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Welcome back to "state of the union." im jake tapper. many republicans reacted with outrage after president biden waited for the suspected chinese spy balloon to leave the continental united states before shooting it down, for safety reasons they said, at the pentagons guidance. joining us is the vice chair of the senate intelligence committee, senator marco rubio of florida. you said president biden should have shot the balloon down earlier. defense secretary lloyd austin said u.s. military com...

Him go away and would strongly prefer not to be the ones to make it happen themselves. he also writes in this piece that republicans that he talked to for this story are basically worrying that trump in old age will just go away, pass away literally. republicans are telling him that. that is -- if not magical thinking, i dont know what is. >> hope is not a strategy. trump is either 25% or 55% of the electorate. maybe 35% if you average it out. hes a balloon, not a chinese spy balloon, but hell l...

Work. >> i want to be clear at this, so i can be on strategic competition between united states and china will focus on every aspect of relations between the united states and china. the chinese spy balloon was -- and i thought the biden ministration took the right action in safely but swiftly destroying the balloon. i think it sent a powerful message that the united states is going to protect the sovereignty of our airspace, and we are prepared to hold the ccp accountable for violating the sove...

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When does eminent turn into, what the heck, you said imminent? it is caught up in this motion to make public the special grand jury report which would be a total roadmap and that could happen at any time. it really behooves her to have her ducks in a row fast because they will quickly put her on a rollercoaster and you are 100 percent right, she was not ready exactly at the time. they must be scrambling double time to get ready and we will see it very soon, whats going to happen here both with t...

Stuff if it watches ashore. local officials want to make sure they get that word out. thank you very much. lets bring in leon panetta, former cia director under president obama. just about everything here in washington. hes always great when he comes on with us. leon, thanks so much for being with us. we appreciate it. let me ask you this, congressional source tells thaus there will be a briefing for the so-called gang of eight lawmakers and the key intelligence committee members as you know. ...

Structures. could certainly harm individuals. waiting until it was out of the water but still within u.s. control. that is why the president referred to a 12 mile zone off the coast of the u.s.. that is still u.s. territorial waters, not in the international area. that was a clear zone. also allowing them a chance to as we saw, control the airspace where they used to the three airports. shut down three billion travel for a while. just to try to have greater control over the area when the two f-2...

Maria: your reaction to this balloon, first and foremost. >> well, letting a chinese surveillance balloon lazily drift over america is like seeing a robber on your front porch and inviting him in, showing him where you keep your safe, your guns, where your children sleep at night and politely asking him to leave. it makes no sense. it makes us look weak and flat footed on the world stage. furthermore, if these bloomberg reports are true that the biden administration deliberately tried to keep th...

Thats sort of always going to be the case and anything valuable on that and maybe thats just the textures and materials used in the balloon and theyve discovered something new and get engineered and photography on that balloon and we recover it, question now have that camera. so i would say, you know, what did they get out of it? the thing was slow moving. we all saw where it was. it took forever to get anywhere. i dont think we were surprised by anything. arthel: where are we now in heightened ...