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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 1661 - Coward Biden Lets China Send Spy Balloon Over America

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News Commentary, News

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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0:00.0

China flies a spy balloon over American soil and the Biden administration does nothing.

0:04.9

Anti-Semitic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar loses her Foreign Affairs Committee spot as Democrats catarwall

0:09.2

and 86 Democrats vote against condemning the horrors of socialism.

0:13.0

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro show.

0:20.4

All right, so late yesterday afternoon, the news broke that a Chinese spy balloon was found over the northern United States.

0:28.0

It is a giant spy balloon.

0:30.0

It looks as though the Wizard of Oz is going to descend in this balloon, or as the balloon boy may be found in this balloon,

0:36.8

went through a wormhole in the past somehow emerged here.

0:38.9

But actually, it is a Chinese spy satellite, apparently.

0:41.7

According to NBC News, the U.S. military has been monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon

0:45.9

that has been hovering over the northern United States for the past few days.

0:49.6

And military and defense leaders have discussed shooting it out of the sky, according to U.S. officials and a senior defense official. Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Pat Ryder told NBC News, quote, the United States government has detected and is tracking a high-altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States right now. We continue to track and monitor it closely. Once the balloon was detected, the U.S. government acted immediately to protect against collection of sensitive information. Apparently, the high-altitude balloon was spotted over Billings, Montana

1:14.6

on Wednesday. It flew over the Aleutian Islands through Canada and into Montana as well.

1:19.4

This apparently is not the only spy balloon that China has sent out there. Apparently,

1:24.3

now the Canadians are suggesting that there may be a second spy balloon that was flying over Canada.

1:29.7

And apparently the new rule is that China gets to do pretty much whatever it wants in this space and we will do nothing.

1:35.0

Now, there are a bunch of unanswered questions here.

1:38.1

Unanswered question number one, why are you flying a spy balloon?

1:40.7

What does it actually accomplish?

1:42.9

See, China has satellites.

1:43.9

Those satellites are perfectly capable of taking pictures from space of things in Montana, for example.

1:48.0

Presumably, one of the things that they're attempting to monitor is America's nuclear arsenal, much of which is located in Montana.

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