Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, and much of the nation, Senator, has been focused on this balloon, this Chinese spy balloon that was spotted all the way back on January the 28th over Alaska airspace, over America's airspace.

That according to senior military officials.

Now, one of the earliest sightings was confirmed in Montana on February the first.

That balloon then continued to fly over the country to Kansas City area where it drifted eastward

on February the 3rd.

And then finally, on February the 4th, the balloon was shot down by a U.S. fighter jet off the coast of South Carolina,

and that was where it ended.

Moral the story is, unless I'm wrong, this looks like it was mission accomplished.

The mission was completed by the Chinese, and then we shot it down after it'd gotten

everything it wanted on the American landscape. Whatever they wanted,

they got it. Well, Ben, that could very well be the case. I will say this was not a good week

for the Biden administration. It was not a good week for the country. I will say, you know,

I rarely am in the business of commending Joe Biden, but I do at least

have to commend that he had the guts to shoot the thing down, which given the last two years,

there was very little to think that he would have the guts to give that order. That was the

right thing to do. So I'm glad he shot the balloon down. It would have been worse if he hadn't shot it down at all.

That being said, he waited a week to shut it down.

January 28th is when this Chinese spy balloon first entered American airspace.

And from January 28th to this weekend, he did not a damn thing.

And unfortunately, on that entire journey, this spy balloon was collecting information.

It was hovering over sensitive U.S. military bases.

It was collecting information both photographs, presumably infrared, and also very potentially attempting to intercept communications.

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