The (alleged) Chinese spy balloon.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On Saturday, a United States military fighter jet shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean, about six nautical miles off the coast of South Carolina. The balloon had entered U.S. airspace nearly a week before, garnering national attention from citizens, news media, and the U.S. military alike. Plus, a question about my interview with the "Keep Nine" guys.
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| 0:35.2 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:44.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. |
| 1:01.8 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we are going to be talking about the alleged Chinese spy balloon and the military's decision to shoot it down off the coast of South |
| 1:13.6 | Carolina on Saturday. Before we jump in, though, as always, we'll start off with some quick hits. |
| 1:25.6 | First up, the House voted along party lines to remove Representative Ilhan Omar, the Democrat |
| 1:31.5 | from Minnesota, from the Foreign Affairs Committee, citing her comments about Israel. |
| 1:37.3 | Number two, a new primary calendar was approved by the Democratic Party that will make |
| 1:41.5 | South Carolina the first state to vote replacing the Iowa caucuses. |
| 1:46.3 | Number three, newly elected Arkansas governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, will deliver the Republican's |
| 1:51.2 | response to President Biden's state of the union address on Tuesday night. |
| 1:56.0 | Number four, the United States economy added 517,000 non-farm jobs in January, far exceeding economists' estimates |
| 2:04.1 | of 187,000 end December's jobs report, which included 260,000 new hires. The unemployment rate |
| 2:12.0 | is now 3.4%, the lowest since May of 1969. Number five, Turkey and northern Syria were hit by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, followed by a 7.5 |
| 2:24.0 | magnitude earthquake just hours later. More than 1900 deaths and 7,300 injuries have been reported. |
| 2:47.3 | We begin with that giant Chinese spy balloon that's riveted the nation these past few days. |
| 2:52.6 | The U.S. military intercepted the balloon out in the Atlantic yesterday afternoon. |
| 2:56.3 | Well, the planning for this moment that played out just an hour and a half ago that we saw on our screen started on Wednesday when President Joe Biden gave the authorization to shoot down this |
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