south carolina. the president just a little while ago says it was always his plan to take it out. we made it clear to china what we were going to do. they understand our position. we will not back off. we did the right thing. has it always been your view to shoot down a chinese spy balloon or only because it became public? oh, no it was always my position. once it came to the united states from canada i told them i wanted to shoot it down as soon as appropriate. they concluded, they concluded we should not shoot it down over land. they are not a serious threat and we should wait. greg: clearly this is his finest moment since corn pop. part of this scooped up and sent over to the fbi for further analysis and despite assuring the american people there was no threat the senior u.s. official says there may have been self detonating explosives off of the vessel. just like jessie s hair appeared republicans are reacting with usual pouncing. the message they were trying to
on that. however, because it kept it quiet, they sure there would be more mistry and elmore ministry, including over the weekend the administration from the pentagon floats this thing that says three of these balloons came across the trump administration. that story all fell apart pretty quickly because what do you mean? everybody in the trump administration including the former president himself in the national security said, no, i don t think so, so the president is hanging out by himself. and if you think criticism is one thing, this is a moment president biden could have said, let s all rally together and do this together. tomorrow night will be the talk of the state of the union and we can agree this is not acceptable. we could all do that. but instead he tried to keep it quiet which it would never be quiet and they tried to blame president trump over this. biden and all these conversations rather than saying we are united against china.