{"id":1836102,"date":"2023-02-05T14:19:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T19:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836102"},"modified":"2023-02-05T14:20:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T19:20:23","slug":"marco-rubio-china-delivered-a-message-embedded-in-sending-spy-balloon-to-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marco-rubio-china-delivered-a-message-embedded-in-sending-spy-balloon-to-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio: China Delivered A \u2018Message Embedded In\u2019 Sending Spy Balloon To U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmarco-rubio-china-delivered-a-message-embedded-in-sending-spy-balloon-to-u-s%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836102&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>On Sunday, Senator Marco Rubio (R.FL.) lashed out at President Joe Biden for his controversial handling the Chinese spy balloon which flew over the U.S. over the last few days.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio told CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper on \u201cState of the Union\u201d that the American people need answers about why it took the administration so long to disclose the spy balloon\u2019s presence over U.S. territory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what\u2019s embedded here is a clear message. It\u2019s not a coincidence that this happens leading up to the State of the Union address, leading up to [Secretary of State Antony] Blinken\u2019s visit to China,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cThe Chinese knew that this was going to be spotted. They knew that we were going to have to react to it. They flew it over military installations and sensitive sites across \u2014 right across the middle. I mean, look at the flight path of this thing. It\u2019s a diagonal shot right through the middle of the continental United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the message embedded in this to the world is, we can fly a balloon over airspace of the United States of America, and you won\u2019t be able to do anything about it to stop us,\u201d He added. \u201cThey calculated this carefully with a message embedded in it. And I think that\u2019s the part we can\u2019t forget here. It\u2019s not just the balloon. It\u2019s the message to try to send the world that America \u2014 we can do whatever we want, and America can\u2019t stop us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>TAPPER: Hello, STATE OF THE UNION. I\u2019m Jake Tapper.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Many Republicans reacted with outrage after President Biden waited for the suspected Chinese spy balloon to leave the continental United States before shooting it down, for safety reasons, they said, at the Pentagon\u2019s guidance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We are joined now by the Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee (Republican Senator Marco Rubio from Florida).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you, Senator, for being here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to you, President Biden should not have taken the balloon down so soon. The defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, said \u2014 quote \u2014 \u201cAfter careful analysis, U.S. military commanders had determined to downing the balloon while over land posed an undue risk to people across a wide area due to the size and altitude of the balloon and its surveillance payload.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And, as you heard Secretary Buttigieg just a few minutes ago said that the debris field after the balloon was shot down was about seven miles\u2019 long.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Should President Biden have ordered it to be shot down anyway, regardless the risk?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SEN. MARCO RUBIO R-FL: Yes, but not regardless of the potential risk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They can track these things. You can follow a slow moving balloon which is clearly headed this way, as you can see by its trajectory. I think that\u2019s one of the things we will learn this week, is how soon, how late into January did they already know that there\u2019s this high-altitude balloon and what its trajectory was and where it was headed, and why didn\u2019t they take action at that time?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That\u2019s number one. The other thing we need to understand and learn about this is why it took so long to reveal it to the American public. I don\u2019t think the trajectory of where this balloon was going was a mystery. I think, pretty early on, they probably \u2014 because of the prevailing winds, because of the direction that it was headed, I think it was pretty clear that this thing was going to enter the Northwest in Montana, in Idaho, move its way down the Midwest and exit the Eastern Seaboard just off the Carolinas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I mean, that\u2019s an unprecedented flight path. And why did it wait until Wednesday to notify \u2014 or Thursday to talk about it the American people, knowing people were going to be seeing this thing?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TAPPER &#8211; Do you know if the U.S. has recovered any parts of the Chinese spy satellite? Has the \u2014 and did the monitoring of the balloon during its journey, as far as you know, yield any worthwhile information for the U.S.?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RUBIO: Well, we won\u2019t know that until we get to a secure setting this week in Washington. And, probably, most of that is something we won\u2019t be able to disclose in any great detail, other than to say this.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And that is that they\u2019re going to try to recover this. Apparently, it\u2019s in shallow waters. We&#8217;ll see how they recover. But I don\u2019t think the technology or the existence of these things is a great mystery. I think what\u2019s embedded here is a clear message. It\u2019s not a coincidence that this happens leading up to the State of the Union address, leading up to Blinken\u2019s visit to China.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This was a spotted by the Chinese. They knew.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) criticized President Joe Biden during an interview on Sunday over his controversial handling of the Chinese spy balloon that flew over the U.S. during the last several days. Rubio told CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper on \u201cState of the Union\u201d that the American people need answers about why it took the administration so &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1836105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[17453,4501,15846,17697,6964,16908,5776,5438,5193,6893,7238],"class_list":["post-1836102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-balloon","tag-china","tag-delivered","tag-embedded","tag-in","tag-marco","tag-message","tag-rubio","tag-sending","tag-spy","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1836105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}