ukraine stands and democracy stands. a vital message delivered by president joe biden today. made more significant when he delivered the words from kyiv itself. he walks side-by-side with president zelenskyy and the ukrainian capital. it s a moment filled with symbolism with an american president ineffectively a war zone with daily bombardment from russia s forces. two presidents who visit war zones like iraq or afghanistan. president biden delivered a message not just to president zelenskyy and the ukrainian people but to western allies as well as the russians. the message is that america the financial a military backer of ukraine is in it for the long haul. for you and all ukrainians, your mind the world every single day with the meaning of the word courage is. all sectors of your economy and all walks of life and it is astounding. astounding. it is priceless and worth fighting for for as long as it takes and that is how long we will be with you mr. president, for as long
china which was scheduled for this weekend. as lawmakers react to the incident here at home, senate majority leader chuck schumer says the entire senate will receive a classified briefing on china february 15th. charles watson is live on the south carolina coast near where debris from the spy flight rained down. also standing by, congressman ryan zinke, who represents montana where that flight was respondented lingering over a nuclear silo field. first though, lucas tomlin stomp s live at the white house. reporter: moments ago, the u.s. military issued a statement that the u.s. navy has begun recovery operations off the coast of south carolina. they are combing waters about 7 miles wide and 47 feet deep. now, earlier on fox news sunday senator tom cotton says that spy ballooning should have been shot down when it crossed over the aleutian islands which is u.s. air space in alaska. what began as a spy balloon has become a trial balloon testing president biden s strength an
might put a prison right next to disney yeah, i mean, it s the sort of, you know, poke in the eye of disney that is particularly unnecessary. what s going to happen to the tour tourists what does ron desantis think that does to families coming to the disney theme parks with their kids, if what they re driving past is some kind of maximum security prison on their way in it is not the most inviting route to go see your princess or mickey mouse, right? it just seep seems to make no s. understandably, you have nikki haley, chris christie saying, hey, you don t want disney we re very happy to welcome them we appropriate won t put a prison on the front door either. yeah. you wonder, i mean, this seems like he is shooting himself in the foot maybe he will go after formula one and the others it seems like political
the story. are you informing them that if they hit the train they will start a bigger conflict than they thought they were? we don t know the details. that is determination and i think to take the attention and the spotlight off of russia and putin and the attacks expected later in the week is dramatic. however, it s a big poke in the eye. the more provocations than were expected and they are preparing for it as is the country. what does the person on the street say about russia at this point? when they failed so publicly what they are doing is terrorizing the civilian population because they have not achieved military aims on the battlefield. that does not mean
jon: you have said publicly that this proves to the chinese that they can walk over this president. well, look, if we can t defend ourselves against a balloon, all right, then how are we going to defend against taiwan which is a far more sophisticated and dangerous situation? so i think it sends another message to the world, it started with afghanistan, we left afghanistan, colossal blunder. that led to putin giving the green light to ukraine. and now, obviously, taiwan s in the front sight of china. and i think this is a poke in the eye. what else could it be? it s t a poke in the eye, and we should have downed it the moment we identified it. jon: yeah. china is claiming the right to respond after we downed what they first said was a civilian weather balloon. if they do respond somehow, what would you advocate doing? well, certainly tensions are high, but i don t think we re going to go to war over a balloon. again, if we took action, this wouldn t have been a problem. we let it l