react? terrific hypothetical, we re not there yet. you have the chinese spy issue, chinese buying more oil from russia, china, you know, opening up cases in the u.s. trying to steal u.s. technology from universities, president xi is going to be meeting with the iranian president, at what point do a big review of the u.s. relationship with china, and at what point does the president ask for a call from president xi? again, i don t have a call to talk about today. level set here, and i know i m running close on time, but sorry. no, it s not your fault. the president met with president xi at bali, at the g20. the whole purpose of that discussion was to move this relationship forward in a better way. most consequential bilateral relationship in the world. the president knows that, and he wanted to move that relationship forward in a better way. and secretary blinken was dang near wheels up trying to head to beijing to have those kinds of conversations to get some of the
react? terrific hypothetical, we re not there yet. you have the chinese spy issue, chinese buying more oil from russia, china, you know, opening up cases in the u.s. trying to steal u.s. technology from universities, president xi is going to be meeting with the iranian president, at what point do a big review of the u.s. relationship with china, and at what point does the president ask for a call from president xi? again, i don t have a call to talk about today. level set here, and i know i m running close on time, but sorry. no, it s not your fault. the president met with president xi at bali, at the g20. the whole purpose of that discussion was to move this relationship forward in a better way. most consequential bilateral relationship in the world. the president knows that, and he wanted to move that relationship forward in a better way. and secretary blinken was dang near wheels up trying to head to
general election, can he win the general election, and pompeo responded the republican voters are going to want somebody who s ready to quote crush it for eight years. a big contrast between donald trump and the rest of the wield, limiting people to be elected twice to the presidency, trump having been elected once, can t do it again. i m not sure it makes a huge difference for a lot of voters. it underscores the point trump would have a limited time in office. allies say he did more in four years than most presidents do in eight or a lot of presidents do in government before they re president, plus president, that s something that both conservatives and liberals would agree to that donald trump did a lot in four years. they have a different interpretation of how valuable it is. the other undercurrent of all of this is if donald trump is the republican nominee, the fact that he can only serve for four years makes the vice
saying that the u.s. officials couldn t really tell whether these other three that were shot down between friday and yesterday were self-propelled or maneuvered in any way. like he says he s sure the chinese spy balloon was. out of an abundance of caution, that is why those were shot down. as you said, one of them was flying at 20,000 feet. 40,000 feet. take a listen to a bit of what he said. even though we had no indications that any of these three objects were surveilling, we couldn t rule that out. and so, you know, you want to err on the side of safety in terms of protecting our national security interests and the fact that these objects could have and likely did at some point in their path, transit over, you know, military sites of ours our sensitive sites. out of an abundance of caution,