ordered the pentagon to shoot it down as soon as possible. they decided without doing any damage to anyone on the ground, they decided that the best time to do that was out over the water within our, within a 12-mile limit. they successfully took it down. maria: but at what cost? coming up, the new chairman of the house select committee on china, wisconsin congressman, former marine mike gallagher, also a member of the house armed services and intelligence committees on how much damage has been done in one week after the secretary of state anthony blinken initially suggests just canceling his trip was enough of a response from america. it s a violation of our sovereignty, it s a violation of international law. and it was very important that we, of course, take the actions we did to protect any sensitive information, to protect our people and to make clear to china that, again, this is an unacceptable as well as irresponsible action. maria: then the surveillance balloon s
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air space of nations in a way that is inappropriate and unacceptable. maria: coming up, wisconsin senator ron johnson on the ccp s attacks and joe biden s response. then the chinese communist party was able to record images and audio from major nuclear installations in america for a week. the chairman of the u.s. foreign affairs committee, texas congressman michael mccaul, on the impact and on the u.s. components used to build that spy flight. plus, indiana congressman jim banks, member of the house armed services and the select committee on china with the changes to america s trade with china to come. plus, covering up for the biden family influence peddling. where are the democrats on these dangerous provocations from communist china? the house kicks off its hearing on the weaponization of government, and democrats mock it this week, refusing to investigate biden s influence peddling with america s number one adversary. it s just an abuse of public resources, an abuse of
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hire, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york on a very busy day of news and more details on what promises to be a blockbuster hearing on the january 6 hearing and we ll have much more on that. we begin with the verdict in the alex jones trial where a jury has just awarded nearly $1 billion in damages to the family members of the sandy hook victims, people who suffered from the lines that alex jones started spreading hours after the massacre. harry lipman joins us, a former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general. let me just not go the down the rabbit holes of alex jones but the families had pain and suffering from the massacre being described as a hoax and the nearly billion dollars in damages does nothing, nothing to deal with their grief but it was as signal, it seems harry, that the jury felt that it was represent henceible. even his defense attorney said in close, nicole. this is a despicable human being and, of course, he s the vilest vermin out there on