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china not surprisingly is not happy and is weighing its next move let's bring in janis mackey frayer with us in beijing janis, what has the chinese government said about the downed balloon? >> reporter: kate, is there is official outrage. in a statement the foreign ministry expressed strong dissatisfaction and said the u.s. using force was a serious violation of international customary practice and also said the chinese side will safeguard rights and interests and they warned of further repercussions. whether china's leadership wants to escalate the situation, they describe as accidental, isn't clear. a lot of the commentary here describes what the u.s. did as provocation or an attack while on social media the u.s. is being mocked for over reacting >> how much does this strain u.s./china relations moving forward, janis >> reporter: this is the first clash of its kind between the two sides since the korean war so there is some historical weight to it u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is supposed to be here right now for face-to-face meetings with chinese officials. the best chanc

janis mackey fraye traveled there. >> reporter: tonight with tensions high between the u.s. and china, an inside look at china's fleet of high-altitude balloons satellite images from labs showing the launch site where an extensive balloon program is said to be based here on an island in the south china sea. we found the launch site it's marked with a big sign sayin military zone. u.s. officials say they know this is where the chinese balloon took off and made its way across the pacific. the u.s. believes a fleet of chinese airships and balloons has flown over dozens of countries, conducting surveillance from near space. china says the u.s. shot down a weather balloon. officials here accuse the u.s. of flying spy balloons in chinese airspace china's high-altitude balloons were first featured on state television here in 2015 and hailed as a breakthrough, though the lines between commercial and military use are seen as blurred the u.s. has sanctioned six chinese entities for providing balloon components to the people's liberation army. here operations at the launch site are con

our janis mackey frayer aboard a surveillance plane monitoring the south china sea when it suddenly hadery close encounter with a chinese fighter jet. >> welcome to the united states navy >> reporter: today's high-stakes surveillance flight takes off from the u.s. base in okinawa >> this is where you're going to sit? >> window seats. >> reporter: a rare chance to see china's military buildup here when tensions with the u.s. are flaring just weeks after the u.s. shot down that chinese balloon and with china growing bolder. >> i've been in the navy 18, 19 years now, and i can tell you that there's a dramatic change over that span, specifically in the south china sea. >> how >> the buildup of runways, hangars. >> reporter: we fly through international airspace between the philippines and taiwan out toward the south china sea where the pla, china's military, soon makes its presence known >> u.s. aircraft, u.s. aircraft >> reporter: we're over the south china sea, and that is a chinese j-11 fighter, and he's flying right beside us. >> the pilot and then a weapons system officer in the back,

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now, earlier i spoke to reporter acro mackey gee, who covers the turkish economy. i began by asking him how big an impact the pipeline coders are having here. well, the destruction is massive, but we have an update actually about to be to see pipeline that arrives in j to be for, for the, for the oil shipment out of turkey. we now know, i know that the damage has been repaired and the and the shipments are just zoom in . currently. i believe that from last night, but the local instruction love, local infrastructure damage and thousands of houses and industries that cannot get got energy and power to operate and to heat basically. so the situation is still in turkey, but the pipeline will probably the back to normal in the coming days at a slow pace. ok, so there's a very small amount of promising news there. akram, but you know, turkey has this talk said introduced many, many years ago. and earthquake talks, it was supposed to shield people from the effects of disasters like this, particularly when it comes to building better quality homes. there's a lot of anger r

good to see you, mackey frayer, live for us in beijing.it. up next, republicans are declaring war on the one thing that separates the post roe era from the back alleys of the three roe years, but, first a quick, important note. before we pay the bill, starting saturday, february 18th, velshi, both myself and the show, it's moving to a new time slot. saturday since sunday from 10 am to noon, eastern. again, we're going to start at ten a.m. instead of eight, with a little more sleep for all of this. that same weekend, february 18th in the fine weekends, i will be back in ukraine. i'll be live on the ground as we prepared to mark one full year since the russian invasion began. get refunds.com powered by innovation refunds can help your business get a payroll tax refund, even if you got ppp and it only takes eight minutes to qualify. i went on their website, uploaded everything, and i was blown away by what they could do. getrefunds.com has helped businesses get over a billion dollars and we can help your business too. qualify your business fo

[laughter] amy: for more, we're joined by aaron mackey senior staff , attorney with the electronic frontierfoundation. welcome to democracy now! it is great to have you with us. can you talk about the significance of the supreme court and the internet last week, the idea that based on their decision, it could change the internet as we know it for all time? >> good morning. the two cases that were heard were the first time the supreme court has actually ever come across and potentially interpreted section 230. what section 230 is and why it is so important is because his legal protections for online intermediaries powers sort of the underlying architecture that we all use every day. so when internet users use email, set up their own websites, use social media or create their own blogs -- all of that is powered and protection -- protected by section 230. the concern in these two cases is the supreme court might interpret it narrowly so that internet users will not have those similar opportunities in the future to organize online, speak online, to find their communities online because the law

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as nbc news correspondent janis mackey frayer reports, beijing is pushing back. >> reporter: china isons that beijing is considering providing military assistance to russia in its war with ukraine. at the foreign ministry here today, a spokesperson said quote it is the u.s. that has been continuously providing weapons to the war. the u.s. is not qualified to give orders to china. now, the timing of this warning from the u.s. is no coincidence. it comes as china's top diplomat is paying a visit to moscow. there are no details on any underlying intelligence the u.s. has that would prompt this sort of warning or explanation as to why the u.s. is being so public in its thoughts on beijing. but this is not a new concern for the u.s. given the close personal ties between the leaders of china and russia. >> joining me with the view from russia is nbc news chief international correspondent keir simmons who's in moscow for us. let's start with president biden visiting kyiv today. what has been the reaction from the kremlin? >> reporter: well, they don't like it. there are noises from the kreml

we begin today's coverage with gary bra mick at the white house, and janis mackey frayer in beijing. janice, please, let's start with you this morning. let's look at the big picture first. with secretary antony blinken postponing his plan trip to china what does this mean for the overall relationship between the countries going forward. >> katie, the timing of it couldn't have been worse, this is supposed to be the highest level u.s. visit to china in five years, the visit that was supposed to reset relations which are strange, which are fraught, and frankly, can't sustain a crisis. what is in clear in the statements that we've had from the chinese side, is why, if this was a wet weather balloon that strayed off course into u.s. airspace, why did china not alert the u.s. to it several days ago china has admitted regret which is something that u.s. officials did not expect but with too many questions unanswered, the optics of secretary of state blinken coming to china, sitting in the same room with chinese officials as this balloon continues to fly over the united states the objects w

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/china relations which as we know are strained at best. >> janis mackey frayer with us today from beijing. we appreciate it. thank you. >>> the ceo of southwest airlines will testify before congress, and the first generation iphone going up for auction. >> christina joins us now with our cnbc money minute. >> hi, let's begin with southwest airlines, next week, a top executive will be questioned by a senate committee about the holiday meltdown that affected hundreds of thousands of travelers. the company says it will highlight the actions to make things right for customers and reduce the rick risk of problems in the future. >>> and also ford is returning to formula one racing for the first time since 2004. it will be building a hybrid engine for the red bull team to start using in 2026 when new f-1 sustainability rules go into effect. >>> and an unopened first generation iphone from 2007 is up for bid in an online auction. it sold for $600 back then. estimated price now? $50,000. $50,000. >> just slightly more expensive than the current iphones. >> you're thinking, do i have one of those i

nbc's janice mackey frayer asked china's spokesman in beijing >> can you confirm that any or all of the three other objects also belong to china or is this just a coincidence? >> reporter: he answered "we're opposed to any attempt to smear china by creating something out of thin air. but he went on to say the u.s. has flown at least ten surveillance balloons over chinese airspace in the last year, something the white house strongly denies and after the norad commander refused to rule out that the three most recent objects were aliens this unreal moment at a white house briefing >> i don't think the american people need to worry about aliens with respect to these craft. >> andrea, has the u.s. said anything about resuming talks with china >> reporter: yes, lester in fact, the state department said today it's important to keep lines of communication open and is not ruling out a meeting between secretary blinken and china's top diplomat in germany later this week so far the president has not said anything publicly about these most recent takedowns. but the search for any debris from them i

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i want to bring in one of our chief white house correspondents, foreign correspondent janis mackey frayer is live in beijing, and gary locke, former u.s. ambassador to china. let's take a beat. lay out what we know so far about this chinese apparent supply balloon mystery situation. we are about to hear from the secretary of state for the first time on camera since he postponed his trip to beijing earlier today. the pentagon says they are still tracking this balloon. they also say it is not a threat right now to national security. china has acknowledged the balloon is theirs. they are saying this thing accidentally got off course. they're saying, no, it's not used for surveillance. it's for weather monitoring. our nbc news meteorological team is tracking weather patterns, saying it probably passed over missouri and tennessee earlier today. with that, peter let me start with you here. as we wait in the next couple of mince to see the secretary of state, what's the biggest question in front of him at this point for something that is if not a national security issue, which is still a questio

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janis mackey frayer will join us from beijing. i want to bring in richard engel who is in eastern ukraine. give us a sense as to the state of play and the conflict right now. we've heard for a while ukrainian officials issuing urgent warnings, saying they believe russia is going to step up its offensive as the weather improves. certainly, president biden's appearance here is a sign of solidarity. what are the ukrainian fears? what are they saying they need? >> reporter: the ukrainians are running out of ammunition. that's what they're most concerned about right now. the russians have intensified the offensive over the last ten days or so. the russians have thrown a lot of troops into battle, both troops and mercenaries, particularly around the city of bakhmut, which is not far from where i am right now. i've been to bakhmut with our team and the surrounding areas several times over the last several day. the fighting is very intense. but russia is not making significant gains, even though russia is trying to drive its front line fo

mackey started a netflix series about dog training. >> dogs are the way i stay focused. a busy kid and a bit of a troublemaker growing up. dogs was way for me to redirect my energy. >> he takes pride in his passion and his roots. >> i love to do my part. i like to represent hip-hop culture. i am from oakland, california. i like to show the young people that you can do whatever you want to do. you don't have to be a ballplayer. you don't have to be a rapper. you don't have to wear a suit and tie every day. you can still put your passion into and create a great career for yourself, and help a lot of other people. it takes practice. >> reporter: one of the most important things here -- >> make sure your dog is having a great time training, as well as yourself. >> reporter: isn't having a great time always the goal with your best friend? >> this is one of my best dogs i ever had. >>> pursue your passion of matter what it is. >> i like how max summed it up. isn't it about having a great time with your best friend? >>> good story. >> i am 20 with a coffee mug. >> i have my wat

joining me now is trisha mackey, an anchor at fox 19 in cincinnati.een covering this story and is in east palestine right now. trisha, i'm sure you hear the emotion in jessica's voice and i'm sure it's the same kind of emotion that you're hearing in a lot of places there. what can you share with us from the site of all of this today? >> the site -- i'm not at the crash site. i at an area where the epa administrator just spoke. if you see the blue containers, that's part of the cleanup. these are all over the place. the person that you just spoke with, a lot of people are saying the same thing. they have headache, nauseous, crashes. the trains are still going 24 hours a day because the trains that were broken are pushed over in to these gullies in people's back yards. those people are physically ill. when i first arrived here, i kept saying is this in my head or am i getting sick? i was actually nauseated. last night i had a headache. it's stronger at night. anybody that says that they cannot smell in this the air is not telling the truth. you can smel

and also for that it, we are standing by your side ambassador mackey. i know your brain is fighting a foreign country. it's freedom, it's future in europe. the camp is fighting against land crap and occupation him. it is a fighting and the, the for what every country unless all claims for its found under in boston for that . so is it something with and don't have actually required for just and lasting peace in fleeting is in the field? many people are longing from heath these times in our country around the world, about near nowhere more than in ukraine itself. shine and which simply revolts poor tins, lamb grab a rebel to put him flam. grab and leave people at the mercy of the arbitrary, the actions of their own pay. this is not a real pain, a, an overwhelming majority of the states in the united nations. and we have found yesterday that piece is to be established a just and lasting piece, either constantly because we very much welcome any constructive proposal, bringing us closer to fair and just piece of the that why the global power of china is you

a family friend who publicly wrote a letter lauding president biden as a great man and alexandria mackeys than jennings. so hunter biden close to his dad trading on his dad's name now calling on his dad's legal friends to save him and sue people looking to expose him it's a powerful family. he is a son of a powerful family. there are limits to that even that kind of power. because, at the end of the day, the laptop repair shop owner took what's called constructive ownership. when you don't pay your repair fee and you don't pick up your laptop at some point you lose ownership over that laptop and at that point he is free to disseminate its content. so, that's just the basic limit of it. i do think this is a matter of panic because of g.o.p. investigations that are come-to-come. good morning this kind of bullying strategy will go very far notwithstanding the fact that this is a powerful family with powerful legal friends. >> brian: take civil action and do a pattern of discovery. let's really examine those emails and find out exactly how authentic they are and what they're up to and what t

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in john mackey lost her mother, he went to law school, you are an nba dancer for the hornets in charlotte illustrated" and a finalist. you have a podcast, and you have an agency for influencers, and then you go down to miami and you didn't feel well. what happened? >> it was during art basel, i was running around crazy and i was taking a toll on my body. i started feeling numbness, i wasn't feeling right, and once i got those symptoms, prior to when i had my brain tumor i was going through symptoms where i just didn't feel right, and i let those linger for too long and i had radiation, i had surgery, and this time when the symptoms happened i was like, okay, something's not right. i need to get checked up. i had my friends and my support system tell me i needed to go to the doctor, so i did, and lo and behold i was having signs and symptoms of a mini-stroke. luckily i slowed down a bit and started taking care of myself again, and just being more in tune with my health. >> ainsley: you are so young to have to go through all of this. i know you are faith played a big role in this. tell us m

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. >> greg: was he doing an impression of joe mackey?ld fashioned way by thinking about joe's chances in '24. you know, and i'm not even really trying to say that ilhan omar is all bad. i mean say what you will about her she always puts her family first. especially when it comes to marrying them. >> greg:. >> greg: you saw that one coming right? kat i'm not going to leave that joke out. is this sexism at its worst? were you holding your breath again? >> kat: yeah. everyone's like you don't even think about breathing, i'm like, speak for yourself. no, it's not and i really wish people would -- i really wish people would stop calling things sexist when they are not sexist because it is the best time ever for actual sexists. because you get so drowned out by everything being called it that no one's even listening to actual examples of sexism which are absolutely real and still happening and people compare it to the boy who cried wolf but it's not because that was just one boy. >> greg: that's true >> kat: and he got eaten, and that sucks. a

john mackey played it as a collision sport. so, it is a collision sport. certain number of injuries in any sport of that type. there's a certain number of injuries in diving or bicycling or gymnastics. so, we are very satisfied, and i don't want to sound self-satisfied, but we're very satisfied with the efforts that we make through our competition committee, through our coaches when i meet with them, through the league office to control the contact in the sport and to assure to the degree we can the safety of the players. >> well, to say those comments haven't aged well is an understatement. since then, the nfl has made quite a few safety changes, including the concussion protocol they finally began in 2011. obviously an ak onliment that the game is not as safe as they said it was back then. >>> when we come back, mitch mcconnell calls it a bad idea. mcconnell calls it a bad idea. a public dagreement withis i was born on the south side of chicago. it has been a long road, but now i'm working for schwab. i love to help people understand the world through th

nbc news capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles, from beijing is nbc news correspondent janis mackey frayer, and "new york times" chief white house correspondent and msnbc political analyst, peter baker. so you heard it right, the brigadier general saying this violated u.s. airspace and violated international law. what's china saying in reaction to that? >> well, china has admitted that this is a chinese airship, though they did spend most of the day trying to diffuse tension with washington earlier, and foreign ministry spokesperson said that they were still gathering information and that china had no intention of violating any country's sovereignty or airspace, and the statement appeared on the ministry's web site, attributing to nobody, confirming that it was a scientific balloon. that it was used mainly for weather research and that it had strayed inadvertently into u.s. airspace because they claim that it isn't easily controlled and that it got caught up in the westerlies, and they blame forest majure. the pentagon doesn't believe this, nor does the white house. the postponement

. >> janis mackey, thank you, and joining me now to provide both the diplomatic and international security perspective, peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times and msnbc political analyst, and tracey walter, former cia operative and fbi special agent. welcome to both of you. peter, first question to you, let's talk about that timeline. an eight-day saga beyond the concern of the falling debris, are there any other reasons the administration or that you are hearing the administration is giving for not shutting it down earlier? perhaps over a less populated areas? what went into the calculation? all right, peter, you might be muted. let's give you just another second here to see if you can get your audio up. if not, we can move on to tracey. there we go, hi, peter. >> sorry about that, sorry. so the suspicion obviously is whether or not the administration held off shooting it down or even making it public because they didn't want to disrupt that, meaning that secretary blinken was going to have in beijing. but they did not want to cause an issue with the chinese t

it's part of a report from nbc's janis mackey. she got rare access to a u.s. navy surveillance plane. it was monitoring the south china sea, and here's what happened when she was on. board check this out. >> we fly through international air space between the philippines and taiwan, out toward the south china sea. where the -- china's military soon makes its presence known. >> u.s. aircraft. >> we're over the south china sea, and that is a chinese fighter. he's flying right beside us. we've >> seen the pilot in the weapons that some officer in the back, they're armed with severe weapons. and these are happening more often. >> the chinese jed shadow from 500 feet off the wing for over an hour. the navy says this encounter was professional but at the pla has been more aggressive. >> that is not a scene out of top gun maverick. that is realize. and it's a scary scenario. how often does this happen and what does it say about the state of u.s. china relations. is the u.s. in a position to deter china from anything at this point. >> u.s. china relations are at their

today, also, in beijing, our colleague janis mackey frayer asked the spokesman for the foreign ministry about whether these are all connected to china, is this just a coincidence, didn't answer that, but he then attacked or criticized the u.s. saying that the u.s. has had ten spy balloons in recent years flying over the chinese homeland, something that john kirby at the white house strongly, vociferously, repeatedly denies, and then the strangest thing that's ever happened, more recently happened at a white house briefing, i don't know whether we should say ever happened is there was a question about to whether or not these could have been aliens. that's because the norad commander over the weekend said that he wouldn't rule out anything including aliens, and so john kirby actually said, no, there's no evidence that these were aliens. >> we have that sound bite. we'll get to it in a moment. you mentioned secretary lloyd austin in brussels. we have the tape of him on the tarmac answering questions of reporters. it's a built long, worth playing in full. let's listen. >> the security of th

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nbc's jackie -- janis mackey frayer. thank you so much. it's early here. thank you for your reporting, as always. greatly appreciate. john heilemann, i said i wasn't going to mention names, but it seems to me if you are a ranking member of an extraordinarily important commit are committee in the united states senate, you shouldn't debase yourself over a balloon. marco rubrubio, of course, tweeg frantically, and says that if we can't shoot down a balloon over montana, then it's china testing us. they know we're not going to do jack if china takes over parts of japan or india. a middle schooler, a middle schooler should be embarrassed for tweeting such things, let alone one of the most powerful republican senators in washington, d.c. please, please give us your insights on the republican overresponse to all of this. >> i heard you talking about jackasses, joe. when i heard the word jackass come out of your mouth, i started to conjure in my mind who you were thinking about in the republican party. i spent a lot of time studying the mind of joe scarborough. it