what was going on, what the response was going to be. and, look, china s one of our biggest adversaries, so to see this, you know, when people look up in the sky and i was driving around earlier, people were pulled over on the side of the road, they were pulling out their camera phones. a lot of intrigue about this. you know, this is an interesting, you know, interesting time, but a lot of people have questions about this. and for me, i m incredibly concerned about where, you know, where this was headed and why it took so long to address. mike: a sense of relief as a south carolina congressman that this has been successfully shot down, apparently over the atlantic ocean? i think so, and i m super proud of the men and women at south carolina s shaw air force base for doing so. i think that shows our resolve and that we re able to take any task. it was really interesting to the watch this spy balloon go over my house and to see fighter planes really circling this balloon as i
anyone who shared information from it. the repair shop owner calling the latest legal move retaliation after he slapped hunter with a defamation suit. i actually have been public in announcing there have been several attempts by several individuals to modify and insert fake data to muddy the waters or to discredit the overall contents of the laptop by asserting fake data into the laptop and why i made a copy of the drive before i gave it to the f.b.i. i didn t trust the f.b.i. dana: chad pergram live on capitol hill untangling the threads for us. hunter biden is now seemingly conceding that the world s most famous or infamous laptop is his. this comes ahead of a house hearing next week focusing on suppression of the laptop story by social media. i m glad we re finally confirming it is his which the f.b.i. knew all along. by the way, they knew it was his when they were out briefing members of congress and the media saying it was russian disinformation. you talk about l
the atlantic. so hats off to the men and women for a successful mission in taking this thing out. mike: to be fair to the administration, obviously they were not going to take out the balloon over a populated area along the east coast, right? so once it got there, it really needed to wait until it got out into the ocean, correct? i think so but, again, this was at least spotted by local press in montana, and, you know, that s big sky country. i mean, there are a lot of open spaces up there, so why was it ever able to be, you know, come into our air space, over alaska, i think it was, why was it able to traverse through canada and some of our very open country without, without it being addressed by the administration? i think there s a lot of questions that i have about that, for sure. mike: we are looking ahead to, of course, the state of the union address tuesday night. would you expect president biden may have a few lines about this incident and the swift action taken by the milita
getting as well. they ll say yes, we have caught x number of people on the terror watch list. what do we know about the millions of other people in the last couple years who have come across the border with no contacts with law enforcement? last four months 2400 a day on the gotaway category. dana: the ones we know of. last weekend you interviewed governor sarah huckabee sanders and now she will give the republican response to the state of the union address tuesday night. speaker mccarthy had this to say about her. call for number three. we ve got the youngest governor in america, sarah sanders, and the first woman governor in arkansas and the very first father/daughter ever to be governor of a state will give our state of the union response. we re excited about it what she has been able to achieve so far as governor in arkansas. asme i m very excited.
come and as you said, visually a different moment. you ll see him address chamber, masks not required, and comes as you see governors and leaders in blue and red states around the country start rolling back mask mandates, and some of the other rules as americans really clamor in lots of places for a return to a pre-covid life, 0 are a more normal life, if you will. so i think you will hear the president talk about, you know, how the country is feeling today on this, and what they are trying to do today on this, but also going to hear him talk about, i think, the white house has been very careful to adhere to what the cdc is saying. what medical experts are saying and seen an easing there as well. i think you will see them try to hit that tone of things are moving in the different direction. kathy lucy from the wall street journal. thank you for joining us. as we said, still to come, biden giving that state of the