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Infrastructure. so they have the land but they have no ability to build anything on it. >> martha: i know the air force wrote this letter and you all started to think about this differently. what changed for you? >> well, i think if you look at how it started, two years ago, the city of grand forks received an rfp from the state of north dakota. we go through a long process. grand forks wins the project and finding out the company is chinese and trying to sort that out. it took a long time to get a firm answer. when we did get that firm answer, we moved quickly and concisely and we're going to...

What we are able to do. we came off the worst possible situation in 2021. we had a pandemic and the entire world was shut down. just running for months biden and the democrats turn that around and we have the highest drug growth and we have inflation that is descending over the last few months. we have the situation of which the american unemployment rate is the lowest it has been since 1969. all of that is a fact. and you can be sure that we are going to be talking about that. and we will just disposition all the good things that are going on in this nation, including extraordinarily strong m...

In the air. obviously, it's a nod to their gun loving followers. i do think that 80% of those republicans that posted that we're probably doing it as a joke, but then you've got a republican like kari lake he doesn't really have a firm grasp on reality. she still thinks she can win an election that she lost three months ago. so i worry that maybe he's been shooting at the sky for the last 48 hours. she might even take credit for popping the balloon. but, i do think the balloon situation provided an opportunity for these republicans to do what they do best, which is political theater. they get ...

>> all right. i want to correct something i mistakenly said it in the last segment i apologize. but president biden was indeed asked about the chinese balloon situation when he landed in syracuse for a private event, i'm told. he was asked about the balloon and he says, we're going to take care of it. that's all we know. we're going to take care of it. meanwhile, we're going to take care of what's happening at the border as well. that's a promise from the administration, but growing indications that it remains out of control. there was a car chase involving a teen smuggler and a crash. i think...

Headline is china's global megaprojects are falling apart. they seems like just a terrible pr week for the chinese government but also, the real international implications for their relationships. what are your thoughts there? >> yes it's a good question, and a good point. we often see china like standing 100 feet tall but in the last few months, major setbacks for a xi jinping. first a covid lockdown completely failed after people protested and they just rapidly reversed the policy and have cute cases of covid inside the country without the right vaccine infrastructure. they're having an econ...