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| We have our military experts as it relates to this big, beautiful balloon that is flying over, this reconnaissance balloon flying over the continental United States. | |
| You know, I am sitting here in a state of shock at the lack of urgency of the Biden administration. | |
| Now the way it's been reported all day is simple. | |
| That the U.S. has tracked. | |
| Meaning we haven't even gotten the exact time they knew that this reconnaissance balloon was flying over the continental United States. | |
| How long has this been going on? | |
| We haven't gotten a real complete answer on this. | |
| Um and that should be, you know, that should be concerning to every American. | |
| You know, why isn't Joe Biden and his top military advisors right now in the situation room putting together a plan to retrieve the high flying balloon, the reconnaissance balloon, or to blow it out of the sky? | |
| Because those are pretty much the only two options I would have. | |
| That would be option two to blow it up. | |
| Now, one question I'm thinking in my mind do the Chinese have the technology to detonate the balloon? | |
| Do they have that technology? | |
| I don't know if they do or not. | |
| That would be an interesting question. | |
| Uh I got a lot of details to pass on to you about all this. | |
| And I I just cannot believe that the very country that is so hypersensitive over airspace in Taiwan that is not theirs, that is flying their fighter jets all over Taiwan, violating their airspace day in and day out, trying to lecture America about our high-level official speaker of the House, Pelosi soon Speaker McCarthy, going over to our ally Taiwan, that we're letting them get away with this. | |
| There's been a calculation here. | |
| This is not an accident. | |
| And the one one consequence to date is that Winkin Tony Blinken postponed his trip to China next week. | |
| That is actually in our favor because he's so pathetically weak that President Chi will roll him. | |
| And he's not particularly bright either. | |
| On top of everything. | |
| You know, this is a surveillance balloon. | |
| This is what this is. | |
| And what we're being told is, well, it's uh it's a civilian research airship from China. | |
| Uh are you buying that, Adam Schiff? | |
| Because I'm not. | |
| What is wrong with these people? | |
| How long have you been tracking? | |
| I want that question answered. | |
| You know, you got the the uh general, the Pentagon Brigadier General Pat Ryder saying that the government's well, they they're tracking the Chinese balloon once it was detected. | |
| What do you mean once it was detected? | |
| They acted to protect against collection of sensitive information. | |
| What acts did you take? | |
| Why did you let the balloon make it over the continental United States into our airspace? | |
| Why did you let that happen? | |
| That would be, you know, allowing the communist Chinese to just basically do whatever the hell they want. | |
| Go you go try and fly a balloon over China. | |
| Good luck to you. | |
| You know, why are we letting the communist Chinese, why do we have to have Republicans now fighting to pass a bill as they are, rightly so, to prevent Biden from selling our strategic petroleum reserves to our number one geopolitical threat, China? | |
| Why would we ever do that when they are depleted at a 50-year low because Joe Biden thought it was a national emergency with the upcoming elections and the high price of gasoline, he wanted to artificially reduce the price, so he used up half of it, and Democrats losing an election is not by definition a national emergency. | |
| You know, why are we allowing the communist Chinese to buy up farmland like we are and ranch land like we are? | |
| And why are we allowing the communist Chinese to buy land near our own military installations? | |
| How stupid, you know how stupid that President Chi must think that we are? | |
| And I'll tell you right now, this wouldn't have happened under Trump. | |
| Donald Trump was feared by the likes of Putin and President Chi. | |
| And and you know what? | |
| You didn't see the hostilities like this happening with President Trump. | |
| And I'll tell you what the factor is, the it factor. | |
| You know, I used to hate the word gravitas. | |
| Here was the thing. | |
| The guy that wrote those tweets that annoyed everybody in the media and would have them hyperventilating and feigning moral outrage because they read his tweet and the press is the enemy of the people. | |
| Oh, the vapors. | |
| Oh, oh. | |
| Well, that guy put fear into the heart. | |
| You know why? | |
| Because they thought he was crazy enough he might do it. | |
| Whatever it would be necessary. | |
| They believed it. | |
| They they have assessed what I have assessed, and all of you in this audience have assessed, that we have a weak, frail cognitive mess as a commander in chief. | |
| The Chinese surveillance balloon is violating U.S. airspace. | |
| Even General Pat Ryder said that. | |
| And it's unacceptable. | |
| If it's unacceptable, why haven't they acted yet? | |
| Why is this taking so long? | |
| And then he goes on to say that it has the ability to maneuver, but won't say if it's going to be shot down. | |
| Now I can give you some more details about this. | |
| We don't know how long they've been tracking it. | |
| The last I checked, it was over Missouri, so it's I'm sure the balloon doesn't fly that fast. | |
| Maybe it does. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Maybe it's a super hypersonic balloon. | |
| No idea. | |
| I don't know that much about balloons, but two Air Force F-22 fighters did scramble from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada to Montana. | |
| Uh earlier today was in Montana. | |
| Last I heard it was over Missouri, and the balloon was observed before the administration. | |
| They decided not to shoot it down. | |
| I want to know why they decided not to shoot it down. | |
| I want to know if they're planning on retrieving that balloon and if there's a way to retrieve that balloon. | |
| I mean, we could send people to the moon. | |
| They can land, they can walk around a little bit, pick up some rocks, and put the rocks on on their ship and come on home and land safely and be alive. | |
| If we can do that, I'm pretty confident we'd have the ability to retrieve a Chinese balloon, reconnaissance balloon, flying over our country. | |
| China says they're looking into reports that one of its spy balloons has been flying in U.S. airspace. | |
| Are you kidding me? | |
| Do you believe that is complete Adam Bull Schiff? | |
| It's it's total BS. | |
| None of that is true. | |
| They're lying to us. | |
| Now it was flying over Montana, Senator Danes, alarmed at this, said it's a significant concern because we have ICBM fields in Montana. | |
| The communist Chinese know that. | |
| Speaker McCarthy called this, you know, a brief for a briefing of the gang of eight. | |
| What where's Joe Biden going this weekend? | |
| Last I heard his plans to go to Delaware were still in effect. | |
| Can we get an update on that? | |
| What Joey's planning to do this weekend? | |
| He spent 40% of his time outside the White House anyway, and he's useless. | |
| Congressman Mike Waltz is not hyperbole in saying America is under assault. | |
| And then when I hear and read that the Chinese spy balloon has been tracked over the U.S. this week, I want to know why we weren't told immediately. | |
| Or action wasn't taken immediately. | |
| So they cancel the trip of Winkin Blinken. | |
| Who cares? | |
| It's meaningless to me. | |
| And the GOP is rightfully, you know, apoplectic about this and tearing into Biden after the Pentagon announced the discovery of this uh reconnaissance surveillance balloon. | |
| Well, nice of you to get on board. | |
| When are we going to get an intelligence briefing? | |
| When are you going to see some action? | |
| I mean, this is there can be no doubt about this. | |
| They are spying on us. | |
| And we're allowing it to happen. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| One Democratic senator urged Apple and Google to ban TikTok. | |
| They've been spying on us through TikTok. | |
| Christy Noam, I think, was the first person. | |
| We had her on when she did it. | |
| And so many other Republican governors have followed. | |
| They're banning TikTok. | |
| Because they have now figured out TikTok is a spying mechanism of the communist Chinese. | |
| I had to explain that to my own daughter. | |
| Loves TikTok. | |
| I'm like, no, TikTok, stay off it. | |
| Get it off your phone. | |
| Get a new phone. | |
| It's like unbelievable. | |
| You know, one of the things that I have been warning everybody about is we got this new axis of evil. | |
| And it was written about uh earlier today, and that is this unholy alliance with our number one geopolitical threat, China, our number two geopolitical threat, Russia. | |
| And then, of course, uh nobody else in the mob, the media will raise the question when you talk about all of the money's reported deals with the Bidens and the Communist Chinese and the Russian oligarchs, one has to say and ask the question, is our president compromised? | |
| Is that why they are emboldened in the case of Putin to invade Ukraine the way he has, now in the case of China to send a reconnaissance balloon to spy on us? | |
| It's it's pretty unbelievable to me. | |
| Now China has confirmed through its spokesman that it is a civilian research airship. | |
| I'm not believing a word that they say. | |
| And if their civilian research airship uh got into our air space, it's now ours. | |
| It's not yours anymore. | |
| We will own that. | |
| Now, I don't know if they have the ability to blow it up themselves, but they confirmed today that the balloon flying over the continental United States uh is their airship. | |
| They're calling it a civilian research craft. | |
| Well, keep your research craft over your own airspace and stay the hell out of our air space. | |
| The Canadian government is also monitoring. | |
| They suspect a Chinese spy balloon. | |
| Uh they're saying, though the Canadians are safe. | |
| I don't think anybody knows they're safe. | |
| We don't know what they're up to. | |
| And that's the problem. | |
| And they're not in the you know, they ought to be in the situation room now. | |
| And if I'm the president, imagine for a minute. | |
| I know it's laughable. | |
| I don't want to be president, but if I was president, I could tell you what I'd be doing right now. | |
| I'd bring in the best military minds, retired active duty into the situation room, and I would pick their brains and I would want to know everything I can know about what was in that balloon, and then I would want what options are available. | |
| Good leaders when they run meetings, they sit back, they listen to every option, and then the commander in chief, if he would even know that today's Friday, would be able to make a decision on how to handle this hostile attack by the communist Chinese. | |
| Now, my first choice would be, although I would listen to every option on the table, is can we recover this and see what is inside the reconnaissance surveillance balloon? | |
| Maybe it's technology we don't have. | |
| They steal our technology, the communist Chinese intellectual property theft, they're the experts at it. | |
| Maybe we can find out what they have in that balloon that maybe we don't have and maybe even steal from them. | |
| Anyway, China launches an investigation into the balloon. | |
| Oh, okay, like I really trust that. | |
| U.S. Philippines announce a new agreement to ramp up military presence amid the China Taiwan uh tensions. | |
| Let me predict for you what Joe Biden would do when China eventually, and I think they will, you know, quote, reunify. | |
| They call it reunification with Taiwan. | |
| We call it what it is. | |
| They want to take over an innocent sovereign country, and the United States has an agreement not to let them do that. | |
| And you know what I think America's gonna do if Joe Biden's president and China makes that move? | |
| They're not gonna do a damn thing under Joe Biden. | |
| And that calculation has already been made by all hostile regimes, including Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, you name the hostile nation, and they're all thinking the same way. | |
| How did this possibly happen? | |
| That is the biggest question of all. | |
| How did this happen? | |
| And what are you going to do to fix this? | |
| And why are you waiting so long? | |
| And why is the only consequence that Blinken postpones his trip to China? | |
| That actually is a blessing to us. | |
| He is weak and he is stupid. | |
| He is not the smartest, you know, there's not a light on in there somewhere. | |
| He's missing a couple of light bulbs. | |
| Balloon does not present a military or physical threat, according to the Pentagon spokesperson. | |
| How do you know that? | |
| How did they know what they're saying? | |
| They just say it with what? | |
| To make us feel better? | |
| That doesn't make me feel better. | |
| In any way, shape, manner, or form. | |
| You know, it's it's unbelievable to me. | |
| That's that's it. | |
| Blink's trip postponed. | |
| They fly it over America and airspace. | |
| By the way, Putin is testing the world. | |
| He's about to launch an unstoppable hypersonic missile during war games with China and South Africa. | |
| You don't think hostilities are now a big problem? | |
| By the way, do you think Joe Biden and the Biden family syndicate is compromised in any of this? | |
| Is that in any way inhibiting his ability to respond? | |
| I don't know. | |
| Do you think Donald Trump's kids got the money that Hunter and and his brother Jim got from China, Russia, Ukraine, and elsewhere? | |
| These deals that they made that we're getting all the details of. | |
| You think that uh the how do you think the media mob and the Democrats would? | |
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| The world's what is frustrating me the most is that these fighter jets were readied by the military, but they advised President Biden, so they're saying, again, shooting the beautiful reconnaissance balloon of the Chinese out of the sky for fear the debris would pose a safety threat. | |
| Option one. | |
| Get the balloon, find a way safely to bring it down to Earth so we can examine what's in the balloon and find out what the Chinese are really up to. | |
| And if I'm sitting in the situation room and I'm a president, Don't tell me we can't. | |
| Don't tell me that the country can send men to the moon and walk on the moon and pick up rocks and fly home from the moon and land safely. | |
| Can't get that balloon out of the sky. | |
| And if that's your answer, while you're worried about debris, then blow it into little itzy bitsy tiny pieces of dust. | |
| So it won't matter. | |
| That's option two. | |
| Blow that sucker out of the sky and do it with a message sent. | |
| Don't you dare invade our airspace ever again. | |
| And if they're gonna send balloons over our airspace, I'd send it right over there, airspace too. | |
| That's the way the game's gonna play. | |
| Interesting history in case you care about this. | |
| World War One is usually considered the first war where the U.S. deployed aviation forces, but actually, the U.S. military, in case you're interested, began to rely on military aircraft 50 years before World War One during the Civil War because both the Union and Confederacy used hot air balloons for reconnaissance to help uh find the location of troops and artillery, artillery. | |
| And the innovation is, you know, aerial warfare. | |
| If it was a trailblazer at the time. | |
| Why don't you blow it up? | |
| Boom. | |
| Option two. | |
| Option two. | |
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| You know, you know why I don't care what blink I just argued with Linda, she's laughing. | |
| I said he's full of hot air. | |
| Why do I want to Yeah, I don't think that's exactly what he said. | |
| Well, you you wanna you want to rephrase it? | |
| Go right ahead. | |
| No. | |
| Say it. | |
| No, say it. | |
| No, man. | |
| We I we got FCC violations. | |
| We don't need that. | |
| We got enough problems. | |
| You very kindly told me to take care of myself and be quiet because you weren't interested in what Wink and Blinken had to say. | |
| I said Wink and Blinken's full of hot air. | |
| He is a balloon. | |
| That's right. | |
| That's what you said. | |
| No, we were just told the balloon is currently traveling at an altitude well above commercial aircraft, does not present a military or physical threat to the people on the ground. | |
| These people are stupid. | |
| Talk about being full of hot air. | |
| They're full of hot air. | |
| I'll get to that in a minute. | |
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| They're telling us the balloon is traveling at an altitude well above commercial aircraft. | |
| Oh, I feel so relieved. | |
| The communist Chinese balloon is flying above where commercial aircraft travel. | |
| That gives me comfort. | |
| That doesn't give me any comfort. | |
| And Joe Biden, we just checked. | |
| His schedule hasn't changed. | |
| He's not in the situation room. | |
| He's going to Delaware. | |
| Like he does every weekend. | |
| You know, and there's it does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground. | |
| If it is a reconnaissance balloon, it is a military threat to this country. | |
| How stupid are you people? | |
| It is a threat to this country. | |
| This is not hard to figure out. | |
| You know, but don't worry, this is the same administration that is selling strategic petroleum oil reserves to China that hates us. | |
| The same uh the China that's invading our allies' airspace and warning us not to help Taiwan and telling us not to send our elected representatives to visit our allied Taiwan. | |
| I don't care what the communist communist Chinese say. | |
| And I would immediately buy back every bit of farmland that the Chinese have bought in this country, every bit of ranch land that they bought in this country, and every bit of land that they bought near any military facility in this country. | |
| I wouldn't even buy it back. | |
| I'd take it back. | |
| They're not going to let us buy their farmland, their ranch land. | |
| They're not going to let us buy property next to their military install installations. | |
| How stupid are we? | |
| We really are dumb. | |
| This country is being led by idiots. | |
| This is scary stuff. | |
| I mean, it is if you don't see, like Senator Dain said, they were flying over Montana. | |
| Right over where our ICBM missiles launch from. | |
| Wake up and don't lie to me and tell me it's it's not a security threat. | |
| It's like my kids, they do something wrong. | |
| When they did something wrong, I'd say, okay, did you do that? | |
| No. | |
| Okay. | |
| Did you eat the cookies in the in the cookie jar? | |
| No. | |
| Okay. | |
| Well, what is all that chocolate around your mouth that I'm looking at? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I have no idea. | |
| Now, I'll ask you again. | |
| Did you eat the cookies? | |
| No. | |
| They're treating us like children. | |
| And they're not dealing with the problem. | |
| And they're lying to us on top of it. | |
| By the way, add to that, Vladimir Putin is now unleashing a new hypersonic missile capable of reaching speeds over 6,600 miles per hour, and these missiles will be test fired during naval exercises off the coast of Africa. | |
| They will be aimed uh at a surface target at a distance of more than 310 miles, the training launch, as they call it, of nuclear capable missiles is the latest show strength by the Kremlin dictator. | |
| By the way, here we are at a point where Vladimir Putin is doing anything and everything he wants, and Joe Biden refuses to allow Zelensky to even get fighter jets from Poland. | |
| He can't win without fighter jets to counter Putin's Air Force capabilities and missile capabilities. | |
| That means we're wasting our time and money. | |
| He won't even allow Western Europe to give them the jets. | |
| This is all nuts. | |
| And I'm going to tell you something. | |
| This gets to the heart of why the business dealings, we need to get to the bottom of all of it. | |
| You know, we have some very odd things happening here because we got letters popping up this week. | |
| You know, we've been reaching out to the to the Hunter Biden people forever. | |
| Dozens and dozens and dozens of requests, my team has may uh asked about these reports. | |
| So they would comment on them. | |
| They never got back to us on any of this. | |
| But now that they are threatening everybody with these very loyally letters and so on and so forth, now maybe that means they're willing to talk. | |
| And if they are, we've got I've got hundreds of questions for them. | |
| You know, I'm just starting with the basics. | |
| We'll start with our number one geopolitical foe and our number two geopolitical foe, but you know, uh, I would like some answers that they have not. | |
| If you start, you know, well, I could ask 150 right now, but I'll ask a few. | |
| Why was Hunter on the board of Barisma in Ukraine? | |
| A Ukrainian oil and gas giant. | |
| Remember, according to the U.S. Senate finance report, despite no experience, he admitted on Good Morning America. | |
| He admitted he had no experience and probably wouldn't have even been invited to join the board if he wasn't the vice president's son. | |
| No experience in energy, oil, gas, coal, or in Ukraine. | |
| So why is Hunter paid a small fortune to sit on the border Barisma? | |
| What benefit did they think they would get? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I think all of you would love that deal. | |
| Uh around the same time, according to the Hill, then Vice President Biden, remember he's bragging on tape. | |
| Leveraging a billion dollars in U.S. aid, giving them six hours to fire a Ukrainian prosecutor. | |
| Isn't that odd? | |
| A vice president demanding a prosecutor in Ukraine get fired in six hours, and son of a bee, they did it, otherwise they're not getting your tax dollars. | |
| That sounds like a quid and a pro and a quo from Joe. | |
| I thought Democrats didn't like good pro quotes with Ukraine. | |
| I guess they only don't like it if they think there's one with Trump when all Trump was asking for was that they be good stewards with our money and not show the same corruption of previous administrations in Ukraine. | |
| Um, but anyway, according to an investigative report, John Solomon, the prosecutor was allegedly investigating Hunter and Barisma for corruption. | |
| Said so in the interview. | |
| Son of a bee, they fired the guy. | |
| Investigation over. | |
| Anyway, remember when Donald Trump, the whole thing? | |
| Why is this not important? | |
| See how hypocritical Democrats are? | |
| Why was Hunter wired three and a half million from our number two geopolitical foe? | |
| And that, of course, would be Russia. | |
| Three and a half million dollars from a Russian oligarch, former First Lady of Moscow. | |
| And according to the Senate report, Hunter traveled with his father ten days later. | |
| That's when the Senate committee claims he struck a lucrative deal with the Bank of China. | |
| A billion-dollar deal. | |
| Despite his terrible reputation and lackluster resume. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I would think if I'm China, I'd rather do business with Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs. | |
| Why would they pick Hunter? | |
| What were they expecting? | |
| And of course, uh other reports that the the Russian also uh invested a hundred million dollars or so. | |
| This was in the New York Post, Miranda Devine. | |
| Uh into a real estate venture with Hunter. | |
| Boy, they all they like Hunter, our enemies. | |
| Our number one and two enemies really like the Bidens. | |
| By the way, is it possible? | |
| It's a question. | |
| I'm only asking a question. | |
| They're doing all these business deals, and they're dealing with a son at the time that's a crack addict and known to you know, reported anyway, to be interested in filming incidences with women of the night. | |
| Because first they seem to indicate it was Hunter's laptop, but then they said no, it's not. | |
| So we can't get clarity on that. | |
| We will eventually. | |
| What did Ten for Jim 10 held by H for the big guy mean? | |
| What did that mean? | |
| All of it reeks of corruptions. | |
| So the question is, you know what? | |
| Let me ask you, Miranda Devine and Emily Crane writing October 17, 2022. | |
| They got at least a hundred million dollars Hunter Biden linked real estate firm from that Russian oligarch, former first lady of Moscow. | |
| That was October 17th, 2022. | |
| That's the Bidens. | |
| You think any of this matters? | |
| Now, John Ratcliffe, remember we had all these people telling us before the election that I don't know, has all the markings of a uh uh Russian uh misinformation campaign. | |
| Ratcliffe was the one that was saying he long held that information on that laptop was not produced by the Russians. | |
| He was the former director of National Intelligence. | |
| Said it was not Russian disinformation. | |
| He made clear of all of this uh to the intelligence community in 2020, but instead, looks like people wanted to put their thumb on the scale and and give Joe the benefit of the doubt. | |
| A lot of good that did. | |
| By the way, there is a complete meltdown. | |
| We've read all the comments of uh Congresswoman Omar, and it's all about the Benjamins and you know our comments about Israel. | |
| Oh, it got the ang the Democrats really angry yesterday. | |
| Tell me this is about consistency. | |
| Don't tell me that this is about an abdicate a condemnation of anti-Semitic remarks. | |
| This is about targeting women of color in the in the United States of America. | |
| Don't tell me, because I didn't get a single time as expired. | |
| My life was threatened. | |
| Thank you. | |
| The GOP is now doing what it is best at weaponizing hate against a black, beautiful Muslim woman. | |
| The gentleman's woman's time has expired. | |
| Gentlemen's time has expired. | |
| Gentlemen's time is expired. | |
| That our country is failing you today. | |
| Through this chamber. | |
| You belong to the channel. | |
| It is Congresswoman Omar who has been harassed at her job for simply existing as a Muslim woman in Congress. | |
| It is she who has been attacked by a member of this body, ridiculing her as a potential terrorist for simply existing as a Muslim woman in this Congress. | |
| So let's talk about what's really happening. | |
| Republicans are waging a blatantly Islamophobic and rapist attack on Congresswoman Omar. | |
| And I've said it before, I will say it again. | |
| The white supremacy happening is unbelievable. | |
| This is despicable. | |
| We've All fallen short in the eyes of the Lord. | |
| Right here in this Capitol. | |
| A pastor from Brooklyn Tabernacle said we all need race and mercy. | |
| Elhan Omar has been held accountable. | |
| So this is not about accountability. | |
| It's about political revenge. | |
| All right, I'm having a fight with my all right. | |
| I'll go to Wink and Blinken. | |
| Go ahead for a minute. | |
| I can't stand them. | |
| The presence of the surveillance balloon in our airspace. | |
| We concluded that conditions were not conducive for a constructive visit. | |
| You think this time? | |
| Oh, you're a genius. | |
| My call today with Director Wang Yi. | |
| I made clear that the presence of this surveillance balloon in U.S. airspace is a clear violation of U.S. sovereignty and international law, that it's an irresponsible act, and that the PRC's decision to take this action on the eve of my planned visit is detrimental to the substantive discussions that we were prepared to have. | |
| I told uh Director Wong that the United States remains committed to diplomatic engagement with China and that I plan to visit Beijing when conditions allow. | |
| In the meantime, the United States will continue to maintain open lines of communication with China, including to address this ongoing incident. | |
| Indeed, that's why we need direct and regular communications in the first place. | |
| And that's why it's critical that such lines remain open at all times to help avoid miscalculation and conflict. | |
| Do you think if the communist Chinese cared the conditions are not conducive for these talks? | |
| The U.S. uh sovereignty and international law has been broken. | |
| Do you think the communist Chinese give a flying rats? | |
| Adam Schiff about this? | |
| They don't. | |
| By the way, the man, we now find out Joe Manchin and Ted Cruz, there's another effort to ban gas stoves. | |
| These people are nuts. | |
| They're absolutely insane. | |
| No wonder. | |
| You know, you look at the latest Fox poll about what people are extremely and very concerned about. | |
| Inflation, higher prices, crime rates, political division, opioid uh addiction in this country, uh, debt limit debates, Russia, Ukraine, gun laws, border security, illegal immigration. | |
| Yeah, the things we talk about. | |
| That's why when you look at this, uh, the National Association of Realtors, yeah, Florida is getting uh 318,855 people in a single year moving into that state. | |
| Followed by Texas, 230,961, followed by North Carolina, 99,796, followed by South Carolina, 84,030. | |
| Tennessee, not far behind them. | |
| California losing 343,230. | |
| New York losing 299,557. | |
| You know, you think it has anything to do with the bad political operations of radical Democrats? | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| You know, Trump is not wrong in saying he would have prevented Ukraine. | |
| He's not I believe that with all my heart because they believed him. | |
| Unbelievable times we're living in. | |
| It really is. | |
| Wide open borders. | |
| Oh, you know, then they they're mad. | |
| Well, the Republicans might demand fiscal responsibility before they raise the debt limit. | |
| Well, that would be called being fiscally responsible. | |
| That's what they're supposed to do. | |
| That's what they promised they would do. | |
| That's what we said we wanted them to do. | |
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| In a sea of government lies, he's the beacon of truth. | |
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| I really love what China is actually saying about this. | |
| It's actually so insulting. | |
| You got a lying communist uh spokesperson named Mao. | |
| The name is Mao, telling us to calm down. | |
| Now we're getting lectured by the communist Chinese. | |
| They violate our airspace airspace. | |
| Any deliberate speculation or hyping up will not help. | |
| The Chinese side is gathering the facts and hopes all sides will handle this matter in a cool-headed manner. | |
| Uh, I have a solution. | |
| Either retrieve the balloon or plan B. It's simple. | |
| That's it. | |
| But Joe is he's staying in Delaware. | |
| There's your president. | |
| Anyway, we'll have full coverage of uh all of this throughout the uh program today. | |
| We are loaded up. | |
| We're gonna check in with Jim Comer, the latest investigations. | |
| We'll get his take on the balloon. | |
| We have our military experts, Victoria Coates, Lieutenant Colonel Jim Carafano, later on, Janice Deam will join us. | |
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