good to be with you, i m katy tur. first it was the leaked memo from an air force general, warning his officers to prepare for a hot war with china in 2025. then it was news the u.s. is expanding its military presence in southeast asia, adding four more bases in the philippines on the doorstep of china. and now, the pentagon is faced with a chinese spy balloon first spotted over montana, which, by the way is home to one of the united states three nuclear silo fields. just a moment ago in a series of questions from reporters, brigadier general patrick ryder confirmed the balloon is not just drifting, that china is in control of it. the balloon is maneuverable. clearly it s violated u.s. airspace, and again, we ve communicated that fact to the prc. the fact is we know that it s a surveillance balloon. and i m not going to be able to be more specific than that. and we do know that the balloon has violated international airspace and international law which is unacceptable. we
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a heavy media focuses on hunter biden trial in the drug addicts tail and even natural suffering his defense was downright awful, so awful that even in delaware where the biden name is golden the federal georgia took three hours to convict him on all three gun felony charges, so awful that nobody was buying it, so awful he had nothing to say afterwards but d.o.j. special counsel david wise did tell the reporters the verdict was not about addiction. s choice to line a government forum when he bought a gun and the choice to possess that gun. it was these choices and accommodation of guns and drugs that made his conduct dangerous. to set up a contest for the press after donald trump a former president become a convicted felon in the hush money case the current president s son became a convicted felon in the illegal gun case two extremely different cases. after demanded the hunter must be held accountable because of his last name many conservatives immediately shifted their
considering the visit was supposed to help reset ties between the u.s. and china which was strained at best over virtually everything. trade, semiconductors, taiwan, human rights, russia, the list goes on. so this does pose an embarrassment for the chinese side considering this visit, which was the first by a secretary of state in nearly six years, came out of that summit between president biden and chinese president shee xi jinping, having the secretary of state talking with chinese officials as a chinese spy balloon is drifting across the united states, the optics were simply unacceptable, and it appears that the chinese side cannot dispute that. this was a violation of u.s. airspace in the eyes of u.s. officials. defense officials here, it should be noted, have so far said nothing. the u.s. air bases, the
joining me now live from estonia is the country s foreign minister. thank you very much for joining us. i want first your reaction to what the u.s. president, joe biden, said during his address in poland, that this man cannot stay in power. he tried to walk back those remarks in washington yesterday, but what was your initial reaction when you heard the u.s. president pronounce those words in warsaw? thank you very much first for having me. it is very important issue for us, seeing every day how people are killed in ukraine by aggressive russia, and we very much welcome the high-level visit of the u.s. president to poland. he really brought international attention of this issue, and of course as we see that russia has not ended the war. ther therefore, all these activities