the white house from camp david today saying he wanted to shoot down the balloon at the first available opportunity and that, in his view, is exactly what the pentagon did. watch it come over into the united states from canada. i told them to shoot it down as soon as it was appropriate. they concluded we should not shoot it down over land, was not a serious threat and we should wait until it got across the water. that s, of course, what happened saturday afternoon. a usf-22 fighter firing a single sidewinder missile at the chinese balloon bringing it down just off the coast of south carolina, and the president said the chinese were well aware of what was coming. we made it clear to china what we were going to do. reporter: but critics, many of them republican, question the wisdom of waiting to shoot down the balloon until after it had flown right across the united states and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. look, i m not saying detonate this thing over a
see the crime scene for themselves. we ll have a live report from the courthouse in south carolina coming up. at least a dozen people hospitalized, but no deaths reported after tornadoes tear apart businesses and homes in central oklahoma. we ll have the latest on the storms that made million z miserable over the last 24 hours and the problems they left behind. first, the challenges to donald trump. ideologically, financially and organizationally, all ramping up. case in point, ron desantis is gathering for more than 150 donors, a huge event over the weekend held less than a ten-minute drive from former president trump s back yard. the event was described as, quote, part of desantis increasingly open encroachments into the former president s long-term support base and ideological turf. that s just the tip of the iceberg with the florida governor set to extend his campaign with a national book tour that launches tomorrow. we should be clear. right nou desantis is still a
university. breaking news from jim jordan surrounding big tech and the federal government, he will join us and tell us all about it. nikki haley, she will join us hours after announcing her run for the presidency. we ll talk with her and the great one mark levin, we will weigh in on joe biden, china, a combination that is now more dangerous than ever. more direct threats from the communist party of china, you would think they were the ones that shut down our spy balloon at this point the way they are acting on top of more promises of surveillance against us more spying against us, more hostility in the pacific and more pollution and more death and suffering, don t forget it was china that created covid-19, they unleashed it on the world knowingly, over a million americans died in part because of china. if your parents died your grandparents, friends, family members, it may be because of that country s sloppy authoritarian governments. make no mistake the communist party of ch
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tonight. i am going to take a contrarian view. i have got some questions. here is my first question about this story. the china balloon story. this is like laughter out of uncomfortablity. i can t believe this actually happened. right? sow china. they seem to have chosen the most low tech spying mechanism possible to humiliate the united states. a balloon. when my grandmother took me to the zoo when i was a kid with my grandfather, i got a balloon. it s the same technology china is flying over the united states. over sensitive nuclear facilities on the cusp of a major meeting between the two countries. i have some serious questions here. right before this major diplomatic meeting where tony blinken, our secretary of state is supposed to meet xi jinping, china picks a freakin balloon to fly over? not their version of an sr-71? no, a , a balloon we can all se. something doesn t make sense. what particular capability is china demonstrating if this is some kind of message? we can