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Balloon releases could soon be banned in East Baton Rouge Parish. One council member is trying to make it happen following states like California, Connecticut, Florida and Tennessee and cities like Lafayette.

>> no, i think they both want to . and whatever happens that takes down america that moves us down several notches, that weakens us is all what they want. look, this began with barack obamas refusal to to enforce a red line against syria when syria moved chemical weapons. it started with a red line in syria and its continued to a balloon with china. its the weakness of the american president . this did not happen under donald trump. and it happens now because they measure us and they measure bid...

>> no, i think they both want to. whatever happens that takes down america, that moves us down several notch, that weakens us is all what they want. this began with barack obama inability to enforce a red line against syria when syria moved chemical weapons. it started with a red line and syria and continued with a balloon with china. its the weakness of the american president. this did not happen under donald trump. its happening now because they measure us. they measure biden and see weakness....

Covid on the world or unleashing unfair trade practices and their intellectual property theft. theres too much to even detail. what is joe biden -- he didnt do anything about the balloon, about putin taking out a drone. what is he going to do about chinas battle plan to take over taiwan, our ally in the region. china expects nothing. why should they? under our weak, frail, cognitively struggling president, america, sadly, has completely advocated its role as the leader of the free world and fran...

[inaudible] >> mr. secretary, this is sheer begging for a meeting by the joe biden people to president xi and you know him, how do the chinese see that kind of supplicant? >> well, this is a green light. an absolute opposite of the deterrence model that we had. but they fly us by balloon, they did collect information and then they begged to have them sent back over there. this is only creating risk for the united states, this is what emmanuel macron gets wrong as well. he is on the side of north

Admiral kirby, hes got xis phone number but hes not calling. >> yeah, they didnt even do that when the balloon went overhead, amazing to me, quite amazing. >> sandra: general kellogg, appreciate your time. >> bill: sandra, another big story, house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan issuing subpoenas to christopher ray, they may have targeted catholics for early warning signs of radicalization. david spunt joins us from the justice department. what was in the documents? >> fbi memo that came...

>> moving to tension between china and taiwan, we know the president can pick up the phone and call president xi, why hasnt he just called president xi to say, knock it off? >> the president looks forward to having another conversation with president xi jinping and well do that at the appropriate time and will keep you apprised of that. it is important the lines of communication stay open. tensions are high, we would like to see this relationship get on better footing, when appropriate, it will ...

But hes never even -- strategically. hes full of malice. its humbling to sit here an listen to the calm, gentleness in yusef savoies. but when he talks about as lived experience, what he want to do and an even generous tone its humbling, because you obviously never hear that ou of donald trump. donald trump is full of bile and poison and anger. and under oath in a courtroom, a skilled prosecutor can pierc the very tiny balloon that contains those things. and he could spill out in th courtroom, a...

Dele Alli has been pictured surrounded by gas canisters and with a gold balloon in his mouth.

Intelligence from sensitive military sites despite u.s. efforts to block it. didnt we do a show a couple months ago saying they were spying on military? im pretty sure we did that. one reason china is laughing is for weeks we heard the biden administration saying the exact opposite. >> we were able to protect sensitive sites against collection. >> the united states acted immediately to protect against collection of sensitive information. >> we were insuring that the balloon would not be able to ...