harris said she does not think the chinese spy balloon and its shootdown will impact relations with beijing. but, breaking tonight, a high-speed chase of a human smuggling suspect along the southern border and our fox news crew was embedded with texas authorities when it all went down this as the situation along the border deteriorates for towns now fearful of mexican cartels. griff jenkins takes us all for a ride tonight from mission, texas. good evening,. griff: griff good evening, bret. we are learning a lot more about how niece cartels operate. how much it cost to cross the border. hot cartels are smuggling as smugglers and we are learning exactly how dangerous they really are fox news getting exclusive front row seat as texas dps troopers get chase smuggler high speed and a foot chase into the brush. the driver, a 15-year-old mexican teenager, which cartels like it use because juveniles often face fewer consequences. but this teen, taken into custody, and charged wit
against it rather than shoot it down. the president was only informed on january 31st as it approached alaska and ordered it shot down when safe. at other points along its path, the rust would not have had authority to take it out because it was over international waters. u.s. officials say we did not see the balloon for its entire journey across the pacific. despite president biden s staying quiet, vice president harris is weighing in telling politico she does not think the downing of the chinese spy balloon will have a major impact on diplomatic relations between china and the u.s. adding that she told chinese president xi gin bing on the sidelines of auto november summit that the u.s. seeks competition not conflict. and everything that has transpired across the last week and a half or so is consistent with that approach. bret? bret: jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. jacqui, thank you. stocks were up today on strong retail sales data. the dow gained 39. the s&p 500 finished