you can see the piece on the bottom of it. that is the piece that gathers the intelligence for this what loan. we ve known about this being in the skies over our country illegally for several days at least. some say going back months. so far, we have not done anything to impede this balloon from collecting surveillance over the country even though it s of clear violation of u.s. airspace. no word from the president of the united states at 3:00 eastern time. we ve known about this since last night really. twice now he has avoided shouted questions. watch this. mr. president, when will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? [question inaudible] are you worried about the balloon? martha: apparently not worried about the balloon as he walks across the lawn there. we know that it launched this instrument from china. you can see on that quick animation. maybe we can play it again from mainland china. now it has hovered over montana, h
that doesn t seem right. that s what happened with my inlaws and seeing them dying and finding out the governor put over 9,000 covid positive patients in new york for 46 days. we don t know why. he had government facilities provided for him to bring covid patients martha: hospital ships in the hudson. gillian: they went unused. then he tried to cover it up. we don t know why. i wanted to find others, rising up against incredible odds but doing the right thing for other people. martha: what do you think it is that brought out that momma bear in people? that made them angry about the situation? because it was happening to their family. they saw the truth and what was going on with some of our elected officials, that they weren t protecting us as americans like they should have. that s why we put them in office. why weren t they protecting the elderly, the most susceptible to covid? martha: from the beginning, people said that was the way to do it, to focus on the the
chinese surveillance balloon that is crossing our country right now? no, i m not surprised for two reasons. it s pretty clear the white house doesn t have a good answer or a strategy on how to confront china about this. clearly there s questions that you were raising before about why it wasn t just shot down over montana. that s number 1. number 2, the poll evidence you cited which shows on every issue the president is getting negative ratings and discussing anything other than the good economic news today would only reinforce those numbers. martha: china is clearly testing the president, doug, to see what he will do about this. why do you think that he is so dead set against commenting on this? i think because they lack a strategy. i ve been in the white house before, martha, as you know.
montana this response of the white house. martha: you said there were montanians that wanted to take a shot at it themselves? yeah. we re not going to suggest they do it. it s between 40,000 and 60,000 feet. montanians were alarmed and concerned and wanted to know what they could do to help. god bless my fellow montanians. they get it. the white house doesn t. martha: so you believe the pentagon said they were concerned about casualties. there s a lot of wide open space in montana. they claim they couldn t target it in a way that would allow them to control the debris on the way down. you believe that they could have done that? there was a place to do it safely? absolutely. again, i wish they would check out our state a bit. it s called big sky country. they d know exactly what the kind currents, trajectory, they would have known where the
that attorney general sent saying that the feds would prosecute parents when appropriate. the fbi says it will never be in the business of policing speech. it focuses on protecting people from threats and violence. we ll see where the subpoenas go. and this is what an arctic blast looks like. it is the top of mount washington in new hampshire. more than 6,000 feet high. fox weather predicting that the windchill could hit 100 degrees below zero up there. here s the windchill forecast across the country. parts of the northeast could get the coldest air they ve had in five years. some cities could hit new record lows. let s bring in janice dean and the main reason that she s here, the author of i am the storm , which i love. i love this title. inspiring stories of people that fight against overwhelming odds. some of the overwhelming odds might be the cold, janice.