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
get back to you in the briefing room shortly. john: mark esper, you heard congressman michael waltz say the response can t be to do nothing. if you were the defense secretary in this administration, what would you be advising this president to do? well, john, we should not overreact, first of all, but need to send a forceful and serious response, and ways to do it directly and indirectly. directly, clear an air company up and fly the drones and other surveillance aircraft, put an air company up and be very clear that we will defend our drones if russian aircraft come up to meet it. the second thing, indirect actions, now to tell the ukrainians we will provide them systems to reach out at great distances and destroy russian aircraft or air fields on the ground in crimea. a serious message as well.
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 taking out an unmanned u.s. aircraft over the black sea or send the message the u.s. puts up with bullies. it s over international waters and air space, they declare restriction over it, they want to conduct military operations, and they are saying anything that flies in there we are going to shoot it done. i think our response should be to fly more of these in the area and potentially have them escorted by u.s. fighter jets who are manned and have the capability to respond. john kirby said it s evident this was intentional harassment from russia, the pilot dumping fuel to disrupt the drone s