the hour. growing pressure on president biden to finally speak out about the chinese spy flight and three other objects shot down from the skies over north america. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pushing for the president to be more transparent about the decision to shoot down the objects and the growing threat from china. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: good morning. how are we doing? dana: fast hour. bill: i m bill hemmer. president biden so far keeping silent about the airborne objects shot down over the weekend. that was last weekend as lawmakers demand answers. the white house now considering plans for biden to give a speech on the topic before heading to poland on monday. secretary of state antony blinken will have a possible opportunity to meet with china s top diplomat later this week in germany. his first chance to de-escalate the tension face-to-face. mike pompeo saying it is time for the biden administration to
tracks and crashed and fire from it burned for days, releasing those killer chemicals into the air. norfolk southern train corporation and the transportation secretary pete buttigieg failed to show up. the city s mayor says buttigieg is missing in action. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. new problems we re hearing from people that we ve been interviewing in focus. they waited too long to evacuate people and let them go home too quickly knowing how bad it was. now thousands of people are living in fear. i mean even the governor says he is going to drink bottled water. problems are building. people are having trouble breathing. their pets are dying. thousands of dead fish in the local streams. still transportation secretary pete buttigieg seems to have lost his ability to speak on this disaster. the community wants to know where is pete? emotions running high at the so-called informational open house. they re telling us that everything is fine. we re
kind of considered taking a question. this were a number of shouted questions. then decided he said something about you can come see me in my office or something like that. departed. so here s a bit of the new details about the objects that were shot down over canada, alaska and lake huron. the intelligence committee s current assessment is these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private company that studied weather or other scientific research. martha: he spoke about the chinese spy flight, the balloon, whatever you want to call it. he said he expects to speak with president xi. watch this. we seek competition, not conflict with china. we re not looking for a new cold war. i make no apologies and we will compete. we ll responsibly manage that competition so it doesn t veer into conflict. martha: that s something that the president says a lot. he wants competition with china, not conflict. he said he expects to speak with president xi about this. it s
they used a single digits missile 20 shoot the unmanned air ship out of the sky. arthel was on air when discussing the threat to taiwan and the war in ukraine. watch. other thing is we have to up gun taiwan. if we learned anything out of the ukraine war because we weren t able to deter it and most everything the ukraines are using now pardon p me, general, we hava live shoot of the balloon going down. it s been taken down. it s now falling from the sky. they re over surf side beach, south carolisouth carolina arthel: they say that i had geopolitical the take down from president biden on wednesday and waited until it was out of the way for debris to not harm people on the ground. the page reading pop secret, spy balloon shot down after white house hid it for a week . live news coverage alexandria hoff near the south carolina beach town where it was shot down but lucas tomlinson at the white house with more. brian, the u.s. navy dispatched three warships to comb the
to the states and over key military bases, it was a citizen, a citizen that spotted it wednesday in montana, by the way the air force base in montana is where we keep icbms in combat ready minuteman missiles. so what is with the delay, what kind of intel did china get before the military shot down the balloon. these are all questions republicans want answers to. i think it s an open question this is not become public if the administration had not briefed the matter to congress thursday afternoon after was about to become public. whether the president would shutdown the balloon once he got over the atlantic ocean. the world was watching this just like they were watching the disaster withdraw in afghanistan were service members lost their lives and tens of billions of dollars of equipment were left behind is been disaster to disaster, people deserve ans answers. don t fall for the chinese communist party charm offensive the bedtime story that they tell out of touch global