identify by experienced u.s. pilots and intelligence officials. any guesses on this, colonel? because i think we re not being told everything they know. yeah, i almost hope that s the case, because it seems kind of odd to me that we re going to shoot something down, we don t know who it is, whose it was, what it was, whether it was something that could potentially have been harmful if it gets shot down. i mean, i think we would have wanted to know a little bit more about it before we took that kind of decisive action but, look, i think because of all the uproar that happened this week over the delay of shooting down the last one, given that it came over alaska and senator murkowski really being upset in senate hearings this week, i think they decided they re just going to err on the side of shooting it down and shooting it down later. trace: i heard you say this was a political knee-jerk kind of thing rather than a mandatory military thing. well, i mean, i honestly
highest levels, you re not getting anything resolved. colonel, great information as always. thank you for coming on. appreciate it. appreciate it, thank you, trace. trace: in the meantime, we have very concerning information trending along the southern border. a major uptick now in the number of chinese nationals crossing into the u.s. illegally. marianne rafferty is live with those numbers. this really is raising some red flags, marianne. reporter: chinese nationals illegally crossing into the u.s. have seen a tenfold increase compared to this time last year according to customs and border protection. they say there s been more than 1,800 encounters with chinese nationals between october and the end of december. u.s. border patrol chief raul ortiz speaking exclusively to our fox news team at the southern border discussing how much those numbers have exploded. we ve seen a spike in chinese nationals. between 3,000 so far this fiscal year compared to the same time
can t even sit down. there s not enough room for people to sit down as they come across those waters. good stuff. thank you, marianne. fbi agents searched the indiana home of former vice president mike pence on friday and found one additional document with classified markings from his time in office. this after pence s personal aids turned over a dozen classified papers to the archives in january. pence s old boss reportedly had more classified items from mar-a-lago turned over to the justice department. multiple outlets now reporting former president trump s legal team relinquished two federal agents, one folder and one additional document with classified markings in addition to a laptop belonging to a current aid of the former president. in the meantime, back to our top story and the political fallout from this latest object to be shot down in u.s. air space. let s bring in former dhs deputy assistant secretary jonathan fahey and horace cooper. gentlemen, welcome to you both.
audience we have in america. this isa also an amazing ad budget they can do this in addition to their other spending. i think it s a good strategy to not lead with the heavy theology. i think bringing the message at the end, i think as you mentioned, probably with younger people is the way to get the message across. trace: it s kind of been open season for a long of people because the christianity a lot of christians believe is open game. you can criticize and do what you want to. no pushback. you criticize other religiouses and watch out. general motors and netflix using will ferrell for this. watch. general motors is going electric and netflix is joining in by include more ev s in their movies and show. it s the least they can do. so if you re going to get swarmed by an army of the dead, why not get swarmed in an ev or if you re being voluntarily kidnapped, why not be kidnapped in an ev. trace: speak of woke, netflix and general motors are like, oh, everything on netflix
very high importance and incredibly high interest to the american people, and thus, critics again have argued, it should have been mentioned immediately without needing to be prodded again by the press. very interesting. we ll have to see how they handle the next one if there is such a thing but this one is certainly raising eyebrows, trace. it was right before the pentagon briefing. a lot of people wondered if that question wasn t asked in the white house briefing, would he have not addressed it at all and let the pentagon do it. that s a concern about this. thank you, kevin corke. let s get insight on this. with us now retired army lieutenant colonel davis. colonel, great to see you. reuters is asking the same question i asked a couple of times today. quoting here, u.s. officials declined to speculate about what the object might be, even after a day of observation, raising questions about what kind of object could be so difficult to