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Apologies for taking down that balloon. >> norah: nancy cordes back with us on the white house. nancy, i understand the president had a physical exam today. what are we learning? >> reporter: thats right, we got a detailed, 3-page report from his doctor, who says more or less that the presidents health remains unchanged since his last physical in 2021. the president had a small lesion on his chest that had to be removed today to be biopsied. he was prescribed custom orthotics for a stiff indicat...

The u.s. spies on china all the time. what raised eyebrows is just how blatant this was, and it came at a delicate moment because, you know, things of course had gotten really tense between washington and beijing. last year in particular in the wake of house speaker pelosis visit to taiwan, there was a little bit of a warmth to president bidens meeting with his counterpart from china xi jinping in bali back at the g20 in november, and there was some hope to build on that, and this balloon clearl...

Was maintain in touch with president g. i am was maintain in touch with president g. iam proud of was maintain in touch with president g. i am proud of our work in the last few weeks who have proved once again to be most capable professionals in the world. i want to thank you all. i also want to point out that we will keep our allies and congress informed of all we learn and know and i expect to be speaking with president g i do hope we can get to the bottom of this. but i make no apologies for ...

>> see if he takes a question. [ inaudible ] >> give me a break, man. [ multiple questions asked ] >> mr. president, whats your message? >> when are you speaking to president xi, mr. president? >> president biden there listened to a couple of questions did not answer any of those. we heard about eight minutes of remarks. most extensive thus far on the shootdown of the chinese balloons and also those three mysterious objects. he says the most recent three seem to have no connection to that first ...

0 out because it was jammed. are we to believe that this didnt get any communications out back to beijing because it was effectively jammed all the way through by either the intelligence agencies or the military? >> yeah, well, dealing with the first thing, its obvious, i think, given the action we took against these three unidentified objects, we did not act accordingly when air space was about to be violated by the spy balloon in alaska, did not shoot it down, that reacted in i think what may ...

0 songs, so i knew "uptown girl" and "ymca." the others -- >> "ymca" is great. >> 100 weddings, im hundred years old. >> the trump rallies. good memories of it. >> repurposed in a good way. >> i end up with the weddings that play a lot of barry manilow "o mandy." "america reports" now. >> sandra: thank you, harris. former vice president mike pence is pushing for parents rights in iowa. he visited the early caucus state to denounce radical gender ideology in public schools. >> john: pence is call...

Of good flying weather, and some days with bad weather are still good for partial flights. balloon pilot nick dunnington has been coming to this festival from the uk since he was a child, and hes offered to take me up later. so, nick, whats the status? everyone seems a little bit tense. laughs. yeah, so theyve given us the clearance to fly this morning, but the winds above the tops of the mountains are actually quite strong, so we have to stay within the valley and the winds are going to actuall...

That we have these balloons that are traveling through the sky to collect information. why not do that ahead of time? lets focus on the balloon. china acknowledges ownership of. china told the united states it was a chinese balloon. it got out of control due to force majeure and deviated from its course and entered the united states by error. this is the track record. i think the united states needs to disclose what happened between china and the united states about the specific nature of this b...

And our blacklisted by the united states, openly talking about their words, killer military capabilities. and one of them, i mean, this is incredible. i will just show you. one of their founders put the screen up in a presentation. and points the balloon and says, oh look, there is the united states. fly right over. so, there you have it. out front now, astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson, hes also the author of -- and many other books that i hope people get. but, so, neil, lets start with this. ...

The united states again and again over not only gears but decades for its violation of chinas sovereignty and territorial integrity. there is a solid record and tonnes of proof that china can produce to back up that claim. whereas, on the us side, this balloon incident is the first time in my memory that the united states is jumping out of its seat to accuse china of violating its sovereignty. in this situation, i think both china and the united states need to sit down and talk about how to cont...