to today. we begin with 0,000-foa sixty ts foot in the sky balloon that s flying over the continentale. wa us somewhere where at this momentt this we re not exactly sure. it is a massive chinese spy balloon the size of, say,, hove three school buses.rir iout has been hovering overml our country for days. and why hasn td we our governmee told we, the people about this ,the self-proclaimed most transparent administration itras history? china says it s a weather balloon. i don t believe anyone here believe them can say it louder.l now. all right. they re saying accidentally that he s flying over america s critical military infrastructure. now it sy happening in multiple states . a lying communist spokesperson nameisd mao told us to calm dow, quote, any deliberateside speculation or hyping uperin will not help the chinese side n is gathering the facts and hopes all sides will handle this matter matter in a coolhes manner. how about we don t need lectures from the communist
and justice department will be hunting down chinese spies. all right.. former joining us now with much more ,, author of the bestseller never give an inch. he s the former secretary ofmike state, former cia director , p former congressmanom, friend of the program, mike pompeo, by the way.o have mr. secretary, welcome . ou. glad to have you on with you. i had you on my radio show, sho. your book is phenomenal. yth you tell the back story ofd i meetings with putin and she and little rocket ma rocken ando john . that story behind that. aize is two serious, though. tonight. giv i want you to first analyze, examine, give your thoughts on how nonsocial biden and hisha administration is about this and what would be happening if you and donald trump were back in charge and this was going on . sean, thanks for having me on .n i can i can nearly guarantee you that tha stit balloon would
he s testing president biden, and we are failing that test. he will view this as aean: why green light for further aggression. why is our pentagon tellingrt the american people that we assess that the balloon does not present a military or physical threat to the people tl on the ground at this time? l and they didn t tell us for days. mr. secretarythis, don tnese the people in this country havel a right to know thate the communist chinese have sentu a balloon the size of three buses flying over our country? e we absolutely do.e from president biden should address the american people from the oval office or somewhere t and explain to us why they ve d thde the decisions they have. i don t know why the pentagone has such confidence. maybe maybe they ve been ablepl to shut it offto. is go i truly don t know., wh but they need to explain to us what s going on , why they ve permitted to continue to fly, even if even there s nothing, going on inside that balloon. a it s in american airsp
spokesperson. if the americao know then peoplt to know the location of the china spy balloon, you ll only need to look up in the sky . they said that.e take a look. as i mentioned right now, oversb the center of the continental united states, that s about as specific as i m goingveni to get, i understand may be inconvenient, but as the a rie a right loo, doe pub to know, the public certainly has the ability to look up in tn the sky and see wheree th the balloon is . i m going to holde ba on lloi let me look upn in the sky. biy i don t see the balloon.n th maybe it s not in new york yet. look, i m glad we still haveis i the ability to look up in the sky, which is a privilege. m but is it just me or does the biden administration seem to have more contempt for the american people than r our number one geopolitical foe? now, as we speak, vladimir putin, our number twog to geopolitical foe, he is planning to launch a hyper sonic missile capable of, durinr hitting the united states durin
i see with the first option sea be possible, in your view, yes,e i think i think it s possibleve to achieve i don t know exactly what s driving this balloon. but i don t know the mechanics t behind that. we have no nobody s told us .sut but it wouldn t surprise me ifha we have the ability to make sure that thatwe cou comes downn a way that we can both keep the american people safe . that s important, too. haa shbut they had a shot when s over, very, very sparsely populated.pad la. they made a different choice, sean, and they ve just made a different choice, sean. they voicee they ve made a choie to say, no, keep flying, fly it on out. nothing to see here, folks. it s these are scary times. there s no doubt about it. congrats on your best seller, secretary pompeo. neverve give an inch. we appreciate you being here. thank you, sir john . s thank you, sirean:. china i price tonight, since china is currently violating r spacour airspace, and spying r feuntry without any known conseq