shoot down that chinese flight as soon as possible. the pentagon waited until safely over the atlantic. now there are more questions about why the white house did not brief the public about the situation with the present did not act sooner senator marco rubio believes try to use the aircraft to send a larger message. is not a coincidence this happens leading up to state of the union address. leading up to blinken s visit to china. chinese do this to be spotted they knew we would have to react to it as just a bullet it s a message to try to sum the world that we can do whatever we want in america cannot stop us. arthel: fox team coverage for you bright alexandria hoff has more reaction from lawmakers in china as charles watson, he is in south carolina with an eyewitness account of the shoot damper first up lucas tomlinson life in the white house with the reporting, lucas would you have? u.s. navy s dispatch three warships to calm the waters off of south carolina salvage cr
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
new hampshire governor says he believes china spy aircraft as part of a larger plan to test the u.s. government. is all but china poking at his protesting the american resolve it. whether it s with tiktok, the balloon or whatever things are going to be next month they know tensions are escalated with doing to see what kind of leadership we have it. national security and military analyst doctor rebecca grant joins us now she is also present a virus independent research. doctor grant thank you so much being here pilots are statement from a pentagon official on saturday. as part of a prc fleet of balloons built to conduct operations that also violet the sovereignty of other countries. these activities under the liberation army or pla. have conducted 20 30 balloon missions globally over the last
especially at a time when tensions are so high with the u.s. anyway. we know the united states has learned who said he used in these types of balloons and that were to get a lay of the land for more safety reasons. we are now learning more that there were three balloons entering u.s. territory during the trump administration over the last decade. we are learning 20 to 30 balloon missions were launched by china with this who plus surrounding the downing of this balloon. it kind of seems somewhat of an embarrassment for china considering how low it was floating and how it was spot, it really, by folks on the ground. does this make this type of intelligence collection obsolete? do you feel as though china will stop using them? yeah, i would think they would. i also just know it s china and they probably won t. they seem to be very brazen with a lot of activity. it is also just surprising, china really accelerated everything in terms of space
chinese government, there is no shortage of finger-pointing happening at home. republicans quick to criticize how biden handled the situation. he probably won t hear them bring up how similar chinese balloon incidents happen in the trump presidency at least three times. or how the president was careful to act in accordance with the pentagon before taking action. we want to bring in david ignatius now, foreign affairs columnist for the washington post. it seems as if we just lost david ignatius. we are going to try to get him back a, we have him back. david? do i have you? yes, you do. there you go! as always, great to talk to you, david. let me read a little bit from your op-ed from the washington post today. talking about this mission, yesterday, and how it all came together. specifically, the intelligence. as to how often the chinese have used these by balloons. the pentagon officials said saturday night that five chinese balloons have circumnavigated the globe. china has condu