well, that is what they re saying now, but i think the administration needs to come forward because this is not an ability to say this is a crisis that was handed them. this is a crisis that developed as a result of this president during his administration allowing china to do a similar act before, not responding, and then, clearly, in this one, not seeing the urgency of what was unfolding. the president allowed this to go across our most sensitive sites and wasn t even going to tell the american public. if you hadn t broken this story the american public would not have even known. there was no attempt to notify congress, no attempt to put together the gang of eight. i think this administration lacks urgency. do you the pentagon says they were able to use countermeasures that blocked or limited the ability of china to extract information from this balloon. do you buy that? no. and certainly you don t either. here is the thing that is interesting. the administration says there w
the president addressed the takedown of the balloon on his way to camp david on saturday. on wednesday when i was briefed on the balloon i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. they decided without doing damage to anyone on the ground. they decided that the best time to do that was when it got over water within a 12-mile limit. they successfully took it down, and i want to compliment our aviators who did it. joining me now is the republican chair of the house intel committee mike turner of ohio. chairman turner, welcome back to meet the press. good morning, chuck. let me start with what you know here. so the decision to take this down, what more have you learned? and you re part of the so-called gang of eight. i don t think you guys have gotten a personal briefing, but i know staff has. what more can you tell us about the take down operation? clearly the president taking it down over the atlantic is sort of like the quarterback tackled afte
sade, hey, it s not safe yet. do you accept that? there is no excuse here. when this first occurred last time during the administration, remember, this is the third year of this administration, they should have been preparing for this. they knew what this was. they know what the balloon is, what its capabilities and maneuverability is from having observed previous actions by china. they should have been prepared. they seem not only to be unprepared but to even be waiting. where is the balloon going to go? what are they trying to do? that s not how you look at the actions of an adversary. china is a self-declared adversary. they are clearly expanding their military capabilities. they are tripling their nuclear weapons capabilities. they are fielding hypersonic weapons. they are expanding in space. in this instance, this president should have taken this as an urgency and so should our military. this should have been taken down before it entered u.s. airspace when it was over alaska.
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for taking it down but criticized president biden for waiting too long the back and forth over the spy balloon is the latest escalation of u.s./china tensions as china has been trying to rehabilitate its global image post covid. just last week a prediction the u.s. will be at war with china in two years over taiwan and lloyd austin was in the philippines on tuesday to announce a new military build up and use of bases by our military balloon is the latest escalation of u.s./china tensions as china has been trying to rehabilitate its global image post covid. just last week a prediction the u.s. will be at war with china in two years over taiwan and lloyd austin was in the philippines on tuesday to announce a new military build up and use of bases by our military there. china has tried to play both sides on the war in ukraine saying it is against the war but supporting russia. the republicans doubled down on the trump administration policy of having a more aggressive competition with chin