>> Laura: I'm Laura Ingraham, and this is "the Ingraham Angle" from Washington tonight. China's trial balloon, the f...
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>> Laura: I'm Laura Ingraham, and this is "the Ingraham Angle" from Washington tonight.
China's trial balloon, the focus of tonight's angle
Now, just like the spy balloon itself, America's China apologist was floating around today.
>> I'm waiting for the nation's Chinese for this balloon.
I've had personal experience using balloons as reconnaissance devices, and they are not very efficient.
They do not think the Chinese would expend their political capital here. Washington lost its collective mind on this yesterday.
The Chinese do spy on us. This harkens back to perhaps some Cold War paranoia about something tangible staring up at us.
The joke I had in my household was that they were getting a preview of the next season of "Yellowstone." What a riot spread throughout the comedy circuit! The Chinese are laughing at us, that's for sure. The role of the Pentagon under Biden seems clear.
Unless we are talking about sending billions in weapons to Ukraine, the American aerospace defence command continues to monitor it closely. Who's controlling this balloon right now? Is the Chinese government controlling the movement of the balloon, or is it just loading it with air? We are monitoring the situation closely. We'll continue to monitor. will continue to review our options and provide information and updates. Since we are in the observation and monitoring business, NORAD is simply observing the balloon.
It is their job to secure the airspace over the United States.
Still. On December 24th, we take on the extra-special mission of tracking Santa Claus.
>> Laura: Just like they do with Santa, NORAD should set up a website for all of us to follow to track this round figure.
>> You said the U.S. is reviewing its options.
I'd like some priority; is the option of shooting down the balloon, particularly as it's going over more populated areas, off the table? Is that still among the options that the U.S. military is considering? We won't go into an hour-by-hour breakdown of where the balloon is, but we will do our best to keep you and the Republicans updated.
>> Laura:
Could you get that general to give us a play-by-play?
Currently, it's traversing the continental United States.
Right now, we estimate that it will probably be over the United States for a few days.
But we will continue to monitor, review our options, and keep you updated as we can.
>> He reminds me of Al Roker and the Doppler radar.
It's humiliating.
We're the United States.
Even General Wesley Clark and former Obama Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta felt the need to chime in. It's our airspace that we have to protect. So I suspect there are ways to be able to go after this balloon, whether to shoot it down or to intercept it in some way.
or whether to interfere with the manoeuvrability of the balloon, which obviously is of concern.
>> Bob Bear was even more blunt in what "the angle" warned about last night.
This entire exercise was a trial balloon literally floated by China to see how long it would take for us to react forcefully.
By balloon, the Chinese would have taken our planes down that weren't even flying in their airspace. They force them down, we let it go, we keep on appeasing the Chinese, and they'll keep pushing.
>> Laura:
What about all those Pentagon shills who believed the generals were concerned about collateral damage on the ground if they shut it down? Get your head straightened out.
If we can hit home plate in Yankee Stadium with a cruise missile launched thousands of miles away, I think we can pop a balloon without endangering human life. If not, we should reconsider what we are getting for that $850 billion a year that we spend on the fence at this point. Our secretary of state should have immediately canceled, not postponed, his trip to Beijing over this Chinese publication. With this trip planned by the secretary of state, we hope things will settle down and they'll be able to get back to the negotiating table.
>> Laura:
That's stupid.
The United States' statement should have been shortened to the point. Something like "we consider this move to be a deliberate provocation and a blow to my point in violation of our airspace and sovereignty." We have acted quickly to highlight the potential intelligence threat to the CCDP against our nation, and any nation can slash attempts at anything to Miller will result in the same results. All future high-level discussions with China are hereby postponed indefinitely. That's what we should have said.
This balloon may or may not be really good at collecting sensitive information. We have no idea. That's frankly irrelevant.
By launching it, watching it, and watching the U.S.'s slow response, Xi is learning a lot about us, the great United States.
We appear to be more worried about offending the Chinese and more afraid of protesters storming the Capitol than protecting our own homeland against the communist aggressor.
The sad fact is that as long as Biden is president, China has all the leverage. Our military is hyperfocused on Europe.
Our supply chains are still in China.
We depleted our munitions by sending so much to Ukraine.
Our military is mired in woke nonsense.
The fact that Xi lied about COVID, took Hong Kong, enslaved the Uighurs—we just keep going on for more.
For better relations, Wall Street wants more business engagement, and universities want more Chinese students.
It's frankly
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