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Its a chinese supply balloon. is that because its smaller? flying lower? is that because of the direction it was seen traveling in? >> first of all, if it was a follow-on chinese intelligence collection operation, then it would be either a level of political affront by president xi beyond belief or the pla was out of control. set that one aside, and then secondly, it was operating at a lower level, going as courtney picked up in an unusual direction, northeast, appeared not steerable. was a much...

0 president lula has to make. >> reporter: i wanted to follow up on a question i asked in september. in light of the chinese spy balloon incident does this administration consider chinese land purchases near u.s. military bases a national security threat? >> we are always concerned about potential foreign collection near or around our military sites, and youre right, last week is a good example of that. we take that seriously, whether thats terrestrial related or whether its from the air. and i ...

President of the united states and dignitaries coming in. >> romney was a moderate voice in his party, do you think more republicans are coming around to that, i dont know, kevin mccarthy may be coming around to that. >> a lot of republicans are where senator romney is. hes one of few republicans who is willing to say as such. he was not going to sit quietly and witness the shenanigans of george santos last night, and i for one am grateful for his comments. look, it is an affront, i think, to th...

America. so where does the story go from here? ive got the perfect person to help me figure that all out. joel reuben is the former deputy assistant secretary of state, hes now the president of the washington state urging group. joel, its always a pleasure to have you on the show, what are the options the white house realistically has on the table right now? i mean we know weve heard theyve said all options are on the table, but you know, postponing this trip by antony blinken, thats kind of a p...

Intelligence. they have very aggressive and intellectual property attacks on us. they are very aggressive about this. having said all that, this, to me, is sort of ham handed to do this as an intelligence collection effort. when they have so many other ways of gaining intelligence on the united states that is not nearly as visible and dramatic as this. this is whats drawn so much attention to this. were concerned about our sovereignty, how high does it go? were going to shoot down the balloon be...

About this being a brazen affront to the sovereignty, but how high does sovereignty go. if you want to use that rationale, then the overhead reconnaissance by the chinese and russians are potentially an affront to the sovereignty, and so we need to take on all of these fronts, and as loathe as i am to take on what the chinese say, i am willing to accept what they say this time. >> and how should the issue priority be here, taiwan? south china sea? i mean, there are so many to go on? >> well, the...

Communist partys rule in a very long time. and an embarrassing affront to its leader xi. will this change anything? >> the communist party is going to coerce protestors but right now in china people are really, really angry, and its not just the zero covid rules that were lifted in december. its the way the party has been handling things. its the economic downturn, because the economy in reality is contracting. the plunge in property prices, thats the reason why you had those spontaneous protest...

Kimberly crenshaw and some others came up with it and primarily taught it in law school. its a dog whistle and they are talking to -- it just boggles my mind. seems like conservatives always want to make a false equivalency. they need to come tell the truth. their goal is to erase or diminish the history of black people and other marginalized populations. instead, we should be educating, enlightening people, empower people. lets talk about the structural imbalances in this country and do somethi...

>> oh, now i can hear. you yeah. >> oh, im sorry. i was just saying, i have been teaching this in my criminal law class just this week, about why we punish people. sometimes it is to punish them for retribution. sometimes it is to protect the public from someone who is dangerous. sometimes it is for rehabilitation. but a really important reason is deterrence, to deter this person from engaging, before that began, but its to turn everybody else who is -- it is okay if i do the thing? can i get aw...

Issue. , �*, , issue. exactly. its been ten ears issue. exactly. its been ten years since _ issue. exactly. its been ten years since oxfam - issue. exactly. its been ten years since oxfam first - years since oxfam first published a report on inequality, and every year since then, things have been getting worse. what is unusual and unprecedented this year is that we have seen both the rise in extreme inequality, the wealthy getting wealthier, as well as extreme poverty rising. we think that one...