pennsylvania after taking classes remotely. david gives a lot of credit to his favorite teachers. both of david s parents have advanced degrees. but raising someone as gifted as david is challenging. he said because he knows and understands concepts that are, quote, sometimes beyond my understanding. now that he is graduated, david apparently has his futuremap to. i want to be an astrophysicist. and i wanted to study black holes. and supernova. i am not even sure what they are exactly. but i have no doubt he will do. that david s parents say they are looking at colleges right now. in the meantime, david is working on his black belt in much lower. we wish him the best. news continues, erin burnett out front starts now. and now, especially titian about race against time to find survivors in the earthquake that has killed more than 38 hours for at least search for survivors. the death toll is rising and we have a live report from just a moment. plus, desantis versus disney.
were here. it comes as president biden is heading back. he is defending his decision to take down the chinese star spy balloon after spent about a week in the united states. here is his defense. we did the right thing and there is not a question. it is a reality. talking about waiting until it was not overland. [inaudible] our enemies no longer fear us, obviously. our friends don t respect us. it is one more failure of several of this administration. the only reason this administration started to carry was because the american people heard about. it cumulation this week was inflicted by the chinese communists on the president. again, we should ve shut down this balloon as opposed to letting it float all across the middle america on its merry way. the message embedded this to the world s, we can fly a balloon over airspace of the united states of america and they won t be able to do anything about it to stop us.
literally, it was maybe a balloon. that makes sense. so then you are politically on this point of view where, we have to deal with the fact that they didn t know. they didn t know. you have trump coming out, what did trump say today? the chinese would never have floated balloon. it turns out, not only did they float one, but they flew at least three from, it sounds like how the congressman is looking at it. this is a thing. it turns out that, to your point, we don t have a perfect ability to understand everything that is happening at 60, 000, 100,000 feet. they should bring us together to figure out, why are they doing this? what is the gain? what can we do about it? instead, it has turned into the same kind of stuff that we always deal with. everyone getting mad at each other and saying the stuff. here s what i know for sure, part of this is, we are just mammals. you see something and it seems like it is real because you can see it. there are much bigger threats, tiktok is a bigge
process that the advisor alluded to earlier today saying that when the biden administration came in and made collection of intelligence a central focal point. they were able to track back and pick up signals of what they have may have missed beforehand. this and two other occasions are two of those examples. those examples driving the biden administration approach that, as you noted, has been question by republicans. officials maintain, that was the right course of action over the course of the last week. i told them to shoot it down. for president biden, a definitive statement. on wednesday? on wednesday. they said to me, let s wait until the safest place to do it. coming less than 30 minutes after this moment. and if 22 fighter jet blowing a chinese spy balloon out of the sky and into the atlantic ocean on saturday. china should not be permitted to do this, it is unfortunate that the balloon was permitted to go all the way across the united states. but doing little to d
when i was in congress, it was politicized that we killed soleimani, which actually was a great shot in a really smart thing to do in iran. now, i see a lot of my former colleagues of politicizing this balloon. look, they should ve shot down over the islands, they should have, we may find now that they were collecting information on it as they have said. they ve been been able to jam the signals. it may work out to our advantage. i think to impeach biden, we have every right to disagree with it. set of people that never makes a mistake, this is possibly just a mess up on their part in other. words i m not sure that they wouldn t have rather had the blinken china actually expressed regret. when does china rocked express regret for anything. sounds like this one came down you know the stratosphere came down? over new hampshire maybe? it s global. morning the weather wants to not that they were actually up.