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the balloon had been flying over the country and parts of canada for more than a week prompting secretary of state tony blinken to postpone a planned trip to beijing. welcome to fox news live, i'm miken manuel. the balloon was shot by f-22 fighter jet and raising questions about u.s.-china relations. we have fox team coverage with alexandria hoff, charles watson in surf side beach, south carolina and lucas tomlinson on the north lawn of the white house. lucas, let's start off with you. good afternoon. lucas: the u.s. navy dispatched 3 warships and salvage team to combwaters, records ...

Vetted for this question, the number of casualties before it went to the president for decision, to me just shows a complete lack of staffing process at the white house. i'm glad he made the decision he did. i think it's right. i think it wasn't proportionatet proportionate. it shows you how wily nily these things are happening and given the tensions are so high, he may not intend to get into war but he may get us there with decisions like these. >> when you worked at the white house under democratic and republican presidents, you deployed someone from the intelligence to the national security...

Are -- there has been a lot of talk about what has been going on at the white house and who is saying what to whom and, you know, as the president asking questions. we talked about that before. and so somebody wanted to mick a case about obstruction, this is probably the last thing they point to, other things they may point to. i'm not saying there say good case for obstruction or not, but there is other stuff going on that people might be talking about. >> cnn is reporting that the justice department, the officials at the justice department were e-mailing this summer about the possibility of ...

Attack jeff sessions, which he now does all of the time. it is fairly a lead story any more. he drew a red line around his businesses in the mueller probe. she gave him what he wanted and what he wanted was access to the media. >> that is right. exactly. the one you're referring to is an interview last july and set up by hope with michael schmidt and myself, maggie was there in the white house briefing room and we arrive and hope said come along so it was the three of us going in for an interview. very much her arrangement. the reince priebus chief of staff didn't know and the rest of the staf...

He had been considering registering as a foreign agent. >> if we know at least two people in the white house knew about flynn's dealings, presumably it's possible, mike pence himself even knew even though says that he didn't. why would the white house go ahead and decide to appoint flynn for such an important position? >> this white house makes a lot of strang personnel decisions. we've seen with a number of appointments that the white house -- donald trump has somebody that he wants and they choose the person and then later a problem may arise that they should have known about in advance but ...