good to be with you, i m katy tur. first it was the leaked memo from an air force general, warning his officers to prepare for a hot war with china in 2025. then it was news the u.s. is expanding its military presence in southeast asia, adding four more bases in the philippines on the doorstep of china. and now, the pentagon is faced with a chinese spy balloon first spotted over montana, which, by the way is home to one of the united states three nuclear silo fields. just a moment ago in a series of questions from reporters, brigadier general patrick ryder confirmed the balloon is not just drifting, that china is in control of it. the balloon is maneuverable. clearly it s violated u.s. airspace, and again, we ve communicated that fact to the prc. the fact is we know that it s a surveillance balloon. and i m not going to be able to be more specific than that. and we do know that the balloon has violated international airspace and international law which is unacceptable. we
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peat ear doocy, thank you. dana: politics is always a part of the bigger picture. president biden s visit to you a crane coming against the back drop of the 2024 election and his bid for a second term. good morning, jacque. president biden has said many times a key achievement of his time in office has been keeping nato aligned not just in the face of putin s threat and war on ukraine but also the threat to broader democratic norms. as opposed to his handling of the afghanistan withdrawal, that posture has won him respect on this issue from even some people on the other side of the aisle. the president needs to understand he is a wartime president. we are know a proxy war with russia if we like it or not. a i m an america first guy. defeating the adversaries of the united states is an america first interest. those are growing fatigued with endless support with a war with no end in sight while problems at home persist. one critic has been doling out a lot of that cr
nato will not be decided and we will not tire. ukraine will never be a victory for russia. one year after the bams began to fall, russian tanks rolled in to ukraine. ukraine is still independent and free. greg: oh, man. biden s foreign trip isn t sitting well with the mayor of east palestine. that was the biggest slap in the face. that tells you right now he doesn t care about us. he can send every agency he wants to. i found that out this morning one of the briefings that he was in the ukraine giving millions of dollars away to people over there, not to us. i m furious. greg: mayor pete says he will visit ohio s toxic train site but only when the time is right and boasts his experience as mayor has prepared him for this moment. i m planning to go. our folks were on the ground from the first hours. look, i was mayor of my hometown for eight years. we dealt be a lot of disasters, natural and human. one of the things i noticed very quickly is that there s two kinds of p