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According to a U.S. defense official, Chinese balloons crossed at least three times under Trump and at least one other time under Biden.

"The only way this balloon could’ve had a higher profile is if it had its own Instagram account."

Will focus on things that weve heard from him for the last few weeks, including the economy. obviously the white house feels bullish about the progress, so well hear about that excitement from the president about the progress of the recovery of the economy. and then also foreign policy. the president told reporters yesterday that he had not amended his speech after the chinese balloon, but that is a big topic. not only does it structure his foreign policy, but also some of his domestic policy. s...

Theres no substitute in any part of the federal government for having a confirmed leader in place. and thats exactly what we need to get to with phil washington. >> and just switching gears here a little bit to the suspected chinese balloon. it was a recent bright spot with the faa in coordination with other agencies. i want to ask you about another incident that was revealed where another balloon traversed the u.s. airspace in the biden administration. im wondering was that detected in realtime...

The "civilian airship," as China insisted on calling it, was shot down off the coast of South Carolina after crossing the U.S.

Taiwan? i mean, you cant be feeling too positive if youre, you know, youre a taiwanees tonight. >> no. listen, the general of the air mobility command, i command him. there are still some warriors at the pentagon laura, i dont want to broad bush. you have general burger and the marine corps taking the fight to the chinese with his combat regimens, general min happen who said this can happen. my air men and women should be ready to fight tomorrow. but i hope its a wake-up call for the american pe...

And then we have good coverage. we can detect aircraft and other vehicles in that regime 40,000 feet and below. with respect to spacecraft, we do a great job of tracking them, and there not a color, but there is an area where we dont apparently have a good technical capability of tracking objects in that zone of altitude if you will, and so that is what is afoot here. i am sure that we can bring to bear the resources to overtime correct this deficiency, this domain awareness gap to use the phr p...

From canada, i told the defense department i wanted to shoot it down as soon as it was appropriate. they concluded, they concluded we should not shoot it down over land, it was not a serious threat and we should wait until it got across the water. >> laura: what seems obvious is that the biden people had wanted to keep the entire thing secret and hoped that the balloon fiasco would literally blow over. they wanted nothing to interfere with secretary blinkens plan to beg president xi for more eng...

And now of course the spy balloon. we have to recognize what theyre doing in ukraine and their helping with russia. all that is areas of major concern of national security and, yes, we want to have conversations with china, but its not going to be under their conditions. its got to be with strength, and we have to act to make sure they understand that their behavior will have a response from us. neil: the fact they dont want to entertain a phone call and talk about any of this. the fact theyre a...

China here? >> its a problem. the big problem is the message it sends to china and the rest of the world. put domestic politics aside and, you know, whats happening between the administrations. weve got island nations like vanatu and solomon islands, islands our grand fathers fought to liberate that are now going with china and arent allowing our ships to dock in their port and theyre watching this and the chinese are using this as a propaganda tool around the world saying we can fly a balloon o...