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politicsnation. we are following a breaking news story, a suspected chinese surveillance balloon has been shot down off of the carolina coast, just a few hours ago. the president confirming that he gave the order earlier this week but the military waited until the balloon could be down safety -- the government is now collecting the balloons remains from u.s. waters. the news comes after the faa partially shut down airspace and the region earlier today. we are bringing the latest on this breaking news story as details a marriage. and i have talked to the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee about whether americans should be worried. that isn't just a minute but first, tonight's lead, boosting

black voices. right, now democrats are gaming out with the next two years will look like for the party as expected earlier today. the dnc voted to reorder democrats presidential primary schedule. elevating south carolina to lead off of that schedule. with other racially diverse states like georgia and michigan following right behind as the party prepares for 2024. president biden prepares to make his case for reelection starting with next week's state of the union address where he will be joined as guest by the parents of tyre nichols, who is violent arrest and subsequent death last month has re-engaged to congress on the topic of police reform. the congressional black caucus promising legislative action after meeting with biden and

vice president harris this week. republicans and congress already throwing cold water on reform legislation that followed george floyd's murder. i had the honor of eulogizing tyre nichols this week. here is what the president had to say about the service and democrats next steps we. >> i'll sharpton's eulogy which i thought was great and we have to stay at it as long as it takes. >> we will get to all of these topics and more, we start with connecticut democratic congressman jim hines. congressman, i want to start with the breaking news we have been following before going to other areas. i want to talk about the suspect the chinese spy balloon that has been shot down at the hovering over the country for the past few days. now that dublin has been shot down, president biden told reporters earlier today that on

wednesday, he ordered the pentagon to shoot down the balloon as soon as possible. he was advised to wait. take a listen to what he said. >> i told him to shoot it down on wednesday. they said to me let's wait for the safest place to do it. >> you are the ranking member of the house intelligence committee. how concerned should americans be about the situation? >> thank you arrive, i can say confidently they should not be concerned about it. in, fact as i think about the last couple of, days it was a textbook operation on how to be the smart. the military track, that the military determined it was not a weapons platform which of course would've been a whole other cattle of fish. the military and others were able to observe, she is capabilities, monitor what it was doing and you, know as the president, said it was taken down without risk to harming people on the ground. i would, add i will at the speculatively because i have not been briefed by you, know

you blow it out of the sky and it lands on hard ground, you will have a hard time re-assembling it. figuring out exactly what it, knows what it does, what it is capable of. the fact that it went on over, water where we are in a position probably to preserve it better than if it had been in a flaming crater over montana, again i think it was just a textbook treatment of what was face, it pretty uncomfortable moment. >> now for the last few days, speaker kevin mccarthy another top republicans in congress have hammered the biden administration over the chinese bloom. arguing that the incident is a sign of white house weakness towards china. are these legitimate concerns or just politics as usual. >> well, rev nothing joe biden can say or do that is not going to draw criticism. i'm sure we will hear criticism that we are shutting down the missile, who knows. you can i both know whatever joe biden, does the republicans are going to attack him for. it what i will tell you is that many of them are calling for

the shooting down of the missile the moment that it was found. at which point you gave up all of the intelligence value that comes from shutting it down over water where you might recover it, more intact. you do want to risk for us that you color heard people on the ground if you take it down over populated areas. i am not surprised about the criticism but again, sort of hard to think about him or textbook operation to both preserve safety for people but also to get the intelligence, the immense intelligence value that comes out that we own this thing. congressman, we mentioned the intelligence committee and i want to get your thoughts about a few democratic colleagues. california congressman adam shiffrin, eric swalwell will both block from the panel by speaker kevin mccarthy. minnesota congresswoman ilhan omar has also been removed from the foreign affairs committee by republicans. what is their reaction to the gop's targeting of these lawmakers?

>> well it's at skull a shin and in my opinion, on towards escalation rubber in. it's retribution for the fact that nancy pelosi engineered the removal of paul guard and marjorie taylor greene from their committees when she was the speaker of the house. you and i both know they were removed because they made a list of threats of violence, and one case an actual video showing the killing of alexandria ocasio-cortez or as you know eric swalwell and adam shift where just people who were very aggressive and the impeachment of donald trump. i didn't threaten, anybody ilhan omar, whatever you think about what she said, you know there is a difference between saying things that are direct threats, direct legal threats to your colleagues and saying things that you might find distasteful. it's an escalation of what it is and also a point where kevin mccarthy had to do to secure the very narrow margin that allowed him to be speaker. a long list of these things, that was on the list. >> congressman let's turn to the matter of classified documents.

this, week the fbi conducted a consensual search of president biden speech home in delaware that did not uncover any more classified materials. they are also reportedly in talks with former vice president, mike pence to searches indiana home. and his d.c. home looking for additional documents as well. you're sad last week that you are quote profoundly troubled by the recent document disclosures. what should be done to address the situation? >> it has to be clear robert, and anytime a classified document is out in the wild, i am profoundly troubled. and most instances, there are classified for a reason. you're gonna have a whole long conversation about overclassification but the point is we don't ever want to see classified documents out in the wild. it is also true that if you want to voluntary, consensual and gentle search like the one that was undertaken of president biden's, do not --

don't lie to the fbi. my republican colleagues are all up in arms about the rather gust of search of mar-a-lago, that of course came after months of not being honest and not being cooperative and turning over those documents. to answer your question directly, reverend we clearly have a problem with the discipline of making sure the classified documents don't leave the white house, don't leave the observatory with the vice president lives. and it just does not feel like that complicated a problem for me to solve. we are not talking about thousands of boxes, here talking about a bunch of boxes that need to be gone through as somebody who understands what is classified and what is not any to prevent the classified documents from walking out of the door. >> congressman jim, einstein queue for being with us tonight. joining me now is senator pierre welch, democrat of vermont. senator, some breaking news coming out of this d winter meeting this weekend. first president biden making the case for his administration ahead of next week state of the

union and his expected announcement that he will seek reelection in 2024. and then earlier today, the committee voted as expected to reorder democrats presidential primaries list, south carolina now replacing iowa as the leader of, state nevada, georgia and michigan only get moved up in the order in keeping with the president stated goal of empowering black voters. voters of color throughout the primary process. with those two stories in mine, what do you take away from democrats big meeting this weekend? >> number one i think you are seeing a lot of support for president biden making whatever decision that he wants to about reelection. so a lot of support for the president should he announce. as we expect to, will he is running for reelection. that is not reflected in that decision. second, what's really important and i think it's embodied and not lineup is that the

democratic candidate and it would be biden as to mean that he runs but any democratic candidate has to demonstrate a capacity to bring together the democratic coalition. and includes minorities, that also includes working class white folks. that array is going to demand that whoever our candidate is shows their capacity to bring unity across the coalition. >> senator, given i just got back from memphis and the funeral of tyre nichols, who i eulogized as the head of national action network, i want to ask you about the renewed conversation around police reform on capitol hill. and all of the time that i spent with nichols parents and their legal counsel ben crump, even through all of their grief, they have been adamant in calling on congress to pass the george floyd justice in policing act which stalled in the senate after passing the

then democratic-controlled house two years ago. this, week your colleague senator tim scott who led the negotiation on police reform from the gop side after george floyd's murder tweeted that the floyd act was a quote non-starter at the same time, several members of the congressional black caucus or meeting with president biden to discuss reform. apparently, emerging with some kind of agreement on how to proceed. what is your expectation senator on this area? >> first of, all i want to say to the nichols family, it's extraordinary that they have the deaths and that they want to turn their heartache into hope for other communities and other young black community leaders who suffered from the hands of the police. it is very inspiring. we have to act, there is a

culture issue here and the george floyd law is really important. i hope tim scott goes back to the negotiating table because you have to have accountability. without accountability, we will not do it fundamentally has to be done. that is to change the culture of policing across our country. that is why i believe it's essential we get back to the table and work on the george floyd policing bill and get that through the senate. >> not let me go to this quickly because we are out of time senator. the stalemate and congress overall, the debt ceiling, talks between president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy earlier this week, bearing no food on the issue as the house gop continues to demand spending cuts in exchange for the clean that ceiling has democrats on the white house saying must happen to avert the

on for months from now. among the issues, a divide within the house gop over what those cuts should look like. some members refusing a hike out right, this as the federal reserve this week warned of a potential economic calamity if the stalemate is not resolved. how does this and senator? >> well it's going down with us paying our bills. we have to. you gotta, mortgage you decide you are sick of paying the mortgage and you, say will not pay than that and badly. that is essentially what the republican advocates are saying about the debt ceiling. it will default, that ends badly and that will have havoc in the markets, people will lose jobs, social security checks will not be sent out. military will not be paid. we can't have that happen. it is just a question of whether the republicans are going to come up with what they claim is the plan, which they haven't revealed at all. there is enormous division

within the narrow majority that the republicans have. at the end of the day, we are going to raise the debt ceiling because america cannot default or pay our bills. we are always going to have a discussion about how we balanced revenues and how we balance expenditures. >> senator peter welch, thank you for being with us this evening. coming, up i am school and governor ron desantis after all of his criticism of teaching black history in the classroom. and later on politicsnation, rap pioneer chocolatey joins us to talk about 50 years of her pop and fighting the power. but first my colleague richard lui with today's top news stories. richard? >> raf, i got saturday today. here is a story that we are following for you on this day as we look at, one of the u.s. military shooting down a suspected chinese surveillance balloon earlier today. it was for a scene flying across the country wednesday,

secretary of the funding lloyd austin said the u.s. fighter aircraft brought down that balloon. as a direction of president, by the u.s. officials say an effort is now underway to recover debris from napa. and we will sound top of that for you. an arctic blast has paralyzing the northeast with record breaking cold today. right now, eight people are under windchill warning in new york and parts of new england. and new hampshire this morning for instance, temperatures dip down to negative 45 degrees with the wind chill that made it feel like negative 109. residents in texas and arkansas are recovering from a deadly ice storm there, left hundreds of thousands of people without power. conditions remain challenging on the roads there, so far ten traffic deaths were reported. more politics nation with reverend al sharpton right after the break. k. to where they're going. and at chevron, we're working to help reduce the carbon intensity of the fuels that keep things moving. today, we're producing renewable diesel

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eastern time the u.s. military shot on the ball and off of the carolina coast. when missile from a raptor f 22 was used to take down the suspected surveillance balloon. it was moving across the country for several days. saturday, secretary of defense lloyd austin said a u.s. fighter aircraft signed the u.s. northern command successfully brought down the balloon at the direction of president joe biden. >> i told him to shoot it down on wednesday. they said let's wait for the safest place to do it. >> that was earlier today, the balloon was the size of about three buses and held an estimated 1000 pounds of equipment. it crashed into the ocean approximately six nautical miles off the carolina coast. u.s. military ships and divers are now seeking to recover that. that debris field also estimated to be quite long about seven nautical miles. let's not go back to politics nation with reverend al sharpton. >> thank you, richard i want to

turn now to my political panel for the insights on today's top stories. i am joined by two former congressman, republican carlos curbelo and democrat max rose. both are now political strategists. max, we are going to get to politics in one second but let's first get your thoughts on the chinese spy balloon shot down earlier. how much of a national security concern does this incident post to you? >> well i think that the number one question that we have to answer is great to see you. it is how actually frequently has this been occurring overlaying both the issue of this balloon as sophisticated surveillance equipment. as well as satellite equipment which also can accomplish the same thing. it is clear the biden administration does not want this to be public, it's clear

they knew about this for sometime. if this is a part and parcel of a far more expansive surveillance effort by the chinese government, that is absolutely a significant national security issue and it's one that's where they have investigation as well as determining if it's worthy of a response. of course nobody wants things to escalate but we do not want these types of actions to continue on the part of the chinese government. >> carlos, many prominent republicans are arguing that the balloon incident demonstrates that u.s. posture and policies are not deterring china. what do you make of those arguments? >> carlos? i think he is further, we have low go back, let's go back to you max. i think we will try to get carlos back up.

let me go to you max, many democrats are outraged over house republicans in their vote on thursday to remove congresswoman angel omar from the foreign affairs committee in the congress. many are saying it is unfair and are saying that it was a revenge tactic. how do you respond to that as a former member of congress? >> absolutely, first of all your previous question regarding allegations that somehow chinese surveillance is due to democratic policies are democratic in transient is absolutely ridiculous and these issues of national security should not be politicized by the republican party. it was an absolute disgrace what the republican party did this week and regards to removing congresswoman ilhan omar from her seat on the foreign affairs committee. i say that not because when i was a colleague of, hers i

agreed or their position on israel. that is not the point here. the point is that the united states of america and in respect of the constitution, one should not be removed from their seat on a committee, particularly a committee of significance as foreign affairs, merely because of a position that you hold. every single member of congress when they are sworn in swears an oath to protect and uphold the constitution. well if you are not going to respect somebody's right to free speech particularly when there is something you disagree, with then you are not affirming your duty that you swore an oath to when you became a member of that esteemed body. i surely hope it's not a precedent that is said and repeated. utterly disgraceful. >> especially when you have no problem seating people that supported an insurrection against the government you are sworn to uphold. >> reverend, that is a great point. and to say nothing of the fact

that they are also receiving people that spoke about jewish lasers, presidential rob just sat down with the most antisemite. they are kissing up to him. it's hypocritical -- >> you have members of congress that appeared with the man that mr. trump sat and had dinner with. let's go back to carlos, i think we have him up now. switching gears carlos, let's talk about the embattled republican george santos who is facing multiple investigations. a new poll shows 78% of his constituents want him to resign. this is among republicans, democrats and independents. this comes as a group of people from his district in new york, planning to travel to capitol hill with the press conference tuesday demanding that congress expelled him. and santos starting the heat and you can see him resigning

and waiting for the investigations to play out. which way do you think he is going to go carlos? >> or revelation i will tell you who is under increasing pressure due to george santos and a speaker mccarthy because george santos comes from a part of new york where a number of republicans got elected in swing districts, those republicans who are pressuring the speaker and his team to sanction george santos because he is wearing them down. he is a major distraction for them and he is hurting them politically and their neighborhood. mccarthy has pressure on the one side because he has a very thin majority in the house. george santos vote is relevant. and on the other side, he has new york members, newly elected members and top districts who want to see this guy go away because he is such a constant headache and embarrassment for them. that is really what the dynamics are like right now. what santos ends up doing, that

is anyone's guess but certainly the pressure will not go away on house leadership. i think we will see continued calls from people in his community, in his district asking him to step down. >> max we're out of time, how do you see this ending for george santos? >> that is crazy you know. the republican leadership needs george santos. that's not a swing district, that's a guaranteed flip for the democrats if it's a special election. they will hold on to this guy for dear life and that's a sad situation. it speaks to the degree to which extremist policies are gaining more steam and the republican party right now. >> yes all right, former congressman carlos carmelo and max rose, thank you both for being with us this evening. after the, break living black history right here on politicsnation. legendary head pop legend

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>> have pompous creativity, and activity that comes from a black neighborhood, everything has been stripped away. >> i was 19 years old in 1973 when i first started hearing about this new sound coming out of the bronx here in new york. black teenagers were a looping instrumental breaks an american funk mixing that rhyming toes to wraps of the caribbean what the politics and the party scene of that era creating new music that literally sampled all of the black experience. and music that would come to be called hip-hop. and while there is some disagreement on the exact date, the consensus and the culture is that 2023 marks 50 years since her pop was first conceived. over that half century, now have watched the genre grow into the global force it is

today. i recently share those observations on camera in a new pbs series titled fight the power. how hip-hop tunes the world. joining me now is one of the producers of fight the power, hip-hop pioneer and profit, the founder and the voice of public enemy, the legendary chuck d. chuck, first thank you for being with us tonight. three generations of americans have grown up and hip of and to look at so much of black halter, now global pop culture is to see that history as before and after hip-hop in my opinion. and i got this pbs areas that you produce, fight the power named after your signature anthem, of course and full disclosure, yours truly is in that series you did to which we will get to. what was it like for you as the founder, leader of one of the

most important groups of hip-hop's first generation watching a half century of the culture be documented in this project that affected the culture and politics? i often say for the generation of silver rights leaders ahead of me and before them, they had we shall overcome as their soundtrack. find the power was a soundtrack we march to in the 80s going forward. how do you feel, how do you look at this? >> first of, all you are so kind and also, always an honored instead because you have been pretty much the voice of a lot of the soundtrack reverend al. and also, tremendous thanks on your inside because you have seen the true lines of this culture. you said he was 19 at the time, i was in the next generation that 13. i've seen it since that was an infant on the tricycle but my concern as it matured ten

generations of 50 years if you have to say every generation and culture is five years, then you know it's always concerned of like what keeps it from driving into a ditch? and be able to make a claim of music is not an individual thing. we loan and burrow and the music because it comes out of people. i was always in just like yourself, also being fans of music and understanding music before we started to call this creativity hip up at a certain entry point in 1973. it's not who controls that narrative? what my tory once told me inside, listen culture comes out of people. if you have the honor to even be able to get a chance to do something in a culture, plug back into people. whether it was nina simone, james brown or charles brown or eta james, we know it came out

of something. whenever somebody says i love hip-hop, i would ask a quick question rev well do you love black people? and usually the answer is what does that have to do with it? and i said that's a lot to do with it. what this four-part documentary series does and i am not in the film and tv or per se, the skill set of laura ghoulie, that co-partner and executive producer of this was a call to arms, a situation that would be equipped to handle the narrative of where this music came from. the social economic and political conditions that created it to be a rule spreading out of concrete. and to be able to be informative rev to say that once you strip geography and history away from people, elite them like a caucus that can get filled with anybody's narrative. we learn from the great musicians and orators like or self an artist that there is

always a struggle to speak for yourself and that's one thing this for par documentary did do that we have for the first time. artist speaking for themselves about the surrounding conditions where they never would get these questions before raf. maybe i, would maybe k as one would, queen latifah but a fat show, eminem? you know roxanne sean today because it was pretty much the overall judgment of the society in the united states of america that they don't know nothing about this. >> let me stop you right there because that's where i wanted to go. you have been in hip-hop long enough to see it become the most popular genre in american music. with nielsen sound scan famously confirming that rap overtook rock and roll in terms of u.s. consumption in 2017. you have hand pop in just about every language now. wrappers, emcees, hailing from

just about every country. here in america, with very few exceptions, the top rappers remain overwhelmingly black. why do you think that is? >> because it comes out of the experiment from people that we are strip from the voice. we couldn't speak directly to a government and we couldn't speak directly to people that felt that they had a social status over us, might have employed, as might have been the landlord. how much can you say rev? so we spoke through a code, whether be going to the church and banging it out on a piano and words and maybe in a harmonic way are beating the heck out of a train track where you were enslaved to build the rail system. out of that comes annette beat and i music and, yeah it is some words in there, it's mixed with anger, mixed with confusion. it's also mixed with hope. this has always been our coated whether somebody wants to play a strand or facade of a shack

and a note like james jameson did or somebody wants to be able to make some music out of two turntables and some records and a mix in between. we are now in the 50th year but also at the same time rev, i am in awe of hip-hop. i am older than they have. bob therefore i'm able to put a perspective on us that we have the people are bigger than what comes out of us. the creation of hip-hop breaks down in the four elements. the jiang, and see, break dancing and graffiti. we as a people for thousands of years, we always have vocalization, instrumentation as musician ship. ben's culture and art culture. that is a term that begins in 1973 with cool dj herb and the system cindy campbell throwing it back to school party on its day. eloquently, yes sir. >> before we run out of time, i remember the summer of 1989 were two things happen. here is a breakthrough film

from the young black director from brooklyn, spike lee who is with me this week at the funeral in memphis who was with and then attacks that to that film was this anthem from this long island group. public enemy, and that was of course by the power. so d politically that we really don't have time to get into it. i wonder if you can think that if you, if you think that could happen again in 2023, where protests anthem coming from a black perspective cuts through to the masses and what might fight the power in 2023 sound like? >> number, one we did the second fight the power and the first influential fight the powers of eyes abler's that's of those conditions in 1975. we did it 14 years later as a theme to the soundtrack of spike lee, and spike was talking to the conditions of

all those things in new york city that was hypocritical at the time that needed to be addressed. that's why samuel l. jackson's character in the beginning was the theme what that movie was all about. he was a black radio station that talk to everybody. wlio be wasn't important threaten that. and 2020, k-pop got together to speak against what had happened against the murder of george floyd, and hypocrisy and the government in minnesota at that time. they came out with a fight the power 2020 with a collective. i think that today, rev people listened with their eyes. a part of why the power is you being on these on major media and speak in the mind that we did not have a voice so on a secrest before. by the power as a collective for the check and their media from artists, from great south africa -- in california. being able to continue to bring the noise rev. a big up to the first union, hip-hop aligns that kale last

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