dana: why did the administration let it spend days floating over sensitive military sites? among those pressing the pentagon for answers is montana senator john tester. say yes or no. did we know what they were trying to collect, yes or no? yes. we think we know what they were going to collect, we don t know. that scares the hell out of me. we are building our understanding of what capabilities they have. i have a problem with the chinese balloon flying over my state, much less the rest of the country. mike: president biden down playing the incident. president biden: it is not a look, it is totally violation of national law, our airspace. once they come in our space we can do what we want with it. mike: we begin with bryan llenas off the coast of south carolina where the salvage operation is moving forward. good morning, bryan. good morning. the f.b.i. says a majority of the chinese spy balloon remains underwater spread out in two separate sections in
bitter conflict among house republicans. former minority leader kevin mccarthy is being opposed by landful of lawmakers who are refusing to support him. a number that increased by one on the last balloting for speaking. chad pergram has been following this all day minute by minute. he tells us where things stand tonight from a chaotic capitol hill. good evening, chad. bret, as you say. the most chaos for the beginning of a congress in 100 years. it marked a foreboding start for a g.o.p. majority which promised big things in the midterms. the house voted all afternoon. kevin mccarthy lacks the votes to become speaker. mccarthy and his allies are determined to keep voting and wear down his opponents. are you going to stay in the race, leader mccarthy. yes. i m not going anywhere. look, i have the record for the longest speech ever on the floor. i don t have a problem getting a record for the most votes for speaker, too. there were only five g.o.p. members officially opp
prayers and thoughts with you. we have a number of contributions we can make infort this audience.folk folks here at life, liberty and levin t and i and the fox news network are concernedco about you. and i want you to know the nation is rallying in yourde defense. now before we get to great guests, we hear from joe biden that the choice is between democracy and autocracy.au he claims to be on side of democracy, and the rest of us on autocracy. that visit been regurgitated in his media, his party and everyone that supports that ideology. if joe biden knew anything about american history,or framery,s rejected democracy and embraced republicanism,em theyoc embraced representative government, embraced constitutionalism, checksse anpad balances separation of powers. it is right there in the federalist papers in madison s notes, i don texpe expect joe biden, who served in senate 36 years and took an oath to up hold thise document, vice port portfolio for 8 vice president for
because this is a night where you are going to remember where you were. yes. wylie coyote, thanks. you finally caught the roadrunner. me. well, the search warrant served our mar a lago this morning, had donald trump s name on it. but the real target of this investigation isn t trump the real target of this investigation is you or anyone who dares to call out and take the rank corruption of the dc establishment. this is the deep state s revenge. they re trying to show all of us that we ll be destroyed if we fight them. if we question the repeated failures of the pentagon leadership, if we make serious i m talking about serious moves to disrupt the status quo here in washington. you know, the status quo that protects a powerful as long as they play the game now for decades they got away with selling us out by letting in twenty million illegals flooding across our border. they sold us out by sending our manufacturing jobs to china. they sold us out by wasting trillions on stupid
needed a pope, we would hold a conclave. biden waxed pseudo spiritual throughout his sermon add address. speak with the darkness of charlottesville, covid, gun violence, insurrection. we can see the light. light is now visible. light that will guide us forward. i ran for president because i believe we are in a battle for the soul of this nation. raymond: the president claims it s a battle for the soul of the nation. but you can t save the soul by killing the body and that s what by any objective measure biden s policies have done. crime is skyrocketing all over the country. inflation is at a 40 year high. the border is wide open, and this administration has encouraged migrants to risk their lives to enter the country illegally. all that does is strengthen the cartels and human traffickers. the nation s report report card dropped today showing that 9-year-old students are sinking in math and reading, wiping out decades of progress. our children are more at risk from drugs,