balloon fly all over the country to spy on us. you know, up up and away in our beautiful balloon. but no serious. and then russia takes out one of our drones. there has been no consequence or response, nothing. right. well let me just say, with regard to the america s place in the world today. there is a truism in history that weakness arouses evil around that disas rouse withdrawal in afghanistan, capitulation, begging for two years for iran to enter the iran nuclear deal. capitulating on nordstream. sean: killing off keystone. shutting down energy, that is sending a message of weakness around the world, emboldened the enemies of freedom. we have to produce american strength and
manufacturer, supplier in china and replace it with paddle, this chinese manufacturer. we just need to have everybody wake up and understand that economic, economic security for the united states is critical. and in these most important industries like semiconductors, like evs, like solar panel manufacturers, like all of the technologies that drive them, we must own that supply chain in addition to to our pharmaceutical supply chain. it must be american-owned, american-domiciled, otherwise we will continue to watch the biden administration in pursuit of their green agenda sell out to the communist chinese party, and we can t let it happen. maria: well, it s unbelievable to me that we ve had such a soft response. they obviously have a plan, and it s meticulous. they had that balloon fly over our installations, our military installations, nuclear installations, and you re telling me about paddle wanting to set up shop right near the
someone in the intel community of the pentagon s on objects like this and just didn t think it was serious. as we ve discussed, there s a lot out there. i didn t even mention all the drones of various sizes. so it s quite possible that they looked and said, this is a serious to take to the white house. so going back to your other question, we need to figure this out get some clear rules set. take a listen to something else that nsc spokesperson john kirby said about what we re learning from that first tylee needs by balloon. here s that. we are going to exploit this material as best we can. we ve learned a lot already from the balloon, by surveilling it while it was flying over the country. we re gonna learn even more we believe by getting a look at the guts inside it, and seeing how it worked, and what it was capable of. should this quiet all the criticism over letting the balloon fly over the u.s. for as long as it did? is intelligence in a better position to understand what
were. it was biden trying to show he could do more than let a balloon fly across the country. every time they explain one it nenegates the explanation of one prior. we shot the balloons down because we didn t know what they were or what they were capable of so let s shoot them down. this was a spy balloon. we knew what it was from the get go and we let it traverse across the country. rachel: make no sense. it try to use the simplest explanation on this and simplest is this is the tail wags the dog and the president and administration is trying really hard to catch up between what they want to do in the narrative that s sweeping the country and i don t think they anticipate very much at all when it comes to what we as americans react with and here is where we are. we re in a place where we don t know if you re going to shoot down the hun hobby balloon or la fly across and take pictures. rachel: joey, what s the reason they ve been reluctant and talk about the balloon that came across
balloon and true with a better radar and surveillance system to pick these things up. you couple it together plus the human factor of want to make sure that we don t cause any undue risk to the national security by having a chinese balloon fly over the installations. there s a lot going on that where the facts increase quite a bit in the military at this point because there is a risk that a lot of movements could b foreign power or that could be coincidental. we don t know at this point. also, what s been rather unique is the use of these fighter jets with the use of missiles to take down the objects and in the case of along the south carolina coast the