ordered the pentagon to shoot it down as soon as possible. they decided without doing any damage to anyone on the ground, they decided that the best time to do that was out over the water within our, within a 12-mile limit. they successfully took it down. maria: but at what cost? coming up, the new chairman of the house select committee on china, wisconsin congressman, former marine mike gallagher, also a member of the house armed services and intelligence committees on how much damage has been done in one week after the secretary of state anthony blinken initially suggests just canceling his trip was enough of a response from america. it s a violation of our sovereignty, it s a violation of international law. and it was very important that we, of course, take the actions we did to protect any sensitive information, to protect our people and to make clear to china that, again, this is an unacceptable as well as irresponsible action. maria: then the surveillance balloon s
pentagon on saturday t it down as soon as possible. they decided without doing any damage to anyone on the ground, they decided that the best withoutot any damage to anyone n the ground. the best time to do that was over water lly took it down. maria: but at what cost? coming up, the new chairman of the house select committee we successfully took it down. but at what cost. former marine also a member of the house armed services and don intelligence committees on how much damage has been done in one week after the secretary ofca state initially suggest just canceling his trip was enough. other response from america. a violation of our sovereignty, a violation of international law. it was very important.s we, of course, take the time to protect our people. this is unacceptable action. large enough to hold three? massive buses.s did it drop and scatter devicesa for unlimitemed surveillance. john radcliffe on the potential capabilities of the a stratospheric balloon.lr was
our medical, we have to make sure that we are secured in this country, and we are not reclient on countries like reliant on countries like china and russia. unfortunately, we are in a lot of cases and i don t know if it s because a lot of these large corporations have shed their american identity and become beholden to china. but in the ways and means committee, we re going to get down to the details and coour best to try to fix it. maria: congressman, this has been a really tough two years from covid-19 to the botched afghanistan withdrawal, to inflation at 40-year highs. to what do you attribute this terrible two years for america? it s very poor leadership. democrats controlled the white house, the house and the senate the last two years. you saw an inflation crisis, a border crisis, a spying crisis, an energy crisis. anything they touch or they push, it has created a crisis. thank goodness the american people delivered a house republican majority back in november. maria: and i
spending under joe biden, just think about it, in his first two years, record spending. he added more than $10 trillion of new spending to help reward environmentalist donors. and just various items. what we have to do is address this inflation crisis, the debt crisis, and now we have this spying crisis as we ve seen. so we ve got to get our economic house in order, and the first thing we have to do, joe biden, chuck schumer, they have to come to the table, they have to continue to negotiate with speaker mccarthy for the more than people. because this reckless spending is what s costing every american to pay more to put food on their table, clothes on their back and gasoline in their cars. that s why we have to address this. maria: congressman, how will you address it? speaker mccarthy has said he d like to see spending levels go back to 2022 levels, but wouldn t that mean a $75 billion cut in defense spending? absolutely not. there s numerous ways to still
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