possible explosives to deflate the balloon. gillian: in a moment, karine jean-pierre will be asked questions why the president waited nearly a week to shoot it down. john: we will bring you the white house briefing when it begins. john roberts in washington, good to kick the week off with you. gillian: you, too, john. i m gillian turner in for sandra smith. the president said ordered the military to take out the balloon after it had been drifting for days. they say the military should have listened. he projected weakness at this moment. i think the administration lacks urgency. became a situation of argument and everybody wondering what is the administration doing. this is a wake-up call for the country. gillian: john kirby pushed back, said it gave the u.s. time to study the balloon, as well as chinese s motives. john: seems clear china s motive is to replace the united states as the leading superpower. a list of how china has provoked and escalated tension
implications of this international distinct let s start with former green buret in florida congressman mike as well as general anthony tata congressman i want to start with you first, obviously, i want to know what took so long to do this apparently military was given the green light to do something about this. they advise president not to do that i want to know why but a quick response to china saying that we escalated things even though they just have a drone just floating in our air space. yeah well look apparently, lawrence, this has been happening for years. that this is happened over florida, over texas, over hawaii i ve been talking to a number of senior administration officials from the last administration when the trump administration say they weren t informed and had they been they would are advised president to shoot it down so for the dhiengz say this was our escalation is ridiculous about as ridiculous as saying this is a weather maroon but lawrence, thes other
implications of this international distinct let s start with former green buret in florida congressman mike as well as general anthony tata congressman i want to start with you first, obviously, i want to know what took so long to do this apparently military was given the green light to do something about this. they advise president not to do that i want to know why but a quick response to china saying that we escalated things even though they just have a drone just floating in our air space. yeah well look apparently, lawrence, this has been happening for years. that this is happened over florida, over texas, over hawaii i ve been talking to a number of senior administration officials from the last administration when the trump administration say they weren t informed and had they been they would are advised president to shoot it down so for the dhiengz say this was our escalation is ridiculous about as ridiculous as saying this is a weather maroon but lawrence, thes other
international distinct let s start with former green buret in florida congressman mike as well as general anthony tata congressman i want to start with you first, obviously, i want to know what took so long to do this apparently military was given the green light to do something about this. they advise president not to do that i want to know why but a quick response to china saying that we escalated things even though they just have a drone just floating in our air space. yeah well look apparently, lawrence, this has been happening for years. that this is happened over florida, over texas, over hawaii i ve been talking to a number of senior administration officials from the last administration when the trump administration say they weren t informed and had they been they would are advised president to shoot it down so for the dhiengz say this was our escalation is ridiculous about as ridiculous as saying this is a weather maroon but lawrence, thes other piece here is tha
were so gallantly streaming and the rocket s red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave . will: good morning. welcome to fox & friends. we go straight to a fox news alert. the u.s. shoots down the chinese balloon after a hovered across the u.s. for days after it moved over the atlantic ocean. pete: navy divers and fbi are searching the area for degree. rachel: alexandria hoff is here this morning. the heavy payload of spy gear fell into 47 feet of water with a debris of seven miles long. fox news was the only network to capture it live. exclusive video shows the moment a f-22 raptor fired off a sidewinder heat-seeking missile destroying the chinese balloon. the takedown happened 2:39 p.m. six miles off the coast of south carolina. prior to that the surveillance balloon ventured across the country maneuvering over