would expend the political capital here. washington lost its collective mind on this yesterday. the chinese do spy on us. this goes back to maybe some cold war worry about something tangible looking up at us. the joke i had in my household is that they are getting a preview of the next season of yellowstone. laura: yellowstone? what a riot sent around the comedy circuit. the chinese are laughing at us, that s for sure. the role of the pentagon under biden seems clear. unless we are talking about sending billions in weapons to ukraine, of the american aerospace defense command continues to monitor it closely. who s controlling this balloon right now? is the chinese government controlling the movement of the balloon or is it just loading with air strengths. we are monitoring the situation closely. we ll continue to monitor. will continue to review our options and provide information and updates. since we are in the observation and monitoring business, norad i
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echoing what the angle juste warned about last night. thisan entire exercise was a trial balloon, literally wou floated by china to see how long it woulldd takeeact for us to react forcefully. the spy balloon, the chinese would take our they ve taken pl our planes down. they weren t even flying inthatw their airspace. erenflying inthey forced them d. we let it go . we keep on appeasing the chinese and they ll keep pushing and all those pentagon groupies who are buying the line that the generals ared worried about collateral damage on the ground if they shot it down. okay, get your head screwed on straight. if we can hit home plate inh a e yankee stadium with the cruise missile launch, thousands ofcheo miles away, i think we p can pop a balloon without endangering human life. what and if not, maybe we shouldar reconsider what we re gettingiln for that eight hundred w $50 billion a year we spendou on defense at this point. and our secretary of state should have immediately
what the angle warned about last night. this entire exercise was a trial balloon literally floated by china to see how long it would take for us to react forcefully. this by balloon, the chinese would have taken our planes down that weren t even flying in their airspace. they force them down, we d let it go, we d keep on appeasing the chinese and they ll keep pushing. laura: for all those pentagon groupies that were buying the line that the generals were worried about collateral damage on the ground if they shut it down? get your head screwed on straight. if we can hit home plate in yankee stadium with a cruise missile launched thousands of miles away, i think we can pop a balloon without endangering human life. if not, we should reconsider what we are getting for that $850 billion a year that we spend on the fence at this point. our secretary of state should have immediately canceled, not postponed his trip to beijing