the balloon had been flying over the country and parts of canada for more than a week prompting secretary of state tony blinken to postpone a planned trip to beijing. welcome to fox news live, i m miken manuel. the balloon was shot by f-22 fighter jet and raising questions about u.s.-china relations. we have fox team coverage with alexandria hoff, charles watson in surf side beach, south carolina and lucas tomlinson on the north lawn of the white house. lucas, let s start off with you. good afternoon. lucas: the u.s. navy dispatched 3 warships and salvage team to combwaters, records spread 7 miles and 47 feet of water. tom cotton say it is chinese spy balloon was a trial balloon for president biden. the president was paralyzed the entire week by a balloon. we should have shot the balloon down over the illusion islands. we should never have allowed to transit the entire continental united states. that incident had not been previously reported until today the pentagon 3 other
Death find the end of a chapter. But no mistake, something does still continue. We dont know what it is but we know that isis was fractured as an ideology and franchise and unlikely that one mans death will end from a stretch from philippines through russia and to the streets of european capitals but an interesting set of questions that the commanderinchief will end up answering about how this raid came about. It was literally miles away from the southern turkish border, an area where many did not imagine abu bakr albaghdadi, the leader of isis, would look for shelter. This is where al qaeda have the biggest strong hold, a place where western intelligence chiefs are concerned about the next wave of jihad but who led them to that particular location. We understand from u. S. Officials turkey was told this operation was happening perhaps already underway and the question being what piece of
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chinese flying across america being used by our intelligence agencies and i think that s a grave concern. mike: dave, what about those concerned about the balloon and also the message sighing it fly over the united states of america sends to adversaries? certainly far more questions that come out of this than answers and there really are 3 big takeaway from this, one, every piece of information that was gleamed, china not only has it but rush lay have it and russia can give it to iran and every other third-world dictator that wants to do harm to america which gives us to the second big point, will president biden will able to rally progressives as we get to do a debt ceiling and put more defense spending in because we will have to get ready particularly fighting the battle in ukraine, we will have to restock our military weaponry and third thing and that really looks towards 2024 that is america has continuing
to the extent that what s different here and what s unique about this happening in our country right now, is that it is happening in the open, these promises are being made into a microphone, and they re being made openly and that they re talking about the way that they re going to do it, that should be an advantage for the rest of the country that wants this not to happen and that wants to defend the democracy against this kind of a takeover. is there any advantage to be gleamed from the fact that this is being openly plotted? does it give us, with the sort of advanced notice that we re being given, what should we do with that advanced notice? how do we prepare? democracies have this in common, that they are slow to respond to threats. all through history, the second world war is a prime example of this, and we see it today, though that this is playing out in front of us, we seem to be unable to know exactly what is it, what do we call it, what