Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast.

Greetings, welcome. It's Eric Erickson here across the nation.

The phone number is 8779773-745, should you wish to be on the program. I am delighted to have you.

Truth be told, I am, well, ready to move on from all the conversations about Trump and the

indictment in large part because we're going to spend a whole lot of time tomorrow on it.

But I will take your phone calls if you have any questions about it.

However, I want to move on to something else here.

The Chinese spy balloon.

Arguably, this is a more important story than Donald Trump's heading to New York City.

I want to play you this audio from Joe Biden from February 16th to really set the tone of what we're talking about.

Because we knew its path, we were able to protect

sensitive sites against collection. We waited until it was safely over water, which would not

only protect civilians, but also enable us to recover substantial components for further analytics.

And then we shot it down.

That was Joe Biden talking about the Chinese spy balloon that traversed the nation

where he and his friends in the media assured us repeatedly that they had everything under control

and they were flying jamming planes around the balloons so that they couldn't actually collect any sort of data.

And now here on April 3rd, about two months removed from the balloon flying over the United States, the truth comes out.

This is from Courtney Kuby and Carol Lee at NBC.

The Chinese spy balloon that flew across the U.S.

was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military bases

despite the Biden administration's efforts to block it from doing so

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