happened. china is still the enemy. what now? i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. secretary blinken says his talk with china s foreign minister and other officials was constructive. earlier after his meeting with the president of the communist nation, blinken said this. united states is committed to doing that. in the interest of china and unities and the world. we covered a broad range of subjects. i appreciate this opportunity to discuss this with you. harris: i pay way more attention to they do than what china says. the white house said it didn t exist and cleared up last week there is in fact a communist chinese spy base in cuba watching the united states. there are remaining tensions over the chinese spy craft that flew across the continental u.s. sending intelligence back to china realtime. china s ramped up aggression toward taiwan. so was it good to meet now? mixed reaction from republicans. despite our differences and despite the ratcheting
at this hour. the u.s. navy is racing to recover the debris from the chinese spycraft miles off the coast of south carolina. on the screen right now, our first look at what those divers are now pulling out of the ocean and at the balloon itself, so take those new images in. john: it went down in relatively shallow water, about 50 feet deep. biggest challenges are currents and water temperature which is only this time of year about 53°. sandra: in a moment, we will be speaking to retired navy seal commander sears about what they are recovering and what the navy is doing about it. john: bryan llenas is off a boat close to the recovery effort. how is it looking from where you are, bryan? the weather has gotten better since the weekend, incredible conditions on the water, great for a salvage operation underway. you are looking live at our fox news drone showing you the military ships that are over the debris field said to be 15 by 15 football fields wide. right now this
Dive operations are playing out on Carr Lake in Northeast Tallahassee. Tallahassee Online Police Statistics indicates dive operations began at 11:38 a.m.
dawood and his 19-year-old suleman and french oceanographer paul-henri nargeolot who previously completed 35 dives on the titanic. we learned about warning signs and concerns over the submersible s experimental design and the development process, not going through the protocols, safety protocols and checks that are standard in the maritime industry for submersibles. in the last hour we spoke to oceangate s co-founder who cautioned people not to rush to judgment. safety was always number one priority for us and for stockton in particular. he was a very strong risk manager and i believe that he believed that every innovation that he created, whether technologically or within the dive operations, was to both expand the capability of humanity exploring the oceans while also improving the safety of those doing it.
within the dive operations was to both expand the capability of humanity exploring the oceans while also improving the safety of those doing it. you says safety was the number one concern, obviously this is a commercial venture with people paying a lot of money to do this. did you have any concerns about the carbon composite hull of this? clearly a lot of people in this industry did have concerns and the fact that it had not gone through the testing. or by industry standards. right. first of all i had full confidence in stockton in the design and his ability to engineer. most importantly to take it through a rigorous testing program. i had absolutely no qualms with it. what i do have qualms with is the fact that so many of us in a rush to get answers to our questions are starting to speculate without waiting for