tuesday and apparently will continue to do so for several more days or less as you know it s already flown over alaska and montana and near several u.s. facilities with nuclear processes within their facilities. can you believe that? it s true. and while the white house says it s keeping all options on the table, so far it has decided against shooting it down after, quote, strong recommendations from defense officials. now, for its part china says it s a civilian airship what s to worry. a research balloon that simply drifted off course. well, the white house says it doesn t present a military or physical threat to people on the ground even though they re skeptical about the chinese claim. however republican lawmakers want that thing brought down right now. unless china s working with the biden administration to help find some of those missing documents scattered all over the united states, then this is unacceptable and this should not be allowed and again another sign of w
the way they are there s a very good chance it s headed our way. trace: what s the reasoning. what s the rationale behind not telling us more about this giving us more information, congressman? did they think we wouldn t find out about this? what s the working theory right now about why this administration that consistently says transparency, transparency, transparency won t give us any kind of information? well, i think they re ashamed of their actions. they recognize that this is weakness on the global stage. but they seem to think that that s what s best. you know, don t poke xi jinping. you don t want to make xi jinping mad at us. the guy has a spy balloon over our country this is unacceptable. i don t understand why this thing was allowed to come into united states air space but apparently this isn t the first time according to the information we ve heard. and this is watching your
his speech in philadelphia on the comma. he took time to boast about the latest yom report that came out today showing employers created a net 517,000 new jobs in january more than double what was expected. but inflation is another story. if you take a look at this chart, it shows inflation rising steadily since biden took office. but the president said none of it was his fault when grilled by reporters earlier in the day. do you take any blame for inflation, mr. president? do i take any blame for inflation? no. why not? because it was already here when i got here, man. remember what the economy was like when i got here? jobs were hemorrhaging. inflation was rising. we weren t manufacturing a dam thing here. we were in real economic difficult. that s why i don t. a lot of people pushing back on that. it is worth noting trace that inflation was at 1.4% when biden took office.