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>> bret: congressman garbled had china trying to depict the furor over the spy balloon as a sign of u.s. decline. why else would a power be spoonged by a craft. if not for a raft of internal problems like a intensely divided society partisan strife driving president biden to act tough on beijing. that's china's take. >> well, what else would you expect from china? but the reality here is that mike is on the right track. all of us learned a great deal about the balloon issue and then the subsequent three sightings and shootdowns and we're going to go forward. we're going to go forward together,...

House feels strongly that the president won the point in the moment, and so that appears to be carrying him into today and there will be other travel this week as he's trying to take some of these ideas on the road. so the white house, which sometimes does not have a lot of favorable news to tout in terms of how they feel about how things are going is going to try to soak up as much of this as they can. they have also been dealing with the chinese balloon issue. you dipped into the remarks from secretary of state blinken who is saying today that they are gathering a lot of information and inte...

That in american policy has become much more hawkish. it means that smaller things such as last week's balloon issue, which is been described by one congressperson as a hullabaloo to invent a new word for the whole thing. but it gives you a sense of how such a small thing can be blown up into something much bigger. remember, spying is age old for the america spies, everyone spies. what matters is how you respond to it. and much of the american response was defined by hysteria and not so much clear eyed thinking. the fact that that incident led to the us secretary of state cancelling his visit ...

Don't want. >> we were just talking about the balloon issue -- the balloon issue this weekend. but that plays a role in what he's going to face on tuesday as well. >> yes. i had a leadership source reach out to me last week and they said republicans were talking about condemning how the biden administration handled the balloon. if they do pull the trigger on that, that's going to be on tuesday. they'll be condemning the president right before he comes on the house floor and makes his speech. that's one of the approaches, whether trying to message against him, if you see him taking the tact of ...

Encroach upon taiwan's air space. it was just last year, less than six months ago, we were talking about chinese drones flying over restricted areas that were controlled by taiwan's military. military bases where these drones were taking photos. here in taiwan, they're no stranger to chinese surveillance and that's why taiwan has come out strongly in support of the united states actions in support of saying that china should not be tolerated for sending spy balloons over other countries. >> where now, does the u.s./china relationship go from here. >> well, it was already -- it's a fraught rela...