right now, two separate senate committees are drilling into u.s. and china relations. in the wake of that chinese spy balloon entering the u.s. just last hour senator jon tester made the stakes abundantly clear. china s a real threat and one we need to take seriously, which is exactly why we re here today. house members this morning receiving a classified briefing on the balloon ahead of a vote scheduled just a few minutes from now to condemn china s use of a spy craft. senators are set to receive an all members briefing of their own in about 30 minutes. all of this happening as the state department is revealing fresh details about china s surveillance program this morning. and just what the balloon hovering over the u.s. was capable of. in a few moments, i ll talk to former u.s. ambassador to china max baucus about what we can learn and the very real threat posed by china. plus, fading hopes for survival, days after devastating earthquakes rocked turkey and syria. the
and i say, to all those who have perpetrated these crimes, and to their superiors, who are complicit in these crimes, you will be held to account. now, all of this ahead of president biden s trip to poland on monday to mark one year since president putin began his assault on ukraine. which has become the biggest conflict in europe since world war ii. there is no end in sight. it was nearly one year ago that russia used belarus territory to send troops into ukraine. remember those images, right? just yesterday, putin hosted the president of belarus for talks on expanding military and economic cooperation between the two nations. meanwhile, back in munich, ukrainian president zelenskyy thanked western allies for their support in a virtual address, stressing that more military aid is needed, and fast. i wanted to hear from the world, ukraine, we will be with you. unfortunately, i heard that only after russia struck our land. that is why we need to hurry up. we need the speed
jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. hi, jacqui. hey, gillian, good evening to you. u.s. officials revealed today that the u.s. has not formally requested a phone call with chinese president xi jinping despite president biden saying yesterday that they expected to be talking soon. we re learning that they re hoping that secretary of state antony blinken will first be able to smooth things over and make contact with his chinese counterpart at the munich security conference next week. but, if no meeting ends up happening, it will be a telling sign of where u.s.-china relations stand. chinese spy balloon lifted from the ocean store from south carolina. quantico. we learned a lot already from the balloon by surveilling it while it was flying over the country. we re going to learn even more, we believe, by getting a look at the guts inside it. but u.s. officials are warning we may not learn much more about the three likely harmless objects sho
cloned three cavs that, once grown, will be capable of producing 50% more milk than the average american cow. so they re putting our cows out to pasture like voters did to hillary. that is a reach but i approve. by the way, i believe we have a picture of the new super cows. [cheers and applause] greg: yes. off to a good start! okay. enough of that. let s talk about giant balloons, all right? yeah! greg: no. not those. i mow ten chinese surveillance balloon shot down off the coast of south carolina. china should have said there was a boy inside. that s what i would have done. then i would have shot it down because i m a bad man. anyway there was lots of speculation over the balloon s sudden appearance rumor has it joe insisted that it was just a full moon. maybe it came from hunter s birthday party from last saturday. you know he loves his balloons. normally if they re full of cocaine and shoved up a drug mule s ass but still. hunter and the balloon have a lot in comm
the white house from camp david today saying he wanted to shoot down the balloon at the first available opportunity and that, in his view, is exactly what the pentagon did. watch it come over into the united states from canada. i told them to shoot it down as soon as it was appropriate. they concluded we should not shoot it down over land, was not a serious threat and we should wait until it got across the water. that s, of course, what happened saturday afternoon. a usf-22 fighter firing a single sidewinder missile at the chinese balloon bringing it down just off the coast of south carolina, and the president said the chinese were well aware of what was coming. we made it clear to china what we were going to do. reporter: but critics, many of them republican, question the wisdom of waiting to shoot down the balloon until after it had flown right across the united states and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. look, i m not saying detonate this thing over a