- Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said suddenly, having apparently known about the Chinese spy balloon drifting across America for a week, we are told President Biden wanted to shoot it down.
- Gingrich suggested that maybe Congress should offer a reward to any private sector salvage team that can get the package off the ocean floor for study.
- He noted ahead of the president’s State of the Union, the world has watched us look slow, dumb, helpless, and ineffective.