the white house from camp david today saying he wanted to shoot down the balloon at the first available opportunity and that, in his view, is exactly what the pentagon did. watch it come over into the united states from canada. i told them to shoot it down as soon as it was appropriate. they concluded we should not shoot it down over land, was not a serious threat and we should wait until it got across the water. that s, of course, what happened saturday afternoon. a usf-22 fighter firing a single sidewinder missile at the chinese balloon bringing it down just off the coast of south carolina, and the president said the chinese were well aware of what was coming. we made it clear to china what we were going to do. reporter: but critics, many of them republican, question the wisdom of waiting to shoot down the balloon until after it had flown right across the united states and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. look, i m not saying detonate this thing over a
to lay all of this out over two years ago. it was dismissed as a conspiracy theory for now the original reporting has been vindicated. not just the leak itself and the cover-up afterwards but the chinese regime must be held accountable but even more important what were they working on in the lab and why? gain of function virus enforcement was not just funded by fauci but commissioned by him and as we reported january 2021 he broke obama and trump administration rules to do it. him with an any other person is the one that must be held accountable. and as soon as the news broke today 2024 presidential candidate great to see you. this is out of a dystopian science fiction my novel very research conducted to prevent a global pandemic created one and there are two prongs of accountability one is for china and the ccp which try to sweep this under the rug and this will not go lightly the us needs to lead the way to hold tight. really have moral standing if we hold those accountab
president biden is ready to deal with the fall out. president biden: no, we made it clear to china what we re going to do and they understand our position, they will not back off, we did the right thing. this is reality. ashley: the airship flew over several military bases, weighed nearly 2000 pounds and was 200 feet high. mike pompeo now criticizing the biden administration for allowing something so dangerous to stay in our skies for a week. the chinese may have been able to blow this thing up themselves. imagine if you knew that and the chinese could decide where to drop this thing, they didn t understand risk. brooke: the white house is defending their claim previous airships flew over the united states during the trump administration. how is it possible this administration discovered three previous baknow balloons, but trump officials didn t know it was happening? we have talked about this before, about how the when it when the prc government balloons tran
called for more censorship and killing people by not censoring more views the covid misinformation, the opposite is true by alternative scientific and policy views, the public was denied a full debate over side effects and covid origins and other important issues. todd: brooke singman joins us live with the latest. good morning, the republicans demanding answers from the biden administration after the energy department reportedly admitted covid-19 originated in a chinese lab. the wall street journal with the exclusive report, the print don t make the new intelligence. a spokesperson for the energy department responding to the report to fox news saying the department continues with careful in objective work of intelligence professionals and investigating the origins of covid-19 as the president directed to. despite the energy department findings, top national security advisor spokesman james feldman said there is no definitive answer on the origins of covid-19. there
do not puff out your chest and say we re going to make norfolk southern pay, we get that, help us now. ashley: alexandria hoff has more, good morning. alexandria: there is no plan for the president to visit east palestine. the trip to virginia, glenn youngkin says it is time for leaders to lead and his state does not need the appearance. joe biden has been to ukraine and now virginia, he has yet to go to ohio. go where people have health concerns driving them to worry about not just the day-to-day impact of this horrific train issue c, but the long-term impact with cancer threats, etcetera. alexandria: latest poll shows 33% of voters approve of president biden s handling of the derailment. the impact is still being felt. hazardous chemicals were released and one man told a strange, heartbreaking story. he says since the explosion, his voice sounds like he inhaled helium. there is no one in town to run toxicology to find out which they are, my voice sounds like mickey