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

we'll talk with two key lawmakers, house foreign affairs committee chairman michael mccaul and senator jon tester. saturday night the military sent fighter aircraft to investigate what it called a radar anomaly over tester's home state of montana. >>> frustration is mounting on capitol hill about what's going on here. and what more we can do to head off these ions. h t president's take on the state of the union but as the nation's governors convene? washington, we'll check in with four of them on the state of their states and the challenges that they're facing. >>> as the death toll grows in turkey and syria, we'll have the latest on recovery efforts and share our perspective on some of these global threats. >>> it's all just ahead on "face the nation". ♪ >>> good morning. welcome to "face the nation." as we come on the air, the big question in our minds today is, what is going on here? with what seemed like a deluge of potential incursions, what are these objects? where are they coming from? what is their purpose? and are we experiencing an increase of the so-called unidentified aer

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

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

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

. >> a discussion on religious freedom and foreign policy with representative michael mccaul and jim mcgovern of massachusetts. this from a summit in washington dc that featured remarks from sam brownback who served as ambassador at large for religious freedom during the trump administration. this is 40 minutes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

led by house foreign affairs committee michael mccaul, the group met with president zelensky and is speaking out about the need for a more aggressive timeline when it comes to weapons delivery. >> the plan right now from the administration is just enough to bleed through the winter and spring. but not enough for victory. we need to give them enough for victory. there are members within this cab cabinet, within this administration that agree with me. >> general mccaul visited bucca to see the aftermath of russian war crimes. martha? >> martha: thanks very much. with that, we bring in kurt volker, former u.s. ambassador to nato and former special representative for ukraine negotiations. good to have you with us today. vladimir putin one of the things that he said is that he's pulling out of the one remaining nuclear weapons treaty that russia was not in full compliance with. now they're officially out of it. what does that mean in terms of what he has in mind, sir? >> well, i think what he's trying to do is get inside the heads of people in the biden administration who he believes really care

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

mccaul about u.s. support to ukraine one year after russia's invasion. plus, a clip from david muir's interview with president biden on "this week." eva? >>> now to comg eemic food aid of americans. the temporary program due to end on march 1st, many fearing the consequences for struggling families. abc's alexis christoforous joins us with more. good morning, alexis. >> good morning, eva. this morning, nearly 30 million americans bracing for a significant cut in their monthly food stamp benefits. after nearly three years, the federal government is ending pandemic-era payments for the low income families on the supplemental nutrition assistance program or snap. 18 states have already ended the extra snap benefits. the rest of the country will do the same march 1st. the average household will now lose $95 a month for groceries, but depending on family size and income, some will lose hundreds of dollars a month in food assistance. the boost has been a lifeline for many, credited with keeping over 4 millio

so today a group of the less chaotic republicans, including the congressman michael mccaul of texas, chair of the house foreign affairs committee, made the trip here to kyiv themselves. they retrace president biden's steps. the even try to one of the president by calling on the u. s. to provide additional artillery and f-16 fighter jets to ukraine, something the biden administration has so far been reluctant to do. >> the president recently visited, and i commend him for coming here, and it's a very symbolic move on his part. we have strong bipartisan support to give ukraine everything that it needs to win. i will be very strong voiced on both the long-range artillery to hit crimea in the f-16s. increasing momentum towards getting both the artillery and the planes in. >> now it is notable that in this one instance, when it comes to funding ukraine, some republicans are making an effort to be on the right side of this issue. jennifer reuben is a washington post opinion columnist covering policy foreign and domestic. jennifer, good to see you. i have to say, i was a little surprised. t

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

mccaul told me this weekend. he joined me on sunday morning futures and he said this is all a plan for the ccp to be ready to go into taiwan, watch this. >> i think the motivation, intent is clear here. they want to get imagery and get intelligence on our military capability particularly nuclear d eye building quite a nuclear stockpile themselves. why do they want to do this? well, they are preparing if they don't win the elections in taiwan next january they are preparing for a military conflict and they're trying to quite information in preparation for the conflict. maria: john, do you agree with that? is that what this is about or is this something more to do with the united states? >> no, you know, chairman mccaul was a colleague, he and i were on homeland committee together and he's exactly right. i mean, with regard to what's happening here, i mean, you see generals and admirals out there openly talking about that china is preparing to move on taiwan. it's a question, maria, of when, not if and i think the

on the other hand, republican congressman michael mccaul of texas who chairs the house foreign affairs committee wrote that the white house should've taken care of the balloon before and became a national security threat. he will be, quote, demanding answers and hold the administration accountable for this embarrassing display of weakness. demand for answers on from one other south carolina republican, joe wilson. calling for president biden and vice president harris to resign. by the way, the d.o.d. says chinese bible in tampa during the trump administration, at least three times! according to a senior defense official. joining the conversation this morning congresswoman mary peltola, a democrat representing the great state of alaska. good morning, congresswoman. thank you for joining the show. you have a unique perspective here. the u.s. military detected this particular balloon in the skies over your home state several days ago. i would just like to ask, what is your reaction to how president biden ultimately handled the situation? frankly, what is your reaction to some of the criti

mccaul of texas. he's the chair of the house foreign affairs committee, and he told reporters in kyiv that the momentum in washington was shifting towards sending long-range missies and sending those fighter jets. how has that changed things and why not do it right now? >> well, it would change things in a significant way. you've seen this grind on the ground for over a year now or coming up on a year no what the ukrainians need are those long range fires to be able to strike deep at logistical systems, communication systems, to destroy the russian artillery. it could tip the scales by providing f-16s. those things are going to fire deep in order to get into the russian's communications, logistics, artillery, those types of things. so i welcome additional fire power for the ukrainians because that's what they need. they have the tenacity. they have the will power, but they lack the things that tip the scale. >> lieutenant general steph twitty, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you, good to be wi

michael mccaul who's the chairman of the foreign relations committee now in the house, i know these are the top of the list of concerns. certainly in the intelligence committee that i i sit on ande senate with kevin focusing on china for a while now. and certainly we are in a race to develop some of the most advanced technologies in the world whether it is ai or quantum computing, but things which threaten to undermine our ability to defend ourselves and deter them as the aggressor. >> so the current framework for u.s. policy toward taiwan is really spelled out in the taiwan relations act which wasre passed over for decades ago, and has been translated into something that is often referred to as strategic ambiguity. what a quickie but the conflict were to break out in the taiwan strait. there has been more and o more debate in the last two years or so whether the united states should shift to a position of strategic clarity and issuing something closer to an alliance like guarantee that it would come to taiwan's aid if it were attacked. do you have a few of which of these policies makes

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

earlier today, her republican colleague michael mccaul dismissed her tone, and stated goal to divide this nation by red and blue states. >> divisive rhetoric, i think polarizes this nation, and i think it hurts this nation. i think we need a voice that can unify this nation on things that matter. like the economy, like the border, like the largest invasion since world war ii, and a threat to the pacific. we should all be standing as americans. >> an active day of news and new developments for you to cover. we have reporters in place with the very latest here in overseas. washington dickey. for going to go first to nbc's monica elvis, standing by the white house for us. the mounting pressure, monika, that's facing president biden over china possibly supplying russia with weapons in ukraine, how is the administration expecting this to play out? >> hi there, alex. we started this conversation a week ago on the show when it was the secretary of state warning china about the consequences if they did decide to ultimately supply russia with ammunition and artillery in the war against ukrain

we played a clip of michael mccaul. because they know that a lot of people in their base, like this kind of rhetoric. >> it is true, a big question in american politics today is whether the republican party will continue with this march towards irrational-ism and authoritarianism, whether instead it will moderate. if you look at some of the front runners for the republican nomination, were contenders for the public republican nomination, i think that the answer is pretty clear. in a healthy two party system, both parties have to compromise or agree to disagree on certain issues. but if one party says if you don't agree with me give me every single thing i want, i will bring down the house, and break up the union, or tolerates that type of language and spreads conspiracies, really a two party system becomes un-workable. marjorie taylor greene represents the part of the gop that would frankly destroy democracy itself. >> i wonder whether they would even do it in a democratic way. would you have a referendum in each state

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

i want to play some of what republican chairman and foreign affairs committee michael mccaul had to say this morning about the threat to the first balloon that was posing to national security. >> they say they mitigated it but my assessment and i can't get into the detail, the intelligence document. if it was still transmitting, going over these three very sensitive nuclear sites. i think if you look at the flight pattern of the balloon, it tells the story as to what the chinese were up to. as they control of this aircraft throughout the united states. going over their sights, -- could cause great damage. >> what's your reaction to that, olivia? >> i think that's a valid concern. i also think that i trust our military nitrous our intelligence community to be doing risk assessments. i think that's what likely what they did in the situation. that would be the normal path. i think that situation, you are assessing what is this object? what are they doing? can we actually gain some intelligence knowledge and capability by letting it continue to float for a while. which is why i was so annoy

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so we wanted to talk to congressman michael mccaul of texas. >> the foreign policy genius , more about this. you don't care you don't care what your voters think, really? wt your voter so he has to come on tonight. >> why do you support a ware? your constituents oppose? how does this benefit the united states ? s are you proud that you helpeda russia and china align a intate? a bloc that's more powerful than the united states ? is that good for for us? us ?, he cannot mat work, congressman? you can't make it. unfortunately, congressmanke mike can't come either. come ei. he represents ohio senator mitt romney of utah. conneldn't respond at all. senators lindsey graham and mitch mcconnell, of coursel, hard nosed. no way. we're not going to answer questions that appeal to cnn.. first, they show that everyone we just mentioned is a republican . >> they can't defend this. of course, only a very tinyican number of republicans voted to stop this insanity. >>voted to before it destroys the economy of the united states and triggers world wa thr three .ishe and they've been punished ford it.fo a

michael mccaul, the chair of the house foreign affairs committee, said the flight path of the balloon which flew over nuclear sites and military infrastructure, made clear that type of information that china was trying to acquire. coming up in just about 10 minutes here at uc berkeley political science professor will join us live to offer perspective on how these incidents could affect us china relations. san francisco police say the city's arson task force will still is still processing the scene of last week's deadly explosion at a house in san francisco's sunset district. 53 year old darren price faces multiple charges, including drug manufacturing, involuntary manslaughter, reckless arson and two counts of child endangerment. explosion killed one woman inside. it also shook nearby homes, shattered windows and caused significant damage on the block. they are still sifting through all of the evidence, and we are at this point have not confirmed the way this explosion may have occurred. the suspect's wife did not make it out of the house. neighbors say the couple's two children were

mccaul. last week, the entire world witnessed a clear and unacceptable breach of u.s. sovereignty. i stand here today to strongly denounce the presence of the p.r.c. balloon in the united states airspace. and it is now up to beijing to demonstrate not just to the united states but to the world that it is serious about respecting international rules and law and that it is a genuine -- that is genuine about stabilizing relations with the united states. secretary blinken was on his way to beijing to engage in diplomacy, but -- and i believe correctly canceled his trip. it was the p.r.c.'s irresponsible behavior that once again hindered u.s. efforts at dialogue and de-escalation because once we cross that line it would not be good for any nation and that's why diplomacy is always important. the p.r.c. also needs to come clean and stop pretending that this was a civilian air ship gathering weather information that accidentally invaded u.s. airspace. we all know and now with the debris that we're p

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

republican michael mccaul said "i hope the general is wrong but i think he is right." it should be stressed that neither comment would represent in any way the position of the pentagon. but it does underline the concern at the highest levels of the us military, over a future attempt by china to exert control over taiwan, which beijing claims as its territory. and with that threat in mind, the united states is now adjusting its force posture in the disputed south china sea. they have just secured access to four additional military bases in the philippines until now, the us had access to five in the philippines. until now, the us had access to five military sites under the enhanced defence cooperation agreement. they are marked by the red dots on this map. now they will have extended access to nine. philippine officials say locations being considered included bases in northern luzon — closest to taiwan — and palawan which gives them a strategic position on the disputed south eastern edge of the south china sea. it follows new defence agreements the us has recently si

mccaul, republican of texas, talked about the revolution and its purpose. [video clip] >> i believe the balloon is a test of this administration to see how he would -- we would respond. i believe the president should have shot it down before it entered american airspace, rather than allow it to cross over the continental united states airspace. make no mistake that this was another intentionally provocative act by the ccp. as i have said often, weakness invites aggression. this act will only further embolden and empower our enemies. it will embolden and empower the chair in chief. esther speaker, i have never seen a foreign nation adversary fly an reconnaissance aircraft that you can see from the ground