we re not looking for a new cold war. and i make no apologies, and we will compete. and we ll responsibly manage that competition so that it doesn t veer into conflict. paul: let s bring in seth jones, senior vice president of the center for strategic and international studies and author of the book, three dangerous men: russia, china, iran and the rise of irregular warfare. seth, welcome. good to the see you again. so what lessons do you draw froa balloon episode, and should americans be reassured by the way it was handled? paul, i brought two major lessons from the balloon incident. one ises the only it is the only one of the few visible examples we ve seen of a much broader effort by china which views the united states as its major competitor to collect information including within the u.s. homeland. there has been extensive activity, and there continues to this day to collect information through the confucius institutes as part of the thousand talents program, as part
at bell amarillo castle the queen s summer home in scotland listen in here and see if we can hear something from the president. bret: president biden signing that condolence book. the reason we are listening in as we are told from the white house press pool that the president will have some remarks here shortly. there are not a lot of sounds to signing a condolence book. but, a world reaction of outpouring of emotion, condolences to the royal family from around the world for queen elizabeth ii, 70 years as monarch of u.k. the longest reign of any monarch there. doctors expressed concern over her failing health. family members rushed to be with her. the keep s death at age 96 makes her son charles the king of england. there will be an official ceremony weeks from now. it ends the seven decade reign. again, the u.k. s longest serving monarch. let s listen back in. looks like the president is writing quite a bit. he had a long statement released by the white house earlier toda
taken in on custody by the morality police triggers outrage. florida governor ron desantis had dozens of venezuelan migrants flown to martha s vineyard apparently without notifying officials there. similar to the move started by tooebs g texas governor abbott. they say they are protesting the immigration policies that fail to secure the border and they are vowing to step up the plan. the president has criticized republican officials for, quote, playing politics with human beings and the white house press sent is comparing them to human smugglers. here she is. these were children. they were moms. they were fleeing comcommunism. and they were used as political pawns, treated them like chattel in a cruel premeditated political stunt. these are just the beginning efforts. we ve got an infrastructure in place now, there will be a lot more that is happening. i got 12 million for us to use and so we are going to use it and you are going to see more and more. migrants septemb
beated the drum, moving the stiffest of upper lips betting the drum, moving even the stiffest of upper lips. the coffin carrying to westminster, and the guards, they lifted it on a raised platform, in medieval timber and a few tennis balls from the days of hen i have viii and you can notice the sweat on their brows, the cof en is lined in lead. and they sing the queen to her rest, as king charles put it, quoting hamlet, these guards, these men must first lift a quarter ton with a crown on top. the queen lies in state for four days, her coffin will be watched over constantly until her funeral at westminster abby on monday and the line to see her stretches two and a half miles. here is the map, the wait is up to 30 hours. joining me now is nbc news correspondent molly hunter. a wait of up to 30 hours is truly incredible. what are folks telling you about why they felt that they needed to be there, why they were willing to wait in a line like that? yes, not only willing to
the horse patrol agents were not carrying whips and there s no evidence that they hit anyone with their reins. we have a texas congressman standing by. first to bill melugin in eagle pass, texas. good afternoon, bill. trace, good afternoon to you. it s been nearly ten months since this incident first took place in del rio last september. timely cbp held a press conference to announce the findings of their investigation. they just threw cold water on the false narrative that started last year accusing these horseback agents of whipping haitian my grantses. cbp says that they found no evidence whatsoever that any haitian migrants were whipped or struck by the horseback border patrol agents. but they re recommending discipline for four agents accusing them of administrative violations, including working in an unsafe manner and unprofessional comment. one agent was using derogatory language and maneuvered his horse in an unsafe way near a child. they say other agents used the t