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Indignant China Lashes out at U.S. for Shooting Down SPY Balloon! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Well, when you're as weak as the Biden administration, here's
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Speaker 1: what happens. You got to scramble to rewrite the China
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Speaker 1: portion of the State of the Union because of the
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Speaker 1: spy balloon that you allowed to fly over the entire
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Speaker 1: United States of America. And then, and then, and only then,
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Speaker 1: after the mission was successful, did you decide to shoot
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Speaker 1: it down over the Atlantic. That's the reality of the situation.
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Speaker 1: If this was a test run, it was a hall
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Speaker 1: of fame test run. If this mission was based on
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Speaker 1: just success and failure of getting Intel, it was a
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Speaker 1: hall of fame run at getting Intel, because you allowed
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Speaker 1: it to stay up the entire time. Now, the Democrats
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Speaker 1: right now are trying to push two different narratives. So
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Speaker 1: you understand these narratives and what they're trying to accomplish. First,
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Speaker 1: they're trying to say, well, China has satellites, so calm down,
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Speaker 1: implying that anything they wanted to get from this balloon
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Speaker 1: they could get from satellites anyway. That is a lie.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to explain that aspect of it in just
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Speaker 1: a little bit. The second lie is they want you
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Speaker 1: to believe that they knew where this balloon was the
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Speaker 1: entire time, and that they were taking countermeasures to basically
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Speaker 1: block it. That is also a lie, and I'll explain
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Speaker 1: why in a moment. But let's just talk about optics
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Speaker 1: from this. Let's talk about what weakness we just showed
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Speaker 1: shine us into a balloon and we find this thing
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Speaker 1: or hear about it not from our government but from
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Speaker 1: people outside of their homes. Let me say that again.
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Speaker 1: We learned about this balloon not from our government, not
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Speaker 1: from the DoD, not from the Pentagon, not from anyone
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Speaker 1: else where do we get this information from. We got
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Speaker 1: this information from people outside with cameras who spotted a
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Speaker 1: damn balloon. Should that concern all of us? The answer
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Speaker 1: is yes. The government didn't tell us the truth. We
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Speaker 1: had to bring it up to them, and then they
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Speaker 1: acted like it really wasn't that big of a deal.
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Speaker 1: They acted like this was everything was normal, It was okay,
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Speaker 1: it was something that was just totally not a big issue.
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Speaker 1: So let's fast forward to China get what they wanted.
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Speaker 1: Center Tom Cotton, a man that served his country. This
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Speaker 1: is what he had to say after the US fighter
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Speaker 1: jets shot down the suspect of Chinese spy balloon after
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Speaker 1: it already accomplished its mission. What began as a spy
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Speaker 1: balloon has become a trial balloon testing President Biden's strength
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Speaker 1: and resolve, and unfortunately, the President failed that test, and
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Speaker 1: that's dangerous for the American people. The President was paralyzed
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Speaker 1: for an entire week by a balloon. We should have
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Speaker 1: shot this balloon down over the Aleutian Islands. We should
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Speaker 1: never have allowed it to transit the entire continental United States.
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Speaker 1: And I think there's a lot of open questions that
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Speaker 1: the administration needs to answer to Congress on behalf of
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Speaker 1: the American people that why they didn't. I think part
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Speaker 1: of it is the President's reluctance to take any action
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Speaker 1: that would be viewed as provocative or confrontational towards the
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Speaker 1: Chinese communists. I would say, what's provocative and confrontational is
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Speaker 1: sending a spike balloon all across America. But second, I
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Speaker 1: do believe the administration wanted to salvage the Secretary of
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Speaker 1: States trip on Friday night, and they got through Thursday afternoon. Thankfully,
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Speaker 1: civilians in Montana and the Billings Gazette identify this balloon
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Speaker 1: and blew the whistle on it. And finally the administration
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Speaker 1: fest up to the American people. It took another twelve
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Speaker 1: hours for the Secretary of State canceled what was already
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Speaker 1: an ill advised trip. So I think there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of answers for the administration to provide the American people.
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Speaker 1: I love the response from Center Cotton here. It's very measured.
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Speaker 1: He's not trying to score political points. He's just telling
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Speaker 1: you the truth about this. Mike Pompeo, he is a
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Speaker 1: man that knows a lot about this. Right in his
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Speaker 1: former job, Mike Pompeo said, China, in his words, now
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Speaker 1: understands that they can penetrate American airspace, and this president
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Speaker 1: will do nothing. Look, no weather balloon, more properly likely
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Speaker 1: a spy balloon that was truly a trial balloon to
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Speaker 1: figure out how the United States would respond. I'm glad
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Speaker 1: that they shot it down. It was probably handful of
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Speaker 1: days too late. They've probably got all the collection they
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Speaker 1: needed for those first few days, and now they understand
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Speaker 1: that they can penetrate US airspace. Hang out with a
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Speaker 1: balloon the size of a couple of buses for a
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Speaker 1: few days, and the Biden administration won't do a darn
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Speaker 1: thing about it. It's part of a bigger challenge. You
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Speaker 1: describe part of it their trade with Taiwan. It's the
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Speaker 1: TikTok espionage conducted inside of our country every day. You'll remember,
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Speaker 1: during our administration, Trey I directed and the President ordered
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Speaker 1: the closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston, Texas, the
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Speaker 1: largest espionage operation ever inside the United States. So Chinese
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Speaker 1: spying on America, no surprise. Weakness of America just is
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Speaker 1: going to invite more aggression. Tray, all right. For those
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Speaker 1: of us who were never the director of the CIA,
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Speaker 1: I think these are our questions, all right. So when
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Speaker 1: would the US have noticed this spy balloon? How would
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Speaker 1: it have been detected? You know, given the fact that
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Speaker 1: your own television and what you can say about it?
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Speaker 1: And why wait to shoot it down? I mean you
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Speaker 1: said a few days too late? What's the explanation for
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Speaker 1: waiting to do it? Boy? They've offered this idea of safety,
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Speaker 1: they didn't want to breed to fall. But of course, Tray,
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Speaker 1: if I understand the trajectory correctly came in over Alaska
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Speaker 1: where there would have been almost no risk of debris falling.
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Speaker 1: So I can't figure out why they waited. So long.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's the case they didn't notice it coming across,
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Speaker 1: but it seems to me that we almost certainly would
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Speaker 1: have identified this nearly immediately. The size of this balloon.
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Speaker 1: This isn't something small coming across. It's not even a
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Speaker 1: fast mover making its way across. This is going slow,
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Speaker 1: and it is big, and I would have guessed that
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Speaker 1: as soon as it penetrated what's called the air defense
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Speaker 1: identification zone. It was only at sixty thousand feet, so
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Speaker 1: not far above where commercial airlines travel, we would have
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Speaker 1: picked it up. And I can't articulate a reason. Maybe
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Speaker 1: the bidenministration will explain. I can't articulate why they would
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Speaker 1: not have immediately taken down this threat where the Chinese
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Speaker 1: were trying to gain information, likely about our important defense
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Speaker 1: assets here at home. Former CI director telling the American
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Speaker 1: people exactly what I said at the beginning. Don't be stupid,
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Speaker 1: don't believe these lines that it wasn't a threat. Don't
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Speaker 1: be stupid and think for a moment if this wasn't
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Speaker 1: a test balloon to see what America would do in response,
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Speaker 1: And what did America do? We said, do whatever the
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Speaker 1: hell you want, gather whatever intel you want whatever intel
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Speaker 1: you need. Why didn't they shoot it down when it
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Speaker 1: was actually collecting data, when it was doing the damage.
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Speaker 1: Because they didn't want to cancel their trip to go
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Speaker 1: meet with the Chinese Communist Party. They wanted Anthony Blincoln
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Speaker 1: to head on over there, and they wanted a Kumbaya
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Speaker 1: moment because remember this administration looking ahead to the presidential election.
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Speaker 1: They just want everything to seem like it's totally fine
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Speaker 1: and perfect. That's what they want. I wonder how much
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Speaker 1: the Chinese truly have compromised the Biden team. Let me
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Speaker 1: explain what I mean by that. How is it that
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Speaker 1: we'll go in and take on the Great Russia right
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Speaker 1: and send tanks and ammunition and everything that they asked for?
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Speaker 1: It was Zelinski, we'll literally help move us towards a
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Speaker 1: World War three, but we won't shoot down a Dan
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Speaker 1: balloon until it's already done its job in the United
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Speaker 1: States of America airspace from communist China. How is it
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Speaker 1: the China things they can get away with this. I
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Speaker 1: believe it's because they have dirt and they're compromised referring
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Speaker 1: to the president. Why do I believe this not because
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Speaker 1: I'm some paranoid individual. But because of what we know
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Speaker 1: about the laptop from Hell, and you can't say it's
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Speaker 1: not a real laptop because they admitted last week that
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Speaker 1: it is Hunter Biden's laptop. Hunter Biden admitted it. They
8:27
Speaker 1: got billions of dollars in loans from China. That's a fact.
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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden made a million dollars just off of trying
8:34
Speaker 1: to get one guy out of being charged and be
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Speaker 1: put in an American prison who was a top leveled
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Speaker 1: communist Chinese individual. That's a fact. We just sit oil
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Speaker 1: from our strategical reserves directly to CEFE Chinese communist company
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Speaker 1: Okay Sefe when we desperately that oil in America. Why
9:01
Speaker 1: would you do that? Why would you send it directly
9:03
Speaker 1: to a company that owns you Because your son is
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Speaker 1: a shady, corrupt businessman and you guys have been getting
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Speaker 1: paid Number four China, this administration. Try to give them
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Speaker 1: our resources in our country with a liquid natural gas
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Speaker 1: coming out of a port in Louisiana, try to put
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Speaker 1: together a multi million, if not billion dollar deal. We
9:31
Speaker 1: know all this from the emails. We know that the
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Speaker 1: top level of the Chinese government had infiltrated Hunter Biden.
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Speaker 1: They owned him. So what do they have on this
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Speaker 1: Biden crime family? Where we're so strong with again Zolinski
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Speaker 1: against Russia. We're on the verge of a war war
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Speaker 1: three with them. They're talking about nuclear war in Russia,
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Speaker 1: and we're not flinching. Sending tanks, sending AMMO, sending intel,
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Speaker 1: sending drones, We're sending everything. Folks. How is it that
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Speaker 1: we're so strong in that scenario but we are so
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Speaker 1: weak when it comes to standing up to China. I
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Speaker 1: believe it's because they have us, They own us, they
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Speaker 1: have damning information on this Biden family. That's my opinion.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense to me otherwise. In fact, that's
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Speaker 1: the only thing at this point that actually makes sense
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Speaker 1: to me. This administration clearly cannot stand up to China
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Speaker 1: in any capacity. Marco Rubio, talking about this yesterday, had
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Speaker 1: this to say, on the fact that we've got China
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Speaker 1: doing this to us and this administration will do nothing
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Speaker 1: to stop it. Well, we won't know about that we
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Speaker 1: get into a secure setting this week in Washington, and
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Speaker 1: probably most of that is something we won't be able
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Speaker 1: to disclose in any great detail other than to say this,
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Speaker 1: and that is that you know they're going to try
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Speaker 1: to recover this. Apparently it's in shallow waters. We'll see
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Speaker 1: what they recover from it. But I don't think the
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Speaker 1: technology or the existence of these things is a great mystery.
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Speaker 1: I think what's embedded here is a clear message. It's
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Speaker 1: not a coincidence that this happens leading up to the
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Speaker 1: State of the Union address, leading up to B. Lincoln's
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Speaker 1: visit to China. The Chinese knew that this was going
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Speaker 1: to be spotted. They knew that we were going to
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Speaker 1: have to react to it. They flew it over military
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Speaker 1: installations and sensitive sites as right across the middle. I mean,
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Speaker 1: look at the flight path of this thing. It's a
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Speaker 1: diagonal shot right through the middle of the continental United States.
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Speaker 1: And the message embedded in this to the world is
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Speaker 1: we can fly a balloon over airspace of the United
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Speaker 1: States of America and they won't be able to do
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Speaker 1: anything about it to stop us. They calculated this carefully
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Speaker 1: with a message embedded in it, and I think that's
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Speaker 1: the part where they can't forget here. It's not just
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Speaker 1: the balloon, it's the message they're trying to send the
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Speaker 1: world that we can do whatever we want in America.
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Speaker 1: Can't stop us. We can do whatever we want in America.
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Speaker 1: Can't stop us. Exactly what I was just saying to you,
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Speaker 1: and that's exactly what Marco Rubio's saying. And if you
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Speaker 1: think this satellite isn't important, then let's go to the
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Speaker 1: newest headline. This morning, Navy divers New York Times worked
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Speaker 1: to recover debris from the Chinese spy balloon. Navy divers
12:17
Speaker 1: are working to locate portions of the debris from the
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Speaker 1: Chinese spy balloon that a US fighter shut down six
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Speaker 1: miles off the coast of South Carolina. Defense officials said Sunday.
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Speaker 1: The recovery effort, which is expected to take days, began
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Speaker 1: long after not long after, excuse me, debris from the
12:33
Speaker 1: balloon hit the water. Defense official said he had that
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Speaker 1: a Navy ship arrived on the scene soon after the
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Speaker 1: balloon was shut down, and that other Navy and Coastguard
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Speaker 1: ships which have been put on alert, were also sent
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Speaker 1: to the scene. Shooting down the balloon cap a remarkable
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Speaker 1: week of high stakes international drama. I I love the
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Speaker 1: New York Times, right, is it really high stakes international drama?
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Speaker 1: The only thing that made it high stakes is the
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Speaker 1: fact that we let them have everything they wanted in
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Speaker 1: fly the a successful mission over the units. It's America
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Speaker 1: when they knew that they could take down and they
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Speaker 1: should have taken down this balloon at any moment, but
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Speaker 1: they didn't do it. Why did they not do it?
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Speaker 1: Because I ask crew it, who cares right? Let them
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Speaker 1: do what they want to do. We can't really stand
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Speaker 1: up to them. And if you want to know who's
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Speaker 1: the most angry, by the way, about this balloon being
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Speaker 1: shut down, it's not our administration, it's not Biden's team,
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Speaker 1: it's actually the Chinese who are now warning us of war.
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Speaker 1: How dare you? That's the response from China. An indignant
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Speaker 1: China lashing out, by the way, again at the US
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Speaker 1: for shooting down their balloon. China used diplomatic channels to
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Speaker 1: accuse the US of indiscriminate use of force when the
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Speaker 1: American military shot down the Chinese spine balloon balloon they
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Speaker 1: say ours a weather balloon, saying the act had seriously
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Speaker 1: quote impacted and damaged both sides efforts and progress and
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Speaker 1: stabilizing the Cino US relations. Was the second time in
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Speaker 1: just over forty eight hours that Beijing proclaimed it innocence
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Speaker 1: and denied any foul play was involved in the balloon
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Speaker 1: flying over the US entering US airspace before being shot down.
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Speaker 1: China repeated the assertion it was a harmless, non military
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Speaker 1: weather research airship. Vice Foreign Minister Feng said he lodged
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Speaker 1: a formal complaint with the US embassy hours earlier to
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Speaker 1: set out Beijing's distress over the US attack quote unquote
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Speaker 1: attack on a Chinese civilian unmanned airship by military force. However,
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Speaker 1: the United States turned to death Air and insisted on
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Speaker 1: the indiscriminate use of force against the civilian airship that
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Speaker 1: was about to leave the United States airspace, obviously overreacting
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Speaker 1: and seriously violating the spirit of international law and international practice.
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Speaker 1: The official statement from the Chinese set China would quote
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Speaker 1: safeguard and legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies. They
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Speaker 1: said they're resolute in that they are resolute in safeguard
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Speaker 1: it is at China's interests in dignity, and reserve the
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Speaker 1: right quote reserve the right to make further necessary response.
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Speaker 1: In other words, we might do this again, or we
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Speaker 1: might shoot at something of yours, or we might harm
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Speaker 1: American interest. China had already said by the way, earlier
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Speaker 1: in the same verbiage, we reserve the right to take
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Speaker 1: further actions. So you fly a spy balloon over America,
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Speaker 1: we don't shoot it down till after it's a successful mission.
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Speaker 1: And now China says we reserve the right to take
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Speaker 1: further actions and criticize the US for an obvious quote
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Speaker 1: overreaction and a serious violation of international practice. And they're
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Speaker 1: the ones they're spying on us. And this is the
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Speaker 1: gotta I gotta say. I'm a little jealous of a
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Speaker 1: government that at least defends themselves the way that the
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Speaker 1: China Chinese do. They're like all in here, folks. They're
15:48
Speaker 1: not playing, they're all in and we're the one that's
15:53
Speaker 1: been wrong and they're the ones attacking us. The other
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Speaker 1: thing that's shocking about the story is how the media
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Speaker 1: really reports on China. CNN of course, goes into big coverage,
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Speaker 1: right China reacts to the US shooting down spy balloon.
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Speaker 1: At least they called a spy balloy, and I'll give
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Speaker 1: him credit for that, But they're acting like China is
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Speaker 1: the good guy here and they're sitting there with Jim Acosta.
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Speaker 1: You may remember that guy from when he was like
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Speaker 1: obsessed with Donald Trump and putting out lies about Donald
16:23
Speaker 1: Trump for you know, four years about Russia collusion. He's
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Speaker 1: the guy that pushed all that at CNN. He was
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Speaker 1: like the lead White House reporter that got it all wrong.
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Speaker 1: Never apologized the American people, never said he was, you know, bamboozled.
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Speaker 1: You never apologize to Trump for pushing Russian collusion. He's
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Speaker 1: now anchoring over at CNN. And this is what they
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Speaker 1: had to say about this. From Hong Kong. Jim. It
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Speaker 1: is just after eight o'clock here in Hong Kong, and
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Speaker 1: we are receiving a reaction from Beijing. In a very
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Speaker 1: strongly worded statement. Among some of the key lines, let
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Speaker 1: me just read them to you. First, China expresses its
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Speaker 1: strong dissatisfaction and protest against the US's use of force
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Speaker 1: to attack civilian unmanned aircraft. It goes on to say,
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Speaker 1: under such circumstances, the US insists on using force, obviously
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Speaker 1: overreacting and seriously violating international practice. It goes on to
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Speaker 1: say China will resolutely safeguard the legitimate rights and interests
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Speaker 1: of relevant companies, while reserving the right to make further
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Speaker 1: necessary reaction, and the question you have to ask yourself
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Speaker 1: is why the hell are we even screwing around with
17:37
Speaker 1: these people? Why are we acting like China has all
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Speaker 1: the leverage and acting like we have no leverage at all.
17:44
Speaker 1: How I wish we would act as cavalier as we
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Speaker 1: have against Russia and Ukraine when we would with China.
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Speaker 1: But China seems to own us. And I'm not talking
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Speaker 1: about US as a country, I'm talking about US as
17:54
Speaker 1: a the White House, right, I mean, that's what they
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Speaker 1: really seem to own here. China has already said it
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Speaker 1: quote it reserves the right to take further action and
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Speaker 1: criticize the US for an obvious overreaction, serious violation of
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Speaker 1: international international practice. In fact, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mal
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Speaker 1: Kneeing provided no fresh details, repeating China's insistency object towards
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Speaker 1: a civilian balloon intended for meteorological research had little ability
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Speaker 1: to steer and entered over the US by accidentally divulging
18:28
Speaker 1: from its course and then just happen to stay on
18:30
Speaker 1: course over the most important parts of America from an
18:33
Speaker 1: intel perspective, like Montana, where our silos are for our
18:38
Speaker 1: you know, missiles that can reach any part of the world. Yeah,
18:44
Speaker 1: it just happened to fly the perfect course for nuclear intel.
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Speaker 1: I gotta give them credit. They're sticking to their story.
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Speaker 1: They are sticking to it. Senator Steve Dane's Republican Montana
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Speaker 1: criticized by handling of the Chinese spy balloon that recently
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Speaker 1: flew over the country, telling bright Bart News, a circus
19:05
Speaker 1: clown knows how to better handle a balloon than the
19:08
Speaker 1: White House. I can't disagree with that statement either. A
19:15
Speaker 1: circus balloon knows how to A circus clown knows how
19:19
Speaker 1: to handle a balloon better than this. President Danes consider
19:25
Speaker 1: the Chinese spy balloon and Biden's response to it a
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Speaker 1: complete embarrassment quote to the United States of America, The
19:30
Speaker 1: senator warned that if Biden continues to demonstrate weakness on
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Speaker 1: the world stage, he will only embolden our adversaries. And
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Speaker 1: you gotta understand, when all this happened, the world realized
19:42
Speaker 1: they could do whatever the hell they wanted to do
19:45
Speaker 1: as soon as they watched US pull out of Afghanistan.
19:48
Speaker 1: The way that we pulled out of Afghanistan, leaving people behind,
19:51
Speaker 1: leaving our assets behind, leaving our military vehicles behind. When
19:58
Speaker 1: we started taking orders in the Taliban, that's when they
20:03
Speaker 1: knew they had us. It's when China knew they had us.
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Speaker 1: When we started taking orders from the Taliban and we
20:09
Speaker 1: started allowing for them to tell us when we have
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Speaker 1: to leave, when we were the ones in charge, and
20:13
Speaker 1: when we didn't go get our men and women in uniform,
20:15
Speaker 1: that our men and women that helped our men and
20:17
Speaker 1: women in uniform are assets there the way, and we
20:23
Speaker 1: ran away scared at the end, just so he could
20:27
Speaker 1: get an Never forget it was so he could get
20:29
Speaker 1: a headline. I'm the one that got us out of
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Speaker 1: the longest war in American history and Afghanistan. I'm the
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Speaker 1: one that pulled us out. That was all for a headline.
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Speaker 1: Turned out to be a disaster. But when they looked
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Speaker 1: at American soldiers who were not given the power or
20:43
Speaker 1: the authority from the White House to go sixty feet
20:47
Speaker 1: to get people that desperately need to get on those planes,
20:50
Speaker 1: he got that country much less sixty yards. This is
20:53
Speaker 1: what happens. And when they watched the Taliban order us
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Speaker 1: around in those final days and the and the Taliban
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Speaker 1: was dictating to us in those final days, they said,
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Speaker 1: holy crap, guys, it's time to do whatever we wanted
21:08
Speaker 1: to do over the last X number of decades. That's
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Speaker 1: what they said. That was the moment for them. That
21:17
Speaker 1: was the checkmate for them, right, I mean, that was
21:22
Speaker 1: that was the ball game, folks. That was when they said, yep,
21:26
Speaker 1: we got this. Back to New York Times quote, the
21:33
Speaker 1: shooting down of the balloon caped remarkable week of high
21:36
Speaker 1: stakes international drama played out over the skies the continental
21:39
Speaker 1: United States of America. While China's instid of the balloon
21:42
Speaker 1: was not for surveillance but rather for weather, and it
21:46
Speaker 1: just happened to drift off course right right over the
21:48
Speaker 1: targets they would need intel on the Biden administration quote,
21:51
Speaker 1: this is the New York Times. Spending US had stood
21:53
Speaker 1: firm that the balloon's purpose was a somewhat hapless effort
21:57
Speaker 1: by China to spy on US military installations. You really
22:01
Speaker 1: think that the Chinese halfway did it? Come on? President
22:04
Speaker 1: Biden said that he had told Penagon officials to shoot
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Speaker 1: down the balloon. I'm not sure I believe that, and
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Speaker 1: that they said to me, let's wait until the safest
22:11
Speaker 1: place to do it. I don't believe that either. The
22:15
Speaker 1: Penninggon officials said they took steps without offering specifics, to
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Speaker 1: make sure the balloon did not yield much fruit much fruits,
22:21
Speaker 1: So we're admitting it did damage as it hovered near
22:25
Speaker 1: the Air Force based in Montana and other installations. They
22:28
Speaker 1: also said China could glean the same amount of intelligence
22:31
Speaker 1: from a spy satellite. All right, well, if that's true,
22:34
Speaker 1: then why did they send the damn balloon? That's the
22:37
Speaker 1: line they keep going back to. And I said, this
22:38
Speaker 1: is the very beginning of the show. If this was
22:42
Speaker 1: a repetitive gathering of intel that the same type of
22:46
Speaker 1: intel they could get from satellites, why would they waste
22:49
Speaker 1: their time doing this? I don't believe them. I don't
22:53
Speaker 1: believe that China waste their time on a spy balloon
22:56
Speaker 1: the way that they're describing it. I just don't. I
22:58
Speaker 1: think you're full of crap. I don't believe anyone when
23:02
Speaker 1: they say this. Now some of you may disagree, then
23:07
Speaker 1: prove it to me. There was clearly a reason for this.
23:11
Speaker 1: There was clearly an obvious reason for this was that
23:16
Speaker 1: what was their reasoning it, obviously was they wanted something
23:19
Speaker 1: different or more Now, there's also something else here that
23:21
Speaker 1: I do think we need to bring up. They could
23:25
Speaker 1: have just been testing to see how we would respond.
23:27
Speaker 1: I don't know, Okay, I'm not sure. I really am
23:34
Speaker 1: not sure which one it is there, but there was
23:37
Speaker 1: something important that they wanted to gather. And to say,
23:41
Speaker 1: it's the same, it's redundant information they're getting from spy satellites.
23:46
Speaker 1: If you believe that you're an idiot, you can hear
23:50
Speaker 1: how CNN played this. You can see from the writing
23:53
Speaker 1: on the Washington New York Times how they're responding to this.
23:58
Speaker 1: May Or Pete, by the way, and then one of
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Speaker 1: the most disgusting comments of the week. They started out
24:04
Speaker 1: explaining where all this spy balloon was seen, the spot
24:08
Speaker 1: where the balloon was seen, and what it went over.
24:11
Speaker 1: It went over an important air base here, then another,
24:14
Speaker 1: you know, Whiteman Air Force Base and Scott Air Force
24:16
Speaker 1: Base and Fort Bragg and Campell June. I mean, this
24:18
Speaker 1: thing made a perfect north to southeast to west movement
24:24
Speaker 1: to just hit all of these airport bases and then
24:27
Speaker 1: go out into the sea. Right, brilliant move And what
24:31
Speaker 1: does Mayor Pete say? He says, quote, well, at least
24:33
Speaker 1: no one got hurt, and that's the good news because
24:37
Speaker 1: we dound it outside of America on the coast where
24:40
Speaker 1: no one would get hurt from a balloon. United States infrastructure.
24:44
Speaker 1: There's moms from Air Force Base and nuclear ballistic missile
24:47
Speaker 1: fields in Montana. If you look at the map, there
24:49
Speaker 1: Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, Scott Air Force Base
24:52
Speaker 1: in Illinois, Fort Bragg, and Camp Lla June in North Carolina.
24:56
Speaker 1: Is the assumption that the balloon was able to gather
24:59
Speaker 1: sense of information and transmitted back to the Chinese government. Well,
25:03
Speaker 1: the US has stated that steps were taken to prevent
25:07
Speaker 1: any problems in terms of intelligence collection. Remember, we are
25:11
Speaker 1: talking about a country that has a space program. So
25:14
Speaker 1: I don't know all the ins and outs of what
25:16
Speaker 1: this balloon was doing or what its capabilities were. I
25:19
Speaker 1: do know that when the president did you notice that,
25:21
Speaker 1: I don't know. This is a trans state secretary. This
25:23
Speaker 1: guy is in charge of the Friendly Skies. I don't
25:26
Speaker 1: know what its capabilities were. I don't know what it
25:28
Speaker 1: was gathering. That's different than what the White House has
25:31
Speaker 1: been saying. How that's different from what the media is saying.
25:34
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was doing. I don't know
25:36
Speaker 1: it's capabilities. I'm going to back that up. Okay, listen carefully.
25:39
Speaker 1: I don't know how capable of this thing is, but
25:42
Speaker 1: don't worry. It's fine about a country that has a
25:45
Speaker 1: space program. So I don't know all the ins and
25:47
Speaker 1: outs of what this balloon was doing or what its
25:49
Speaker 1: capabilities were. I do know that when the President gave
25:52
Speaker 1: the order to have this handled, the military gauge the
25:55
Speaker 1: different risks and the different benefits of different approaches. May
26:00
Speaker 1: the decisions that they did brought this thing down without incident, right,
26:03
Speaker 1: But the presumption has got to be that the Chinese
26:05
Speaker 1: were able to gather intelligence hovering over the United States
26:08
Speaker 1: for day after day, especially over some of these sensitive sites.
26:10
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a similar presumption about what spy satellites do.
26:14
Speaker 1: That is well outside of my lane. I'm just glad
26:16
Speaker 1: that nobody was heard as this thing came down. When
26:18
Speaker 1: did the Biden administration first learn about this balloon? This
26:22
Speaker 1: spy balloon entering US airspace, so we're told it first
26:27
Speaker 1: did so. It first entered to US airspace over Alaska
26:29
Speaker 1: two saturdays ago. Is that when the Biden adminstration learned
26:33
Speaker 1: about it? I really can't speak to that. What I
26:35
Speaker 1: can speak to is the great cooperation we have between
26:38
Speaker 1: the FAA and the Pentagon to make sure that when
26:40
Speaker 1: you have a special military operation like what it took
26:43
Speaker 1: to bring down this balloon, that it happens without any
26:46
Speaker 1: threat to American lives or property. So everybody's safe. Who
26:50
Speaker 1: cares what intel they got, because everybody's safe. That is
26:54
Speaker 1: now the logic of this administration. I mean this when
26:57
Speaker 1: I say this got to help us when you like
27:00
Speaker 1: idiots to office with no qualifications, like Mayor Pete to
27:03
Speaker 1: be the Transportation Secretary, with all the disasters that he's
27:06
Speaker 1: had over the airlines, the disasters over shipping, the disasters
27:09
Speaker 1: over reports right now, all of the backlog issues that
27:14
Speaker 1: we've had, supply chain issues we've had. When a guy,
27:17
Speaker 1: when you give guys jobs to fill quotas, just like
27:19
Speaker 1: Mayor Pete was a quota that they were filling, right,
27:23
Speaker 1: this is what you get. And it's very clear that
27:26
Speaker 1: this present is either completely compromised by China or completely incompetent.
27:32
Speaker 1: You pick.