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next in this. >> china has decided to try to imposes will on the world. >> our economic security is connected to china whether we like it or not. >> imagine a missive flying so fast that you cant pick it up on radar. >> weve seen behavior by the ccp, purchase of agricultural lands, strategic lands around military bases. >> china is the most challenging national security threat that the u.s. has faced in 30 years. >> martha: with that, we bring in general jack keane, fox news strategic ...

u.s. military sites. >> i told them to shoot it down. >> what specifically was the chinese government looking for? how might the incident affect the u.s.-china relationship. marco rubio joins me ahead. making his case. president biden gears up to address a divided congress. >> the "state of the union" and the state of our economy is strong. >> ahead of the suspected 2024 bid, how will he make his pitch? ill speak to cabinet secretary pete buttigieg next. debt dilemma. biden and spe...

down to earth. the u.s. shoots down a suspected chinese spy balloon monitoring u.s. military sites. >> i told them to shoot it down. >> what specifically was the chinese government looking for? how might the incident affect the u.s.-china relationship? vice chair on the senate intelligence committee marco rubio joins me ahead. making his case. president biden gears up to address a divided congress. >> the state of the union and the state of our economy is strong. >> ahead of the susp...

>> oh, man he kicked it down now. he kicked it down. theres two of them. >> there was a shot at that. >> yeah. >> they got it. they got it. >> did you hear the noise? >> they got it. >> did you hear that noise? >> that was a missile. >> wow. >> the balloon was first seen last week saturday over alaska, by wednesday it was over montana, by friday over missouri, and yesterday, over the carolinas. defense department officials told nbc news that it clearly crossed over sensitive sites, inc...

course, which is, again, why we are monitoring it. >> jesse: the comey spy balloon airspace and fingers around a joystick and flying it towards major cities but we are not shooting it down. >> you said this is violating our airspace so why not take it down? >> yeah, so, you know, clearly as we assess options and considering the size of the pay load on this, looking at the potential for debris and the impact on civilians on the ground or property damage, and so out of an abundance of ca...

together with you broadcasting balloons. rachel: thats right. if you get a little chilly, i have a heat or here, will. will: is it on? pete: i dont know why you havent turned it on yet. rachel: because its been cozy. pete: have you been to the great american ballpark in cincinnati? will: no. never been to cincinnati. pete: never been? will: have you been to cincinnati? everybody acts, like, wow. pete: dial up a diner for will in cincinnati, and youve got to have chili for breakfast. ra...

our defense command says they strengthened the radar frequency and got all these new hits. congressional democrats and republicans calling on the president to deliver on his repeated promise of transparency. >> what has gone on in the last two weeks or so, ten days has been nothing short of craziness. >> even democrats are frustrated at the lack of transparency from this administration. this administration has been the least transparent administration in america. >> i have real concern...

Altitude nuclear blast to create magnetic pulse to wipe out electronics. a geo magnetic disturbance could be the same thing. >> sandra: what is your reaction with significant concerns about all of this? >> thats one of the questions that we have. is the ccp looking to weaponize these platforms in addition to surveillance? again it goes back to begging the question on what are shoot down criteria? if its flying high and large then were not going to shoot it down? if its small and low we will? or ...

The pentagon. >> i think theres two problems here. one, if this happened and is civilians were not aware of it or it happened and we were not told. we need a real sophisticated strategy for countering this. >> martha: they wendt over our icbm fields. they have more icbms than we do. is that a problem? >> its a huge problem. theres a video that has since been deleted where they were using a balloon identical to this. this could be weaponized in the future. >> martha: general keane mentioned that....

The existence of balloons is not a mystery to people in that field. what weve never seen, what is unprecedented and whoever the source is at the department of defense would have to acknowledge this, what is unprecedented is a balloon flight that entered over idaho, over montana, all these sensitive military installations, air force bases, icbm fields, thats unprecedented. that it flew briefly over the continental u.s., thats one thing. this week, this is unprecedented. weve never seen this. this...