jacqui heinrich. griff: it s great to be with you, i m griff jenkins. the balloon sighting dashing an attempt by the biden administration to ease u.s.-china tensions, with antony blinken calling off his trip to beijing. and we have coverage in london alexandria hoff in washington and let s start off. earlier some say the chinese balloon should have been shot down when this first crossed over alaska. we could have shot it down over open water, over dense, sparse parts of alaska and should it shot it down then. it leads me to believe that possibly a political decision was made by the white house not to do so for fear of interrupting the relationship with china. that s troubling if that it indeed the case. here at the white house, president biden only wanted to talk about the strong jobs report not that chinese sp, whe will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? the chinese spy balloon had been spotted over charlotte, north carol
That we will see this giant chinese spy balloon making its way across the u.s. now, we have been tracking its movements as it comes across the u.s. and again, it s not in the frame here. earlier you see, you can see it there, the faint to the right of the screen as another plane is just going across. we have gotten no updates from the pentagon or from the norad folks for northern command of the military of its exact location or exact predicted track, but we re trying to follow it to bring you the latest updates on the balloon as we get them and doing same mri with the pentagon is doing all americans to do, look up in the sky or any reference or frame of what we re looking at and we will bring that as we get it. jacqui. jacqui: the polar vortex blasting the northeast is bringing frigid temperatures
In even the field operation directors from the points of entry and hear what they have to say. it s enough about the politics, we need to hear from the real law enforcement professionals. griff: well said, former border patrol chief rodney scott, thank you very much. have a great day, griff. thank you. griff: jacqui. jacqui: we continue tracking the chinese surveillance balloon or weather balloon, if you believe china on this one. we re monitoring the sky above myrtle beach, south carolina where we re told this balloon may be headed. we re keeping our eyes to the sky. more on this coming up next. every year we try to exercise more, to be more social, to just relax. and eating healthy every single meal? if only it was this easy for us.
Commander-in-chief. next week, the biden administration will provide the gang of eight, a group of congressional leaders from both parties, an intelligence briefing on the matter. griff: alexandria hoff love live for us in washington, thank you. jacqui: next let s bring in house member from kentucky andy barr as we try to show the latest on the balloon that it just transited north carolina, griff, is that right. griff: the images are over north carolina. jacqui: you can see there s a plane making its way across the screen. this is just a short while ago and we re working to get a live video of this balloon to keep an eye on it as we interview the congressman. congressman barr is a member of the house foreign affairs and also financial services committees and big focus on the new select committee on china. congressman, thank you so much for joining us on this saturday. appreciate your time. good to be with you, jacqui.
Going to do about this balloon right now. jacqui: you know, the president said his first comments on this balloon this morning, effectively saying we re going to take care of it. actually it wasn t in response to a question about the balloon specifically, it was a question about china, we assume he was saying we are going to take care of the balloon, but you know, yesterday he gave remarks at dnc event and he brought up his relationship with chinese president xi jinping and didn t mention the balloon. i want to play a sound bite from what he said and get your reaction. mr. president, when and how will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? what about the balloon, sir? so, that was not the right sound bite, congressman, we were i was referring to was yesterday he talked about what he often talks about which was flying, i think, 70,000 miles