democratic pollster called the speech a campaign manifesto. the big gamble of speech and re-election campaign is how the president can raise his poor job ratings with new taxes and big promises while ignoring the kitchen table issues of inflation, immigration and crime on the minds of most americans who see the nation as headed in the wrong direction. bret baier special report anchor is in focus now. so bret, 12 times and we had most of them. let s finish the job. definitely good morning harris. definitely sounds like a campaign slogan for 2024. i think it probably is going to be that launch. part of that speech was about that. and part of it was about laying down markers. immigration to your point, border security only got four sentences in the speech. china didn t even really get that much in the speech after the week we saw of the chinese balloon going across the
mistake? no, because we were able to gather more intelligence and more information. we were able to collect back on the balloon. we know more about chinese capabilities and trade craft as a result of that decision. then we ultimately shot it down and sent a very direct message to china it was unacceptable. jeanine: you know, jesse, every time someone comes on air about this balloon, i hear something different. if you recall, on saturday the 28th, they said that they dent even tell potus about it because they didn t think it was dangerous, but in the end the administration said, you know, it could have had explosives on it. what is the truth? do we know? jesse: no, we ll never find out about the truth. i love these stories. first we can t shoot it down because the debris might hit a cow. then, the balloon is not spying on us, we re spying on the balloon. then it was, they didn t see a thing. they ve been telling us for 20 years, china didn t see a thing. this time we mean it.
the faa is what is the state-of-the-art in this message traffic? when there is a problem with a government system, we will find it and fix it. my top priority is to understand the root cause and how it led to this level of disruption. he did tweet on this. that for him is really good. he s adorable when he tweets. i checked and the airport in afghanistan did not have any interruptions and beijing in china didn t and in north korea s airport is still operating. they had no problem. we did. pete buttigieg oversaw the rebranding of this faulty system to make it more inclusive. the question is: it the faa got $5 billion in the infrastructure bill, why this is this thing not repaired?
maybe he doesn t have anything to do. that can be an issue in government. check the rate togs see what would happen with mayor pete was impeached. coming off a terrible holiday season for travel, not great for this to happen. u.s. air space closed. we hear it s not a cyber attack. doesn t this make us a target for a cyber attack. if it can fail on its own shouldn t russia say this is what we should go after? a lot of pilots were on social media and doing tv ads and knew about this yesterday. why didn t we know about it yesterdayo people didn t go to the airport?
asking me about, people discussing it, no. nor has our record of human rights abuses come up either. people in china didn t ask me about, you know, people owning ar-15s, mowing each other down in a mall. i wasn t asked that question. the world is a complex place and there s more gray than black and white. tucker: oh, so china commits genocide against muslims and locks down a city of 25 million people but we ve got the second amendment and we re pretty much the same. that s the word from steve kerr, a famous coach. these people are all on the take from china. the nba is literally on the take from china. therefore they will not say a single negative word about their masters. this is not an american league. this is not people loyal to the united states. they despise the united states. they re on the payroll of china. that s true. how is it not true? so they can t even criticize