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the balloon had been flying over the country and parts of canada for more than a week prompting secretary of state tony blinken to postpone a planned trip to beijing. welcome to fox news live, im miken manuel. the balloon was shot by f-22 fighter jet and raising questions about u.s.-china relations. we have fox team coverage with alexandria hoff, charles watson in surf side beach, south carolina and lucas tomlinson on the north lawn of the white house. lucas, lets start off with you. g...

Vetted for this question, the number of casualties before it went to the president for decision, to me just shows a complete lack of staffing process at the white house. im glad he made the decision he did. i think its right. i think it wasnt proportionatet proportionate. it shows you how wily nily these things are happening and given the tensions are so high, he may not intend to get into war but he may get us there with decisions like these. >> when you worked at the white house under democrat...

Are -- there has been a lot of talk about what has been going on at the white house and who is saying what to whom and, you know, as the president asking questions. we talked about that before. and so somebody wanted to mick a case about obstruction, this is probably the last thing they point to, other things they may point to. im not saying there say good case for obstruction or not, but there is other stuff going on that people might be talking about. >> cnn is reporting that the justice depar...

Attack jeff sessions, which he now does all of the time. it is fairly a lead story any more. he drew a red line around his businesses in the mueller probe. she gave him what he wanted and what he wanted was access to the media. >> that is right. exactly. the one youre referring to is an interview last july and set up by hope with michael schmidt and myself, maggie was there in the white house briefing room and we arrive and hope said come along so it was the three of us going in for an interview...

He had been considering registering as a foreign agent. >> if we know at least two people in the white house knew about flynns dealings, presumably its possible, mike pence himself even knew even though says that he didnt. why would the white house go ahead and decide to appoint flynn for such an important position? >> this white house makes a lot of strang personnel decisions. weve seen with a number of appointments that the white house -- donald trump has somebody that he wants and they choose...

That is one thing that they have done extraordinarily well. and i think thats what his base sees every day. i think hes trying to distract washington. dont think it is a tactic. i think this is a person who does not have a lot of self-control. but it doesnt matter. i do want to disagree with the idea that the problem is how popular he is. i dont think his approval rating is the problem. hes not up for election for four more years, we should want a president whos willing to be unpopular in the se...

About how you believe the president is changing the nature of political conversations. my colleague kelly odonnell and i literally ran into the president, impromptu, unexpected, just strolling into dinner. do you see that off-the-cuff behavior being a benefit it to the president? >> i as president i there is a process in the white house called the staffing process that i had to be within, by which you take speeches and everybody gets to have their input. theres an argument, theres thought and cr...

Process, the bottom line is the reason for the staffing process is not bureaucracy for bureaucracys sake. its for someone to say excuse me, if you say this, the reaction will be this. if you want to do that, thats fine, the saudis will applaud, the europeans will be upset. this is the implication of 140 characters at it was 6:24 because i had to update my "today" show report. >> a speech has thought and craft and goes through a process. tweet does not, it has neither. i dont know how effective a...

Phone calls to our friends that dont seem to go that well, you understand why a lot of the world leaders right now are sitting back a little bit on their heels not really sure exactly what the next phone call or the next effort will be. >> and it is amazinghe role that twitter is playing now in american foreign poli this is extraordinary, a major change. he tweeted about iran at 6:30 a.m. this morning. normally when a president makes a statement in any white house theres a staffing process. it a...

Telling you the secretary on multiple occasions was briefed. his senior officials were briefed. not just briefed. they were part of the drafting process. it went through not only that, but just back up. they get consulted and briefed. it goes through the office of legal compliance. then it gets shipped out to the nsc and the homeland security council. this went through a very, very extensive staffing process. the idea that you can talk -- whether or not he got fully briefed or -- he was briefed ...