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It press an opportunity to present a larger national security challenge, this. joe biden is the biggest national security challenge we have because he is not a credible threat. if we know there is a balloon coming our way and he makes a threat about that balloon but it continues to go across the nation and china doesnt care, then they do not consider him a threat. the taliban and al qaeda did not consider him a threat when we were withdrawing from afghanistan. vladimir putin does not consider hi...

Position in decades to compete with china or anyone else in the world. if china threatens our sovereignty well act to protect our country and we did. >> harris: the president mentioned china. you heard bret baier tell us that moments ago. he just didnt do much. and now he is facing fierce fallout for not paying more attention to china in last nights state of the union address. he made that one oblique reference to the spy flight the military shot down saturday off the coast of south carolina. se...

Off balloon making its way across the united states and pacific ocean. they believe that this was part of a much larger program that has been going on for several years now. thereve been a number of these blooms in recent years which the u.s. has looked at. this is out of a tiny province in china that is very far away from beijing where china centralizes its power. thereve been two dozen of these missions over the last several years and they have flown over five competence. it is not to say spec...

Him. >> and foreign policy perspective, i asked the white house official about how he would address this. and it seemed to me that the perception inside of the white house is that the coverage of this balloon story is sensational. its kind of -- i mean, its kind of fun. you dont get to see if 20 shooting down a balloon every day. but i think there was a little bit of frustration that it was kind of blown out of proportion. and i think that they did not want to lean into that too much. on top of ...

Important because all of that time across the continental united states gave china the opportunity to be diplomatic. diplomacy and diplomats matter. china did not take the opportunity that was presented to them. they still have not done so. when the balloon was shot down, it will give us significant intelligence for what we learn from the debris and the debris field. i think the presidents comments were spot on. it gives us an opportunity for diplomacy to take the forefront, rather than to conti...

Shot down on a saturday. >> steve: showed up at a diner in north carolina. mark meredith is live from the white house with more. mark, good morning to you. >> steve, ainsley and brian good morning to you guys. the president did mention china in his speech last night. critics say he should have played a much more prominent role in the state of the union address. of the president did make some subtle references to the chinese spy craft that was shot down offer the coast last week. take a listen. >...

THE MOST INCREDIBLE and intense video from the ground in South Carolina as people cheered the downing of a Chinese spy balloon. F22's roaring through the sky before launching missiles.

Four days ago an F-22 Raptor's first air-to-air kill became a high altitude spy balloon. That may be thrilling, but no less than when a naval hot air balloon landed in a village sarpanch's house in north India – with the Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff in it!

>> this should have been shot down off of the other pacific ocean and not the atlantic ocea when they came in there and tha the big question as to why we political across the entire united states. >> indecision is the only thing i can think of. >> what about incompetence. apparently we didnt know about other balloons. we are just learning about othe pollutants. >> they that did not the time and that is another concerning issue. >> the post is a party tonight that the chinese balloon is par of wh...

The US is sharing information about China’s spy balloon program with more than a dozen nations after discovering a worldwide surveillance campaign.