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jacqui heinrich. griff: it's great to be with you, i'm griff jenkins. the balloon sighting dashing an attempt by the biden administration to ease u.s.-china tensions, with antony blinken calling off his trip to beijing. and we have coverage in london alexandria hoff in washington and let's start off. >> earlier some say the chinese balloon should have been shot down when this first crossed over alaska. >> we could have shot it down over open water, over dense, sparse parts of alaska and should it shot it down then. it leads me to believe that possibly a political decision was made by the white house not to do so for fear of interrupting the relationship with china. that's troubling if that it indeed the case. >> here at the white house, president biden only wanted to

talk about the strong jobs report not that chinese sp, whe will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? >> the chinese spy balloon had been spotted over charlotte, north carolina a short time ago and flying high over montana, one of the air forces three bases minuteman nuclear missile silos, the same kind of silos that the chinese are building, a stock pile that is expected to double over the next decade. the latest espionage between the nations, and a month ago, that a china plane came close to a plane flying here. and that they stole an underwater drone from the u.s. navy and 2001 u.s. navy ep-3 collided with a chinese fighting jet causing the american plane to go down and

the crew held for 11 days. asked how long the balloon would be over the u.s., they were vague. >> right now we'll monitor it and right now assess that it will be over the united states for a few days. >> that means that the spy balloon could be over the united states when the president gives his state of the union address. griff: thank you. jacqui: and chinese officials remain adamant that it entered u.s. air space by accident this as antony blinken called off his trip to beijing this weekend. ryan chillcoate joins us with more on the efforts, hey, ryan. >> yeah, hi, jacqui. well, chinese officials say the united states hasn't canceled secretary blinken's visit because neither side had formally announced the visit in the first place, effectively arguing you can't cancel something that isn't officially

on. the chinese foreign ministry putting out a state, in actuality the u.s. and china have never announced any visit. the u.s. making any such announcement is their own business and we respect that. china also asked the u.s. to respect it and not smear the country and china and the first reaction said it regretted that the balloon has unintentionally entered u.s. air space and china claimed that they could not control where it goes and that it's for weather research not for spying. blinken would have been arriving in beijing tomorrow. the first high level meeting since china's president xi and president biden sat down in november, agreed on blinken's visit and promised to avoid conflict, but outside of the official communications from china, you can also hear a lot of chinese experts saying that again, while claiming that again, the balloon isn't for spying and american

surveillance of china is much shall much more aggressive and no official comment from chinese officials on the second balloon sight in latin america. jacqui: china claiming there was not going to be a blinken visit is something. he was suppose today leave last night. all right, ryan, thanks so much. griff: all right, jacqui. reaction coming from from both side of the aisle and the biden administration's response to the chinese balloon. >> yeah, republicans have long been adamant that the administration needs to show strength when it comes to our borders both by land and by air. democrats now expressing concern as well given the already tense relationship with china. senator jon tester, a democrat from montana released this statement, we're waiting for real answers on how this happened and what steps the administration took to protect our country and i will hold everyone accountable until i get them. i will always defend montana and our national security from

hostile adversaries like china. and a republican voiced frustration today over the lack of information shared with officials in the state as the chinese surveillance tool lingered above. >> we knew nothing about this until this slow moving balloon was hundreds of miles into the state and already had flown over military installations and it was over our most populous city in the state. honestly, if this had been up to montanans we would have taken it out of the air the moment it came into our sovereign air face. >> the governor added he understands the president' concern over ground injuries, but nothing doing is as well. james comer put it bluntly. >> unless china is working with the biden administration to help find some of the missing documents scattered all over the united states, then this is unacceptable and this should not be allowed and again, another sign of weakness on the international stage by our

commander-in-chief. >> next week, the biden administration will provide the gang of eight, a group of congressional leaders from both parties, an intelligence briefing on the matter. griff: alexandria hoff love live for us in washington, thank you. jacqui: next let's bring in house member from kentucky andy barr as we try to show the latest on the balloon that it just transited north carolina, griff, is that right. griff: the images are over north carolina. jacqui: you can see there's a plane making its way across the screen. this is just a short while ago and we're working to get a live video of this balloon to keep an eye on it as we interview the congressman. congressman barr is a member of the house foreign affairs and also financial services committees and big focus on the new select committee on china. congressman, thank you so much for joining us on this saturday. appreciate your time. >> good to be with you, jacqui.

>> so this surveillance balloon really shows that china is not just a threat to taiwan, to east asia, but this is, you know, we've been calling it a form of aggression from the pentagon, from the state department, and we haven't heard a lot from the white house, but what does this spy balloon tell you about the nature of the u.s. relationships with china at this stage? >> well, jacqui, it's a real brazen violation of not only u.s. sovereignty, but international law. article one of the convention of civil air space is very clear, that incursion of this nature is a violation of international law. i don't buy it when the chinese communist party puts out their pop propaganda and say this is a civilian meteorology aircraft that was mistakenly led off course. this is the type of aircraft

and balloon that would use spy technology. at biden administration admits that's what this is, a spy balloon, but i don't believe the biden administration when they put out this defense that they didn't intercept the balloon, they didn't shoot it down when they could over the elution islands over the open water when it initially violated alaskan air space. they say that their intelligence collection capability is not any better than a low orbit satellite. that's just not credible. 12 kilometers versus 1,200 kilometers is a big difference in terms of that kind of a platform being able to collect better, higher resolution intelligence, especially when you consider that this balloon and the flight path was over very sensitive, fixed national security sites like a nuclear weapons facility in montana.

so, to allow this spy satellite to continue its path across the continental united states is unacceptable. >> china's whole song and dance about this being a weather balloon is about as believable as their claim that there was never a blinken trip scheduled. we know that that's not true either. but you know, let's accept for a moment the premise that it would have been too dangerous to shoot it down while it's over land. there's still an opportunity, i suppose, for the biden administration to shoot it down after it's over open water, but can you think of any reason that we would choose not to do that, perhaps that it would allow us to send sort of a mission over china without retaliation from that side? >> you know, the chinese intercepted u.s. aircraft and took that aircraft apart and gained intelligence when they captured our aircraft. we need to do the same. if we don't have the capability of intercepting it and looking at the instrumentation and technology on this balloon, i

want -- i want to know why we don't have that capability, especially when the administration, the defense department says that well, this is somewhat routine that these things happen. well, we should have been better prepared in that instance. i also want to explore next week when we get back to washington about the motives here. it is interesting that this happened corresponding to blinken's planned visit to beijing. this was, i think, potentially an effort to embarrass the biden administration and so what blinken should be doing, in addition to canceling his trip to beijing, which of course, i agree with, but he should be scheduling an immediate meeting with the quad, with australia, india and japan and also, our canadian allies, which obviously also were subject to this breach of sovereignty. i think that's what blinken should be doing right now instead of just scratching his head and questioning what we're

going to do about this balloon right now. jacqui: you know, the president said his first comments on this balloon this morning, effectively saying we're going to take care of it. actually it wasn't in response to a question about the balloon specifically, it was a question about china, we assume he was saying we are going to take care of the balloon, but you know, yesterday he gave remarks at dnc event and he brought up his relationship with chinese president xi jinping and didn't mention the balloon. i want to play a sound bite from what he said and get your reaction. >> mr. president, when and how will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? >> what about the balloon, sir? >> so, that was not the right sound bite, congressman, we were-- i was referring to was yesterday he talked about what he often talks about which was flying, i think, 70,000 miles

with the chinese president talking about how they have a great working relationship. was that an appropriate comment while we've got a chinese spy balloon over american soil and he had not to that moment said anything else on the topic? >> not at all. it's embarrassing. he's once again projecting weakness and weakness invites aggression. we saw that in ukraine. we need to recognize that weakness will invite aggression with taiwan and even over our own air space. look, this select committee on china is timely, it's needed more than ever before and it need to be bipartisan. this should not be a political issue, it should be a bipartisan issue, but you've got to think, if this happened, if it was a russian spy balloon over the united states in 2018, president trump would have been impeached over this. we need to come together as a country and confront this in a bipartisan way, but what we need from our president, whether it's a republican or a democrat, is strength. we need deterrents, and this

spy boon balloon should have been intercepted over international waters and never should have been allowed to encroach over u.s. or canadian air space. jacqui: thank you for your time and we'll ask your colleague from the committee the question posed about needing a bipartisan response. appreciate you being on with us, sir. >> thank you. jacqui: griff. griff: jacqui, joining us now from the other side aisle, member of the house financial services from massachusetts, transportation jake auchincloss and serves on the committee. thank you for taking time and we're obviously watching this spy balloon floating. we have our most recent pictures, as you can see from north carolina. we believe it's moved from there and we're working to get up a live shot from south carolina where we have cameras. we're not sure exactly where it's going.

it's been 24 hours since the pentagon told us where exactly it is. we're following that, but congressman, let me ask you, because and barr is a colleague of yours on the new chinese committee and talking bipartisan. what are your thoughts as we watch this and track this balloon? >> first and foremost, the chinese communist party should not be allowed to enter u.s. air space, to break international law and certainly to surveil sensitive sites and there needs to be accountability for that and a proportionate response. i agree with representative barr that we need a sound strategy for competing with the chinese communist party in the 21st century that rises above partisan politics, that's why i am excited as one of the youngest members of congress, as a veteran, to be on this select committee on china so i can work with democrats and republicans to ensure that we outcompete the chinese communist party and protect both american interests and

project american values. griff: as a combat veteran, congressman, you can appreciate this question, we were told obviously by the pentagon they didn't shoot it down over montana because of the potential debris field which could have been hundreds of miles in and the danger it could pose. if the balloon tracks in the coming hours over water they may have a shot that reduces casualties and collateral damage. thud she take it if they have it? >> every mission from when you're a second lieutenant all the way up to when you're chairman of the joint chiefs is going to have an operational risk matrix, look at force protection versus the objective of the mission and try to balance those two prerogatives. and that seems to be what the pentagon is doing right now. they're looking at the imperative to protect civilians on the ground, but also of course, the necessity of defending u.s. air space and preventing any surveillance by the chinese communist party. i see no reason not to have

confidence to date that the pentagon is going to take action as appropriate to resolve this situation. griff: is bringing it down at some point appropriate? >> provided that we can ensure that there's not going to be any civilian fatalities or any force protection issues, it's certainly within the rights of the united states to do that. i'm not going to peer over their shoulder while they're in real-time, in real-time decision making mode. congress's role is oversight and every mission that the military does is going to have an after action and congress is going to be a part of that for sure, but i know that you know when i was out on patrol as a lieutenant or a captain, the last thing you want is your decisions second guessed in real-time. so until we are or unless they give us any reason not to have confidence in their actions, i think they're doing the right thing. griff: and let's talk about the committee, you're one of the leaders now on this new select china committee. what does this incident now mean for that?

can we expect hearings? what do you want to know? >> it underscores the dysfunctionality of the relationship between the two largest, most powerful nations in the world and we need to carve out a sophisticated sound strategy going forward. there are areas we are going to have to manage conflict, the south china seas and the taiwan straits with the intrusion of air space, areas we'll want to compete, investments in latin america and southeast asia and where we may need to cooperate with climate action and global health. and a nation 1.4 billion people, it's going to require nuance and thoughtfulness. i'm optimistic that this committee is up to the task. griff: and as we are showing our viewers pictures, this is from earlier, you're seeing on your screen next to congressman auchincloss, but the picture now that's up is our live camera in myrtle beach. the balloon has not entered there, according to our team on

the ground there, but we believe there is a chance we could do it. congressman, i want to ask you a little bit as we wait to see if it's going to go over there, it's been, as i mentioned 24 hours since the pentagon gave us an update. do the american people deserve a little more transparency in knowing where in balloon is? >> yeah, i think when a foreign actor has aircraft over the united states air space, the american people always deserve transparency and accountability and the biden administration to date has delivered a proportionate response and i expect them to continue to communicate with the american people. i'd point out here that the actor that looks weak and incompetent is actually the chinese communist party. the first rule of covert surveillance is don't get caught and secondly can't control this thing and looking like they've got their hands up in the air, we don't know what to do next.

this is a deeply by the communist chinese party. griff: are they potentially testing us to see what our response might be? >> i'm not going to try to get inside the head of the pollit bureau right now. what i say the united states always needs to respond with strength as we have seen with president trump's disastrous appeasement of vladimir putin it only invites aggression and when president biden has stood up to vladimir putin in ukraine, we can rally the west and east asian allies and underscore the strength of american values and american power. griff: congressman jake auchincloss, thank you for your time as we continue to monitor this. we appreciate it. thank you much. jacqui. jacqui: millions of americans are waking up to frigid temperatures this morning with wind chills in the northeast dropping well below zero. we're live in a very chilly

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>> this is a fox news alert. we are live in myrtle beach. you're looking now here as you see a plane just travelling across the sky. we are awaiting and believe

that we will see this giant chinese spy balloon making its way across the u.s. now, we have been tracking its movements as it comes across the u.s. and again, it's not in the frame here. earlier you see, you can see it there, the faint to the right of the screen as another plane is just going across. we have gotten no updates from the pentagon or from the norad folks for northern command of the military of its exact location or exact predicted track, but we're trying to follow it to bring you the latest updates on the balloon as we get them and doing same mri with the pentagon is doing all americans to do, look up in the sky or any reference or frame of what we're looking at and we will bring that as we get it. jacqui. jacqui: the polar vortex blasting the northeast is bringing frigid temperatures

across the state. katie byrne is in boston with the latest. katie, i applaud you fob being outside for telling us how it is. what do you have to say? >> well, jacqui, this is the kind of weather that just hurts your face. it's numbing, it's cold, and it's record breaking. in fact, we know the wind chill overnight peaking at about negative 39 degrees, the coldest ever in boston's history and today, cold temperatures to match. coldest temps in 67 years. so, if you're seeing people out and about, which there aren't many, they are bundled up and the wind has been a really big part of the story with this severe weather that we're talking about. the wind has been blowing down trees onto at least three moving vehicles in different towns across the state. a tree, you could see punctured the window of a women's hockey team. one person was hurt.

and in boston, heavy winds caused a tree to crush a car, a baby died and the aunt is in the hospital we know. in westfield, another town, two adults and a 2-year-old went to the hospital with minor injuries when the same thing hand to them. so serious wind and that wind also causing outages at peak thousands in massachusetts, but people were able to restore power quickly to most. by the time i woke up this morning at 5:00, 6:00 a.m., the last people without power around 6,000 by then and that the numbers continue to decline and most people plan to spend the day insight and pump up that fireplace and get cozy, but some souls still have to come out to get to work. >> i work at copley square chick-fil-a and i'm used to it now, it's new england. it's so cold it feels like it's burning you. but definitely once you step outside you can definitely feel

it in your bones. >> the cold weather is causing interesting phenomenons. we've seen sea smoke off boston harbor. this is what happens when you get cold air on top of warmer water. and up in maine, people have been seeing and hearing trees exploding, the sap inside. and they've been hearing the loud booms in the woods in the night. jacqui. jacqui: katie, i feel for you. get back in the car and tell your crew thank you so much and get a hot chocolate and get warm. this cold is no joke. appreciate it. to stay up-to-date on your weather, scan the qr code on your screen right now, if you can rush over and get close to it long enough for it to stay up. download the fox news weather app there. the weather-- fox weather app brings you live local updates as well as national outlooks, it's all in one place so go ahead and download it now. ♪

. griff: well, police are searching for answers after a doctor in southern california was killed earlier this week in a shocking encounter. officials say the doctor was riding his bike along a scenic route when he was hit from behind by a car. witnesses say the driver of the car then got out and stabbed the doctor before being restrained by bystanders. christina coleman joins us live with the latest details. a shocking story, christina. >> hi, griff, yeah, shocking and disturbing, a violent way to die to be hit by a car and stabbed. and so far no motive. they do not believe that the victim and the suspect in the case knew each other. they say the 58-year-old district, doctor was riding along the pacific coast highway south of los angeles when some guy driving a lexus hit him with his vehicle in broad daylight around 3:00 wednesday afternoon.

deputies identified the driver as 39-year-old vanroy evan smith of long beach. they believe he intentionally slammed into the doctor with his car, and then got out of the vehicle and stabbed him repeatedly. witnesses say the victim was stabbed at least once in the back. some bystanders were able to detain smith until authorities arrived and local residents, of could,were shocked by this violence. >> it's actually completely surreal. this type of thing does not happen in our community at all. >> my immediate reaction was to ask my neighbor who is a cyclist, hey are you home, are you safe? disturbing. >> the knife that investigators believe was useled in this attack was found at the seen and the doctor was found in an intersection with severe injuries. now, his family and friends are coming to terms with this attack. they said, the doctor lived just blocks away from his job and he would often ride his bicycle to work. and he was killed less than a

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>> 35 minutes after the hour. time for a look at some of our headlines this hour, the chinese spy balloon continues making its way across the united states after it was first spotted hovering in the skies above montana now. you're looking live in myrtle beach, south carolina where it's expected to appear next. we will monitor that as u.s. secretary of state antony blinken now postponing his trip to beijing, attributing the delay to the spy balloon's quote, detrimental effects for anything during his visit. and the pentagon showing another balloon over south america and fueling debate over what actions the u.s. should be ta taking. jacqui: all right, let's now turn to the border where our fox flight team is bringing you images from the rio grande valley. a congressional delegation is

visiting the border this weekend after the house republican began their probe into border security earlier this week. this comes as the biden administration touts lower encounters in january, despite got-away numbers and drug busts remaining consistent. bill melugin is live on the ground in mission, texas with the latest on the crisis for us. bill, what can you tell us this morning? >> well, jacqui, i can tell you the numbers might be dropping, but human smuggling incidents continue to shoot through the roof and we've got some pretty wild video showing two juvy smugglers 12 and 15 leading dps on the chase. and they loose control, hit an embankment and go airborne on i-35 in freo county. and texas dps go in and the 12-year-old is a run away they pull out first. he was the passenger and they pull out a bloodied and critically wounded migrant and the 15-year-old driver. everybody survived this crash

and that they believed that the young boys were recruited by a smuggling organization on social media which continues to be a huge problem down here at the southern border. the 15-year-old has been charged with evading and with human smuggling. then we'll take you out to video that we shot here in the rio grande valley inside of a public restroom where illegal immigrant evaders went inside to hide. this is near hidalgo. they run inside the restroom and hide in a bathroom stall in an attempt to get away. didn't work out for them. they were from mexico. out to arizona take a look alt the meth bust, border patrol seizing 90 pounds of meth during a traffic stop near gila bend, arizona and the guy had 90 pounds of meth hidden in the vehicle truck. a 30-year-old mexican citizen with a visa. lastly, we'll take you out to the border patrol in miami. take a look, we've been talking

about the boat landings there, and this honduran national previously deported. he has an interpoll warrant out for his arrest for attempted murder in honduras. migrant boat landings in that miami sector up 400% since october. and border patrol announced arresting more than 3,000 illegal immigrants that have serious criminal histories. 10 murderers and more than 70 others. jacqui: thank you. griff: brand new fox news polling shows president biden's approval rating dipping when it comes to handling of the border. 61%. and from the texas policy foundation, rodney scott. thank you for taking time. we saw the first of house g.o.p. hearings in the

judiciary committee kicking och. and we expect more, but in this very first one, the ranking member of the judiciary committee, jerry nadler, had this to stay. take a listen. >> the first hearings will showcase the racist tendencies of the extreme maga wing of the public that seeks to close the border from refugees from cuba and venezuela, it almost makes me miss the conspiracy theories and the fbi. chief, your reaction. >> i'm kind of sick of hearing that allegation. everybody needs to remember, border security is very, have i simple. just knowing and controlling who and what comes into your home. the ports of entry. there's over 160 nationality, every skin tone you can think of crossing the southwest border. the racist allegations is what they have when there's nothing left and that's where they're at today.

griff: what do you hope to come of the hearings? >> i hope that america pays attention. the number one thing that's going to come out of the hearing is some transparenciment i think we saw last week, dhs pushed back against having some chiefs testify and finally gave in and we will have at least two. those two are going to put their career on the line now to tell the truth because it's going to go against the secretary. we need to bring in all 20 sector chiefs, you have the power of the unity of them all speaking with one voice. and i think america is going to see that we have given complete control of our border to the cartels, and that mass migration is just cover to bring in all the other threats, the narcotics, criminals, the terrorists, everything that comes in in the second wave. griff: chief, why is it so important that we hear from these sector chiefs? >> i think the most important thing is everybody needs to remember, they are career professionals. they're not politicians. they're not-- they've never been politically appointed, they have no political affiliation, they're going to give the facts what goes on on the border and the

consequences of different policies. people can ask them questions and they're going to answer it from a law enforcement perspective of what helps secure the country and what does not, without the political spin that mayorkas provides every time he testifies. griff: chief, i reported a week or so ago of the 304,000 known got-aways, these are the numbers in addition to what is publicized as the migrant encounters. what do you make of the got-away situation? how important is that as we begin to delve into these hearings? >> so, the got-aways is actually more important than anything else. and this is why. it's the unknown. we talk about the encounters, we know who they are. we talk about the drug seizures at the ports of entry and in between because we know what they are. but that, the mass illegal migration is actually pulling agents away from patrolling hundreds and hundreds of miles of border, and the known

got-aways are just people that have been seen, but they're already out of agents. it doesn't even account for the hundreds of miles of border where there's no technology and there's no agents. so i'm really hoping that congress digs into that to show the true vulnerability. every one. criminals that bill always points out in these -- in the news, those are knowns. the how many criminals, how many terrorists, how many child molesters, how much narcotics were in the got aways. that's what we need to talk about, and there shouldn't doesn't seem to be a shortage of fentanyl in all of our major cities, is there? >> and just in the last seconds that you've got, are you confidence the hearings can make a difference? >> they can make a difference with the right questions and get the 20 sector chiefs in. if you only bring in political appointees then you're going to hear the same message of this administration over and over again, but i ask people to listen to those witnesses, push your congressmen to bring in those 20 sector chiefs, bring

in even the field operation directors from the points of entry and hear what they have to say. it's enough about the politics, we need to hear from the real law enforcement professionals. griff: well said, former border patrol chief rodney scott, thank you very much. >> have a great day, griff. thank you. griff: jacqui. jacqui: we continue tracking the chinese surveillance balloon or weather balloon, if you believe china on this one. we're monitoring the sky above myrtle beach, south carolina where we're told this balloon may be headed. we're keeping our eyes to the sky. more on this coming up next. every year we try to exercise more, to be more social, to just relax. and eating healthy every single meal? if only it was this easy for us.

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>> we are tracking the latest on the chinese surveillance balloon and it continues making its way across the united states after it was first spotted hovering above the skies over montana. we are live in myrtle beach, south carolina, where we expect it to appear next. you're looking here. you can see a plane making its way across the skies. we've not yet spotted over

south carolina yet this chinese surveillance balloon. the associated press reporting just now crossing the wires, according to the ap, the biden administration considering options to possibly bring it down over the atlantic and recover the remnants. we'll bring you more as we get it. seeking confirmation on that and as we continue to monitor the skies above myrtle beach, south carolina. earlier today, we heard from president biden after landing in syracuse, new york. listen. >> the chinese balloon-- >> we'll take care of it. griff: we will continue to keeping a close eye on the balloon, bringing you the latest updates as they come. jacqui. jacqui: and also brand new numbers out on the state of american jobs. what they are saying about state of our economy and also, inflation. that's coming up next.

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these numbers. fox business contributor and founder of capitalist pig.com jonathan hoenig join me now. what does it tell us about the direction the economy is leaded. a lot of team look at this and say it's a wow number for the job report and that the economy can sustain a couple more rate hikes to tamp down inflation. what does do you read. >> it was a wow report. the jobs had been declining for a couple of months and showing the lowest unemployment rate for 1969 surprised a lot of economists. they're split. moody's anticipating more job growth, but many, many economists expecting more job losses throughout the rest of 2023. the street is split. one thing is almost assured as you pointed out you'll continue to see federal reserve raise interest rates, that's likely to slow the economy and you're also likely to see more continued job cuts specifically within tech.

there is some hiring in hospitality that's positive, but within technology companies you've seen amazon, facebook, microsoft cut between 5 and 13% of their work forces in just the last couple of months. so that trend is likely to continue. jacqui: does this tell you that maybe the fed can achieve a soft landing and we can bring down inflation without pitching the u.s. economy into recession? >> ironically, despite the strong job numbers jacqui, most americans aren't feeling it. a majority of americans making $100,000 or more, they're reporting they're living p paycheck to paycheck and americans on credit card debt and borrowing from their 401(k) and the fed is trying to master the soft landing, but inflation better than 6% and most people's incomes not keeping up with inflation and rit large, so many indicators the economy to slow in 2023. jacqui: and in grocery store the surge of egg prices the

last couple of months. it's just ridiculous. we're headed upward toward 4.50 a dozen, you know, at the grocery store, another picture of an advertisement for a low price, with 8.77 for a dozen eggs. that's just wild. >> yeah, it's wild. jacqui: are we going to see an improvement? >> eggs are note even-- orange juice futures this week hit an all-time high some people reporting paying $6 a gallon for orange juice and that's what's so frustrating about inflation, and supply chains with some of the commodities. but inflation for months, we have been talking how it's a silent tax, a tax you don't realize so so many americans are feeling that pain week after week higher prices at the grocery store every time they go. jacqui: we're running out of time. jonathan, thank you for being with us. >> you're welcome. jacqui: and the latest out of the white house and beijing about china's spy balloon over the u.s. that's coming up next. together we support immune function. supply fuel for immune cells

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>> the biden administration now considering options to bring down the suspected chinese spy balloon once it makes its way over the atlantic ocean. then attempt to collect the reminiscence, you're getting a live look at the sky of myrtle beach, south carolina where the chinese surveillance balloon is expected to appear next. welcome to fox news live, i'm griff jenkins. jacqui: i'm