you can see the piece on the bottom of it. that is the piece that gathers the intelligence for this what loan. we ve known about this being in the skies over our country illegally for several days at least. some say going back months. so far, we have not done anything to impede this balloon from collecting surveillance over the country even though it s of clear violation of u.s. airspace. no word from the president of the united states at 3:00 eastern time. we ve known about this since last night really. twice now he has avoided shouted questions. watch this. mr. president, when will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? [question inaudible] are you worried about the balloon? martha: apparently not worried about the balloon as he walks across the lawn there. we know that it launched this instrument from china. you can see on that quick animation. maybe we can play it again from mainland china. now it has hovered over montana, h
when. they re working hard to make this happen. president xi will sit down with vladimir putin as well. so what does this mean? where are we headed in all of this? serious times. serious questions ahead as putin and the u.s. dig in on both sides of ukraine. mike gallagher, chair of the house committee on china and dan hoffman, former cia station chief in moscow standing by. first, to chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin with the latest from the pentagon. hi, jennifer. hi, martha. senior u.s. defense officials believe putin s threat to pull out of the new start treaty is another example of nuclear saber rattling designed to spook the u.s. from supporting ukraine. any reaction to putin pulling out of new start? new start is the last remaining post cold war u.s.-russia arm control treaty. it s been on life support for some time giving u.s. inspectors limited visibility to russia s arsenal. both sides have accused each other of violating the treaty, which
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Came out and supplied South Koreans with a number of those in his own administration by the fact he would meet with kim jongun. The parallels go on and on. The Secretary Of State just hours later came out and said there would be preconditions for President Trump meeting with the president of iran. But this comes against the backdrop of the president and a number of his top aides really escalating the rhetoric. Threatening to impose new sanctions. To criticize iran sharply for its acts of terrorism. The president of iran not responding to the president s offer for a meeting. Instead, he decried what he called United States illegal pulling out of its ran nuclear deal. The stakes for the president couldnt be harder. Because the president really railed a number of allies. Lawmakers on capitol hill when he pulled out of the nuclear deal. A lot of those people saying look, that is what was holding iran to account. Keepi
we have a crisis at our southern border that is unprecedented. it is 100% biden made. on the first day of this administration, president biden literally undid the policies that we had put in to effect during the trump pence administration that literally reduced asylum of use and illegal immigration by 90%. but in a nod to the open borders crowd and the democratic party on literally the day he was inaugurated, he signed and executive order ostensively ending the remain in mexico policy that i and secretary state pompeo negotiated with the mexicans on the president s behalf. it was incredibly successful. it sent a message south of the border that the border is not open and five million coming across our border later is a direct result of their policies.
need to stop them. martha: we ll see if that s what they do. we ll wait to hear something from the president about his reaction here. we know the secretary state antony blinken cancelled his trip. there was widespread support for that decision. former secretary state pompeo, thanks very much. good to have you here, sir. yes, ma am. thank you for having me. martha: a couple of big stories going on. this has grabbed the whole nation s attention. this horrific murdaugh murder trial. mark eiglarsh on the finger printed evidence. because there were phones that were touched and potentially moved that belonged to these two victims. we ll talk about the fingerprints and what we learned in the courtroom at the trial of alec murdaugh. montana senator steve daines has a demand for the biden administration as this spy balloon came worryingly close to a place where we have silos in montana that house hundreds of