hovering over montana. there is a mystery out there. i m bill hemmer. i love your red. you got to pin on. dana: way to represent. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. the communist eye in the sky. the ball on does not pose a threat moving well above air traffic commercial air traffic. officials are advising the president not to shoot it down over concerns that falling debris from this balloon could hurt people on the ground. bill: the balloon entered u.s. airspace a couple of days ago and flew east into montana. not clear what it was doing there. the state is home to 1 of 3 u.s. air force bases with intercontinental ballistic missiles. dana: discovery days before blinken is set to visit beijing. china said it is looking into the balloon but general jack keane says he is not buying that. what we do know is they ve done this before. we know it s a spy balloon. it is going to depart at some time. we don t want this to happen again. shoot it down on the way home
it is hard to smuggle a monkey out of a zoo. if you have a giant pack back or walk in with a crate it gives the zoo a little bit of a clue that something is going on. versus the family with the kids. dana: let s hope it stops or if not how to put a stop to it. thank you so much. lawyers for hunter biden are denying they admitted that this laptop is his saying that has not been confirmed as they seek criminal charges against the computer repair shop owner and others for accessing the laptop and spreading the context. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. we re doing mental gymnastics on it. hunter s lawyers are trying to put the toothpaste in a tube. they ask state and federal prosecutors who are close friends with the biden family to
january 13th we found on january 21st zoo staffers found a vulture dead in its enclosure. scroll monkeys stolen from the louisiana zoo. it goes on from there as people can see that even denver was told to be on alert after the dallas disappearances. are these things connected? i believe they are, dana. i think what s going on is somebody got away with it in the beginning. at least until today. and that s spurred the idea that you can walk into a zoo, typically a pretty low-security facility. cut through a fence or hop over a railing and grab these animals which is incredibly unfortunate. this isn t stealing a snickers bar but stealing a living life that doesn t deserve to be mistreated. dana: do you think it is being done to resell the animals or is it because somebody wants an animal for themselves or something even more nefarious?
they re just gonna live in there? yes only pay for what you need. liberty liberty liberty liberty dana: dallas police have a suspect in custody in connection with the theft of two monkeys from the zoo. the man was charged with with six counts of animal cruelty. the two monkeys were found in a closet in an abandoned home. the theft was just one in a series of concerning criminal acts at zoos across the country lately. want to bring in wildlife biologist. show you a timeline to set it up before i ask you to question. the january 13th one of the clouded leopards was missing from a habitat in dallas. staffers at the same zoo saw that there was a cut in the fencing.
Twelve squirrel monkeys that were stolen from Zoosiana, a Louisiana zoo, shortly before midnight Saturday remain missing five days later. The thief targeted facilities of smaller primates and "compromised" the squirrel monkey exhibit, successfully stealing 12 from the enclosure, according to zoo officials. The marmoset escaped its enclosure and was later caught by the zoo, George Matthew Oldenburg, the owner of Zoosiana, which is located in Broussard, told ABC News in an interview.