supreme court is keeping former president trump s name on the colorado ballot for now this after the state supreme court ruled him ineligible. now the u.s. supreme court will review that decision removing his eligibility in a politically charged constitutional fight that s got major implications for the 2024 presidential election. fox news chief legal correspondent and anchor of fox news sunday shannon bream joins me now. good evening, shannon. shannon: all right, so gillian. good to see you don t. the u.s. supreme court we consider this moving at lightning speed. arguments held on this case february 8th. based on what just happened the justices formally getting involved. colorado will include president trump s name on the primary ballot because the secretary of state had made clear that today is the deadline for her to certify the names for the ballot. and she would do so unless the supreme court upheld the colorado s supreme court ruling other declined to take the case.
possible explosives to deflate the balloon. gillian: in a moment, karine jean-pierre will be asked questions why the president waited nearly a week to shoot it down. john: we will bring you the white house briefing when it begins. john roberts in washington, good to kick the week off with you. gillian: you, too, john. i m gillian turner in for sandra smith. the president said ordered the military to take out the balloon after it had been drifting for days. they say the military should have listened. he projected weakness at this moment. i think the administration lacks urgency. became a situation of argument and everybody wondering what is the administration doing. this is a wake-up call for the country. gillian: john kirby pushed back, said it gave the u.s. time to study the balloon, as well as chinese s motives. john: seems clear china s motive is to replace the united states as the leading superpower. a list of how china has provoked and escalated tension
collecting over his state. james clyburn on the impact this is having on the president s big state of the union speech tomorrow. republican senator tom tillis on bipartisan calls for the administration to get tough on china and fast. it is all straight ahead. welcome. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it with lucas tomlinson at the white house. hi, lucas. hi, neil. the white house press briefing just wrapped up and karine jean-pierre says things will china will continue to be calm despite u.s. forces shooting down a chinese spy craft. this was not the first brush with the chinese spy craft recently. four months ago, the same type of spy balloon crash landed in the pacific off of the coast of hawaii. mike waltz said the pentagon called them to tell them about other instances recently by these spy craft. what we were told is there were multiple incursions over florida, one over texas and separate reporting that we have not been able to ask about over hawaii and guam. so what we
shoot down that chinese flight as soon as possible. the pentagon waited until safely over the atlantic. now there are more questions about why the white house did not brief the public about the situation with the present did not act sooner senator marco rubio believes try to use the aircraft to send a larger message. is not a coincidence this happens leading up to state of the union address. leading up to blinken s visit to china. chinese do this to be spotted they knew we would have to react to it as just a bullet it s a message to try to sum the world that we can do whatever we want in america cannot stop us. arthel: fox team coverage for you bright alexandria hoff has more reaction from lawmakers in china as charles watson, he is in south carolina with an eyewitness account of the shoot damper first up lucas tomlinson life in the white house with the reporting, lucas would you have? u.s. navy s dispatch three warships to calm the waters off of south carolina salvage cr
committed to working with other states seeking to gain similar approval. drug costs here in the u.s. are higher than in any other nation in the world by two to three times. tonight, we have a pair of stunning videos that illuminate the severity and the dangers of the crisis unfolding along the southern border with mexico. senior correspondent casey stegall shows us tonight from eagle pass. exclusive fox video shows a stream of migrants crossing through the border wall in lukeville, arizona late thursday. thanks to a hole cut in the steel barrier by cartels. at one point a smuggler is seen recording it on a cell phone, proof of his illegal delivery into the u.s. without a federal agent in sight. it s crushing. really can t patrol at all. they are just processing. they are about to turn over. while over in web county, texas this week. dps troopers were forced to ram