he s back in delaware for another weekend of rest and relaxation. we have full coverage of his latest cognitive malfunction. it was pretty bad. that s coming up tonight. also, england s own piers morgan will weigh in on meghan and harry. [applause] the royal couple are reportedly struggling to cope with a cartoon that made fun of them. these are people who say they want privacy, but they show up on oprah, on netflix, they write books. didn t want privacy, they want money. they are just lying to us. anyway, first we begin tonight with something really deadly serious, and america is now suffering from what is a severe violence and murder crisis. in fact, countrywide, the murder rate is at the highest point in more than 20 years and it s going higher, it seems, every day, with a 4.3% increase in 2021 alone. now, of course, you won t see any of these statistics on other networks, because they hide for example, in 2020 we had 574 riots, and they refused to call riots riots. we h
were so gallantly streaming and the rocket s red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave . will: good morning. welcome to fox & friends. we go straight to a fox news alert. the u.s. shoots down the chinese balloon after a hovered across the u.s. for days after it moved over the atlantic ocean. pete: navy divers and fbi are searching the area for degree. rachel: alexandria hoff is here this morning. the heavy payload of spy gear fell into 47 feet of water with a debris of seven miles long. fox news was the only network to capture it live. exclusive video shows the moment a f-22 raptor fired off a sidewinder heat-seeking missile destroying the chinese balloon. the takedown happened 2:39 p.m. six miles off the coast of south carolina. prior to that the surveillance balloon ventured across the country maneuvering over
shoot down that chinese flight as soon as possible. the pentagon waited until safely over the atlantic. now there are more questions about why the white house did not brief the public about the situation with the present did not act sooner senator marco rubio believes try to use the aircraft to send a larger message. is not a coincidence this happens leading up to state of the union address. leading up to blinken s visit to china. chinese do this to be spotted they knew we would have to react to it as just a bullet it s a message to try to sum the world that we can do whatever we want in america cannot stop us. arthel: fox team coverage for you bright alexandria hoff has more reaction from lawmakers in china as charles watson, he is in south carolina with an eyewitness account of the shoot damper first up lucas tomlinson life in the white house with the reporting, lucas would you have? u.s. navy s dispatch three warships to calm the waters off of south carolina salvage cr
to the states and over key military bases, it was a citizen, a citizen that spotted it wednesday in montana, by the way the air force base in montana is where we keep icbms in combat ready minuteman missiles. so what is with the delay, what kind of intel did china get before the military shot down the balloon. these are all questions republicans want answers to. i think it s an open question this is not become public if the administration had not briefed the matter to congress thursday afternoon after was about to become public. whether the president would shutdown the balloon once he got over the atlantic ocean. the world was watching this just like they were watching the disaster withdraw in afghanistan were service members lost their lives and tens of billions of dollars of equipment were left behind is been disaster to disaster, people deserve ans answers. don t fall for the chinese communist party charm offensive the bedtime story that they tell out of touch global
a year of hope. a year of endurance. a year of unity. the year of invincibility. the furious year of invincibility. following a devastating year of russia s war of aggression, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy vows to do everything to win this year. if putin s goal was to devour ukraine, he s clearly failed. from the beginning he s underestimated ukraine and the west with severe consequences within russia. and you have been following the alex murdaugh murder trial, we re not going to get into that testimony. instead, i m going to tell you about what this case tells us about generational power and privilege and the oligarchs living among us in america. we begin tonight with the somber one-year anniversary of russia s illegal and unprovoked invasion of ukraine. the war remains the biggest threat to peace and security in europe since the end of the cold war. the scale of human suffering is unimaginable for so many. according to the united nations, nearly 18 million p