and he s going to drop by before he goes to work. right? yep. steve: all right. did you get a free breakfast yet? yeah, i got one to go. steve: good boy. round of applause for my nephew. go to work. very good. [applause] steve: all right. we re here in kansas city for the big game is in nine days. and, do you know what? brian and ainsley, i know you are going to be a little jealous, right over here is a fellow by the name of ken cramer. ken used to be with the kansas city chiefs. he is a sports agent now. everybody calls him fuzz i have no idea why. it s a long story, steve. steve, on behalf of the bright futures fund here is a helmet for the super bowl for our running back pacheco signed it for you. steve: very, very nice. thank you very much, kansas city. [cheers and applause] everybody brought me something. [cheers and applause] steve: more of that in a little bit. ainsley and brian, we have breaking news. brian: yeah, we do. that is great stuff, steve.
absurd notion that space lasers financed by the roth child family are the cause of wildfires in california. she has never equated vaccine mandates with adolph hitler. who s he really talking about there? the democrat defending ilhan omar before the partisan vote to remove her from the house foreign affairs committee. and president joe biden meet with the congressional black caucus for a discussion on police reforms. it comes a day after tyre nichols is laid to rest. and china is doing some damage control this morning. beijing says it s looking at whether a surveillance balloon that flew over montana is actually theirs. we ll have the latest and the response from the pentagon coming up next. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, february 3rd. i m sitting in for jonathan lemire. democratic congresswoman ilhan omar of minnesota has removed from the house foreign affairs committee. 218 republicans voted to back the resolution removing omar from the c
a fox news alert now. it s not a bird, it s not a plane. there is a suspected l chinese spy balloon. chinese spy balloon hovering over the. from eyes on the street to the eye in the sky, china s now been accused of using a giant balloon to spy on america. china s decision to fly a surveillance balloon over the continental united states is both unacceptable and irresponsible. why haven t we shot this balloon out of the sky? there s lots of questions, i but the commander in chief is awfully quiet. president biden was forced to act. they re shooting it. that was like a missile that came out of that plane. oh, my god, they shot it down.
didn t happen. they went up and down the chain it didn t happen. john bolton who hates the president never happened. why they wanted to blame president trump it i don t get. blaming the prior administration doesn t work. mark milley evidently and secretary of defense told him on afghanistan don t pull out it s going to be a disaster. that s what they testified. he said blow this thing up on wednesday, the president of the united states,and the military goes no, not going. to say. ainsley: mark milley said this. brian: biden said i told them to blow it up wednesday. they blow it up saturday. wait, the president said to take it out. find a way to take it out, the same way you found to take us out of afghanistan, in the worst military operation in the history of the nation, but, again, now you say i m pushing back on the president when it comes to a chinese balloon? would we have ever known about it had the press in billings, montana not wrote about it? we would have had the meeting
know that it was a chinese balloon at that point, obviously. brian: you wanted to go ahead and put that into the paper. did you contact any other outlets or the outlets see this and start reporting this? the other outlets saw it and started reporting it. but, first, you know, i didn t get verification of what it was until the next afternoon, actually. i put together all the pictures that i had taken, the con trails in the sky. foreflight which showed where there were air tankers operating over the bear tooth mountains, and i put all those things together and started sending them to the faa and the governor s office. and they eventually put knee in touch with norad. brian: norad con 23eur7b8d this was a balloon. did they tell you it was a chinese balloon? no. they told me that the only thing