china which was scheduled for this weekend. as lawmakers react to the incident here at home, senate majority leader chuck schumer says the entire senate will receive a classified briefing on china february 15th. charles watson is live on the south carolina coast near where debris from the spy flight rained down. also standing by, congressman ryan zinke, who represents montana where that flight was respondented lingering over a nuclear silo field. first though, lucas tomlin stomp s live at the white house. reporter: moments ago, the u.s. military issued a statement that the u.s. navy has begun recovery operations off the coast of south carolina. they are combing waters about 7 miles wide and 47 feet deep. now, earlier on fox news sunday senator tom cotton says that spy ballooning should have been shot down when it crossed over the aleutian islands which is u.s. air space in alaska. what began as a spy balloon has become a trial balloon testing president biden s strength an
to the states and over key military bases, it was a citizen, a citizen that spotted it wednesday in montana, by the way the air force base in montana is where we keep icbms in combat ready minuteman missiles. so what is with the delay, what kind of intel did china get before the military shot down the balloon. these are all questions republicans want answers to. i think it s an open question this is not become public if the administration had not briefed the matter to congress thursday afternoon after was about to become public. whether the president would shutdown the balloon once he got over the atlantic ocean. the world was watching this just like they were watching the disaster withdraw in afghanistan were service members lost their lives and tens of billions of dollars of equipment were left behind is been disaster to disaster, people deserve ans answers. don t fall for the chinese communist party charm offensive the bedtime story that they tell out of touch global
you know who i feel bad for? my buddy who moved from chicago to asheville, north carolina. the guy just can t escape can t escape. go to florida. that does it for us. we will see you next weekend. the fox report with jon scott starts right now. bye-bye, everybody. jon: china s spy flight over u.s. air space and the u.s. terminating it with a missile raising tensions between the two nations. good evening, i m jon scott, and this is the fox report. jon: fox news was live with exclusive pictures yesterday as the u.s. military shot down the flight off the coast of south carolina. more than a week after it first entered u.s. air space. the incident is ramping up tensions between the u.s. and china which is condemning the shootdown as an overreaction. secretary of state antony blinken postponed his trip to