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0 a little further detail on that, the decision was made this morning he just revealed, asked when did the president give the order to shoot it down? this morning. >> john: talk about burying the lede, talks about all of this other stuff, and then a reporter says, oh, by the way, did you shoot something down? oh, yes. here are the details. my gosh. >> martha: grade to be with you come have a great weekend. i'm sandra smith. >> martha: elsey and monday, thank you for joining us, "the story" with martha continues to breaking news. >> it's actually a trace, good afternoon, and trace gallagher in ...

0 president lula has to make. >> reporter: i wanted to follow up on a question i asked in september. in light of the chinese spy balloon incident does this administration consider chinese land purchases near u.s. military bases a national security threat? >> we are always concerned about potential foreign collection near or around our military sites, and you're right, last week is a good example of that. we take that seriously, whether that's terrestrial related or whether it's from the air. and i think i'll just leave it at that. >> reporter: would you work with congress to put in place legis...

Last administration, but they didn't know until after the fact. according to "washington post" or something like that, they decided to go ahead and started looking and retroactively figured out this had crossed in the united states airspace a couple times. do you buy that? >> no, let me tell you a couple things. systems today, nord stream 2 and spy agency designed to look for spy planes, missiles, not balloons, number one. number two, have chinese flown these things in the past? yes, i was aware they had a balloon program. has it done what this one done? absolutely not. if i want to get from p...

Approved vendor for the people's liberation army. they're saying they're looking at ways to possibly target any organizations that help make this balloon program possible. there's also hinting that they're going to expose more details of the program and offer more information to possibly make it even more uncomfortable for china, trying to explain it as some kind of a weather balloon. >> dan de luce live with those details. thank you very much, appreciate it. another hearing on the hill that we are watching today, this one happening right now, led by a house subcommittee, they're looking int...

Airspace. and what is very concerning is this administration and joe biden had no intention of telling the american people until an everyday american pointed it out. he abysmally failed to address. this and that is sending a signal of weakness to communist china. we need to assert strength, peace through strength which is why house republicans are going to stand up for peace through strength when it comes to our defense policies. this is part of the reason that we started the select china committee, which is bipartisan, by the way. because we believe this is -- this needs to be an american pri...