tonight. i am going to take a contrarian view. i have got some questions. here is my first question about this story. the china balloon story. this is like laughter out of uncomfortablity. i can t believe this actually happened. right? sow china. they seem to have chosen the most low tech spying mechanism possible to humiliate the united states. a balloon. when my grandmother took me to the zoo when i was a kid with my grandfather, i got a balloon. it s the same technology china is flying over the united states. over sensitive nuclear facilities on the cusp of a major meeting between the two countries. i have some serious questions here. right before this major diplomatic meeting where tony blinken, our secretary of state is supposed to meet xi jinping, china picks a freakin balloon to fly over? not their version of an sr-71? no, a bo , a balloon we can all. something doesn t make sense. what particular capability is china demonstrating if this is some kind of message? we can
tonight. i am going to take a contrarian view. i have got some questions. here is my first question about this story. the china balloon story. this is like laughter out of uncomfortablity. i can t believe this actually happened. right? sow china. they seem to have chosen the most low tech spying mechanism possible to humiliate the united states. a balloon. when my grandmother took me to the zoo when i was a kid with my grandfather, i got a balloon. it s the same technology china is flying over the united states. over sensitive nuclear facilities on the cusp of a major meeting between the two countries. i have some serious questions here. right before this major diplomatic meeting where tony blinken, our secretary of state is supposed to meet xi jinping, china picks a freakin balloon to fly over? not their version of an sr-71? no, a bo , a balloon we can all. something doesn t make sense. what particular capability is china demonstrating if this is some kind of message? we can
now i m being told that is actually a plane after the strike of a balloon and then the balloon then losing shape, going down. security analyst is back with us. juliette, maybe your eyeballs are more trained than mine. we can at least see, perhaps, with a tighter view it looked like that balloon was disintegrating, as we heard an eyewitness describe earlier. can you decipher what s going on here for me? i hear your doorbell. i m sorry. so you ve got the look, the f-22 or f-15, we don t know which ones yet, we ll get a debrief from the pentagon, from areas in the carolinas, the missile would have been launched from them. so what you re seeing on the bottom side is the airplane, what we re seeing now. what you saw was the airplane, not the balloon. and i don t know if we have images of the direct hit. so the balloon is now so this is the important thing for people to remember. the balloon is balloon and cargo. we want the cargo. it s ours now. sorry, chinese, it s ours now
joining us live. but first, this fox news alert. two interviews and a primetime speech, but a week of talk from president biden only serving to raise new questions. one was about the chinese surveillance craft. the president brushing off its significance and risk after it loitered across the nation just last week. john: president biden claiming the violation of u.s. air space was not a major breach of national security, yet it traveled thousands of miles over some military sites and collected information from the ground to above. and capable of collecting communications and sending them straight back to china. sandra: a far cry to portray it as no big deal, just a balloon. a lot to unpack as america reports rolls into a second hour here. another busy news afternoon on a friday. sandra smith in new york. great to be with you. john: john roberts in washington, good to be with you, sandra. the president getting attention for trying to downplay the classified document
Minister, for the new package in military aid you recently announced, and it is for ukraine. Look, australia and the United States also share in may view the commitment to uphold International Rules of the road. Including freedom of navigation. Just this past week, prc vessels acted dangerously and unlawfully as our philippine friends conducted a routine supply mission within their own Economic Zone in the South China Sea. I want to be clear, i want to be very clear. The United States defense commitment to the philippines is iron clad. Any attack on the filipino aircraft vessels will invoke our mutual Defense Treaty with the philippines. Mr. Prime minister, today we renewed our commitment to defend the values that are part of this alliance. We continue to stand as one to focus on all the region. I want to thank you for being here. Thank you for your partnership and your leadership in this critical moment. I would like to turn it over to you. Were going to continue to monitor this joint