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over the continental united states. the public has the ability to look up in the sky and see why the balloon is. >> john: look up and smile, that was the pentagon, moments ago senator roger marshall announcing the balloon is over his state, hovering over northeast kansas. >> gillian: for years we have been following beijing's spra spra sprawling apparatus, and now it's hanging over the heads of millions of americans. telling fox it's intentional and calling it a violation of u.s. sovereignty. the balloon is about the size of two school busses head to tail. pentagon says it will linger over the country a few more

days. >> john: the president was briefed on tuesday. is he going to take any action? i'm john roberts in washington. of all the things you never thought you would talk about, would this be near the top of your list? >> gillian: no, but interesting, makes for good discussion points, a whole range of issues. gillian turner in for sandra smith. that balloon is one of a whole host of national security concerns about the chinese communist party and the threat it poses to americans. the chinese-owned app tiktok eats up american's data and does all kinds of things with it. >> john: china tightening its grip on america's back yard, controlling tens of thousands of acres of american farmland. >> gillian: and military, they will more than triple the nuclear warhead stockpile by 2035. >> john: backdrop of china's cozy relationship with russia. military experts urging action on the matter. >> they are looking deep and just vacuuming information. these are going across the most

sensitive sites we have, the fact we have not taken some type of heavy action against it just talked about is incredible to me. >> john: will the u.s. change its behavior toward the communist nation? we will ask the chairman of the house select committee mike gallagher coming up. >> gillian: greg palkot on how china is responding, but first jennifer griffin. hi, jennifer. >> the balloon has left montana air space as he were reporting, it was launched from mainland china. the pentagon is not buying china's apology and explanation this was a civilian research balloon blown off course. brigadier general pat ryder says the spy balloon is maneuverable and has changed course. not saying whether the chinese government is controlling the direction. >> it does not pose a risk to the people on the ground, it is traversing the continental

united states. out of abundance of caution, cognizant of the impact to civilians on the ground from a debris field, right now we are going to continue to monitor and review options. >> the balloon is flying at 60,000 feet, higher than most u.s. war planes can fly. the u.s. does not fly spy planes or balloons over mainland china. there have been questions why the military advised the president against shooting down the chinese spy plane for now. one u.s. official said there is a lot of empty space in montana but also a lot of schools. it is not unpopulated. what happens when this balloon, carrying heavy equipment and the size of at least two school busses, lands on someone's home or kindergarten. if we shoot it down, the balloon and the equipment on board will plunge to the earth at meteoric speed. possibility of american casualties and collateral damage is the main reason the president opted not to shoot down the

balloon for now. the white house and pentagon have options to bring it down when deemed safe to do so, and shoot it down perhaps over a body of water. they say they have mitigated it from surveying sites. >> gillian: thank you, john. >> john: china's response, they claim it's designed for agricultural research. greg palkot has more from our london bureau. is anyone buying china's claims here? >> well, not really. beijing tried to dodge all the questions and then it finally came clean to some degree, initially saying it had no intention of violating the land territory and air space of any sovereign country until it said the balloon was there, but an

incident beyond its control caused problems, and saying it is a civilian airship used for research, westerlies and it deviated from the planned claims. most of the claims knocked down by the pentagon. not the first time china has done this. there are accounts china sending other surveillance balloons in the past over the continental u.s., and those not as well documented by amateur photographers. it has caused the state department to postpone a trip of antony blinken to beijing, he was supposed to leave this evening and meet with xi and others, and they are perplexed about the timing, it has disrupted possibly useful diplomacy for beijing. john, both china and the u.s. claim to be in contact with each other over the balloon, trying

to avert the shootdown, could be dangerous in a lot of ways. >> john: it's been tried before, too, apparently the canadian military tried to shoot one down, 1,000 rounds of 20 millimeter cannon fire, popped holes in it but it did not do anything. these things are huge. wisconsin republican congressman mike gallagher, very interested in what's going on right now. congressman, i know you wanted to respond to the information that gillian learned from a trusted source that the united states has known this is coming for a long time now. >> well, makes it all the more embarrassing and unfathomable to me why we didn't shoot it down earlier. tracking from the aleutian islands and over canada and montana, an option to disable

it, bring it to a lower altitude or blow it out of the sky and if the pentagon does not have the capability to do that safely in the appropriate timeline, then with the over 800 billion pentagon budget we need to develop that capability rapidly. this is not the last such incident we are going to see from the chinese communist party. they are testing us, mocking us, trying to embarrass us and trying to collect as much sensitive intelligence as possible from us. so responses i've seen thus far from the administration raise more questions than they answer. >> john: and the pentagon really is playing this down just in terms of it's not that big a deal, we have sort of rendered it incapable of transmitting back data, suggest they did something to it electronically, we don't know what they might have done, we are not telling us. but really sort of stands in contrast with the position of the u.s. government after the gary powers incident russian in

1960, they said it's important it be undetected normally unauthorized invasion of another country's air space was considered an act of war. now, not to say that we should be considering this an act of war, but it would lead you to believe historically we should be treating this very seriously. >> seems an act of espionage at a minimum. if this were an american asset over chinese air space, do you think they would hesitate for one second? the fact we did not take action, i don't understand it. and the other thing we have heard, this has happened multiple times before, you know, i've talked to multiple high level trump administration official in the last 24 hours, if indeed the pentagon had awareness of incidents like this before this one and failed to

share it, that would raise further questions. so the response has been insufficient so far, i'm glad, however, that secretary of state antony blinken canceled or postponed his trip to beijing. it would have looked very weird for him to do a grip and grin with xi jinping after this violation of our sovereignty. cancel it, and the next time the chinese want to meet they should have to come to the united states and apologize for this incident. >> john: as the chairman of the house select committee on china you have a lot of questions you want answered and some come from the owners of american corporations and heads of organizations. you want to bring before your committee for testimony people from the nba, people from disney, to talk about their ties to china. what do you want to learn from them? >> well, i think what concerns the american people in a bipartisan fashion is whenever we see an american corporation silencing itself or censoring members of its organization in order to avoid angering the

chinese communist party, in order to get profits from the massive chinese market. we don't want to have our american businesses downplaying genocide, and we do not want to be unwittingly facilitating genocide or modernization. so figuring out what the appropriate level of decoupling is very important for our committee. now, i recognize it's complex. businesses for decades have been trying to penetrate the chinese market, integrate them into the global economy hoping they would moderate behavior and it didn't. i understand it's complex but we have questions we need answered. >> john: we'll continue to watch the select committee and see what comes of it. always good to catch up with you, hope you have a good weekend. >> thank you. >> john: in determines of the decoupling from china, if hostilities erupted over taiwan, china would decouple from us

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glad to see you wore the tie again. i would have given you heck if you hadn't. so, let's go with china's ties to the nba, because they were on full display recently, on saturday, the foreign minister used to be the chinese ambassador to the united states appeared via video conference link at the washington wizards-magic game which he wished everybody a happy new lunar new year, and just strikes me that the nba has this close relationship with china. they make a lot of money over there. but the same time, not a whole lot of concern being paid to the human rights abuses that china is faced with. >> the whole world does not seem to care the muslim uyghurs are dying by the day and tortured. saudi arabia cutting deals, thought they were going to think about what's in the quran before

anything else. the nba, the different arenas got a different chance to hear it, and hopping in tesla cars and buzzing around, trying to make amends, he knows a fracture between the two countries. up until this weather balloon which is the surveillance balloon over the last 48 hours, clearly has poisoned the well. i just was going back and forth with another nba executive and they say things are almost back to normal after 18 months of being out of the country, and they also said the viewership of all comeback, the chinese love the nba. they stopped on a dime when morely retweeted something favorable of hong kong, he is now running the 76ers, doing a great job there, and now back to normal since. now, when you talk about other entities, nike is basically moving to vietnam. apple is also making major in-roads to get out and manufacture elsewhere, as is adidas. i love they are doing it.

>> john: that's not and principle, though, apple is doing it for the supply china. >> i think it's both. they tried to move to india and the difficulty was too great. and i think vietnam sees the same danger as we see as japan sees, south korea sees and from a business savvy sense, if they sense, john, that we are having trouble with china and that's the rough road we'll have in the future, they know even if they love china, manufacturing there might not make financial sense for the people that matter most and that is their shareholders. i'm not asking to be patriotic, anybody in either party and the conferences, just to target china, crazy to put stakes in the ground for an international corporation than we are stuck with them currently when it comes to pharmaceutical as you mentioned before. >> john: i've mentioned that king gong, who was the chinese

ambassador to the u.s., now the foreign minister, appeared in a video message that was the magic game and he was also shooting some free throws there at the capital one arena. i mean, the nba clearly as a close relationship with china because of the size of the market. when you think about that, when you think about other american corporations that save a buck in manufacturing, continue to do business there in china, it's almost normalizing bad behavior. >> i think there's got to be a big push, and i'm encouraged with what's happening in the house right now, mike gallagher is putting together a china offensive and it could unify the country. buying up boarding schools and private schools, and buying up land near bases, and giving hundreds of thousands to

schools, and watch what they are doing in the taiwanese strait. and the chips, talking to the ceo of ford, 85% from taiwan. hold your horses. if taiwan takes -- if taiwan goes under the auspices of china and is invaded, guess where our chips are that run just about everything, not just ford f-150s. so, this is a huge thing. and i think a good politician and good leader will use this as something to get us behind. we have to -- we have to recognize that this is a slow takeover of our country and put a stop to it. >> john: all right, as we slowly in the top right-hand side of the screen see the balloon floating over the western united states, lord knows -- i guess it's over the plain states now, lord knows where it's going to go. brian, always good to talk to you. see you tomorrow on one nation. >> watch the show and then go out at date night.

go out at 9:00, hope you don't mind. >> john: i'll make the reservation for then. we have people like nikki haley saying china is being given the opportunity to walk all over the united states by the administration, and the fact the balloon is still up there when so many lawmakers are saying shoot it out of the sky, as a sign to china to say you can't do this, reinforces that notion. >> gillian: it does. state department has cold the move by china bold, and unacceptable. >> john: strong language. >> gillian: very strong language. it would appear the language from the state department calling it at unacceptable, at odds with others who are letting it stay in the air. >> john: let it float out of u.s. air space and out o ocean ever happened? >> gillian: and float away, i don't know.

>> john: pacific, pretend it never happened? >> gillian: who knows. but they have said they anticipate it may by there for a few more days. >> john: doing lord knows what, right? >> gillian: don't know. >> john: if we see pictures of your back yard, we'll know. >> gillian: the pentagon says options remain on the table over how to respond to the spy balloon. they say this includes using f-15s to take out the threat. there's been no action. >> john: why f-15s, we have a lot of planes, could shooting down the balloon be a good thing for u.s.-china relations? rebecca grant is here to explain why that could be the case. she's coming up next. hi, i'm william devane. did you know there's only been two times in american history - two - when the national debt was larger than gross domestic product? world war ii - and right now. that's a deep hole.

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states. one viewer said they live in missouri and saw it there. the national weather service in kansas city reports there is a balloon visible from pleasant hill, missouri, there you go, and confirms it is not one of theirs. >> gillian: that tracks with what the pentagon said, the balloon over the center of the continental u.s., over america's farmland, which china has b beengobbling up, at alarming rate. not only the food supply but national security. a lot of farms are near military bases, like this in grand forks, north dakota. >> john: we reported yesterday a planned project there is dead, the corn popped as we put it and the mayor is speaking out. listen here. >> we went through a long review process, finally got a letter from the air force saying this is a national security concern and it was just time to say no. not in grand forks. the federal government through the processes allowed them to

own the land, they legally own the land but they cannot build on it. >> john: the plot of land is just 12 miles away from the grand forks air base. >> gillian: president biden has decided not to shoot down the balloon for now. told on the advice from top pentagon officials, our next guest says taking out the spy craft could be the best development in terms of deescalating tensions with china. here to discuss is rebecca grant, national security and military analyst, also president of iris independent research. rebecca, talk to us what you mean, shooting it down conversely could save us a whole lot of headache in the future. >> i wrote in my piece on foxnews.com, just shooting down the drone might be the best thing that could happen in u.s.-china relations. at some point, gillian, the

biden administration has to learn to deal with these gray area threats. this is no different than when china takes over a little island in the south china seas, except in this case they violated u.s. air space. china has to see a strong pushback from the u.s. and i bet some in the biden administration are wishing they had taken that chance to shoot down that balloon over the west area of the u.s. when they had the chance. >> gillian: one of my sources, a u.s. official tells me, rebecca, that the u.s. had known of plans to launch this balloon as far back as months ago. do you think they had considered their options for preventing it from entering u.s. air space to begin with? it seems that might have been a reasonable strategic plan. >> yes, months ago, and i guarantee you that norad tracked

this coming into the u.s., they saw it coming across the pacific, so the white house has been dithering for days over what to do and you know, the question is, what if another one comes across. this is a really unprecedented act, the pentagon made clear it's a violation and i'm shocked and horrified the biden administration would let this big giant balloon drift over our nuclear bases and now heading across missouri, that's where our stealth bomber base is, the b-two base and now just heading to the east coast across a lot more military air space. it's really the wrong thing to do. >> general kellogg told me a few minutes ago the problem with it allowing to stay, even if it poses no imminent military threat to americans as the pentagon has said, this thing is continuing to collect the longer, every minute that, every moment it remains operational. take a listen.

>> if you knock it down, then we can look at the sensor package, what kind of sensors are these. it's not collecting and holding it, it's transmitting this information back. and every day it's out there, it's collecting information and sending it back. we don't know what it's collecting. >> gillian: do you agree with that assessment? >> you are right, it has a receiver on and piping it back maybe via satellite uplink or some other way and suggested before, maybe what they are trying to do, listen in on military aircraft communications, and gain other information about our most sensitive military secrets and our operational style. we don't want china to get the information from this balloon and you know, that's why i say, might be the right thing to shoot this thing down. >> gillian: talk to us a little bit about the current state of play between the chinese government and the russian government. wall street journal has this headline out today. russia and china have long sought to dull the u.s.

influence in the world, coming to sharper focus in recent years as the two nations are confident they can reshape an international order that both view as biased and favor the west and allies, mr. xi's long standing admiration of russia and mr. putin has enhanced ties with china's northern neighbor. any chance they are sharing intelligence? >> china and russia are in a military alliance, china is backing russia in ukraine. are they sharing military intelligence, they might be doing just that. and hey, russia had its sputnik moment in 1957, china flying this balloon over the united states, that impresses putin, that shows off xi jinping's capabilities and i would say absolutely there is every possibility they could be sharing military intelligence. bad news. >> gillian: wow, maybe even intelligence collected by the balloon that's currently hovering over the midwest.

rebecca, thanks so much for joining us. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> john: fox news alert, an american volunteer and marine corps veteran killed in ukraine. the family of pete reed said yesterday, when the ambulance was hit by russian fire. he was working with global outreach doctors, the country director in ukraine. trey yingst is live in kyiv with the latest on this tragedy. trey, what other details do we have at this point? >> john, good afternoon. an american volunteer and medic named pete reed was killed yesterday in eastern ukraine according to his family members. reed was working at the time as a medic trying to evacuate civilians. this morning i spoke with his brother chandler, described pete as the good kind of crazy. he said he dedicated his life to helping others, putting himself in harm's way to do so before he

was a marine. he served two deployments in afghanistan, and then afterwards he decided to be a medic. he helped kurdish forces as they liberated mosul, and what to do when people were injured and the area in which he was killed, one of the hottest areas in ukraine, one of the most dangerous. we spoke yesterday with the ukrainian president who described the situation on the front lines and said his forces operating in that area are in grave danger. they are trying to push back a new russian offensive and people like pete, volunteers giving up their own time and putting their lives at risk trying to get civilians out of the way. according to ukrainian officials, around 6,000 continue to be in the city, 200 are children. the tragic news, pete reed, a former american marine and current medic and volunteer killed in eastern ukraine, his family tells us. john. >> john: such a shame.

trey, thank you. fox news alert now, a short time ago we had mark short who is the former vice president's chief of staff in chatting with us. the former vice president has weighed in and what he believes the biden administration should go about it. mike pence tweeting, shoot down the chinese spy balloon, go ahead and send the secretary of state to chin next week, have secretary blinken look them in the eye and tell them it better never happen again. that is peace through strength. >> gillian: wow. >> john: we had mark here, you know, would president trump have shot this down? yep. and pence if he became president, yep. >> gillian: as a deterrent measure. >> john: as a you can't do this measure. i'm at a loss to understand what this administration is doing. >> gillian: the pentagon told reporters in the briefing that

this had happened several times in recent years, they did not specify how many times or when exactly it happened. yet they are allowing it to continue. >> john: it happened again. and the critics are looking at president biden's response to this and saying xi jinping is testing, he's probing. how much can he get away with, and the more -- like the children's book, give a mouse a cookie, and he'll probably ask for some milk and then if you've got another cookie and when you run out of cookies, he'll ask you to go to the store and get more cookie mix, on and on and on. critics say that's what china is doing, to push the administration with ties on what do we do about taiwan. >> gillian: and the same strategy in the south china sea, inching, inching, inching. small islands. >> john: until it's too late.

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>> gillian: president biden and vice president harris just landed in philadelphia, they are there to give a joint speech touting the economic agenda before attending two dnc events. big questions right now hanging over the administration, including why they are not taking action against the chinese spy balloon, classified document scandal and new developments in hunter biden's laptop scandal. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich is travelling with the vice president and president in philly. what can you expect the president to say when he speaks? >> gillian, probably not a lot as it relates to the documents, the white house has been referring all questions about that to outside entities. also the president did not answer anything on why the u.s. is taking certain action or not taking certain action with respect to this balloon saying he wants to stay focused on the economy. he wanted to give a moment to

those impressive jobs numbers from january. u.s. adding 517,000 jobs with the unemployment rate dropping to 3.4%. he did not hesitate to use this data to blunt attacks from critics. >> well, today's data makes crystal clear what i've always known in my gut, these critics and cynics are wrong. while we may face setbacks along the way, there will be some, our plan is working because of the grit and resolve on the american worker. >> this evening the president will come to a dnc event as the party shakes up its primary calendar. biden supporting the plan to make south carolina the first in the nation after his win there resurrected his bid for the democratic nomination in the 2020 election. despite pushback from new hampshire, which would lose its spot in first place, there is no question where biden stands on this issue.

he brought jim clyburn with him on air force one. biden's outgoing chief of staff has indicated the president will run again and said this week he looks forward to being at biden's side when he runs, not if he runs. so, seems like we might be getting closer to an announcement, somewhat tagged around the date of the state of the union. the documents probe front and center in the news lately amid congressional investigations and also the federal probe into biden's son hunter and his taxes. yesterday hunter's lawyers released letters accusing trump allies of illegally obtaining hunter's personal computer data from his laptop and weaponizing it for political purposes. the attorneys told fox in a statement that does not amount to an admission that the laptop belonged to hunter. they say these letters do not confirm mac isaac's or other versions of a so-called laptop, address seeking, manipulating and disseminating mr. biden's

personal data wherever they claim to have gotten it. they say the laptop story was a russian plant and propaganda and the president has said he has not had any discussions with his son about his business dealings. so those statements, they seem to be sticking to, gillian. >> gillian: jacqui heinrich in philly this afternoon, thanks. >> john: shannon bream, what game is hunter biden's new legal team playing here, is this in response to a defamation lawsuit that was filed by the computer shop owner, an attempt to change the subject from classified documents, an attempt to chill reporting about the laptop ahead of the 2024 election, all of the above, none of the above, what do you think? >> yeah, feels like a brush back pitch over the plate from his legal team and we know hunter biden has been under investigation, federal investigation for a while. so, there could be developments in that case that are prompting this, it could be the defamation issue, whatever it is, what they

have now launched is something that is unlikely to go anywhere because there are the optics now of these particular attorneys viewed as doing the bidding of hunter biden, the president's son, when he may be in some serious legal trouble. >> gillian: shannon, the legal team is asking the doj to launch criminal probes into multiple american citizens. is this an avenue available to any american citizen? could we -- could i ask the doj to launch a criminal probe of john and say, for example. >> heaven forbid. >> gillian: and would it be considered. >> john: warranted or not. >> not. you can make the asks but only the entity is going to make a decision about doing that. i think because there are personal connections to the biden family and administration with the particular attorneys, it does make it really tough to say ok, we are going to open this investigation. also, what hunter could have done as any of us could do is

file a civil lawsuit. if you are feeling agrieved over the last two years, you could have gone to court to do that. so that's an avenue that would not raise some of these same questions, so that sparks the question, why aren't they doing that. >> john: this question did not escape kimberly strassel who wrote in the wall street journal about this whole thing that hunter biden is doing. this is about as ill considered as every other hunter move, trading on his family name to engaging in suspicious art sales. what it actually does is land yet again the biden white house in an sinkhole, this comes down to hunter asking employees and buddies of his dad to pursue a vendetta on his pampered behalf. classic. >> kind of a nightmare for the doj, right, the attorney general is caught between all of the optics of looking like everybody is being treated fairly. you have special counsels for former president trump, the current president, brings to mind other issues, pro life pregnancy centers versus who you

are going to prosecute for going after abortion centers versus the pro life centers. doj has a lot of optics to deal with. i'm sure the last thing they wanted was for these letters from hunter biden's legal team asking the doj to get directly involved in the cases. >> gillian: switch gears and talk about not just the china balloon but your show this weekend, i think you will dig up some new interesting dirt what's going on over the midwest. >> listen, the balloon that we are all -- i think they should have a norad tracker like for santa, everybody wants to know, is the balloon over my space. yeah. >> gillian: the president could call norad and ask for the update in front of the american people. >> online tracker so we know. senator tom cotton one of those who said take it down out of the sky, trip it for intel, i imagine he'll have plenty to say. jared bernstein will be with us a time the white house is going

good economic news but polling shows people are not buying it yet and blessed to have gillian turner on the panel as well. glad to see you on sunday. >> oh, excited to be with you. >> john: doesn't get better than that. so, take a look at this freezing scene on top of mount washington in new hampshire, where the temperature is a balmy negative 31°. it could get to 100 below 0 by the time the day is out. >> gillian: bitterly cold, as millions in the northeast brace for the arctic blast. how long is it going to last? that is the question on everybody's mind. a live weather report coming up next. ♪♪

>> john: a lot of folks are seeing their breath as dangerously bitter temperatures blast the midwest and northeast tied. we're talking windchills of minus 40 or 50 degrees in parts of upstate new york and new england. katie byrne is live in boston. when the weather gets cold, we say let's send the meteorologist outside. how cold is it? >> it's very cold. face-numbing type of temperatures out here in the boston suburbs. the cold air is here. it's only going to get colder from here on out. here in southern new england, people will be feeling temperatures that are the coldest temperatures that they felt in about five years. so when we look at the windchill, that will be dangerously low. that's when we're seeing things

as low as negative 44. that's what we're feeling in bangor, maine. in boston, negative 30s. that's what we're dealing with and monitoring the next couple days before things warm up sunday. john? >> john: thanks. katie, go back inside and warm up. >> gillian: too is a nice day to stay inside. >> john: thanks for joining us. i'm john roberts. see you monday. >> gillian: thanks for having me. great to be with you. a bonus for me on this friday. >> john: you and the balloon. >> gillian: "the story" with martha starts next. >> martha: good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. and right now breaking on "the story," this. >> the fact is, we know that it's a surveillance balloon. the balloon continues to move eastward and is over the center of the continental united states. >> martha: well, that is an image of the chinese spy balloon said to be larger than two to three school