of the pacific fleet, sounding the alarm on china s growing threat at a hearing on capitol hill. this is not the first time this has happened. the pentagon admitted it failed to see previous spy flights and only found out about it through u.s. intel, and china has more launchers? what does that last point, what does that last point tell you? well, look, sandra, we are facing the largest and most serious enemy military build-up in modern history. the chinese navy is now larger than the u.s. navy, they are cranking out new ships at a rate of 5 to 1. their space force is launching more into space than the united states and the rest of the world combined. as you mentioned, they are also launching new technologies that
i gave to it senator capito and senator lummis who argue that they too could be good members of the commerce committee. let s go back to this chinese spy craft, spy balloon, whatever you want to call it. the wall street journal today sort of with tongue in cheek on the editorial page says sunni other spy balloons lately? an $850 billion defense budget and we can t detect a chinese airship. we re learning that there were ten similar chinese spy flights that made it in to american territorial waters from guam to south carolina and then one is in latin america. is this acceptable? look, i m one of the gang of eight. one of eight people entitled to know virtually everything in the intelligence field. i never heard anything about this. regardless of whether we knew about it in the past, let s
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place. i put together all the pictures i had taken and started sending them to the faa. eventually, they put me in touch with nordac. the only thing i got is they were crafting a response. that is what their email said the puritan hour after that, the news broke. speed to the montana residents who spotted that spy flight speaking out as navy divers down to south carolina looking to recover the debris where it was shut down. brian: meanwhile the white house responding to criticism claiming, claiming spy flights flew over undetected while president trump was in office including at least one over florida and texas. they were undetected then, brian but retrospective brian: congressman brian mast sits on the foreign relations committee and joins us now. you would have been there at the time when the undetected balloons were flying over undetected. now they are detected.
to pull a toddler from the wreckage of a building in syria. the work that these folks are trying to do to save these lives right now is just extraoextraor. we have to pray for them piece. it s compared an apocalypse in turkey and syria. moments ago, the white house said plans are being made to brief former trump administration officials on three chinese spy flights over u.s. airspace. they say they happened during former president trump s time in office but went discovered until after president biden was sworn in. the intelligence committee is not prepared to offer key officials, as you were just laying out, from the trump administration to on the briefings on this prc surveillance program. martha: okay. with that, we bring in former