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
new hampshire governor says he believes china spy aircraft as part of a larger plan to test the u.s. government. is all but china poking at his protesting the american resolve it. whether it s with tiktok, the balloon or whatever things are going to be next month they know tensions are escalated with doing to see what kind of leadership we have it. national security and military analyst doctor rebecca grant joins us now she is also present a virus independent research. doctor grant thank you so much being here pilots are statement from a pentagon official on saturday. as part of a prc fleet of balloons built to conduct operations that also violet the sovereignty of other countries. these activities under the liberation army or pla. have conducted 20 30 balloon missions globally over the last