surveillance balloons is thena ranking memberte of the committc kentucky senator rand paul. thank you so much for being here this morning.onse first a word on china s t response. hewhat could they do given the fact they are reserving the right for further reaction. you know, i think it isk th appalling. don t you think they would want to apologize. rthey already have their back p and resisting and talking aboute retaliatio in does not sound lie much of an apology. ife there is an innocent explanatiothn they should be apologizing. either way, the bideneednin administration should have the c chinese ambassador coming to speak to the secretary of state and there should be a full examination of question. o what theyof should ve done we need one that is able to respond withinf seconds to minutes toou
or device over the continentaldf mainland and have this slow week timid, frankly terrible response by the biden administration. has i want to ask you what kind of capability it has.re you are saying that there were not three spy balloons fromtes china that entered the united states airspace and traveled and was able to do what we have seem this week. i am telling you that. very clearly. listen, maria, every time something goes wrong in the biden administration, there is one of two responses.ey they fin td a way to blame theum trump administration or they try to find a way to say the trumptr administration did it, too.ng this happene td during the truma administration. itbo did not.es let m oe ask you about the capabilities of this balloon.f carrying the payloads of different things.
are facing in the currenthe economiry. and how we can listen to their ideas, their solutions and to come up with their priorities. instead of listening to the lobby as the folks from d.c.ngtonin in regards to china, we need to look at all of our trade negotiations and our agreements with them. they are clearly not a friend. they are not an ally.pl when you to make sure we helpes conduct the strategic supply chain to the unites it away froe china for they cannot come tonight states measuring them to th te allies. a with this issue and talk about for a long time. why are we reliant on things used for that military like semiconductor chips that they threaten us they would not send to america.er like prescriptiolyn drugs, maden china.
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 the damage already done, w what data did the balloonen collected were sensitivein military secrets already sent back during the week long journey from alaska to south carolina. how vulnerable is america now and how compromised is thisf president by china. member of the senate foreignse affairs committee in kentucky t senator rand paul on the threato