cloned three cavs that, once grown, will be capable of producing 50% more milk than the average american cow. so they re putting our cows out to pasture like voters did to hillary. that is a reach but i approve. by the way, i believe we have a picture of the new super cows. [cheers and applause] greg: yes. off to a good start! okay. enough of that. let s talk about giant balloons, all right? yeah! greg: no. not those. i mow ten chinese surveillance balloon shot down off the coast of south carolina. china should have said there was a boy inside. that s what i would have done. then i would have shot it down because i m a bad man. anyway there was lots of speculation over the balloon s sudden appearance rumor has it joe insisted that it was just a full moon. maybe it came from hunter s birthday party from last saturday. you know he loves his balloons. normally if they re full of cocaine and shoved up a drug mule s ass but still. hunter and the balloon have a lot in comm
the white house from camp david today saying he wanted to shoot down the balloon at the first available opportunity and that, in his view, is exactly what the pentagon did. watch it come over into the united states from canada. i told them to shoot it down as soon as it was appropriate. they concluded we should not shoot it down over land, was not a serious threat and we should wait until it got across the water. that s, of course, what happened saturday afternoon. a usf-22 fighter firing a single sidewinder missile at the chinese balloon bringing it down just off the coast of south carolina, and the president said the chinese were well aware of what was coming. we made it clear to china what we were going to do. reporter: but critics, many of them republican, question the wisdom of waiting to shoot down the balloon until after it had flown right across the united states and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. look, i m not saying detonate this thing over a
greg: we re out of time. thank you to my guests and studio audience. trace: thank you, greg. good evening, everyone. welcome to fox@ night. i m trace gallagher in los angeles. breaking tonight, president biden said his goal was always to shoot down the chinese spy balloon when it flew into u.s. air space but his military commanders advised against it, so why not shoot it down when it came near the coast of alaska late last month. chief correspondent jonathan hunt is live with answers. jonathan, experts are baffled by this whole thing. reporter: they are, trace. president biden addressed those questions as he arrived back to