down. jesse: we will have more on that later tonight. americans realize russia isn t the big boogie man that everybody makes it out to be. russia is note but they have nothing on china. china is bribing, somebody a back tajing us stealing. our president and his family are in their pocket. biden s family is in business with the spy chief china. hunter is sleeping with chinese spies. taking in millions from communists biden school where they scored those top secret documents was flooded with chinese cash after biden got in the white house he shut the program down. he refuses to shut down a chinese spy balloon? not a good look. and joe was even hacking with hunter this weekend. look at this. did hunter want the balloon popped? both of these guys are under investigation for national security reasons. and chinese influence schemes. the fbi see see seized joe and
do we really have the political environment now to actually do something about it? let s not forget 1 in 4 americans use tiktok. tiktok is effectively a surveillance tool. yeah. why are we talking about a balloon and not talking about all these things on our phones? right. some of us have not put tiktok on. i haven t. maybe your kids have. right? they have. this is the problem is that we need to be serious about this competition and figuring out what the policy alternatives are to actually deal with this. that s the thing, amy. i think the chinese are learning a little something about our reaction and some may say overreaction to some of this. and our division, which only helps to make this that much more difficult. the question i think we have a couple things that haven t been answered yet, why now? why do something as obvious as this? we have tiktok. why do a balloon? what was going on here? by the way, good luck tiktok thinking you re going to get a side deal now
stopped more than two dozen terrorist plots. that s the kind of work they do day in day out, as well as working with a private sector here in the city. program called shield in which they work with hotel workers and car rental places. if they see something suspicious to say something. ultimately today a beautiful event. nothing wrong. it was just a great day to be out here. no doubt about it. nypd working hard. bryan llenas, go get some tur y turkey. a gust of wind blew a candy cane into a tree. the balloon popped. thankfully no one was hurt. the rest of the parade was smoothly. as many as 15 deep to catch a glimpse of the floats. some of the new balloons included olaf from frozen, chase from the tv cartoon paw patrol. ronald mcdonald cruising by. the trump administration is
a few minutes later they let us out. then the ambulances came. did you see people who were injured? no, but i saw someone outside that was covered in blood. and a 5-year-old. interesting interview. they always are. a woman obviously in duress after witnessing what she witnessed, but it reminds me early on in the coverage before we knew what we had here, before the word terrorism was being thrown around, when we just knew there had been a loud bang, maybe more than one, people were theorizing it had been those large, pink balloons that are visible in some of the shots of the audience just after the house lights went up. they were part of the show, kind of bounced out in the pit area. of floor seating over the audience, those pink balloons. it s i guess not surprising to hear that an usher or a guard said, i think a balloon popped,
early on in the coverage before we knew what we had here, before the word terrorism was being thrown around, when we just knew there had been a loud bang, maybe more than one, people were theorizing it had been those large, pink balloons that are visible in some of the shots of the audience just after the house lights went up. they were part of the show, kind of bounced out in the pit area. it s i guess not surprising to hear that an usher or a guard said, i think a balloon popped, when quite obviously it was something so much greater and so much more evil. our own ken remains here with us in the studio. ken, you covered the 7/7 bombing. i always said i don t think well, 9/11 was known the world over, i don t think americans quite understood at the time or since what a colossal event 7/7