by russian fighter pilots forcing down an american drone. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. get set to roll again, sandra. sandra: a breaking news two hours, john, and following through on that. the latest move by an american rival, and just like the spy balloon, critics are calling on the president to act. response can t we do nothing. our adversaries are going to be on the march as long as we let them. direct test of the biden administration to try to see what the limits are and it s a message of their displeasure, and a test to see if we ll respond to it. john: how will the white house respond to the criticism? sandra: start us off, jacqui, a lot could come up a few moments from new. no kidding, sandra. after the spy balloon, the biden administration responded by sanctionings some of the chinese entities involve in the airship of this. and russia hawks are saying the biden administration has to strongly respond to a fighter jet taki
that is long overdue, frankly. two things seriously considered. john: the idea of combat air patrols. f-18s or 16s or 35s or 22s or whatever up in the sky with the drones? you could put them in the air, conjunction with the allies and respond any time we see the russian aircraft to intercept the drones or friendly aircraft. john: lieutenant governor general keith kellogg said arm them with reaper 9 missiles, with not put a couple of those on the drone and tell russia this thing is armed and it will defend itself and if you get the su-27s near it you may lose a fifth generation fighters. that s not the mission of a reaper drone. it would be an unfair contest putting up a drone against a fighter aircraft. i m more inclined to put an air
The Russian fighter aircraft harassed then collided with the American drone until the unmanned craft plummeted into the water, according to the Pentagon.