hillary as president than kamala. you know what? so would i. so would i. not an endorsement, but so would i. that's all for tonight! dvr jessie watters prime time. tucker carlson up is next. always remember one thing, i'm watters and this is my world! ♪ >> tucker: good evening. well tucker carlson tonight. on saturday, the 21st of january, american intel services watched, maybe slack jawed, as a white helium balloon with an enormous payload swinging beneath it lifted off from central china and began to float east over the north pacific on the way here to the united states. within a week, it arrived. on january 28th, the balloon entered u.s. air space over alaska. from there, it travel over the

northwest territories of canada. then it dropped back into the united states over idaho. by last wednesday, february 1st, it was spotted by civilians in the skies over southern montana. a man staring out of the window of an office building in billings saw what he thought was a ufo. too small to be the moon, he says. he took pictures. it soon appeared on social media. almost immediately the air space over billings, over the entire town was shut down. commercial flights were diverted. f-22 raptors arrived from a nearby air force base along with refueling tankers and a wax surveillance plane. it was a big story. so it was at that point when the existence of an unauthorized chinese military aircraft over the united states became impossible to deny or hide it, at that point, officials around joe biden decided to tell him about it. we don't know joe biden's reaction to this but we do know his response. biden did nothing. he didn't order the balloon shot down. he didn't call for sanctions or punishment of any kind

against the chinese government that sent it. it was not until this weekend when the aircraft had traversed the entire united states including at least one classified nuclear weapons installation that an air force jet finally pierced it with the sidewinder missile off the coast of south carolina. debris was still fluttering toward the ocean when the administration began telling lies, many of them about what had happened. that balloon posed no threat to american national security, the biden administration claimed. why? because the balloon never transmitted data back to ch china. now, how could officials know that? they never explained nor did they say whether chinese military would send one of its aircraft all the way to the u.s. without a satellite uplink. apparently, the chinese just forgot. they're not very good at technology. it was an unsensible claim. as far as we know, not a single reportedner washington pressed the administration to press that claim. that's not surprising. reporters in washington no longer dig, they transcribe. what they transcribed next is

almost enough to make you cynical about the role of the press in a free society it turns out -- we learned this from unnamed officials on background -- that allowing chinese military aircraft to survey your country including missile silos is routine. it happens all the time. trump did it, too. quite a bit of it, actually. at least three chinese spy balloons flew over this country while donald trump was president and despite the anti-china rhetoric, he just let them pass. you didn't know that. now you do. so settle down, this is nor normal. in other words, everything donald trump did while president is bad except this, letting chinese spy balloons fly over the country. that's very good. and we're taking a lesson from him. so virtually every news organization in this country repeated that claim including some who should know better. as soon as crechelous reporters wrote their dishonest stories, the democratic party and the television stations it

controls repeated those stories as fact which was the whole point. watch. >> they are saying we should have shot down the balloon the minute we saw it. i would use two words in answering these g.o.p. criticisms, they're premature and they're political. >> this is why we voted for joe biden, because imagine if this had happened under donald trump. the way in which the balloon was taken down allows us to retrieve the parts of the balloon to see what was actually in there. >> i'm just glad there was no damage or threat to u.s. aviation operations and that this operation took place was done in a very effective, excellent way. >> don't listen to the statements from the republicans, especially in the senate. they've been asinine. the jackasses going out and saying i got my shotgun, i'm going to shoot down the balloon. seriously, they make clowns of themselves. >> tucker: so the balloon shut down the air space over

billings, montana, including the airport, and as it moved east, commercial pilots said they were afraid of it. they were afraid of hitting it. so it's funny to see the transportation secretary who is in charge of all of this tell us it posed no threat, no threat to transportation. but the best is the dismissal of anyone who has concerns. it's those republicans, again, with the moonshine and the shot guns and the extra chromosome saying it's ok to shoot down chinese spy balloons when every sophisticated person knows, the best way to handle chinese spy balloons, let them pass like trump did. trump. trump. he's good all of a sudden! so the question is did donald trump let chinese military aircraft float over the united states unmolested while he was president? someone asked him. he says he didn't. in fact, in the interview yesterday, trump said he had no idea there were any chinese spy balloons over the united states when he was president. and he seemed to mean it. but it wasn't just trump.

trump's former national security adviser said he never heard anything about chinese spy balloons over the country. you would have think he would have heard. then the general in charge of norad, glen van hecke had the same reaction, "it's my responsibility to detect threets north america. i will tell you we did not detect those threats." somehow norad, the most sophisticated monitoring system in the world missed the chinese spy balloons, too. three of them. by the way, so did the director of national intelligence, the man whose job it is to know america's secrets. he said he never knew of chinese spy balloons during the touch of trump administration. here is john radcliffe. >> do you remember during the trump administration when photographers on the ground and commercial airline pilots were talking about spy balloon over the united states? that people could look up and see even with the naked eye and that a media that hated donald trump wasn't reporting? i don't remember that either, because it didn't happen.

>> tucker: it didn't happen said the former director of national intelligence. you can see why he thinks that. so, again, according to media accounts, at least one of these three trump-era chinese spy balloons floated all the way to texas in the center of the country, and yet inside the u.s. government, at the very highest levels, no one seemed to know that it happened. well, how could that have occurred really? well, the biden administration had an answer. speaking on background to its shills in the media, unnamed officials explained these unnamed spy balloons were never reported to president trump, joint chiefs of staff or the secretary of defense. why weren't they reported? they were relatively minor territorial incursions. ok. so a chinese military aircraft hovering over texas, more than 1,000 miles from the pacific ocean, is a minor territorial incursion? that's what they said.

it's pure absurdity. once again, no reporter in washington pushed back. they just repeated the lie. then without warning, the white house changed its talking point undermining the first lie. actually, they explained today, nobody knew that chinese spy balloons were floating over america during the trump administration. we didn't know. we just found out pretty recently. watch this smarter but more dishonest way on how spokesmen spin that tale. >> i can tell you that we discovered these flights after we came into office. i'm not going to get into the specifics of how we did the forensics. i think you can understand that we're going to be careful about that. >> tucker: they're not going to get into the specifics of the forensics. oh, the forensics. but the one thing i was really shocked by when they took control on the government is how soft they were -- how soft

donald trump was. once again, they can't say more because it's classified. wish we could. sorry. so what is the real story here? honestly, we don't know. the pentagon ignored our many questions today. of course they did, because they're not going to transcribe them. so once again, the people who owe you the truth are lying to you. so all tonight we know with certainty is that the chinese military just flew an aircraft that reportedly contained explosives over the entire rent of the united states -- length of the united states and got away with it. seems like a bad precedent. senator marco rubio of florida joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. why all the lying about this? what do you think is actually going on? >> well, i can tell you they're categorically lying. they're misleading people. the fact a balloon -- these balloons the chinese have been innovating for a while, they used them a couple of times to circumvent the globe and the like -- there were pictures posted on twitter about it but they have never ever crossed the entire continental united

states flying over places like where our strategic command is placed. people are wondering about these balloons. in the space between where satellites operate and a spy plane could operate in that zone, these things become very useful, especially if we have a lot of them. what do they have on them? the ability to take in realtime video. high-resolution photographs, potentially as well capture electronic communications and they can loiter. that's the advantage. it's cheap. you're not looking for them because they move very slowly and they can loiter over a period of time. imagine the middle of a war one of these things in the pacific being able to take realtime footage, realtime and feed it back on what is going on in the ground and on the sea, so on and so forth. the notion somehow this has been happening all along, it's just not true. people were spotting this thing with the naked eye. they were seeing it. they were calling in. they had to warn people in south carolina not to try to shoot them down on their own because they were visible to people. they're just being dishonest with no reason.

well, the reason being i think is they were caught off guard and did not respond appropriately and now they're scrambling for answers and to deflect blame. >> tucker: i mean, the pentagon shouldn't be lying to us, right? a lot of americans -- i put myself in this category -- always admired the u.s. military, but if they become a political instrument for an administration -- they seem like they are, some of their leaders are -- i mean, that seems like a disfigurement of the military and it's very discouraging to watch. >> well, and it's also in many cases as you've already pointed out, the unnamed sources that go off the record and leak out the little pieces of information. we don't know if they're political appointees, civilians or someone just trying climb up the chain of command and be appointed but at the end of the day we're losing focus on the fundamental issue here, and that is the chinese are continuing to innovate rudimenttary and simplistic but effective pieces/tools.

they felt bold enough to fly this thing entering through idaho, into montana, midwest of the united states -- cut a diagonal path over the continental u.s. -- that's never happened before -- and exiting off the east coast and felt like they didn't have anything to fear about it. in many ways in my view, it was sending a message for the world and that is, look, we can fly these things over air space over the united states and they can't and won't do anything about it. what makes you think they're going to do anything anywhere in the world. they're a hollow super power. that's the chinese argument and the point they're making tonight to the world. >> tucker: it does seem like an obvious dominance move. um, so the biden administration was saying, well, we only had a very narrow window to shoot it down off the coast of south carolina because then it would drift into international waters at that point we were bound by international law. the chinese broke the law by flying it over our country so why would the biden administration be caught up in the minutia of international law which kind of a meaningless concept, why

couldn't they shoot it down wherever they felt like it? >> that's a great question. the trajectory of it was pretty clear by early last week to late the week before. you can tell the trajectory it was coming. it went over canada for a brief period of time as well. that's norad territory. they had multiple options to bring it down. i'm not saying detonate this thing over a major u.s. city or a populated area. the thing is the size of three city buses. that lands in the wrong place, it's going to hurt people but they had other options to bring it down. by the way, the chinese could have ultimately moved this thing. they didn't feel like they needed to. this thing probably has a self-destruct mechanism on it that allows it to self-destruct if necessary. they didn't feel any need to do that. ultimately, i think that this to me is just one more example of hopefully -- look, it's a balloon, but i help to wakes people up to the fact that we are now engaged -- if people don't realize it already -- in a full-scale geo political competition with the chinese. they're playing to win and we're over here messing around

with a lot of silly stuff and back talk that's not addressing the fundamental issue of the 21st century. >> tucker: yeah. self-destructive and weak senator marco rubio of florida, great to see you tonight. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: several years ago, we reported how the f.a.a. is hiring air traffic controllers on the basis of equity criteria, not on the basis of who would be a good air traffic controller thisser doing it with pilots, too. you're shocked to learn there was nearly another collision between two major aircraft in a major airport. pete buttigieg who was supposed to be in charge of all of this didn't know. he was too busy celebrating trans equity day. details next.

>> tucker: mayor pete is out there celebrating transit equity day. there's been yet another near disaster in a major airport. trace gallagher has more. >> reporter: happened in austin, it was a fedex 757. cleared to land on the runway that another 737 was cleared to take off on. the planes were less than 1,000 feet apart. the fedex plane was in an altitude of 75 feet before pulling up and avoiding the

collision but here's the deal, a 767 lands at 180 miles per hour, 280 feet per second which means at one point, the planes were less than four seconds away from colliding. it's interesting that the air traffic controllers told the southwest plane to abort takeoff and get off the runway but instead, the southwest pilot said negative and got airborne instead. the ntsb is investigating but we're still waiting for more information on that near miss that happened last month at jfk between a delta air lines plane and an american airlines plane, also only about 1,000 feet apart. in the meantime, transportation secretary pete buttigieg hasn't commented on the near collision. he did comment on transit equity day happening at the very same time the planes that austin almost collided. >> i love the image of the bus doors or the subway doors

opening. >> tucker: healthcare has lower trust after a couple of years of covid. the entire sector has been gravely discredited for obvious reasons. if you've lived here since 2020, you'd know. what is interesting is very few people who work in the healthcare sector seem to understand this. certainly no one has apologized. we bring in tonight one notable exception. kevin bass is a medical researcher. we don't know what his politics are. he doesn't seem like a right winger or anything at all. we wrote one of the most remarkable pieces we zeph this year in "newsweek" admitting -- it's time for the scientific community to admit we were wrong about covid and it affects lives.

we're happy to have him join us now. kevin bass, thank you for coming on. thank you for writing this piece which i want to recommend everyone, totally nonpolitical. again, i don't even know what your politics are. i assume you're liberal. you're honest in this piece. why were you moved to write this? >> from many of the reasons that you discussed that i realized we have lost trust in this country as a healthcare industry from the ordinary person. anybody who knows, anybody who is watching the media, anybody who is on social media and is talking to ordinary people realizes just how angry so many ordinary people are, and i felt that if i wrote a piece like this apologizing for i didn't set policy but i certainly supported it and every single day, i certainly patted all of my friends on the back for supporting it and for thinking the right kinds of thoughts, i thought if i apologized, then at least i was doing my part to make things better and as we know

change starts one person at a time. that's why i wrote the piece. >> tucker: a men. it's such an honorable and difficult thing to do. i was so very impressed by your piece for exactly that reason. if we're going to say change starts one person at a time the first thing we all should do is apologize for what we've done wrong but no one ever does. did you -- again, we don't have time to go through all the different things but you basically hit everything from masks to vaccines to the lockdowns. are you worried since you're a younger man still in school, are you worried about the effect of this piece on your career? >> yeah, absolutely. i'm saying something that's not going to be very popular. a lot of people don't understand this point of view. when you talk to especially a lot of older individuals, including and people i admire greatly for all sorts of other different reasons including great scientists, they often, um, don't understand what i'm doing and so, um, but you know some of the younger generation does and, um, there are some -- there are many people within the healthcare industry

who do understand so i think if i just speak the truth, which is what i'm trying to do, just speak the truth and i do so with a pure heart, that's what i'm here to do. >> tucker: i wonder why this hasn't occurred, again for the third time, bless you for doing it but i'm wondering why it hasn't occurred to senior people in this business, maybe people who ran, i don't know, our medical agencies, um, to do the same. i mean, that would just -- that would do a lot for the country, don't you think? >> i think it would do, um, it is a necessary thing to happen for this country for us to have a reckoning about this particular issue. can restore trust. people will remember this for the rest of their lives. i think the reason the people in charge of these institutions don't do anything is they're surrounded by a bunch of people that think similar to them. they're not being exposed to ordinary people in a regular basis. they're in the ecochamber, patting each other on the back all the time. for that reason, they can't see anything but their own perspective. it's been politicized.

everything with the other perspective is in the other political party. you have the whole other dimensions where alternative views get demonized. they're entrenched and there's a lot of polarization. i this i that's the reason it'll take a long time. -- i think that's the reason it'll take a long time. >> tucker: can't come too soon. yours is the first piece. kevin bass, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> tucker: there are some moments where people pull off the mask and show you here they are. pfizer sponsoring open satan worship at the grammy awards seems like one of them. can you do that without consequences? i don't know. i guess we're going to find out. we have the whole story coming up next. hi, i'm lauren, i lost 67 pounds on golo. i have tried so many different products and have lost so much money and wasted a lot of time. golo is a miracle, it really is. no money wasted in this at all.

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they stormed the beach for that. trans ideology and satanism. great to see you tonight. like you kind of wonder what's the next boundary? what's the next glass ceiling to be shut? cannibalism? where do we go from here? >> ha-ha. i think we're seeing it. you know, satanic themes in pop music have been around in the 70's and 80's with kiss and motley crue. whenever an artist needs controversy, let's put on devil horns and do satanic ritual. nicki minaj did it in 2017. it's tired, predictable and boring. what is new is sam smith is physically grotesque. that seems to be how he's getting attention. he didn't always used to be. you have all of these singers now who are physically repulsive people. that's what they're using to get attention.

maybe cannibalism is next. i don't know, but it's pretty disgusting. madonna was another one at the event last night. madonna is 64. if she wants to age like a creature that escaped from a lab somewhere, that's her decision. sam myth is only 30 -- sam smith is only 30. we're celebrating his antics and how he abused his body at this young age already. >> tucker: this is sponsored by pfizer which is the company whose products you're mandated to pay for and not allowed to complain about on television, excommunication. what do you think the message from pfizer is? we're a wholesome company? trust us? >> it's levels of vilny that's so cartoonish. how can you get upset? everyone thinks this company is pure evil. you know they had to be aware of what the program was. someone at pfizer is like, what are we sponsoring? they're like, oh, you know the

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we had a fascinating chat on "tucker today." >> i've become convinced now and i'm working to change the biggest issue we face as americans is we're getting sicker, fatter, more depressed and more infertile. when you untie the issues and unpack it, it's because of food. i sat across from coke 10 years ago when they were trying to keep coke spending on food stamps as we talked about the playbook was very simple it it's not complicated. it's how do we reintroduce to you trust? how who do people trust? we talked about the naacp. it's a transactional meeting. here is money. call the people racist. when someone is called racist, shut down the debate. there was reporting on the "new york times" that the naacp and hispanic corporation was out in force. they were sitting across white men and talking with them -- >> tucker: you were a witness to this? >> hispanic federation, naacp,

african-american pastors, we would call them, they pay to play. this was a playbook. this is like ordering a big mac. this is very transactional. >> tucker: in this specific case you saw -- just to be clear to the audience watching -- the issue at the core of it had nothing do with civil rights or race or anything related, correct? >> no, in fact, lower-income americans are getting decimated. there's sky rocketing diabetes rates among lower income children. a man in the lowest income bracket in the united states dies 15 years younger than a man, an american at the richest income bracket. that's almost entirely because of nutrition. >> tucker: if you're wondering how soda wound up on a list of foods that could be bought with food stamps, that's how. amazing conversation. cali means. that's tomorrow on "foxnation." so joe biden is hiring by race

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biden, total number of white men, five! 22 are black women. so this is race-based hiring. it's illegal, but it's also not about looking like ame america. it's about punishing people. it's also incidentally producing nominees for federal judgeships who know nothing about the constitution like this person. >> judge on the far end, tell me what article 5 of the constitution does. >> article 5 is not coming to mind at the moment. >> ok. how about article 2? >> neither is article 2. >> tucker: she doesn't know what's in the constitution, but she's going to be a federal judge whose job it is to interpret the law against the constitution. ok. so degrading. horace cooper is a lawyer who

knows what is in the constitution. horace, thanks so much for coming on. by the way, i'm not a lawyer. i don't even have a successful background in academia and i know what those were. that's pretty bad, right? why isn't this on the front page of the "new york times"? >> it should have been, tucker. i actually taught an article 1 course all about the legislative process at george mason university, and it's important that people understand what the options, what the authorities, what the powers that our founders granted, our congress, our federal legislature and we had an entire course focused on that, but george mason, like other good schools, wants quality graduates. we want talented graduates, and we are interested in seeing to it that the people who leave with a degree are

masters of the topic. what we're seeing from the biden administration and which is what we're seeing generally from the progressive movement is this idea that we just need to reshape the judiciary in a way under color -- i use that term in a duplicative way -- by pretending we're making the courts look more like america but the truth of the matter is we're finding people, they aren't talented, they aren't highly skilled but they know progressive vision just like the back of their hand. that's the ultimate goal of what's happening here. not excellence. and america suffers. corporations suffers. defends suffer. >> tucker: well, it's just so unbelievably degrading i think for the whole country.

it's the opposite of excellence. i appreciate you saying so, horace. great to see you tonight. go ahead. >> i was just going to say we set up this independent judiciary as a way for every american instead of self-help -- which is the nasty way of saying i'm not going to rely on the legal of the justice system -- we set up, our founders set up this independent judiciary so that we can get people to voluntarily agree to bring their disputes there. i don't want the cardiologist to be chosen by his color. i don't want the pilot to be chosen by his race. and i don't want the judiciary to be chosen that way. we need excellence, and this administration doesn't want that. >> tucker: amen. great to see you tonight. thank you, horace. >> thank you. >> tucker: so really at the core, no one says it but it is

true, at the core of the democratic program is race hatred, obviously. the party of jim crow is still at it. it's called he can fit now. -- it's called equity now. florida state adopted equity program, it castigates believing christians for their christian privilege. ha-ha. there's no christian privilege in this country, by the way. the school offers a racially segregated scholarships that bars white students from applying. that's illegal. that's race hatred. this is everywhere. chris tirelessly wrote this story. he's a fellow at the manhattan institute and joins us tonight. chris, thank you so much for coming on. so i just have to ask you once again, how is this -- which is so obviously illegal under federal and state laws, all 50 states, -- how is this allowed? >> well, it shouldn't be but it's allowed because these are people who have power. they've expanded into universities with these

so-called diverse silt -- diverse silt, equity programs. what they're doing is quite simple, they're dividing americans or in this case students at florida state along with what they call a matrix of oppression. they're saying some are oppressors and others are oppressed and creating special benefits or punishments based on your identity. it's wrong. we have them scrambling. the more we exfoes and put pressure on them, the more we can stamp out this racialist ideology that's capturing all of our institutions. tucker: it's directly opposed to the america that normal people want to live in of all colors. you're not prepared for this. i'm just throwing this at you. i just read today you're been appointed by the college board by desantis in florida. can you sum up what you're doing and what that is? >> i was appointed along with six other trustees to take

over the new college of florida, the smallest public university in the system. on our first board meeting, we fired the president. we let go of the general council. we switched the board chair. we're going to implement top-to-bottom reforms at this university. we'll be bringing a classical liberal arts education and demonstrating it's time for conservatives to get tough. it's time for when we win elections to actually start changing institutions and we're not just simply going to be the caretakers of left wing ideology. we're taking action. governor ron desantis is leading the way. i'm proud to be part of this movement. >> tucker: so you're not waiting around for a report from the current administration at this college? >> no. we're acting very quickly. i think you're going to see dramatic changes right from the outset. look, we're following the governor's lead. this is a guy who has a bold vision, takes courageous action. really the thing i hope to demonstrate in this experiment taking over this college is political courage. that's what we need as

conservatives. it's time to stop just doing white papers, talking to each other. it's time to take action. >> tucker: john durham will do a report in the next 10 years, so just hold tight. chris, great to see you. now, walls don't work. walls are racist. you can't have a wall but the democratic party is building one right before the state of the union. we also want to point out tonight's transgender satanism is brought to you by pfizer.

cole hauser is an award winning actor who has starred in good will hunting too fast, too furious and the current hit show yellowstone. beyond his impressive career, he is a proud supporter of the tunnel to towers foundation. i was able to spend some time with cole and his family to reflect on those who have sacrificed so much to defend our freedom. i know how much you care about america and our veterans

and all the things. but you have such a platform now. yeah. and to share that with us that we need to get the word out that we have to take care of these great heroes and their families. you know, as i started to be more and more successful, i was like, how can i help? but when i heard of the tunnel of the towers, and i met brandon in idaho and his family, i was like, wow. there's actually a charity where we know where the money's. going to go. we have 95.1% of every dollar goes to our programs. and i think brandon's a great spokesman for t2t and and his wife, shannon, has two daughters. i mean, oh, my god. they're just special families. so pretty much, if you put your life on the line, if something goes bad, they're there. that's awesome. yeah. they're incredible people, man. you saw all the stuff we put in these homes, right? i was i was blown away. and they deserve it. they earned it. this is not of course, we give them a mortgage free home, but look what they gave up. they gave up their bodies so, cole, why should americans

give donate help? tunnel to towers foundation. i mean, is there any better organization to help the people that has fought for this country and the freedoms that we have? it's that simple. it is that let's take care of each other. and you're going to join us on that mission. thank you. hey, i'm cole hauser. i want you to join me in supporting our nation's heroes and their families. it's only $11 a month. go to t2t dot org.

>> tucker: in january of 1972, two police officers, gregory foster and rocco leury, were murdered while on duty. their assassins were members of the black liberation army a terror group. the wife of one of the slain officers spoke in the rocky leury memorial. >> it's hard to believe it's been 51 years since rocco and greg were murdered. it was so senseless, too, you know? rocco was only 23 years old. gregory was only 22. my life was never the same again. people often say that time heals all wounds but when you have a broken heart, that never heals, but today, we're

honoring the memory of rocco. he was a hero and we need heroes to look up to today. >> tucker: we thought that was worth remembering. the biden administration is so committed to democracy that they're building a huge wall around the capitol, what was formally called the people's house is now their house. everyone could get away and stop asking what is going on inside? you're no longer allowed in your own house because january d those walls biden will read the state of the union tomorrow. you need to stay far, far away because it's not your country anymore. a small group of people who hate you are running it. we have a packed show tomorrow night. we're out of time for tonight. we hope you have the best evening with the ones you love doing things that actually

matter, not just talking about politics. we'll see you tomorrow for the state of the union address. good night. ♪ >> hannity: welcome to hannity. china's incursion over america's heartland is over for now, not before a massive spy balloon from our number one geo political foe was allowed to float slowly all over north america now for eight long days but for some reason, no tough words for communist china coming from the biden white house. just petty finger-pointing aimed at cri