the white house from camp david today saying he wanted to shoot down the balloon at the first available opportunity and that, in his view, is exactly what the pentagon did. watch it come over into the united states from canada. i told them to shoot it down as soon as it was appropriate. they concluded we should not shoot it down over land, was not a serious threat and we should wait until it got across the water. that s, of course, what happened saturday afternoon. a usf-22 fighter firing a single sidewinder missile at the chinese balloon bringing it down just off the coast of south carolina, and the president said the chinese were well aware of what was coming. we made it clear to china what we were going to do. reporter: but critics, many of them republican, question the wisdom of waiting to shoot down the balloon until after it had flown right across the united states and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. look, i m not saying detonate this thing over a
president biden 31%. somebody else, not even no name here, just anybody else, please run! pete, you ve got 31%. kevin, i just was looking at this and i thought when you get to a number like that of you name it and i ll take him, it s bad for the administration. political death nail here, because what it basically says is not only are we so dissatisfied with you, we ll take just about anybody else you put up. i think the real challenge s who do they turn challenge is who do they turn to? if it s not michelle obama, is there somebody that could get the job done and beat president trump in a head-to-head. not a long line there. what do you think, pete? that s a very good point by kevin. when you look at some of the stories that came out recently about vice president harris, it certainly seems like she s not going to be an option. where do democrats go? many of the polls are reflecting many americans are unsure about the president s ability to run for re-election just physically.
years in the making and is detailed in a 22-page letter to the maricopa county attorney. detailing a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against latinos at the mcso, the maricopa county sheriff s office that reaches the highest level of the agency. sheriff arpaio s own actions have helped nurture a culture of bias. found latino drivers are four to nimz more likely than non-latino drivers and more documenting detention officers at the sheriff s jail using offensive slurs and profanities calling them wetbacks, stupid mexicans and slurs we can t mention on the air. according to the civil rights division they re reviewing allegations that sheriff arpaio s department failed to investigate hundreds of alleged sexual assaults and child molestation cases. many of the victims apparently were latinos. earlier this year, when 360 s ed lavandera spoke with sheriff arpaio he spoke as himself as a victim. have they spoke to you what an abuse of power is? i don t know what
so listen, some are saying, or wondering, is this the beginning of the end for the chicago contingency that came in to washington with president obama? well, this is certainly one of the more high-profile chicagoans to come in, and there s all kinds of speculation about rahm emanuel. i think we ll just have to see in coming weeks. let s look ahead for the first lady. because this has been a high-profile first lady. what does the white house look like, what does a washington look like now with a new social secretary, absent desiree rogers now? well, i think we will probably continue to see events, affairs of a similar kind. i think people are pretty happy with the kinds of events that desiree rogers and her office were putting on. it was probably just more the front and center role that desiree rogers was taking in all of this. i think what we will see in the future, the new social secretary will be julianna smoot, a veteran fund-raiser. i think we ll be seeing less of her than we
of the more high-profile chicagoans to come in, and there s all kinds of speculation about rahm emanuel. i think we ll just have to see in coming weeks. let s look ahead for the first lady. because this has been a high-profile first lady. what does the white house look like, what does a washington look like now with a new social secretary, absent desiree rogers now? well, i think we will probably continue to see events, affairs of a similar kind. i think people are pretty happy with the kinds of events that desiree rogers and her office were putting on. it was probably just more the front and center role that desiree rogers was taking in all of this. i think what we will see in the future, the new social secretary will be julianna smoot, a veteran fund-raiser. i think we ll be seeing less of her than we did of desiree rogers. and that ll be i think the challenge-s that now that desiree rogers has made the job so high-profile everyone will be wanting to know so much more about julia