talks with democrats. we should have bipartisan hearings on this. and i think, ultimately, we will. but, you know, if we can t detext a balloon, we re in a world of hurt as far as defending in the country. maria: real quick, senator, you have been raising your hand about debt and all of the reckless spending of this in the government for a long time. has anything changed in terms of your feelings on defense spending given these provocations from china as we approach this massive debt ceiling debate? no. i think the number one threat to our national security is our debt. we have a $31 trillion debt, and that doesn t include $850 billion we spend annually on the military. the curben on spending in the militarying has been going up dramatically. if you are serious about the deficit, you have to look at military, nonmilitary, and you have to look at everything that s on the budget including mandatory spending. if you don t, you ll never balance the budget. but i can tell you, we need to
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we absolutely could have taken it down over alaska without fear of debris to civilians. e look under the hood and exploitb ilit. that is a capability that we need to develop with0 $850 billion defense budget. l this is not the last time we will see a chinese parole. we need to kick affiliatede researchers off american universities. we need to make sure that the facility is cannot buy land next to these bases in america.n what the police stations here on american soil.an this is unacceptable.w we need to defend american sovereignty. i know these have been things you have been working on.ee i wantms to talk about that. it seems that you are an uphill battle here with regards to corporate america. s you have investment funds right now as we speak.he you have the for one week k for
what the angle warned about last night. this entire exercise was a trial balloon literally floated by china to see how long it would take for us to react forcefully. this by balloon, the chinese would have taken our planes down that weren t even flying in their airspace. they force them down, we d let it go, we d keep on appeasing the chinese and they ll keep pushing. laura: for all those pentagon groupies that were buying the line that the generals were worried about collateral damage on the ground if they shut it down? get your head screwed on straight. if we can hit home plate in yankee stadium with a cruise missile launched thousands of miles away, i think we can pop a balloon without endangering human life. if not, we should reconsider what we are getting for that $850 billion a year that we spend on the fence at this point. our secretary of state should have immediately canceled, not postponed his trip to beijing
and then i think he was worried that there is just more of a chance that this gets to a dangerous zone where we could make a mistake and could acc accidentally sort of trip into that realm of default so we are kind of playing with fire right now. playing with fire. with economic fire at a very uncertain political moment with the new house majority. if you get to this tipping point and we ve come close before and never quite gotten there, the white house says 3 million jobs would be last, 401(k)s would decline. already high mortgage payments would go up, $850 billion to add to the debt which is why one of the top economic advisors said on cnn, look, sorry, house republicans h. is your job. do it. this is about economic stability versus economic chaos. we have to not get in our own way. we have to not not put this all at risk and jeopardize it by putting the full faith and credit of the united states at risk and so what needs to happen is what congress has done time