dana: why did the administration let it spend days floating over sensitive military sites? among those pressing the pentagon for answers is montana senator john tester. say yes or no. did we know what they were trying to collect, yes or no? yes. we think we know what they were going to collect, we don t know. that scares the hell out of me. we are building our understanding of what capabilities they have. i have a problem with the chinese balloon flying over my state, much less the rest of the country. mike: president biden down playing the incident. president biden: it is not a look, it is totally violation of national law, our airspace. once they come in our space we can do what we want with it. mike: we begin with bryan llenas off the coast of south carolina where the salvage operation is moving forward. good morning, bryan. good morning. the f.b.i. says a majority of the chinese spy balloon remains underwater spread out in two separate sections in
joining us live. but first, this fox news alert. two interviews and a primetime speech, but a week of talk from president biden only serving to raise new questions. one was about the chinese surveillance craft. the president brushing off its significance and risk after it loitered across the nation just last week. john: president biden claiming the violation of u.s. air space was not a major breach of national security, yet it traveled thousands of miles over some military sites and collected information from the ground to above. and capable of collecting communications and sending them straight back to china. sandra: a far cry to portray it as no big deal, just a balloon. a lot to unpack as america reports rolls into a second hour here. another busy news afternoon on a friday. sandra smith in new york. great to be with you. john: john roberts in washington, good to be with you, sandra. the president getting attention for trying to downplay the classified document
break tonight, members of congress receiving classified briefings today on chinese spy craft, which floated across the country last week and shot down on the coast of south carolina saturday. we learned the suspended ands far from the only country china surveilled in the exact same way. and we found out exactly where some of the parts on the balloon were manufactured and what the balloon was capable of doing. congressional correspondent iowa hawkeyeaisha has more from the e house. reporter: fox learned china spy balloon had western made parts with english words on them raising new concerns about who and from which western nation sold them to china. a senior state department official has only gone so far as to say the manufacturer has a direct relationship with china s military. adding the spy craft had multiple antennas to collect and geolocate communications and solar panels large enough to power intelligence collection sensors. the tool package and equipment package on th
On the east coast, 8 00 here in los angeles and this is americas late news fox news and ip are two jordanian nationals tried to breach one of the nations most sensitive Military Bases but getting information from the administration is proving very difficult we are getting startling information about the number of chinese nationals crossing the southern border even some who appeared to be well off thats on top of the exclusive numbers fox news is getting about the number of got a ways who got in under the bite administration. We begin with the Senior National correspondent kevin corke. He is lie with more on the attempted breach at quantico. Quantico as you know is one of the nations most secure and sensitive bases and not only houses the u. S. Marines combat Development Command but also the fbi academy, ncis and various Defence Intelligence agencies. The idea that there was this effort to try to penetrate the campus is certainly noteworthy. Heres what we have confirmed so far. Two jord
IsraeliLebanon Border. Evacuations are underway in one city in the northern israel. As this after days of hezbollah rocket fire. This as President Biden calls on congress to send more aid to israel, oh, and by the way, ukraine, too. That came out of last nights 15 minute oval office address. Hamas and putin represent different threats. But they share this in common. They both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy. Completely annihilate it. Ainsley around the same time as that address u. S. Military bases in iraq came under fire in another series of drone attacks. Lawrence unbelievable. This just in u. S. Officials confirm that a Rocket Attack on u. S. Coalition forces Near Baghdad International Airport just minutes before bidens speech. Brian all right. Were also learning more about the u. S. Navy ship that intercepted several missiles fired near the coast of yemen. Look up houthi rebels. Pentagon officials saying the missiles were potentially heading towards targets in