i think we are seeing a bit of both of those. we have seen a lot of drone coverage across the country. the ukrainians have drones that are phenomenal. they have 30 in the arsenal and more on the way. they are meade judge range drones capable of surgical strikes. these turkish drones are about $2 million each. they have 18,000 feet operating altitude, and they are inflicting massive pain on russian forces. there are tons of incidences where they are able to sneak low and i dfighter targets for ukraine artillery in the process. it s a big win for ukraine military-wise. it s just a major boost in morale for the country.
couldn t be flown and used. i think we are seeing a bit of both of those. we have seen a lot of drone coverage across the country. the ukrainians have drones that are phenomenal. they have 30 in the arsenal and more on the way. they are meade judge range drones capable of surgical strikes. these turkish drones are about $2 million each. they have 18,000 feet operating altitude, and they are inflicting massive pain on russian forces. there are tons of incidences where they are able to sneak low and i dfighter targets for ukraine artillery in the process. it s a big win for ukraine military-wise. it s just a major boost in morale for the country.
telling us french police are doing everything they can. taste telling us french police are doing everything they can. telling us french police are doing everything they can. we have been doin: everything they can. we have been doing everything everything they can. we have been doing everything we everything they can. we have been doing everything we can everything they can. we have been doing everything we can for - everything they can. we have been doing everything we can for a i everything they can. we have been doing everything we can for a long | doing everything we can for a long time and offering to do enough a lot more of the french would cooperate. that is why the prime minister has written setting at the offer of joint patrols on french beaches and in the sea as well, the offer of night time drone coverage which the french don t have to monitor these groups. and then some serious conversations about being able to return migrants who don t have a claim to be in the uk to
lifetime, how does this compare? in context in my lifetime there is nothing in comparison. we have never seen anything like this. you know, we have friends. we have family. we have, you know, community members that are border patrol agents, customs, et cetera. law enforcement, and they are inundated. they are to the breaking point. this is absolutely unacceptable. will: tom, i would love to ask you about this drone flight that was grounded by the faa. the faa answers to the transportation secretary pete buttigieg answers to the biden administration where would an order like this come from to drown drone coverage from the press at that bridge in del rio? came from the white house. look, they have been lying from the beginning, are right? they said it was trump s fault. it was slow down this summer. because of hurricane. it would slow down in the summertime. they have lied from day one. they don t want the american people to see the truth.
history of our country. do you think it s going to work? emily: no, and the converging factors don t make any sense. they are throwing money at this issue. it is reported numbers doubled just one day from 4000 encounters to over 9000 encounters and covid rates spiked, as well. we have those factoring happening and you have the faa shuts down drone coverage, there should be no media access and we have mainstream media that doesn t care. nbc nightly news devoted four seconds of coverage to this issue in the month of august. coverage dropped 94% of this issue while the migrant surge continues to spike, as you said, over 300%. now we have democrats wanting to throw money at it, it is a problem they are shoving in the dark, they don t want to have a conversation in the mainstream and among the national conversation and willing to throw taxpayer dollars to it