mccaul: thank you, mr. speaker. am from texas. and i'm proud to be from the great state. i appreciate that. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to include extraneous material on this measure. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mccaul: thank you. i yield myself such time as i may consume. mr. speaker, this past week the nation watched in shock as the chinese surveillance balloon traversed much of the united states, including sensitive american military sites, like the air force base in montana. that base is one of the three places where our minute men, icbm, nuclear missiles are stored. americans are rightly disturbed by this brazen surveillance by the chinese communist party. this act of aggression was done before a meeting between president xi and secretary blinken. the balloon, i believe, is a test, a test of this administration to see how it would respond. i believe the president should have shot it down before it entered amer

we'll talk with two key lawmakers, house foreign affairs committee chairman michael mccaul and senatoron tester. saturday night the military sent fighter aircraft to investigate what it called a radar anomaly over tester's home state of montana. >>> frustration is mounting on capitol hill about what's going on here. and what more we can do to head off these intrusions. >>> plus, we heard the president's take on the state of the union but as the nation's governors convene? washington, we'll check in with four of them on the state of their states and the challenges that they're facing. >>> as the death toll grows in turkey and syria, we'll have the latest on recovery efforts and share our perspective on some of these global threats. >>> it's all just ahead on "face the nation". ♪ >>> good morning. welcome to "face the nation." as we come on the air, the big question in our minds today is, what is going on here? with what seemed like a deluge of potential incursions, what are these objects? where are they coming from? what is their purpose? and are we experiencing an increase of the so-ca

. >> a discussion on religious freedom and foreign policy with representative michael mccaul and jim mcgovern of massachusetts. this from a summit in washington dc that featured remarks from sam brownback who served as ambassador at large for religious freedom during the trump administration. this is 40 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2,023 international religious freedom summit. please welcome the chairs doctor katrina katrina lantos swett and ambassador sam brownback. >> good morning, good morning, katrina. i will join you on stage here for summer 2023. we are going to have a fantastic event. i believe this will be an epic event we are going to have, the relationships built here in the activities coming out of here will literally change the world and we need to change this world where there is so much persecution, so much difficulty taking place to religious people all over the world of all stripes. we have got a pretty simple theme for the summit. it is a bumper sticker. i come from the political world and bumper stickers, if you can't get your thought down to a b

summit and i'm honored to be here with my good friend the foreign affairs committee chairman mike mccaul. we may be of different parties but we have a lot of common ground and work together especially on the issues of human rights and happy to be here with everyone. we appreciate your commitment to the issues. for the past several years, i have cochaired the tom lantis human rights,s in the house of representatives and hope to have that in the 118th congress. in that capacity, i can tell you the right to freedom of thought, conscious, and religion is most often taken up in hearing ands religion. the right to practice is frequently violated by governments all over the world. some examples that immediately come to mind will be loved by everyone. in burma. the high in iran and muslims and freedom of religion and i'm very aware that my right to freedom of religion is only as strong as that of my muslim or hindu due or buddhist neighbor. unless the right to freedom of religion exists for everyone, it doesn't truly exist for anyone. the question that brings us together on this panel is why int

joining me now is congress congressman michael mccaul. mr.ou so much for being here this morning. >> thanks, maria. maria: i want to get your take on the capability of these balloons. i know that you can't reveal everything that you've learned in your briefings, but what can you tell the us about the potential dangers here? >> these spy balloons have great capability to gather and collect intelligence. i would argue more so than even satellites in the sense that they're flying at, say, 40-60,000 feet above the earth. the imagery that they can capture and other intelligence data that i can't be specific about can be captured and then transmitted back to the mother ship in beijing. they have control over these balloons. you know, this was an act of espionage in plain sight, plain view of the american people. i know there have been reports of prior ones, but none quite like this. and the reason why this one is so damaging is i do a damage assessment about what really happened in this that day, this balloon went over three of our most sensitive n

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congressman mccaul joins us now. good to see you. we've all been in ukraine this week. with president zelenskyy. you said in ukraine while you were there that you're seeing increasing momentum towards getting long range missiles and f-16. you heard when president biden said. you heard what jake sullivan said. it doesn't look like it. >> that's unfortunate. i was at the munich security conference along with the high-ranking military officials including our supreme ally commander. they're all in favor of us putting not only f-16s in, but longer range artillery to take out the iranian drones in crimea. the more i kept hearing was, we need to put everything we have into there. i know the administration says as long as it takes. i think with the right weapons, it shouldn't take so long, and quite frankly, martha, this whole thing is taking too long, and it really didn't have to happen this way. >> you heard jake sullivan say, look. our military is looking at the ground, what they need right now tanks. what they need is infantry. why do you think f-16s would make a difference

michael mccaul, the chair of the foreign affairs committee saying, quote i, will be demanding answers and will hold the administration accountable for this embarrassing display of weakness. what do you think of? this >> what i think of this is that you have to separate this into two different things. number, when republicans in congress will, regardless of facts, because michael mccaul has no more facts than i do right now, michael mccaul is chairman of the foreign affairs committee, he does not know anymore than i do. we will know next week. what that tells you as republicans, regardless of what happened, they will attack the president. the president -- ignoring the advice of his defense officials, they would be criticizing him for ignoring the advice of his generals. we need to accept it. whatever happens, in the total absence of facts, there will be deep criticism of the president. the other thing we need to remember here is that it is possible that all the decisions made here arguments making decisions, and they were right. that is where legitimate oversight comes in. let's unders

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neither party in washington cares what the voters thanks here is republican michael mccaul, the head foreign-policy genius in the house. he is completely controlled by the intelligence. here he is explaining that in a democracy it doesn't matter wha voters think. >> a new polish showing support among americans for ukraine is dropping. how concerned are foreign leaders you are speaking to tha american support for ukraine particularly within your own party is weakening? >> i would say the support is still very strong. this delegation that is bipartisan has strong support for ukraine. where you are seeing a split from the administration, and i have to say this is bipartisan as well, is for the past year w have been very slow at getting these weapons in in the name of being too provocative. weathered stingers, short range artillery. now longer-range artillery can take out the drones in crimea. and also aviation like f-16. if we put this stuff in from th very beginning of this conflict a year from now may have been very different. >> you will notice that wheneve there is a bipartisan cons

let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. french prism emmanuel mccaul says, friends plans a, quote, noticeable reduction of military staff in africa. he said the country would end its practice of hosting regular basis there. and instead set up academies to be co run by french and african armies. sickly as results trickle in from the weakens presidential vote. nigeria provisional results so far put a ruling party candidate bulletin board, head outside or peter o. b has one law goes, countries, commercial hub. electoral authorities are not expected to name overall winter in the race for several days. supporters of prominent russian opposition figure boris nymphs of have commemorated the 8th anniversary of his murder. the 55 year old was assassinated near the kremlin. 5 men were convicted in connection with the killing, but themselves allies say the case was a cover of an earthquake has rocked se turkey again, 3 weeks after devastating quakes. it the turkish syrian border region, at least one person was killed in monday's tremor, and more than 100 others w

. >> dana: congressman mccaul agrees and what he said yesterday. >> this balloon went over three of our most sensitive nuclear sites. one in montana that runs the triad. it went over to strategic command in omaha, nebraska and finally in missouri the b2 bomber site. this was not by accident. it was by design. >> dana: so if it's by design and we haven't heard yet from the president of the united states. john kirby will join the press secretary at the briefing today. at some point doesn't the commander-in-chief has to say something we're taking hostile action against unidentified flying objects over america? >> absolutely. he needs to be truthful about it. the truth is china is poking us in the eye. the truth is we have to respond. the truth is if we're weak, this is what happens. balloons are serious. there are a lot of things that can be attached to a balloon. electronic magnetic pulses for instance. you see chemicals. a lot of things that can be attached to balloons. we need to take it serious. i'm glad we're taking the shots. we should have taken a shot at the first balloon right awa

there are members within this cab cabinet, within this administration that agree with me. >> general mccaul visited bucca to see the aftermath of russian war crimes. martha? >> martha: thanks very much. with that, we bring in kurt volker, former u.s. ambassador to nato and former special representative for ukraine negotiations. good to have you with us today. vladimir putin one of the things that he said is that he's pulling out of the one remaining nuclear weapons treaty that russia was not in full compliance with. now they're officially out of it. what does that mean in terms of what he has in mind, sir? >> well, i think what he's trying to do is get inside the heads of people in the biden administration who he believes really care about nuclear arms control. getting them to be fearful that oh, maybe hour support for ukraine is taking us the wrong direction. the reality is just as you said, they weren't fully implementing this treat tiny way. they had limited inspections. what keeps us safe here is not the arms control treaty is deterrence. as far as we're prepared for a strong deterrent,

>> no, you know, chairman mccaul was a colleague, he and i were on homeland committee together and he'swith regard to what's happening here, i mean, you see generals and admirals out there openly talking about that china is preparing to move on taiwan. it's a question, maria, of when, not if and i think the reason that that timetable has been moved up is because, again, what you see and i think what president xi sees as a window of opportunity with the biden administration that did not previously exist with the administration that was tough on china. i mean, this administration could not be soft e on china. they keep getting pushed around across the board and if you're president xi, i mean, what concerns me is why wouldn't you move. i mean, essentially a million americans died f -- from a virus from china. over hundreds of americans killed from fentanyl product coming from the chinese triads to cartels in mexico and the biden administration has failed to push back at all and you have the spy air balloon incident that's a national embarrassment and again somehow the biden administration

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. >> now i want you to have a listen to what republican congressman mike mccaul told "state of the union" earlier today about u.s. military aid. let's take a listen. >> for the past year, we have been very slow at getting these weapons in, in the name of it being too provocative, whether it be stingers, javelins, these short range artillery, now longer range artillery that can take out the drones in crimea and also aviation like f-16. if we put the stuff in from the very beginning of this conflict, a year from now may have been very different as we look at the anniversary on february 24th. the longer they drag this out, they play into putin's hands. he wants this to be a long protracted war because he knows that potentially he'll lose -- we could lose the will of the american people and therefore the congress. >> does mccaul have a point that an influx of more sophisticated weapons could end things quickly? >> yeah, to a point, to an extent he does, actually. the key thing here, though, is the training that has to go with these kinds of systems. paula, it becomes really important if you

i'll speak to congressman michael mccaul of foreign affairs and mike turner of intelligence plus u.n. ambassador linda thomas green fiel field will join us. >>> ohio residents on edge after a train derailment releases dangerous toxins into their community. >> we need help. >> are our leaders doing enough to help and prevent the next crash? ohio democratic senator sharrod brown joins me next. >>> former president trump gets his first official challenger for the gop presidential nomination. >> if you're tired of losing, put your trust in a new generation. >> who is next? >>> hello, i'm pamela brown in washington where the state of our union is trying to keep your friends close and you know the rest. tensions between the u.s. and china on high this morning after a blunt meeting between the two nations top diplomats, the first since the u.s. shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon this month in a quote very direct and candid meeting on the sidelines of the munich security conference, secretary of state antony blinken told his counter part lee the balloon was a violation of u.s. sovereig

meanwhile congressman michael mccaul, chairman of the foreign affairs committee, is criticizing claims from the white house that any threats were mitigated. i think if you look at the flight pattern of the blue, and it tells the story as to what the chinese were up to going over those sites, in my judgment would cause great damage. remember a balloon could see a lot more on the ground than a satellite. it comes as we learn more about the chinese spy balloon. one u. s official says the technology bay has now been located off the coast of south carolina surveillance balloons. if that's what this is, they can collect both signals intelligence and imagery. they can get right over. most sensitive installations are inter connell in mental ballistic missile silos. obviously very significant.% hachi. abc news washington object shot down over lake here on yesterday it was flying lower at about 20,000 ft, posing a potential threat to passenger jets and other aircraft, all right, turning now to the devastation and the earthquake in turkey and syria, where more than 33,000 people are now confirmed

sovereignty that was authored by my friend, michael mccaul. last week the entire world witnessed an unacceptable breach of u.s. sovereignty. i stand here today to strongly denounce the presence of the prc balloon in the united states airspace. it is now up to beijing to demonstrate not just to the united states but to the world that it is serious about respecting international rules and laws and that it is a genuine -- it is genuine about stabilizing relations with the united states. secretary blinken was on his way to beijing to engage diplomacy, but, and i believe correctly, canceled his trip. it was the prc's irresponsible behavior that once again hindered u.s. efforts at dialogue and de-escalation. we crossed that line. it will not be good for any nation, and that's why diplomacy is always important. the prc also needs to come clean and stop pretending that this was a civilian airship gathering weather information that actively invaded -- accidentally invaded the u.s. airspace give now with the debris we are picking up after the responsibl

meanwhile congressman michael mccaul, chairman of the foreign affairs committee, is criticizing claims from the white house that any threats were mitigated. if you look at of flight pattern of the blue and it tells the story. as to what the chinese were up to going over those sites, and my judgment would cause great damage. remember a balloon could see a lot more on the ground than a satellite comes as we learn more about the chinese spy balloon. one u. s official says the technology bay has now been located off the coast of south carolina surveillance balloons. if that's what this is, they can collect both signals intelligence and imagery they can get right over a most sensitive installations are inter connell in mental ballistic missile silos, obviously very significant. now u. s. officials are looking from the wreckage from the object shot down in the yukon, but ice and weather conditions are hampering their efforts. andrew alright, i thank you now in a super bowl 57. it went right down to the wire really did. kansas city fans are celebrating their second super bowl victory in four

. >> congressman mccaul of texas doesn't have a dog in this hunt, unless you include the dogs livingd that by upping their defense spending to a full 36% of what america spends, china is proving they're too aggressive to reason with? >> look, china has a strategy. china wants to be influential. they don't want to have an empire of bases like the united states currently does. no nation can rival that for the next many decades. but i should add to that, that china with all this tension is america's largest trading partner. we do $750 billion of trade. >> that's a lot of suicide nets. >> so, it's kind of odd to be talking about and hyperventilating about a war with a nation that we do so much trade with. >> america spends more in defense than china, india, russia, united kingdom, saudi arabia, germany, france, japan, and south korea combined. since those countries will all go to war with us if we invade china, it would be irresponsible not to double our spending, right? >> well, the -- if i may, if i may, i'm sorry, steve, but i have to jump in. the problem is we don't have enough pro-m

michael mccaul, the chair of the house foreign affairs committee, saying today that the flight path of the balloon which flew over nuclear sites and military infrastructure, made clear that type of information that china was trying to acquire and for more on what these unknown objects could possibly be. we spoke last hour with steven fish , a political science professor at uc berkeley. but we really don't know those balloons could have been already out there. for some time. there's been an increase in ufo sightings since 2019 and it's starting to look like a lot of those might be chinese. uh, surveillance balloons. professor fish says the first balloon was about the size of three busses. but the three objects shut down since then have been much smaller. he also says they were flying low enough that they could have been a danger to aircraft in the area and stay with ktvu for more details on the shooting down of unidentified objects, you can find the latest on our website just had two ktvu .com. alright coming up two very different scenes unfolding tonight after super bowl 57. we do have

. >> reporter: congressman michael mccaul chairs the house foreign affairs committee, which move forwardw the president to potentially ban tiktok nationwide, or any software applications considered a national security threat. he cautions tiktok's chinese-based parent company bytedance could be collecting americans personal data. >> tiktok is a backdoor way that the chinese communist party can get into your phone and sensitive data and keystrokes and passwords. spy balon in your teleph >> reporter: in a statent, tiktok told cbs news it would be unfortunate if the committee were to censor millions of americans. >> tiktok is an entertainment app. we collect less data than many of our peers. >> reporter: congressman greg meeks is a ranking member on the panel. do you think it is an overreach? >> yeah, i think it is too broad. you have over 100 million people, basically come on tiktok vehicle we want to make sure we get this right. >> the sunset was absently magical. >> reporter: kay akpan is social media influence are known as the mom trotter, makes about $300,000 a year grading content abou

the french presidency model mccaul said this could take 1015 years. okay. max and or are you going to be with, with us throughout the morning, we have to say as we see various ceremonies such as the one that we're watching right now taking place, just to tell our viewers what they're seeing. we're looking right now at helene estonia, where a riffling ceremony is just beginning just taking place. we have seen their prime minister katya collis it. o secretary general against burke and e. u. commission, president ursula funder lion. it's at the monument to the war of independence. there in telling estonia and today also happens to be independent stay there. in estonia, we understand that the secretary general will also be meeting with ukrainian soldiers who are training in the country when a look at the ceremony now. and then we'll have some analysis and reflections thereafter. ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, a model in hand. you're going to go with a reminder of you, or if you're watching a re signing ceremony, they're entirely estonia on this day,

i think that image we had up earlier was, michael mccaul, in -- in ukraine, and he is, there he is. and he's not -- he's not a back bencher. i mean, that guy, i believe he's chairman of the armed services committee, and he went in, and so for every person we hear yammering, pro-putin talking points in the house gop, you've got mike mccaul over there, along with, i see darrell issa and other republicans who are supporting -- he's chair of the foreign affairs committee, and you have republicans over there, and actually you have chairman mccaul actually pushing for more missiles and f-16s going over to ukraine. as willie pointed out, mika, this is -- this a republican house divided right now while republican senate for the most part stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the president. i saw somebody else yesterday. a brzezinski, another brzezinski in poland. who would imagine that? i saw mark speaking yesterday, and, you know, i visited poland a few weeks back, and it's remarkable, the conversation that we had with leaders in poland and in warsaw. mark understands, the ambassador understands

. >> house foreign affairs committee chairman michael mccaul releasing a statement a short time ago.lease the department of energy has finally reached the same conclusion that i had really come to i requested a full and thorough briefing from the administration on this report and the evidence behind it. the u.s. department of energy is responsible for 70 national labs including los alamos which designed the first nuclear bomb many believe the coronavirus from china for wrecking the u.s. and global economies and you mention the fox news pulls let's take a mention of the first slide shows a majority of americans 57% say they have less money in their pocket now compared to last year, only 12% say they have more in a majority of americans disapprove the president's handling of other major issues in the opioid epidemic, guns, immigration, the economy and inflation. as the white house prepares for biden to announce his reelection campaign it's notable a majority of democratic primary voters a 53% want someone else only 37% want to see the oldest president in u.s. history run again presiden

and it is also critical as chairman mccaul pointed out in his comments we give them the weaponry theyd to succeed to win the war and i think that is critically important. >> john: in terms of moldova, it's believed putin wanted to build a land bridge and take over moldova from there. you said the speech was delusional rantings of a mad man, but he has a lot of nuclear weapons and pulled out of the new start treaty, seemed to be in response to biden going to kyiv, even though the russians were advised of, would be a finger in the eye to putin. >> well look, i think it is important. vladimir putin is the one who started this war. vladimir putin invaded a sovereign nation and has tried to take over ukraine and as i said, if he is allowed to succeed, he will not stop there, and so you know, he can be as upset as he wants, but this is a disaster of his own making, and i think the fact that he is pulling out of the nuclear arms treaty just speaks volumes to the irrational behavior that we have witnessed over the last year. >> john: i want to ask you about this, congressman, domestic issue,

let me play this for you from michael mccaul. >> this is crossing a red line for me, in this call, andips would bring russia and china to their knee, because it would not be a bad way of looking at it. >> do you agree? >> the ccp seems to be all over the place looking at russia. certainly, they are calling for the end of the war, but not by any means of the end of the war. you saw the president speak to that recently in saying that it did not make a lot of sense. now we are looking at them potentially sending arms to russia which would be mind blowing and disappointing. the steps that i think that we need to take in response are going to have to be serious. they are going to have to be aggressive, and they can't be singular. we will have to act alongside our western allies, and allies to the south of us. in ukraine with the war one-year on, it is not accentable, and we cannot al loul lawless awe cob ra sis. if china does sell arms, then it will begat action. >> you heard this here from the house select chairman of the committee. and they said that your work as a committee is going to b

instructive to listen to republicans who are in positions of authority, chairman turner, chairman mccaul, senator mitch mcconnell, talking about on going support for this war effort. i think they have far more sway. my only concern with the extremes now is they seem to have disproportionate influence over the current speaker of the house. >> officials told cnn this weekend that the u.s. recently started seeing, quote, disturbing trends, and there are signs that china wants to creep up to the line -- that's a quote -- of providing lethal military aid to russia without getting caught. how serious would that be in your mind, and how should the u.s. respond? >> it's extraordinarily serious, and i don't think there's any creeping up to the line in modern warfare. there's a way to find out anything like this. it's disturbing and also somewhat contradictory. what is china doing? is it trying to normalize relations with the u.s. with the two presidents meetings and secretary blinken meeting yo. and then this word of the possibility of sending lethal weaponry to the ukraine conflict, this would b

michael mccaul has a different explanation.ere he is from sunday. >> these spy balloons have great capability to gather and collect intelligence. the imagery they can capture and other intelligence data i can't be specific about can captured and transmitted. they have control over these balloons. it was an act of espionage in plain view of the american people. >> bill: that last point this is espionage in plain sight. is that a case? >> he is absolutely right. absolutely right about the first instance. a dedicated flight path over our most tensetive military and nuclear sites and critical infrastructure. p respect to the chinese spy balloon. nor add commander says 2, 3 and 4 they aren't characterizing them as balloons or chinese or spy balloons. they say they are drifting slowly. they have different characteristics. we simply don't know. the point is this. people are filling in the blanks and speculating because the biden administration is not addressing this or being transparent or giving good explanations for what is going on

i want to play something eric publican congressman michael mccaul of texas said earlier today. >> i thinkd have gone to palestine when we had this major chemical spill. it doesn't mean we disregard what's happening in the struggle for the global balance of power that we're facing right now, we haven't seen anything like this is my father's generation in world war ii. ohio's republican governor has also said the president has been in touch and offered him whatever help he needs. are republicans criticizing the white house for their response to the derailment just plain politics? >> i am shocked politics is occurring here, reverend al. i think it's even worse than you are noting. the unfairness of targeting biden for not going to the derailment in ohio. it's a case of republicans have for several years now and working to defund the epa, to defund the transportation department, to weaken the regulations that would give the government and the ability to prevent this sort of thing and to respond to this sort of thing. and then something bad happens. one of the things they do, they blame the go

. >> martha: mike mccaul says he's seen increased momentum in washington for giving ukraine the fighter jets. we've seen this routine where we say no for this reason and that reason and we end up saying yes. so that would be interesting. we'll see what happens with it. dan hoffman, good to see you. thanks very much for being here. another big story today, former president trump in east palestine, ohio as he jockeys for the nomination in 2024 and a so i length primary seems to be going on with the former president and the current governor of florida, ron desantis. >> to the people of east palestine and the nearby communities in ohio and pennsylvania, we have told you loud and clear, you're not forgotten. >> martha: joe concha and mike pence straight ahead on "the story." veteran homeowners: making a big car payment every month? car loans can be expensive and the payments high. consolidate that car loan into a newday home loan and save hundreds every month. introducing astepro allergy. now available without a prescription. astepro is the first and only 24-hour steroid-free spray. while fl

chair of the foreign affairs committee for the house, michael mccaul, republican of texas, talked about the revolution and its purpose. [video clip] >> i believe the balloon is a test of this administration to see how he would -- we would respond. i believe the president should have shot it down before it entered american airspace, rather than allow it to cross over the continental united states airspace. make no mistake that this was another intentionally provocative act by the ccp. as i have said often, weakness invites aggression. this act will only further embolden and empower our enemies. it will embolden and empower the chair in chief. esther speaker, i have never seen a foreign nation adversary fly an reconnaissance aircraft that you can see from the ground with their own eyes. the ccp threat is now within site for americans across the heartland. a vision in memory that they will not forget. this is further proof the ccp does not care about having a constructive relationship with the u.s. it is publicly challenging u.s. interests, writing taiwan, supporting russia's war of aggres

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awaits more western support there is an american congressional delegation in kiev led by michael mccaul. this group is expected to advocate for sending long-rang missiles and fighter jets to ukraine. back to you. >> dana: thank you so much. a pretty day there although in a war torn country. joining us for more on growing concerns that china may provide lethal aid to russia robert o'brien. great to have you. want to play sound from the u.s. ambassador to the united nations. >> we also have to be clear that if there are any thoughts and efforts by the chinese and others to provide lethal support to the russians in their brutal attack against ukraine, that's unacceptable. again, that would be a red line. >> dana: that is linda thomas-greenfield. but robert, the use of the word or phrase red line. that conjures up the obama administration and isis and you think back to what happened then. is this language necessary right now? is it the appropriate tone? >> we never use the word red line in the trump administration for that very reason. folks knew where we stood. if they violated our princip

congressman mccaul weighed on potential meeting from munich saying retribution for espionage must be promised. >> i would do it only in the sense to send xi jinping a very strong warning signal that that's going to be the policy of the united states. alex: we don't expect to hear from the president this weekend. he's prepare to go depart monday for poland, griff. griff: alexandria hoff, on the ground, alex, thank you very much. jacqui, i have to ask you because you spend so much time at the white house and as you heard from alex's report, things are being shout-out of the sky, we don't know what they are. now the search called off and the american people are wondering what the heck, how much pressure do you perceive as inside the west wing, inside the white house to get an answer or are they going to be able to get a pass and move on? jacqui: i don't know that we will ever get real answers on the 3 objects shot down because they are looking at fizzling out those searches. they haven't been successful. there's been tough terrain and tough weather meaning we may not get a concrete idea

i ask the question because the house foreign affairs committee chairman mike mccaul said this balloonon board? >> well i think we'll all know a lot more now that our terrific crew has brought up a great deal of this balloon from the waters off of the carolinas. and we should all know more as this is unpacked and we learn what all of these elements are. but i think you see from this pike what we have been saying, there is no question that this was a surveillance balloon sent to us by the peoples republic of china. >> and looking back, was it wise to wait as it crossed over the entire united states before getting to the coast off of the carolinas before shooting it down? >> well, i think it was the right decision. the president had made a decision as soon as it was safe to shoot it down. that in fact, our military should do so and they did that brilliantly. they know how to close down all of our secure facilities so they are secure. that was done. we wanted to make sure no american citizen was hurt. no business was put out of business. so i think it was a very prudent decision to secure

michael mccaul explains it this way. >> in montana the triad site, air i land and sea nuclear weapons in omaha, our most sensitive nuclear site. president bush was taken there after 9/11. it tells a story what the chinese were up to as they controlled this aircraft throughout the united states. going over those sites in my judgment would cause great damage. >> harris: house intel committee member, congressman, what can you tell us? >> once again they have botched this from the very beginning. they want to minimize it if they can. here is what we know. they knew this chinese surveillance balloon was coming over our mainland. they didn't tell us. they expected to continue the secretary's visit. this thing was over our country as you indicated with previous interviews over very sensitive military and other installations. they said that while it was over us they were able to jam it. that it wasn't conveying any information back to china. that's nonsense. though way in the world if they know they were able to do that. once having done that they decided we have to do something and shoot it

biden's national security adviser jake sullivan, and house foreign affairs committee chair michael mccaulbout u.s. support to ukraine one year after russia's invasion. plus, a clip from david muir's interview with president biden on "this week." eva? >>> now to comg eemic food aid of americans. the temporary program due to end on march 1st, many fearing the consequences for struggling families. abc's alexis christoforous joins us with more. good morning, alexis. >> good morning, eva. this morning, nearly 30 million americans bracing for a significant cut in their monthly food stamp benefits. after nearly three years, the federal government is ending pandemic-era payments for the low income families on the supplemental nutrition assistance program or snap. 18 states have already ended the extra snap benefits. the rest of the country will do the same march 1st. the average household will now lose $95 a month for groceries, but depending on family size and income, some will lose hundreds of dollars a month in food assistance. the boost has been a lifeline for many, credited with keeping over

so today a group of the less chaotic republicans, including the congressman michael mccaul of texas,hair of the house foreign affairs committee, made the trip here to kyiv themselves. they retrace president biden's steps. the even try to one of the president by calling on the u. s. to provide additional artillery and f-16 fighter jets to ukraine, something the biden administration has so far been reluctant to do. >> the president recently visited, and i commend him for coming here, and it's a very symbolic move on his part. we have strong bipartisan support to give ukraine everything that it needs to win. i will be very strong voiced on both the long-range artillery to hit crimea in the f-16s. increasing momentum towards getting both the artillery and the planes in. >> now it is notable that in this one instance, when it comes to funding ukraine, some republicans are making an effort to be on the right side of this issue. jennifer reuben is a washington post opinion columnist covering policy foreign and domestic. jennifer, good to see you. i have to say, i was a little surprised. thi

representative michael mccaul says the chinese could control the device over the u.s.hile sending back sensitive intelligence to the chinese, and the president waited to bring it down. roger marshall -- roger wicker says it's likely that some of the components in the airship were manufactured in the united states. that's another problem for him. >> there's no reason why the chinese communist party, led by xi jinping who wants to dominate the pacific, should have anything made in the united states of america or anything with english language on immaterial. >> reporter: -- on it. >> reporter: the u.s. is working on additional reporting requirements for companies, u.s. companies, making investments in chinese technology in the china. a spokesperson saying that we are making progress in formulating an approach to address outbound investments to provide greater transparency on u.s. investment into china and other countries of concern. but right now, neil, it is just audiocassette the, nothing -- just talk, nothing substantial has moved forward. neil: thank you, edward. chad

you had mike mccaul who chairs the foreign relations. he said he is hopeful. he thinks momentum is building. this aid package and weapons package announced is more money and more weapons but more of the same. the question is what is next? >> that's right. we've seen mounting pressure to provide the fighter jets that ukraine has been asking for. it's also pressure that is now beginning to come from other nato countries. we heard from the polish prime minister and the polish president over the weekend saying that they would provide their kind of earlier era fighter jets to ukraine if the united states did the same and provided a coalition of getting those jets to ukraine. so there is a lot of eyes on that particularly because the biden administration said in the past that they wouldn't provide certain weaponry and then they have shifted over time. i think it's important to note the backdrop here as well. president biden said very clearly there is significant agreement in washington, bipartisan agreement he's hinting at there. they're quite loud to be in support.

congressman mccaul weighed in from munich. >> i hope he responds in a fashion that we're not going to allow a spy balloon committing espionage across the united states without some sort of retribution. >> now, the biden administration had to respond to why the suspected chinese spy flight was able to linger across the continental u.s. while the smaller objects were immediately or swiftly shot down. the white house says that they're now establishing new parameters for decision making in similar circumstances in the future, jacqui. jacqui: we'll keep watching the munich security conference to see if blinken ends up meeting with the chinese top diplomate. that would be an indication where things stand. thank you so much. griff: the prosecution in the murdaugh double murder trial resting its case after presenting a detailed timeline of the night of the murder. the south carolina law enforcement division using gps and cell phone data to track alex murdaugh's location and movement from that night. alexis mcadams joins us with the latest. hey, griff, how is it going? today we can learn more

neil: chairman mike mccaul good to see you. the chairman. there was a little bit of an audio delay, i apologize for those questions and answers, but not too bad. the goings on in east palestine, ohio, and the man who runs norfolk and southern chairman is there, and we don't know with whom he's meeting. maybe lucas tomlinson does because he's in the same place. >> we hear that adam shaw will be meeting with local congressman who i believe is on your show later on today. and fema now says they're sending a small team to east palestine and learning that hhs and c.d.c. will also be deploying a small team. let me read you the statement from fema in ohio, governor mike dewine, that fema will supplement federal efforts by deploying a senior response official along with a regional management assistance team to support ongoing operations including incident coordination and ongoing assessments of potential long-term recovery needs. as i mentioned the governor says that hhs and c.d.c. will deploy teams to set up a free medical clinic here, including to