it kicked off the annual session of its national people s congress, which is poised to implement the biggest government shake up in a decade. last year, successive strict lockdowns slowed growth in china. official figures show the world s second largest economy grew by 3% last year, which was way below the government target of 5.5% and its slowest for decades. now, compared to many economies, a 5% growth target sounds very positive but as janet mui, head of market analysis at brewin dolphin, explained china is an exception. i think economists were pretty disappointed at this conservative growth forecast, as you mentioned. it is actually a high figure for the developed market, but china is still an emerging market that should be growing strongly. so this is slower than expected, because i think in the previous year the government has missed this gdp growth target and i don t think that they
the republican presidential primary, we will look at who, and what is their chance to defeat the former president. and later on this hour, from getting cops called on her to a shout out from, of all places, yale, i m going to speak to nine-year-old bobbi wilson whose fascination with lanternflies made one neighbor suspicious but has made her family very proud. that s ahead this hour as well. we want to begin though once again with the fallout from the chinese spy balloon shot out of this guy off the carolina coast. beijing condemning the move to bring down the balloon. this is happening as u.s. senior government officials confirm the chinese balloon crossed into the u.s. at least three different times during the trump administration s. i wanna bring in msnbc national security analyst nick watt as well. george, let me start with you on this. when you are there in myrtle beach. what have you been seeing? good afternoon, yasmin. we know military operations to recover the bal