collecting over his state. james clyburn on the impact this is having on the president s big state of the union speech tomorrow. republican senator tom tillis on bipartisan calls for the administration to get tough on china and fast. it is all straight ahead. welcome. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it with lucas tomlinson at the white house. hi, lucas. hi, neil. the white house press briefing just wrapped up and karine jean-pierre says things will china will continue to be calm despite u.s. forces shooting down a chinese spy craft. this was not the first brush with the chinese spy craft recently. four months ago, the same type of spy balloon crash landed in the pacific off of the coast of hawaii. mike waltz said the pentagon called them to tell them about other instances recently by these spy craft. what we were told is there were multiple incursions over florida, one over texas and separate reporting that we have not been able to ask about over hawaii and guam. so what we
china watcher gorden chang warning we must prepare for war because of it. he means what he says. it s all coming up. welcome, everybody. glad to have you. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it with jacqui at the white house. jacqui? the washington post has been reporting that the chinese spy balloon s path over the u.s. may have been driven by the wind and that analysts are examining the possibility that the chinese did not intend to penetrate the american heartland with their surveillance equipment. i m told that that is not the full story. we re learning a lot more right now. officials tell me that we don t know if the balloon s direction over the continental u.s. was intentional. because it s a balloon, its trajectory depends on a range of factors that includes the wind. the balloon also went over guam, we ve learned, which is u.s. territory. it also later loitered over several sensitive sites in the continue continental u.s. the chinese still had the ability to maneuver
potentially swindle more than $5 billion, almost $6 billion in taxpayer money. marc thiessen and ari fleischer in moments. first to david spunt who is investigating this. good afternoon, david. good afternoon. this came as an urgent alert from the pandemic response account ability committee better known as praac, this is a watch damage made up of government officials and government organizations. march will be three years since the government went into a lock down. many businesses survived but in not the same as from before. praac uncovered 69,000 questionable social security numbers that received 5.4 billion and that s just from studying more than 33 million applicants. there were many more. in many cases, the name did not match the correct name and birthday or the number was bogus, not even from the government. still the money went out in many cases. last spring i sat down with michael horowitz, chair of the pandemic response accountability committee and inspector general
biden s homes and also looking into documents at properties owned by former president donald trump and mike pence. so what are they finding out? we re all over it with democratic congressman john garamendi on why there could be more out there and larry hogan and how this could affect the presidential race, a race that he might join. we ll find out. welcome. i m neil cavuto. so much going down as again this pow-wow with the national archives continues. let s get the latest from aishah hasnie with more. as you heard from chairman comer, he s going to wait until the briefing wraps up. a few republicans have already popped out of the meeting to share their thoughts. they tell reporters that they feel like the general counsel for the national archives has been very thorough in their words, but they also feel like the national archives as an agency hasn t been playing fair when it comes to the trump and the biden documents. watch. the documents about president trump and his cla
balloon. over guam, the military was tracking the balloon. news had not reached the president. when it approached alaska, went into canada and came down over montana, we don t know if the direction was intentional but we point out that the loitering was. the president was briefed tuesday, january 31. he s order was to shoot it down. the military said shooting it down over the water was the safest thing to do. we all know what ended up happening with it. the president has yet to address this. there s been mounting pressure for him to make some remarks, especially after three other objects were shot down over north america since last friday. he s not yet spoken on any of this. we can confirm that the white house is weighing a potential speech. we don t have any sort of timing updates on this yet, neil. neil: got it. thank you. jacqui heinrich at the white house. let s go to jennifer griffin at the pentagon. we re learning more about how long we might have been tracking