shot down, we are getting new information on past incursions by china, including three during the trump administration. we are also getting new details on president biden s state of the union. now just days away. new developments in two major criminal investigations of the former president in new york city, georgia as well. we will take a look at the very latest there. and then a dire warning from a mental health professional in the state of utah who says a new law aimed at trans teens could literally cost lives. all of that, plus, in my next hour, a little girl gets a very big honor. i m going to talk to nine-year-old bobby wilson, her research on bugs caused a neighbor to call the cops on her but that incident has not led to a major honor for the scientists. a conversation you will not want to miss. we begin off the coast of south carolina, where navy divers are retrieving what remains of that chinese spy balloon after being shot down by an air force fighter jet. we are a
Xi has expanded China s atomic arsenal faster than any other Chinese leader, bringing his country closer to the big league of the United States and Russia. He has doubled the size of China s arsenal to roughly 500 warheads, and at this rate, by 2035, it could have about 1,500 warheads roughly as many as the U.S. and Russia each now deploy, U.S. officials have said.
offensive effort, the most import espionage tool is that cyber offensive. they have done extremely well on human intelligence, turning americans against us and getting their students into scam thicken-ology s. i don t think that was the predominantly thought in my mind from the start had been, why were they doing this? it was not covert. why wasn t the balloon up at 120,000 feet instead of 60,000 feet? why would a large white object, why did they hover over our minuteman three icbm silo fields in the air force base? my conclusion is, this was an uncoordinated action by the pla. i wonder if she jinping has control of his own military services. i doubt the foreign ministry know about this.
concerned about the pentagon report is the claim china intends to have at least a thousand nuclear warheads by 2030. that is a dramatic increase from last year. officials are worried about the intent behind this buildup. china maintains this no first use policy when it comes to nuclear weapons, but a senior u.s. official briefing reporters on this report said china has suggested there are situations in which that would not apply, and this, of course, comes on top of reports that china tested this hypersonic weapon over the summer and satellite imagery that cnn has reported on that shows three suspected silo fields where it could be capable of launching long-range nuclear missiles. another key claim from this report is how china s military modernization is deeply intertwined with its goal to match or surpass u.s. global influence in power by 2049. take a listen to how u.s. top general mark milley put it. we are witnessing, in my view, we are witnessing one of
construction at several suspected silo fields in china, that could eventually launch nuclear weapons. all of this as the country is also significantly bolstering its military capabilities. cnn s kylie atwood with us on this. okay, tell us what these pictures are showing that have american officials so alarmed. yes, so basically we knew that there are now about three missile silo fields in china. and these missile silo fields could be used eventually to launch nuclear weapons. that s why they re so concerning, the fact that china is building these up. with these images showing us, they re commercial satellite images, they demonstrate that china is putting a tremendous amount of resources and efforts into developing them. this isn t a slow project. this is a very rapid development. and the authors of this report from the federation of american scientists called this an unprecedented nuclear buildup by china. i spoke with one of the authors of the report who said what is noticeable here