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meeting with a group of mayors today. it may be bumpy. they are angry over his border crisis. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the meeting is actually an annual event but this year, as i said, it will be different. so-called sanctuary city leaders want federal help to deal with all the illegal immigrants crossing their cities, sanctuary cities, millions of dollars. because you have to feed and shelter and provide medical care and that s what they promised. but it is not free. they say it s only a tiny fraction, of course, of what has overwhelmed border communities in border states. and they manage to do it all and they need help, too. but these are sanctuary cities. it s an election year and they blue and expect the president to capitulate. denver s mayor, mike johnston, will attend. the main public hospital in his city is getting crushed by illegal who need care. $10 million of unpaid services. americans have to wait in line to get the same care ....
the biden administration to shoot down the balloon over the atlantic ocean. the federal aviation administration has issued a ground stop close airspace in north and south carolina until 2:45 p.m. eastern time. the balloon is currently floating over south carolina and moving southeast republican congressman anthony of the homeland security committee standing by with his reaction. but first lucas tomlinson is live at the white house with 30 tables unchecked details. good afternoon mike if you going to shoot down a chinese spy balloon over the atlantic that s exactly how you do it. you close airspace you launched fighters. that appears to be what happened are present biden spoke earlier indicated a decision had been made without offering specifics. [inaudible] earlier this morning on fox former defense secretary chuck said it s unlikely this bible it will make its way home. i do not have the pentagon is going to do with the president ultimately decides but once he ge ....
It is heading towards the ocean. obviously is going to sink. and being able to recover it is problematic. the other point i am trying to make is we have got to look at how we are dealing with china short of conflict. they are trying for example in taiwan, trying to use persuasion to get the taiwanese to believe that reunification is inevitable. they use intimidation and coercion to get the taiwanese to capitulate. what are we going? we are self deterring ourselves from visiting the island from coordinate properly, from drink exercises with them on a comprehensive basis. we have got to relook the whole non- conflict strategy. ....
Territory back, these are real changes in russian behavior related partly to the sanctions partly to export controls. they can t buy the kinds of in puts they need for put the military to function. do you ultimately think that the sanctions regime that the united states is imposing on russia and other countries are as well will force the kremlin to capitulate, force it to back down i think well, the most important thing is the courage of ukrainians, and the commitment they re showing on the battlefield, we ve said as a government we re with ukraine from now until the end of this war, until ukraine studies, that means support for the economy, which is also part of what we re doing here to make sure ukraine is able to export currency, support for humanitarian initiatives and for the military and sanctions are a piece of that but they re only one piece of it. ....
Conventions. they actually want to inflict the civilian damage to put pressure on the top leadership of whenever they are fighting the war, to capitulate. and this is exactly the pain putin wants to inflict on president zelenskyy, on ukrainian armed forces to break their backs, to say, look, if you want to save your women and children, you have to back off, you have to let us win. that is why there is very little hope that russians will respect any kind of rules and save civilian lives. it is heartbreaking. and given that, though, and as well as ukrainian defenses have held up until now, there does seem to be this issue of whether or not russia is trying to escalate things further. widen their assault. we ve had the port city of odesa struck a few times now, we had the incident earlier in the week that happened in moldova, still not clear what those explosions there were about. what is the capacity for russia ....