critics as biden s cowardly, feckless response to this crisis continues fec to unfold e real time.. horfoangerous is this fo our national security? we ll have a deep dove intoo that. th clear .alloon this balloon wasn t out for a joyride. china wa as collectingolutely intelligence and absolutely testing your presidenting your b us s response. now, day aftery dayand went b. and any attempt to assure any of us that they didn t collectt. intel, frankly, is not credible to me. is it not is it nott possible they had technology that maybe we don t know about or we stop them from collecting intelligence? do you kno intellince.w that fo? i don t think anybody can answer that question honestly tonight.needs answers. it s about but america needs answers. why di it s about our national security. why did joe biden fails in to respond when he became aware of thit ons incident? first on saturday, january twenty eighth, to spy balloon flew over alaska. joe biden did nothing. two days later,
dent to downplay it, the the reaction to this was first to deny it, then to downplay it, then to demand back andhe tl then to accuse us of doingke the same thing. and you talked about now they re getting more aggressive with our our allies and friends in the indo-pacific, with the ph philippines, with taiwan. whpines, with taiwan, y wouldn s they ve had there s been no deterrence from thiswithrespecti administration with respect to china. and i only see this getting worse. scenari we appreciate it. director radclyffe, scary scenario. i think a vulnerable what i nevt thought would exist inbove our lifetime, as is right therer hovering above our airspace. pretty scary. director radcliffe, thank you. so we know that last week s spy balloon came from china, butobjs what about the three other objects shot down over the weekend? apparently, us pilots couldn t even identify how these objects were even be empowered orwe staying in the air. so we seem seem to to know nothg anyway. joining us no
some of the signals that wereord being collected, the fact thaten the whole world saw america on its back , feckless, balloon geo pong a chinese balloon traverse our country, thatn wayt hurts our geopolitical standing in ways that are well, they reed as devastating as what happened to the 13 americans who were killed in afghanistan. n our friends don t trust us , gog sean, and our adversaries aren t going to fear us . li keif we allow things like thisa. to happen. it is totally unexplainable . director radclyffe, can you explain why in any way this was not accomplished and this does not take it out of the sky whenk it was hovering above the the alaska terrain? timoncen t this taken ou immediately? y entereonce they entered our an ? e hano one has given a good explanation for that.l fa in fact, the excusesllen that they have given have all fallen apart. obviously, you know, we re all concerned about the safety ofevn americans, but we re talking about places like montana that has seven
maybe that s possible. but there.e is an awful lot ofes explaining to do. beside they, it s in some ways beside the point. . president biden had an opportunity to protect america in a simple way. toand chose not to do that. and director radclyffe, you are you have already goneim on the record also saying at no time did you or anybody thate tp you knew when you were working in the trump white house had ever heard that such an, sir? incident never occurred. is that true, sir? every former trump national security yeah.e sa i mean, every former trump national security official has d ousaid the same thing. and as mike pointed out,. the biden story keeps changingee ,the alibis keep changing. and now they ve gone frome intimating that we weren te telling the truth to admitting that we were with the explanation that you gavnation sean, which is that no one knew. and somehow the bestterprise intelligence community, the best intelligence enterprise in the worlhe worlddw missed this for years.eek