last seven days. the first thing is, transparency. i think the time is coming soon where either president biden or the leaders of the national government on the military side need to address the american people in and give them a full briefing on what exactly is happening. because we are not accustomed to seeing these types of shoot downs, certainly, three and seven days. the second thing that i think is desperately needed is probably taking place as we are having this conversation. diplomacy. there needs to be a meeting of heads of state or diplomatic channels just to get to the bottom of what exactly is happening. the first shootdown was clearly involving chinese surveillance equipment. there is suspicion that these last two might be as well. but that is not being confirmed. so, until we have more information, i think and i have that information expressed
then safely shoot them down. as the biden administration has done not once, not twice, but on many occasions. we do know president biden, the administration, has gotten some criticism from your republican colleagues as to the timing of the shutdown of the initial chinese spy balloon. the fact that they allowed it to float over the united states until it reached the carolina coast. do you believe these most recent shoot downs are more because of national security concerns? also by political concerns as well and the criticism they caught over the chinese by blue. every case, president biden has ordered the destruction of these objects above water so it could be done safely. keep in mind, under the trump administration, they were three chinese spy balloons that went undetected. president biden has fundamentally improved the ability of the united states to
and you ve said in response to these shoot downs that national security is your top priority. do you believe that the national security is properly being protected with these more swift decisions to shoot down these objects? i think that we re heading in the right direction, but i also believe that this is a clear demonstration of the chinese communist party s desire to poke, to prod, to see just how far they can push the united states of america under the biden administration. and listen, paula, we re not just experiencing an invasion from the air, we re experiencing an invasion on the southern border, as well. and when you have a million people a year that are coming across the southern border, completely undetected and not having any encounters with law enforcement, we don t know who those folks are either. so we had better start stepping up our national security coverage, or we re going to have major problems. and congressman, are you concerned at all, though, that china coul
logistical challenges associated with something like this and decision for poland to make but the possibility helping poland air force if they sent the jets into ukraine. at this time, nothing is done yet. however as lucas was talking about, ukraine s air force is a strong date according to marco rubio who tweeted earlier today right now russia s air force is having their worst day yet and ukraine, multiple shoot downs entered kat for private. ukraine in the no-fly zone set up over the skies from the u.s. saying today it s a nonstarter for officials here say they are doing a lot to bolster ukraine s military for the financial assistance for the influx of weapons shipments continued ever since the war broke out. whether or not fighter jets from poland or other countries making their way in, lawmakers from both say they are ready to keep
which leads the pentagon to believe a couple of things. one, that this could be part of a broader pattern where russian fire, they really just don t care if they hit non-military targets, right? and sometimes frankly they re deliberately hitting non-military targets. but that the fire is indiscriminate. that s one factor here. it does actually have an effect on the battlefield because russian military jets, when they fly and drop so-called dumb bombs, they have to fly lower to the ground to have more accuracy. but that also makes those aircraft more vulnerable to ground fire, to surface to air missile fire, which is factored into some of these shoot-downs we ve seen by ukrainian forces of russian military jets. so the u.s. and nato are watching the way russia is using its munitions very closely. general kimmitt, about that, what do you think? why wouldn t putin and the russian military, for example, use their most sophisticated weapons at their disposal?