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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 tensions in the last few year. the chinese foreign ministry says the decision to shoot down a "civilian balloon" is a clear overreaction. military experts warn china is building up its military and the u.s. may not be ready for a confrontation. >> gillian: daniel davis is standing by. >> john: lucas tomlinson live in the white house briefing room, aishah hasnie has reaction. >> gillian: the south carolina coast, navy divers are searching for remnants of the spy flight. charles watson, in waters off myrtle beach. >> good afternoon, guys. about nine miles off the coast of myrtle beach, that is the u.s. coast guard ship, escorting

us away from the debris field. we tried to get as close as we possibly could to the debris field but as we got about three miles away from a u.s. navy vessel, what we think was a u.s. navy vessel, the coast guard radioed in to the captain of our boat and told us we needed to be 20 nautical miles back, basically back to land right now. so, we were not able to get close at all, but we know navy divers and unmanned vessels are in the water looking for debris from that suspected chinese spy balloon. we are told, fox news has confirmed some of the debris that was found is en route to quantico so u.s. officials can examine what it is. if there is more in the water is unclear, we are not getting any

answers in terms of what they are looking for out there in the ocean. but the u.s. coast guard seems to be very serious about this national defense operation, again, they are escorting us away from the navy vessel. back to you guys. >> john: charles watson out there in the waters off the coast of south carolina. the white house is on defensive after officials at the pentagon revealed spycraft was not the first time the china military has infiltrated u.s. air space with surveillance equipment. lucas tomlinson is live inside the white house briefing room where karine jean-pierre is set to take the podium any moment now. what's the atmosphere in the room there, lucas, a lot of questions on the tips of people's tongues? >> there sure are a lot of questions, john, including why this spy balloon was not shot down earlier. u.s. officials tell fox this was not the first brush with the chinese spycraft recently, one crashed off the coast of hawaii four months ago.

congressman mike waltz from florida said the pentagon briefed about other instances as well. >> what we were told, there were multiple incursions over florida, one over texas, and separate reporting, we have not been able to ask about over hawaii and guam. so, what were the extent of these incursions. >> this exclusive fox video shows the moment the f-22 raptor out of langley shot down the chinese spy flight with the side winder. and the first time since pearl harbor the u.s. has shot down a hostile aircraft over u.s. territory. of course hawaii was not even a state back then. earlier, the top general from norad admitted they did not detect them during the trump administration. john kirby spoke. >> i can tell you that we discovered these flights after

we came into office and there's, i'm not going to get into the specifics of how we did the forensics, i think you can understand that we are going to be careful about that. >> john kirby also says no plans for the u.s. to return the debris from the chinese spycraft. many officials are relieved the spy ship was shot down and will not be floating over the united states when president biden gives the state of the union arrest tomorrow night, john. >> john: lucas, thanks, talk to you soon. >> gillian: lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are calling for the u.s. to take a tougher stance on china. aishah hasnie joins us from capitol hill with details. sounds like even a few democrats now are calling out the white house response. >> yeah, hey, good afternoon to you, gillian. that's right. even though leader schumer has been saying that the gop criticism largely in part has

been premature, and very political, there are a number of democrats on some pretty powerful committees looking at this thing and wondering how in the world it was allowed to enter into u.s. air space, and one of those democrats is montana senator john tester, a chairman of defense appropriations. he's already called for a hearing on the chinese spy airship. he says he's going to actually pull people in before his committee to find out how this happened. meantime, senate intel chairman mark warner tweeting his frustration over the weekend, he wrote there's no way the ccp would allow a balloon like this to fly over the chinese heartland. now, we are expecting the gang of 8 to be briefed this week, could happen before the state of the union akres happens tomorrow night, that is not confirmed. but it could potentially happen before then and then next week all senators will get a general briefing on the china threat. there are already republicans

calling for president biden to strengthen the defense spending in his annual budget. congress has been taking china seriously for quite some time, banning tiktok on all government devices, passing chips bill, and bipartisan committee with competition and the ccp, and some say look, this is a sputnik moment. >> i hope this was a wake-up call for the american people that we are facing a tsunami of chinese espionage in our universities, in the institutes, research labs, businesses, silicon valley through cyber. i hope this was a visible, tangible sputnik moment. >> and gillian, keep your eyes on congress tomorrow morning as the house armed services committee is holding a hearing 10:00 tomorrow morning on the china threat and i'm already told the chinese spy balloon

ship is actually going to be brought up quite a bit during this hearing. gillian. >> gillian: looking forward to that, and eyes of course on the state of the union, look forward to your coverage a lot. >> john: and brought up in the white house briefing, too. whoever the communist -- china wasting no time testing president biden, flagrantly violating taiwan's air space with fighter jets and bombers three days after biden's inauguration in 2021. the state department responded with a statement urging china to cease and instead engage in dialogue. >> gillian: the first face-to-face took place in alaska, talks ended without progress after china schooled the u.s. on u.s. soil. they said they did not need lectures on democracy. >> when our own is such a mess,

they said. just months later in august china shocked the world and rattled the pentagon, test launching a new missile more advanced than any in america's arsenal. hypersonic missile travelling around the world at more than five times the speed of sound. so fast it's basically impossible for a target to stop it even if they see it coming. >> gillian: the u.s. then snubbed beijing at the next winter olympic games, sent no high level officials to the ceremonies, instead taiwan would get the visit, and then nancy pelosi flew to taipei, an act china considered so grievous, she showed off the war chest in massive drills all around the island. >> john: similar drills in december weeks after chinese media reported president xi addressed chinese troops telling them to focus all of their energy on fighting, citing the current situation that he called "unstable and uncertain."

>> gillian: right before last month's prediction from a four star u.s. general this was leading up to a very bloody confrontation. an air force general said we would be in war in two years, by 2025. >> john: and here we are today, words that president xi wants his military to invade taiwan in a few years. bring in retired colonel daniel davis and senior fellow and military expert at defense priorities. good to see you, thanks for coming in. quote william burns, he said this, on taiwan, our assessment at cia, i would not underestimate president xi's ambitions with regard to taiwan. we know as a matter of intelligence he has instructed the people's liberation army to be ready by 2027 to conduct a successful invasion. that's very troubling assessment. >> certainly, also not

surprising. beijing has been really quite open about their intent to reunify with taiwan, and the long list of things you mentioned about the way these things have been escalating, a number of others as we are also countering a lot of these moves by expanding our bases in the philippines, expanding a new base in guam, first time in 70 years and china sees us advance in japan, and we need to check it before it goes too far to where war may seem to be inevitable. that's why it's so crucial blinken not cancel the trip and go there as soon as possible. until you get this high level diplomacy you can't work on the issues, and can't be by sending military forces, that's not in our interest. >> gillian: do you think president xi wants this military plan ready because he wants to

have that as an option on the table or do you think he is going to move forward? you think he wants this option ready to go because he will launch invasion on taiwan. >> he wants the capacity to do that so if at any time if the conditions warrant it, that he can order an offensive to be launched and take that. without question, it is absolutely in china's best interest to avoid war. really their m.o. for centuries, if not decades, and they want, they want to reunify by peace but they'll be ok with the status quo, benefits the united states because the last thing, the worst thing for us is to get involved in a military conflict with nuclear armed china. we must avoid that at all costs for our own interests. >> john: trying to avoid one with russia, and now china. you mentioned dan china is watching us expand bases in the philippines, here, there, everywhere, changing our posture. but the same time, sitting there in beijing having a laugh about

the american people watching the chinese balloon float across the united states before we shoot it down. >> right, yeah. i -- honestly, i think that we are a little bit overreacting to this. we were never at any risk by this. this balloon had less capabilities than their low earth orbit satellites that they can get. >> john: how do we know that? >> we are well aware of the capacities to spy on us, like ours is to theirs. people spy on each other, and the pentagon has said as much. >> john: we have heard the ballot was adjunct to low earth orbit satellites, could see better on the ground. dan hoffman thinks it was a powerful adjunct. >> i think it was an addition, but not value added, and makes sense, optics for the satellites are much, much stronger and powerful. >> gillian: you think the white house, the president missed an opportunity to deter china in the future by allowing the balloon to circulate and drift

over u.s. air space? >> china is going to do what ever they want in their own interest. i don't know they are going to be deterred by that, but i think it was more important for us to show resolution that hey, we are not going to let you roll something over the country and we know you are going to be parked over our strategic air force bases, and i think we should have taken it down earlier, that's my opinion. i know it would have put more at risk but i think that was something we could have handled better. >> john: you suggest it was a limited value for intelligence gathering, but a show of force. >> i would have taken it out. >> john: what mike waltz said earlier to the, being a sputnik moment. >> i hope this was a visible, tangible sputnik moment, much like we had in 1957 when the soviets put up the first satellite that really again, you know, wakes us up to the fact that just as we were in the cold war then, we are in a cold war

with the chinese communist party. >> john: i mean, let's get you to speak to the sputnik moment and the difference between the cold war back then and china, we were not getting most of our stuff made in russia back then. >> right, yeah, certainly, and this is different than the cold war, for sure different. because of all these military moves i've been talking about on both sides, we are closer to a hot war than we have ever been, and i don't think it's a sputnik moment. we need to make sure it's not a sputnik moment. we need to work on improving american national security interests and protecting our economic interests and that means let's deescalate the situation and start more diplomacy and not always talk about the military stuff. that does not work to our advantage, it does not help us. >> gillian: interesting to hear you say that, colonel. we don't get that a lot from our military experts. >> i want us to be improved and help us, not just show we are tough or whatever. that doesn't help.

>> john: thanks for coming in. >> gillian: all new this hour, the first white house briefing is going to get underway. first time we'll hear from the white house since the shootdown of the chinese spacecraft. karine jean-pierre's guest briefer suggests the white house is hoping to skirt the issue all together, it could be a recipe for an interesting exchange of reporters who want to ask about the story everybody is talking about. >> john: the national guard being called to assist in the aftermath of the ohio train derailment, one of the rail cars is on the brink of exploding and could send shrapnel a mile in all directions. evacuation efforts coming up next. >> gillian: and newt gingrinch is here ahead of president biden's big address tomorrow, the state of the union. stick with us. many of you have served our country honorably. one of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran is the eligibility

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>> john: a live look at the white house as we await for the briefing to begin any moment, as they put the finishing touches on the state of the union address. he will use the speech to tout his economic record. polls show americans are not particularly thrilled about it. whopping 41% of people saying they are worse off financially since the president took office. that's according to an abc "washington post" poll, lowest number in the poll's 37-year history. so, what should we expect from the president's address? bring in newt gingrinch, former speaker of the house and fox news contributor. newt, great to see you. what do you expect the president will focus on tomorrow night? >> calista has told me we are going to watch it, which is really, i think, a little painful. it's going to be a fantasy address. the border is really not open,

we really don't have a problem of fentanyl killing our children, everybody is really economically happy, afghanistan was a great success, i think they called it largest airlift in history. the fact is that we were very clever and allowed the chinese balloon to go all the way across the country finishing its mission before we shot it down. i think what -- what's he going to say? look, presidents have to come into the state of the union, they have to be positive, they have to tout their accomplishments and then call for even better future. he'll do that, the biggest question in my mind, he and speaker mccarthy have had a decent conversation recently, does he come in and pick a fight with republicans or come in and reach out an olive branch and say we ought to be able to work together and i think that's a very big decision for biden. is he going to be the democratic leader running for re-election, or is he going to be the president of the united states trying to work with the new republican house. and i think that probably is the

most important single point of the speech tomorrow night. >> john: if he does the latter, it will be like when you were speaker of the house. you mentioned the balloon, and even though the president apparently gave the authorization to the military to shoot down the balloon days before they actually did it, he wanted to allow it to transit the entire country before they took the shot, which led senator tom cotton to say this to our shannon bream yesterday. >> what began as a spy balloon has become a test of the strength and resolve of president biden. >> john: you mentioned during the afghanistan pullout, the build-up to the invasion of ukraine, now allowed china to float the spy balloon across the country, it sure had propaganda value. >> not just that. first of all, these balloons are extraordinarily dangerous

because you could put an electric magnetic pulse weapon on them, float them across, explode them where you want to, we have no idea what the chinese were doing and huge risk to allow it. internal question here. when the military learned about it apparently there's a 3 or 4-day period they don't tell the president. when the president learns about it, he says shoot it down and the american military says you know, you are not really the commander in chief, you are kind of a suggester in chief and we are not going to do it. so if you believe the white house, the president on wednesday ordered it to be shot down, and the american military just ignored him. that's pretty extraordinary if true. furthermore, the idea that they couldn't find a way to bring it down safely over the united states, there was a very funny thing in babilon b, first the balloon accomplished the mission and then i had it shot down. that captured where we are.

why would you let a chinese balloon go all the way across the country, including over many of our most important military bases, and only then after it's all done bring it down and then bring it down in such a way that now they have to go out and try to find it in the ocean. i mean -- we will plenty of capacity to scoop that balloon out of the air. we used to do it all the time with satellite photographs before you had electronic transmission, planes would go up and actually capture the capsule that had the satellite spy material. the fact we couldn't in 4 or 5 days organize an ability to capture the balloon in the air, bring it to the ground safely and then know exactly what the material is, i -- this is one more example of a bloated pentagon bureaucracy that's more worried about being -- dealing with social issues than it is about defending the united states. it's -- from afghanistan on, we

have seen failure after failure and the pentagon needs a deep thorough shake-up. >> john: also sort of refocuses what obama's defense secretary robert gates said about then senator biden when he was running for office a couple years ago in his book. he said he's been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades. even leon panetta said it should have been taken out before it got into u.s. air space. >> i think there is a permanent taint on this administration. penn biden center, part of the university which got $67 million from the chinese communists. the current secretary of state was getting a million dollars a year from the penn biden center. the fact is, we don't have any idea how much the biden center -- the biden center in delaware gets, they don't release any money. a guy whose son is implicated

with business dealings in china, center he created at the university of pennsylvania indirectly is associated with literally over $67 million in chinese money, secretary of state taking a million dollars from the center annually and gosh, they can't get anything done right. maybe it's incompetence or maybe they don't want to offend their chinese friends. >> john: newt gingrinch, thanks for your thoughts. >> gillian: fox news alert, as bad as this fiery train disaster may look, emergency crews warn it could get catastrophically worse at any moment. explosion of force that could turn the steel from the train cars into bullets that could fly for a full mile. >> john: and we are still waiting for karine jean-pierre to take questions at the white house. we will take you there live as soon as the q & a begins.

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>> gillian: developing right now out of ohio, an urgent warning there that this emergency you are looking at is getting actually more dangerous by the moment. officials say this train that jumped the tracks on friday and caught fire could be about to explode. the blast could be so strong they say it could send chunks of steel and shrapnel flying more than a mile in every direction. everyone living in a mile of the derailment has been ordered to get out asap. on top of the explosion risk, also major concerns apparently about the toxic smoke that was created when the chemicals inside the train caught fire. mike tobin has been following the updates from our midwest news hub all morning long. what are you learning, mike? >> it is a tense situation out there. people near the area of the derailment are encouraged, in fact told to get out of the area. something very tense right now, crews are preparing to blow a hole in one of the rail cars filled with hazardous chemicals.

that's scheduled to happen in about an hour. this follows a massive train derailment in east palestine, ohio. 20 of the cars contain hazardous material. most of the material is vinyl chloride, in the manufacture of plastic. crews were concerned the cars filled with the chemical were destabilizing. the plan, a small charge on one of the tankers in question, blow a two and a half inch hole in it and let the chemical drain into a trench with preplaced flares. they say it should burn off before sunset and rise up into the atmosphere. governor dewine says emergency crews did not have any good choices but letting the tanker blow up on its own could be catastrophic and people need to

go with the evacuation order. >> just leave. we are ordering to leave. it's a matter of life and death. what's different now, we know something is going to happen around 3:30. control release will take place and you are in imminent danger. >> while the epa has not detected pollution in the ground water, tap water in the area is coming out discolored, and that's because the trucks pumping water are putting a train on the system causing the water to be discolored. national guard activated, state police are in the area. they are getting people to leave. about two miles surrounding the crash site, 50 miles northwest of pittsburgh, and 20 miles from the west virginia panhandle. >> gillian: mike, thank you. >> john: off duty new york city police officer fighting to stay alive after being shot in the head. fellow officers say he was trying to buy a car, a used car

but was ambushed instead. 26-year-old father of two. al alexis mcadams. >> the officer is brain dead right now, still in the hospital after he was shot in the head. 26-year-old nypd officer is a five year veteran of the police force, a husband and dad of two little kids. gunned down while just trying to buy a bigger car for the family, saturday night in brooklyn, investigators tell us the officer went there to go buy a car he found on facebook marketplace. when he and his brother-in-law showed up, there was no car. the seller pulled out a gun and demanded the duo hand over thousands of dollars in cash while being held at gunpoint, the officer tried to pull away and grab his own weapon, the suspect shot him in the head. the gunman tried to shot the officer's brother-in-law, able to then grab the officer's gun and fire five shots.

the shooting was caught on dash camera footage of a nearby car. it's at least the second robbery at this same location in brooklyn on the same block, the same m.o. here. police are trying to track down the shooter. >> we are lifting his family up in prayer, the officer as well. a real unfortunate situation, just highlights the 1700 bad guys that we keep talking about, i guarantee when we catch him and we will catch him, the shooter, i guarantee you he will have an extensive past and criminal record of violence. >> at this time there has not been an arrest in this case but still developing. nypd is offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest in this case. >> john: depressing the mayor says when we catch this guy he's going to have a long rap sheet and yet he's on the streets. again and again and again. alexis, thank you for the report. our best goes out to his family,

we are praying for them. gillian. >> gillian: also the residents of one san francisco community say the community is overrun by prostitutes. blaming a california law passed in july, decriminalizes loitering for prostitution. critics say they don't see how transgender equality has anything to do with the prostitution. joining me is michael shellenberger, founder and president of environmental progress, and why progressives ruin cities, and former gubernatorial candidate. parents are reporting, they say in some instances that prostitutes are now soliciting business directly outside of public and private schools, take a look at this, from one statement from one parent, rosa vargas, she says it's every day during all periods of the day, just last week blocking the

entrance of the parking structure where students were having basketball games. does it shock you to hear? >> well, it is a shocking report, and i think what's interesting about it, we saw a significant increase in street prostitution, or street walking right after governor gavin newsom signed the legislation in june of last year. we saw it change even before the law went into effect on january 1st of this year. so seeing working class, family neighborhoods in places like oakland, mostly latino neighborhoods, an influx of street walking. my colleague and i wrote a long report about a 14-year-old girl sex trafficked by the ms13 gang in san francisco. the san francisco police were actually called to rescue the girl and they failed to arrive, both from a combination of staffing shortages and i would say misplaced priorities, the assistance police chief of san francisco reassured us they

would be working to intervene in this case. 2 to 3 fold increase in street prostitution and sex trafficking since the law was passed. policy makers in sacramento were sold a bill of goods, to help trans and black rights. that's absurd. the people the most victimnized are african americans and trans kids, or lgbt kids, kids working through their sexuality, so this is a really terrible policy that needs to be reversed as soon as possible. >> gillian: from city journal, i want to talk to you about the legislation. culprit, according to the critics, is senate bill 367. anti-loitering statute provided the grounds for officers to question women and children they suspect might be trapped in a

prostitution ring. without the statute, the hands were tied, provoking violent confrontation with pimps, a gamble when the california police officers would now avoid. you agree with that? >> yeah, i mean -- this is, i mean, what's going on. basically they got in their minds in sacramento the radical left that passed this the police are the bad buys, trying to protect young women who are addicted to hard drugs in order to become sex slaves for these violent gangs, they got in their minds that the police were the bad guys, the police are essential to rescuing these girls. so they have restricted what police are able to do, even talk to the women could get the police officers in trouble. so you know, the police need to do a better job, we documented how they failed to act to protect this 14-year-old girl who is an orphan and in distress, controlled probably addicted to hard drugs and by this gang, but the whole idea

that the police are the problem, it's a really twisted demented way of viewing the world and the biggest victims are those vulnerable among us. >> gillian: we want to follow up, we'll stay in touch about this issue. john. >> john: gillian, critics it might be the largest censorship system, and who would censor free speech for political purposes. >> gillian: and the white house briefing is underway with economic adviser brian deese beginning to take questions. we'll take you there when karine jean-pierre faces reporters. stick with us. no. he's making real-time money moves with merrill. so no matter what the market's doing, he's ready. and that's... how you collect coins. your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company.

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>> john: questions are mounting as to whether the fbi used social media to suppress free speech. comes just ahead of the first meeting of the new house committee on the weaponization of government, that will happen this week. jonathan turley, fox news contributor, george washington law professor and constitutional law attorney, you wrote about this at the center of controversy, you have termed censorship by surrogate. unpack that for us. >> the first amendment prevents the government from engaging in censorship of regulating speech. but the government can sometimes do that by surrogates, or proxies, and that's what we believe happened here. but as the government used companies like twitter and facebook to carry out censorship targets. and what the twitter files have disclosed for the first time is an extensive system of government officials

coordinating in the censorship of citizens. as many as 80 employees, so the federal government may have been involved. and these emails really show that the people at twitter were overwhelmed by these requests, they said they were monumental to try to keep up with. so the question is whether twitter acted as an agent of the federal government and what congress is going to do about it. >> john: you know, it did seem as though there were some twitter employees, the head of safety and trust was among them who said this is pretty onrous, twitter seemed to comply, what happened to "the new york post" over the hunter biden laptop story, did it just push and push and push until it found willing accomplices? >> indeed. one twitter employee said the fbi is pushing and probing

everywhere, meaning they were getting requests on huge array of subjects. we learn politicians like adam schiff was using back channels to censor critics of him and his committee, and twitter said no, we don't do this. adam schiff is continuing to demand more censorship. a letter went out demanding that facebook continue to censor and not following twitter, restoring free speech. >> john: and he airs complaints on tiktok, nothing short of ironic. and you talk about the administration, outcry of the

disinformation governance board, biden administration officials had to have known that they already were employing an extensive censorship system. the one hand, they want people to root out misinformation and the same time, stifling free speech. those two things would seem to be -- >> i'm afraid the biden administration may have played us all for chumps. i mean, we were all wrapped up in the so-called disinformation nanny and many celebrated when they closed that office. well, we did not know there was this enormous system of censorship being carried out by the fbi and other agencies. >> john: well, they do think we have all got the attention span of a golden retriever, so maybe they thought we would not be paying attention. [laughter] >> that's right, thank you, john. >> john: good to start the week out with you. thank you, my friend. >> gillian: we are continuing to get live pictures out of turkey

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>> john: a live look at the white house. the national economic council chairman brian deese continues to take questions from the press. we're still awaiting karine

jean-pierre's appearance at the podium to take questions about the balloon. one of brian deese's last jobs at the podium. he will be leaving the white house. >> he will be departing. reporters are all geared up to talk about the balloon. that's the most highly anticipated topic. >> john: they want to talk about the state of the union that will do it for us. >> "the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: thanks. we're covering what is happening at the white house. we'll take you there live as soon as karine jean-pierre gets questions on that. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. breaking right now on "the story," we're learning new details about what was in this chinese spy flight vehicle that was sent crashing to the ocean by -- after the -- its run-in with an