i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. fighter jets have shot down an object in u.s. air space. on friday president biden gave the order to shoot down a high altitude object hovering ten m miles off the coast of alaska. last saturday fighter jets shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon in the atlantic ocean after flying across the entire country. j joining me now to discuss is retired air force lieutenant general, he was the first chief of intelligence, surveillance and he s a fighter pilot with more than 3,000 flying hours. he was the principle attack planner by operation desert storm commander of no-fly operations over iraq in the 90s. these days he s the dean of the mitchell institute for aerospace studies. general, thank you for coming back to the program. so what is norad s responsibility and the framework through which it determines a course of action? well, michael, it s good to see you again 37 it s been quite a week for the commander of north american air defen
granted but the agency a eight and a half years ago to drout university and to predictit to enable small dollar wagers on future political events. so it s specifically permitted. the question is why is the government trying to take away that permission at this time. we have 80,000 traders in the mashts. there are specific limits. these are small dollar forecasts and it s a collection of trauders and other who is are suing the government to prevent revocation of that permission. is the concern that this could dus rupt the process disrupt the process if it were more widespread? we don t know the reason because the cftc has never specified a reason.
risk of hospitalization. cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us. walk us through the findings and what this means in the fight against covid. so, aprila this, study is from a very large insurance company in south africa. it s with more than 200,000 mashts, but what s good is it very much resonates, it s very much the same thing that was found by pfizer and that was found by another lab in south africa as well as a lab in the uk, so let s get right to the findings for this group in south africa. what they found is that folks who got two dose of the pfizer vaccine, they were only 33% protected against infection. that s not great. that s a very low number. only 33% protected against infection, but they found that pfizer was two dozes of pfizer was 70% effective against hospitalization, so that is the good news there. now, when pete when we hear, and this will happen in the u.s. because omicron is here and it s
illegal immigrants, are they abusing this process just to get that american passport so they can then say you can t depart me, my child is an american stenotype of deal? . yes, that would be american citizen type of deal. a lot of these people are repeat on finders, if you put it like that. some of these individuals come across and have their baby and have a full family of all anchor wabis. babies. my practice, in 31 years i ve been doing this, i have had mashts who come a patients who come across to have their baby and they themselves were an anchor baby but never spent a day in the united states. they crossed the border with a birth certificate from when they were born, they had never seen the united states, here they are to have their baby. second generation anchor baby.
thanks for having me on. laura: are these nonresidents illegal immigrants, are they abusing this process just to get that american passport so they can then say you can t depart me, my child is an american stenotype of deal? . yes, that would be american citizen type of deal. a lot of these people are repeat on finders, if you put it like that. some of these individuals come across and have their baby and have a full family of all anchor wabis. babies. my practice, in 31 years i ve been doing this, i have had mashts who come a patients who come across to have their baby and they themselves were an anchor baby but never spent a day in the united states. they crossed the border with a birth certificate from when they were born, they had never seen the united states, here they are