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they said. just months later in august china shocked the world and rattled the pentagon, test launching a new missile more advanced than any in america's arsenal. hypersonic missile travelling around the world at more than five times the speed of sound. so fast it's basically impossible for a target to stop it even if they see it coming. >> gillian: the u.s. then snubbed beijing at the next winter olympic games, sent no high level officials to the ceremonies, instead taiwan would get the visit, and then nancy pelosi flew to taipei, an act china considered so grievous, she showed off the war chest in massive drills all around the island. >> john: similar drills in december weeks after chinese media reported president xi addressed chinese troops telling them to focus all of their energy on fighting, citing the current situation that he called "unstable and uncertain."
answers in terms of what they are looking for out there in the ocean. but the u.s. coast guard seems to be very serious about this national defense operation, again, they are escorting us away from the navy vessel. back to you guys. >> john: charles watson out there in the waters off the coast of south carolina. the white house is on defensive after officials at the pentagon revealed spycraft was not the first time the china military has infiltrated u.s. air space with surveillance equipment. lucas tomlinson is live inside the white house briefing room where karine jean-pierre is set to take the podium any moment now. what's the atmosphere in the room there, lucas, a lot of questions on the tips of people's tongues? >> there sure are a lot of questions, john, including why this spy balloon was not shot down earlier. u.s. officials tell fox this was not the first brush with the chinese spycraft recently, one crashed off the coast of hawaii four months ago.
congressman mike waltz from florida said the pentagon briefed about other instances as well. >> what we were told, there were multiple incursions over florida, one over texas, and separate reporting, we have not been able to ask about over hawaii and guam. so, what were the extent of these incursions. >> this exclusive fox video shows the moment the f-22 raptor out of langley shot down the chinese spy flight with the side winder. and the first time since pearl harbor the u.s. has shot down a hostile aircraft over u.s. territory. of course hawaii was not even a state back then. earlier, the top general from norad admitted they did not detect them during the trump administration. john kirby spoke. >> i can tell you that we discovered these flights after
why would you let a chinese balloon go all the way across the country, including over many of our most important military bases, and only then after it's all done bring it down and then bring it down in such a way that now they have to go out and try to find it in the ocean. i mean -- we will plenty of capacity to scoop that balloon out of the air. we used to do it all the time with satellite photographs before you had electronic transmission, planes would go up and actually capture the capsule that had the satellite spy material. the fact we couldn't in 4 or 5 days organize an ability to capture the balloon in the air, bring it to the ground safely and then know exactly what the material is, i -- this is one more example of a bloated pentagon bureaucracy that's more worried about being -- dealing with social issues than it is about defending the united states. it's -- from afghanistan on, we
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have seen failure after failure and the pentagon needs a deep thorough shake-up. >> john: also sort of refocuses what obama's defense secretary robert gates said about then senator biden when he was running for office a couple years ago in his book. he said he's been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades. even leon panetta said it should have been taken out before it got into u.s. air space. >> i think there is a permanent taint on this administration. penn biden center, part of the university which got $67 million from the chinese communists. the current secretary of state was getting a million dollars a year from the penn biden center. the fact is, we don't have any idea how much the biden center -- the biden center in delaware gets, they don't release any money. a guy whose son is implicated
the american people watching the chinese balloon float across the united states before we shoot it down. >> right, yeah. i -- honestly, i think that we are a little bit overreacting to this. we were never at any risk by this. this balloon had less capabilities than their low earth orbit satellites that they can get. >> john: how do we know that? >> we are well aware of the capacities to spy on us, like ours is to theirs. people spy on each other, and the pentagon has said as much. >> john: we have heard the ballot was adjunct to low earth orbit satellites, could see better on the ground. dan hoffman thinks it was a powerful adjunct. >> i think it was an addition, but not value added, and makes sense, optics for the satellites are much, much stronger and powerful. >> gillian: you think the white house, the president missed an opportunity to deter china in the future by allowing the balloon to circulate and drift
we have a bloated pentagon with money being wasted. we have wars waged we dent need to be in any more. we having ary cultural subsidies. oil companies subsidies. stay away from the middle class and stay away from people's pensions and money until we stop getting the guys that charge $10,000 gold-plated toilets. >> i always love to end the panel on agreement. great panel, everybody. thanks you very much. same day that scott walker's bashing unit why goes into effect, ohio is working for their rights. i love it. go get them, ohio.