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| Uh the more I learn about this Chinese balloon operation, the more angry I am, and the more that I realize how absolutely completely unhinged Democrats, liberals are, and and how inept your president is. | |
| And it it's it's scary and it's frustrating all at the same time here. | |
| Um, first thing we learn is, oh, a Chinese spy balloon crashed into the Pacific off the coast of Hawaii four months ago. | |
| Why did we not hear about this? | |
| Why? | |
| I'd like to know. | |
| Biden administration officials claim the Chinese surveillance balloons also briefly transited the continental U.S. at least three times during the Trump administration. | |
| There's one problem with what what they're saying, and I'll give you all the details, not the least of which is John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, uh, John Ratcliffe, O'Brien Espert, Trump himself, uh, say it's total BS. | |
| It's not true. | |
| They're full of Adam Schiff. | |
| We'll get to that in a minute. | |
| You know, uh, who was it that did this? | |
| Oh, I forgot. | |
| It was in the Washington examiner, Byron York, I believe, was the author author of this. | |
| And how much bigger this story is than it seems. | |
| And he lays out a lot of reasons why, all of which I agree with. | |
| And there's something that's going on where we are in as a country, a state of denial as it relates to a lot of national security issues, but not the least of which is China. | |
| It is time for America to adopt a get really, really mean and tough policy on all things communist Chinese. | |
| Because we're not paying attention to what's going on here. | |
| You know, we'll get through the whole, you know, well, what we've now can follow where this balloon first entered U.S. airspace in Alaska, then down to Idaho, and then across Montana over our site I CBM launch sites, and you know, then getting off the coast all the way across the east coast to North Carolina before they finally shoot this thing out of the sky. | |
| Why didn't they shoot it out of the sky when they saw it in American over American territory in Alaska on day one and tell us that they did it? | |
| You know, this is not this is not an administration that understands the nature of our number one geopolitical foe and threat, and that is China, or number two geopolitical foe and threat, which is Russia. | |
| And third would probably be Iran, and the worst part of all of it is there's now a new axis of evil that includes all three of those countries and others as well that don't particularly like the United States. | |
| Um, but there are a lot of questions here. | |
| Why didn't they do this from day one? | |
| Why didn't they tell us? | |
| You know, the only reason I think we really found out about it is because over the skies of of Montana, the clear blue skies, that people saw it and that it exposed it got exposed that way, but yet we now know that our government knew about it when it was flying over Alaska, and they failed to do a single thing about it. | |
| You know, in the aftermath now of the the shoot shooting down of this uh balloon off the coast of the Carolinas over the weekend, you know, and then they're just telling us, oh, no, they were they what likely wasn't a spy mission. | |
| Or they're saying, oh, we have the we have the ability to stop any spying operations that they might have been involved in. | |
| How do we know they don't have new technology that can bypass whatever systems you think that you're going up against? | |
| That you can't make that statement with any any degree of certainty at all whatsoever. | |
| You know, why what were they spying on? | |
| We now find ourselves, think about where we are with the communist Chinese, and this this is why it's got to be get tough on the communist Chinese time. | |
| Look at what they're doing. | |
| Why are we allowing the communist Chinese to buy up our farmland? | |
| Because they are you know thousands and thousands of acres. | |
| Why are they buying up thousands and thousands of acres of ranch land? | |
| Why are they buying up thousands and thousands of acres near our military installations in this country and why would we allow them to buy that land here? | |
| We certainly wouldn't be able to buy it over there such a thing. | |
| One of the first things that we're going to have a tough on China policy is take back all of the farmland, all of the ranch land and all land that is owned by anybody that we can trace back to the communist Chinese. | |
| And, you know, the next important thing we've got to do is, you know, Joe Biden has been out there cheerleading this insane idea after depleting 50 percent of our strategic petroleum reserves, which is supposed to be there in case we have a national emergency. | |
| He depleted half the reserves during the election because, in his view, the definition of a national emergency was the likelihood that Democrats would lose seats in the House. | |
| and lose control of the House of Representatives. | |
| That was their big fear then. | |
| But he's still fighting to sell strategic petroleum reserves to China. | |
| Why would he do that? | |
| Why has there not been any repercussions from as it relates to our relationship with China after what they did and what they unleashed to the world with COVID 19 over a million dead Americans why have there been no consequences for that and then of course you know you you can't talk about the Wuhan Virology lab where coronavirus research takes place and gain of function research takes place why haven't we gotten an answer from the communist Chinese? | |
| The most telling and damning bit of evidence that we have on the communist Chinese with COVID is that if you recall when this first appeared in what December 2019 early 2020 there was a travel ban in place long before the Trump travel ban, | |
| the xenophobic one, the racist one of Donald Trump and that travel ban was in place in China and that prevented people from Wuhan province from traveling anywhere else in China and it prevented anybody from uh anywhere else in China from traveling to Wuhan. | |
| However, they'd had no problem if you were in the Wuhan province for you to travel to any other country on the face of the earth. | |
| So they protected themselves and they exposed the entire world to this deadly virus that I have no doubt was created in the Wuhan Virology lab, even though I think there are many people that lied about it and have covered up about it. | |
| You know, the communist Chinese they have been involved in in bad and unfair trade practices with this country you know unprecedented amounts of intellectual property theft you know why are we not looking at the fentanyl that all of which seems to be coming from China to our southern border that is killing hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Americans every single week and holding them accountable for this why are we getting lectured by the communist Chinese about | |
| our friendship, our alliance with Taiwan and why do we sit back silently and take these threats that well Nancy Pelosi can't fly into Taiwan or Kevin McCarthy is scheduled to go there himself soon. | |
| Why would we care what they think? | |
| And here's the big question you know at some point we've got to ask when will this country Know the extent of the financial business dealings between the Biden family, and that would include Joe himself and Hunter and Jim, Brother Jim, and any other family member. | |
| When will we know of any past deals, any current financial benefit that they may be getting from a past deal or any ongoing future discussion about other deals with the communist Chinese? | |
| Because that would matter to me. | |
| Now, anyway, so uh, you know, they're claiming we learned today over the weekend that another one had another balloon had crashed off the Hawaii coast about four months ago. | |
| Uh but this story is bigger. | |
| And the more troubling question raised, and I think Byron York did a good job raising these questions raised by top Biden officials. | |
| They saw political cover by claiming the spy balloon had overflowing the U.S. three times during the Trump administration, and nobody did a single thing about it. | |
| Then you have all these high-ranking officials in the Trump years, one after another, even people that don't like Donald Trump, like John Bolton out there along with Pompeo and Ratcliffe, the president himself, O'Brien, and Esper all saying it's total BS. | |
| And then we got more details, thanks to the Wall Street Journal. | |
| It turns out that this reported three incidents that they claim happened during the Trump years, uh, they apparently were much shorter in duration. | |
| Now listen to this. | |
| And they weren't detected at the time. | |
| Well, why weren't they detected at the time? | |
| That that that's that would be a problem for our military that they need to answer. | |
| And one official said much of the information on the flights that was pieced together later. | |
| So it's not there's no moral equivalency here. | |
| If nobody knew at the time, if it even is true, and they didn't piece it together till later, then you can't blame people that had no knowledge of it at all whatsoever. | |
| But it should be a wake up call to our military that uh maybe we're missing Chinese spying balloons flying over our country. | |
| Because that would be a pretty strong vulnerability here. | |
| You know, why didn't they, when they spotted this balloon above in Alaska on January 28th, the balloon traveled over the state. | |
| Now think about this. | |
| I'll show you on a map tonight on TV. | |
| Then Canada, then northern Idaho, and then it went right over our intercontinental ballistic missile sites in Montana before drifting eastward to the Southeast Coast. | |
| And the administration, they didn't just fail here. | |
| Mike Turner said this well. | |
| They failed to prepare after this first happened during their administration that they knew about. | |
| The president allowed this to go across our most sensitive military sites. | |
| Nobody's paying a lot of attention to the fact they're buying our farmland, ranch land, and buying land near military installations. | |
| That would be a really scary scenario if we continue to allow that to happen. | |
| As a matter of fact, I would identify all of that land sooner than later, and I would confiscate that land, and anybody that owns that land that has these connections to this hostile regime needs to be removed from our country. | |
| Our number one concern would be, you know, uh, this is creating an undue risk to people in this country. | |
| Anyway, China complaining bitterly about this, claiming the uh craft was for civilian meteorological research and had blown off course. | |
| Does anybody really believe that? | |
| Because I don't. | |
| You know, it called the decision to bring down the balloon a serious violation of international practice. | |
| No, you you sending the balloon into our airspace. | |
| That would be the violation of international practice. | |
| Beijing reserves the right to make further responses if necessary, so now that you're going to threaten us after you send a spy balloon over our country. | |
| China's defense ministry issued a similar comment, calling the shoot down an obvious overreaction. | |
| Now, these uh breaches that are occurring, you know, it then they get into this whole issue of the Trump years. | |
| Now they're admitting that nobody knew. | |
| Even the liberal media is admitting, well, we didn't find out till much later. | |
| Robert O'Brien saying, I have no knowledge of any incursion. | |
| Mike Pompeo, same thing. | |
| You know, uh, who else do we have there. | |
| Bolton saying the same thing. | |
| Trump saying the same thing. | |
| O'Brien saying the same thing. | |
| Esper saying the same thing. | |
| Who are you going to believe here? | |
| McMaster saying the same exact thing. | |
| You know, it's this is insane. | |
| Um, and I'll tell you what it shows more than anything else, which should scare everybody. | |
| It shows America's weak. | |
| It shows that we're vulnerable. | |
| How is it they get to fly what was likely to be a sophisticated spying operation on our country? | |
| And they detected it, and they did nothing for days. | |
| And they weren't even the ones to tell us. | |
| It was it got exposed by people in Montana's, I guess the first time we all got wind of all of this. | |
| The balloon just drifts, you know, all across the United States. | |
| Then Biden comes out, tries to look to I ordered the balloon to be shot down. | |
| Military officials argued that if me doing this would be dangerous for people on the ground. | |
| Are you telling me we don't have the military equipment to blow that sucker up into little bitsy bitsy pieces of dust? | |
| Because if we don't have that technology, then we're in far worse shape militarily than I than I ever thought we would be. | |
| Biden administration defense officials telling us that it is nothing new, that it's happened before. | |
| That's your answer for allowing it to travel from Alaska to Idaho and all the way across the country before you you decide to do anything about it. | |
| And everybody is contradicting your big lie that Trump did it, Trump did it. | |
| You know, all Democrats care about right now. | |
| Let's talk about Stormy Daniels some more. | |
| Oh my gosh, let's talk about Trump's taxes some more. | |
| How about we talk about our national security and our national destiny and how to deal with hostile regimes and actors? | |
| And by the way, how much money did the Biden family make in business dealings with China? | |
| I think every American deserves to know. | |
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| Why are all these governors spanning TikTok because obviously the people that are far more sophisticated in terms of knowledge of spyware are all convinced, seems to be pretty unanimous in the belief that TikTok has become a spy apparatus used by the communist Chinese. | |
| And yet it's you know, it's widely used here in the United States. | |
| That's why Christine Owen shoot became the first governor to ban it, and so many other governors have followed. | |
| I think they did the right thing. | |
| By the way, somebody writes me, Hannity, tell House Republicans to carry miniature spy balloons into Biden's State of the Union address tomorrow. | |
| I'm like, great, 22 miniature replicas of the Chinese spy balloon. | |
| It's funny, but I don't know if that's the best idea. | |
| It's too serious of an issue. | |
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| Now it's obvious what the communist Chinese are doing here is they are testing Joe Biden. | |
| For what? | |
| I don't really know. | |
| I think they'd probably like to embarrass Joe Biden, but they've been testing us for some time now. | |
| Um the only one that has, the only president in our lifetime that has really successfully stood up to the communist Chinese has been Donald Trump. | |
| And that's when he put tariffs on their goods. | |
| And, you know, everyone got so upset when he called it the Wuhan virus or the Chinese virus. | |
| Okay, uh do we have to rename German measles now at this point? | |
| Is wokeness now that insane? | |
| Because that's where the virus originated from. | |
| That is often the practice to call it by that name. | |
| So we're allowing, you know, more bad trade deals, uh, with no accountability for COVID, no accountability for all the fentanyl that's made in China that makes it to our southern border. | |
| Uh there's no accountability for intellectual property theft. | |
| Uh they can be belligerent, aggressive, harass us, lecture us, threaten to shoot our planes down if we go to visit our ally in Taiwan, and there are no consequences. | |
| Uh and Joe's answer is to take from the already depleted strategic petroleum reserves and give more to China and allow the Chinese nationals to be buying farmland, ranch land, land near military uh installations, | |
| spying vis-a-vis, TikTok, and you know, and we have no idea nobody has any idea at all whatsoever, the extent of the business dealings with the Biden family, extended family, and the communist Chinese. | |
| We just know that it's extensive based on all of the published reports, of which there are many. | |
| You know, one of the the big question here is why did they wait so long to order the airspace uh with this spy balloon to be shot down? | |
| Because obviously they were testing Biden. | |
| Why did he not do this when it was in Alaska? | |
| Pretty remote areas in Alaska. | |
| They could have found one and they could have shot it down there. | |
| Because they they knew, but they didn't tell any of us this. | |
| You know, so now Biden goes into his State of the Union address. | |
| Politico points out China has deflated. | |
| I'm sure pun intended. | |
| Biden's State of the Union uh swagger. | |
| I mean, even Mitch McConnell's blasting them publicly. | |
| Anyway, we'll get back to the news in a second here. | |
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| Then they borrow money on on against your home, and they often sell it to foreign investors, and you're not going to find out until after, You know, you get a foreclosure notice or a late payment notice, and the thing you need to know about stealing your home title is that a lot of homeowners' insurance and common identity theft programs do not protect you. | |
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| So anyway, the uh politico says this will def deflate Biden's stri uh State of the Union swagger. | |
| Um Biden's team is using their media mob allies to just bring Trump into this. | |
| This is their full-time obsession. | |
| I mean, if if I mean a guy writes a book that was working on one of the Trump cases in New York, and it's like you would think it's the biggest news in the world, and it's not you know, the heart of what the Manhattan DA is looking at is they're going back to Stormy Daniels payment. | |
| Good grief. | |
| This these people cannot get over their Trump derangement syndrome. | |
| They're also developing any Republican who might run for president syndrome, DeSantis uh derangement syndrome. | |
| Uh any Republican. | |
| That's what I keep telling people. | |
| It doesn't matter who runs in the end, they will turn any Republican presidential candidate into the devil incarnate. | |
| That's what they always do. | |
| Uh so anyway, the U.S. shooting down this balloon impacted and damaged relations. | |
| Now, this is where it gets interesting to me. | |
| Why do we care what the communist Chinese are saying and lecturing us post this event? | |
| Oh, by the way, before we get to that, Linda, you I'm not sure if you saw this. | |
| The art dealer that represents Hunter, and we call it portraits of a crack addict. | |
| The art dealer's calling him one of the most consequential artists in this century, as he sells his paintings for up to five hundred thousand dollars, but they still refuse to say if they will name the buyers to Congress. | |
| And maybe they'll be held in contempt. | |
| I'm gonna tell you I have a sneaky feeling that there may be something interesting laced in that paint. | |
| I'm just saying, if it's got a funny odor, maybe there's a little added benefit we don't know about, I'm just saying. | |
| What would possibly what what are your suspicions? | |
| Something Well, you know, something nefarious, something he likes to sniff here and there, you know. | |
| Could add for some nice sparkle in a painting. | |
| Why would they hide the names of the people buying this? | |
| Because that's what they do. | |
| They hide everything. | |
| And get away with it. | |
| And get away with it. | |
| It's so funny that he's called a consequential artist considering that he suffers no consequences. | |
| That's a good point. | |
| Um, all right, so let me give you China's reaction. | |
| Their foreign ministry said they strongly disapprove and protest our decision to shoot down their spy balloon, and that was in U.S. airspace for almost a week. | |
| Anyway, China strongly disapproves of and protests against the U.S. attack on a civilian unmanned airship uh by force, said the foreign ministry. | |
| The Chinese side has said after verification repeatedly informed the U.S. side of the civilian nature of the airship and conveyed that its entry into the U.S. was due to uh force majeure, which is in many contracts. | |
| In other words, out of their control, a weather event, blah, blah, blah, uh, that was totally completely unexpected. | |
| And the Chinese uh side has clearly asked the U.S. to uh properly handle the matter in a calm, professional, restrained manner. | |
| And the Department of Defense noted that the balloon does not present a military or physical threat to the people on the ground. | |
| Well, if that's the case, why didn't they shoot it down over Montana or Idaho after they missed their opportunity to shoot it down uh in China? | |
| Now the public in China, we have public reaction on social media, they're just they're just mocking the U.S. coverage of the surveillance balloon. | |
| It's just an air balloon. | |
| Does America really have to make a fuss about nothing? | |
| Of course, if they said anything other, I'm not sure that they would be ever seen or heard from again. | |
| Um the Chinese have admitted there is a second balloon, this one over Latin America, and they are saying, yes, that is ours as well. | |
| How nice of them to finally admit something. | |
| Uh And at some point here, there's got to be some consequences for these actions. | |
| Anyway, Beijing protested the move and with an official complaint, U.S. Embassy in China, the United States actions seriously have impacted and damaged both sides' efforts and progress in stabilizing China U.S. relations, etc., etc. | |
| Do we really care? | |
| Aren't these the people selling our uh bringing all of that, producing all that fentanyl that's getting into our country? | |
| Yeah, that's the same country. | |
| Same exact one. | |
| Now, one thing, um, I don't know how many of you know about electromagnetic pulse. | |
| We've talked about this uh at length on this program over the years, but not any time recently. | |
| And it got maybe this wasn't a balloon that could perhaps be used for that. | |
| However, what if it was a test to see if they can get deep enough into American airspace where such an attack could take place? | |
| I mean, that would debilitate, you know, pretty much God only knows how powerful it would be all communications on a level that we would basically be rendered impotent. | |
| And I'm not sure what protections our military is taking in regards to such a possible threat. | |
| Um anyway, the uh balloon did force the closure of one airport in Billings, Montana. | |
| They were shut down for about two hours, two flights had to be diverted, another flight delayed from taking off. | |
| I guess it was the people of Montana, thankfully, that saw this thing first and foremost. | |
| Um the question is what are we going to do about it? | |
| What is America gonna do? | |
| What is their answer to all of this? | |
| What are they gonna do, you know, as we move forward and as a country in terms of the threat that the communist Chinese represent to this country? | |
| You know, there was a story in the Wall Street Journal that the communist Chinese are shipping their high tech military equipment to Russia for that final push against Ukraine. | |
| I I've mentioned the new axis of evil with China and Russia and Iran. | |
| That's very much real. | |
| China and Iran are helping Putin in his conflict in Ukraine. | |
| You know, in the years immediately following the 9 11 attacks, all we heard so many times was they were at war with us, we weren't at war with them. | |
| Well, are all three of these countries at war with us? | |
| I would argue the answer is yes. | |
| They are. | |
| Does that mean we're at war with them? | |
| No, but we need to be preparing ourselves and protecting this country. | |
| And more importantly, protecting our airspace. | |
| China's providing technology that Moscow's military is is using and needing to prosecute their war against Ukraine despite international, you know, sanctions and export controls, uh, but they're not abiding by any or all of those. | |
| By the way, Matt Gates called on Biden to blow up TikTok. | |
| It's pretty in a sense he's right. | |
| I mean, I I've got to believe that all these governors are pretty smart, and had there not been intelligence to back this up, uh, I don't think they'd be talking about TikTok. | |
| I don't think most people care about TikTok. | |
| Uh CIA director, while Biden and Biden's administration granted China and his spy balloons on fettered access to American airspace, the CIA is warning that Beijing is planning to invade Taiwan in four years. | |
| I'm not so sure it's gonna be four years, it could be a lot sooner. | |
| Anyway, the CIA director, William Burns, revealed that President Chi has instructed his country's army to be ready by 2027 to conduct a successful invasion of Taiwan. | |
| He made the remarks Thursday during an event in Georgetown, where he also said he believes that Xi has been closely watching Vladimir Putin's prolonged and costly invasion of Ukraine and on Taiwan, I guess I would say our assessment at the CIA is that I wouldn't underestimate President Xi's ambitions with regard to Taiwan. | |
| Well, it's been obvious what their territorial ambitions are. | |
| They're stating it. | |
| They call it reunification. | |
| They won't call it an invasion. | |
| Senator Rubio, uh we're gonna play a lot of the sound from the weekend coming up in a little bit, but I thought he was the most intelligent on on air this weekend of anybody that I heard. | |
| Anyway, he said that China's operations using the surveillance balloon uh should serve as a wake up call for this country. | |
| He's absolutely right. | |
| There's only one method they're using to collect intelligence on us. | |
| We've got to be aware of all of this. | |
| And we've got to take action against all of this and wake up. | |
| If these things are flying over our airspace, then there's an opportunity to bring them down. | |
| You got to bring them down. | |
| That's why nobody can, you know, they can try to turn this into Trump Trump Trump all they want. | |
| This isn't about Donald Trump. | |
| I don't think they would have done this if Donald Trump were president. | |
| But there were three incidents, Hannity. | |
| We found out much, much later, and it was only a minor incursion, and it was a short period of time, a short duration. | |
| Okay, I'm not buying any of that. | |
| And if they didn't know at the time, why didn't they know at the time? | |
| That would be the military's job. | |
| A president is it's not his job to determine what might be flying in American airspace. | |
| That would be the job of our military. | |
| And if our military was deficient, we need to identify the deficiency and fix the deficiency. | |
| Not that hard to figure out. | |
| Speaking of Russia, by the way, uh they are keeping up pressure as the Ukraine anniversary of this invasion nears. | |
| You know, but where do we find ourselves? | |
| We find ourselves with a weak United States president, and I said this at the time, and I'll say it again now. | |
| Once Joe Biden said to Poland that they couldn't provide the fighter jets that Zelensky needed to actually fully engage Putin and the invasion, at that point in time, there really wasn't a lot of hope moving forward that the U.S., I'm sorry, that Ukraine, with the help of NATO and the help of Western European nations and the help of the United States could actually win the war. | |
| And we were right then and we're right now. | |
| Because Joe Biden said just last week again that he's not supporting the use of fighter jets in this conflict against Vladimir Putin. | |
| Now that either is going to result in one of two things. | |
| That means Putin is going to win, or this will become another long protracted conflict with you know hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars going over to Zelensky and Ukraine to fight to a stalemate. | |
| And the American taxpayer ought not have to foot that bill. | |
| Now, if you want to provide them and allow Europe to provide them the fighter jets that they've been asking to provide, then let them let them fight their own war at that point. | |
| But if you're not going to fight to win, then don't spend any of our money fighting a war that's a stalemate. | |
| There's no point at that. | |
| There's no end in sight to that. | |
| It's insane. | |
| Washington Post poll showing that Biden's popularity with Democrats is sinking. | |
| Fifty-eight percent of Democrats support the idea of nominating somebody other than just Biden. | |
| I found this article really interesting in the New York Times, and that an insider is trashing Kamala Harris. | |
| I'll tell you more about that in a little bit. | |
| Anyway, 800-941 Sean is on number if you want to be a part of the program. | |
| We've got our experts. | |
| We'll check in with Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, great guy, and also Gordon Chang is uh going to be with us. | |
| He's been warning everybody for years that China's a much bigger threat than people know. | |
| We'll also get to your phone calls, 800-941 Sean. | |
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| Why didn't they shoot it down sooner sooner? | |
| And what is the country needs to know what has been and what it remains, any relationship, connections between the communist uh Chinese government and the Biden family. | |
| And we need these answers sooner than later. | |
| Because a lot of what they're saying doesn't make any sense to me. | |
| Maybe it makes sense to you. | |
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