spaces. roam big wild and discover more. come to think of it. more wildlife in alaska making it the best kind of unbelievable. jesse: alaska is the perfect place to hunt and hike, ski, kayak or pop a chinese balloon. but, by now we all know that s not what happened. joe biden let the spy balloon float around north america for a whole week before a civilian spotted it in montana. so why is joe so gun shy? he didn t shoot it down in alaska where there is one person per square mile or in montana where there are more cows than people. biden let it go for 4500 miles. from the pacific to the atlantic, zigzagging in between our military bases and nuke site. soaking up our secrets like a sponge. and when joe finally popped it over the ocean. the debris spread just for about seven miles. you re saying biden couldn t find a 7-mile stretch in alaska or montana or anywhere else in the world s third largest country to take it down? we can put a tomahawk missile through a window in ji
recovery efforts underway this hour for debris in the atlantic off the coast of the carolinas after the president ordered a suspected chinese bivalent to be shot down after hovering over the united states for several days. people nearby had their phones reeling, when fighter jets on the bloom around 2:30 eastern on the balloon off the coast of south carolina. au and senior military officials said the debris spanned seven miles. the u.s. is now working to recover that debris. a senior defense official tells nbc news that two of 22 raptors for the single missile took out the spy balloon as it flew at least 60,000 feet above us. the federal aviation administration paused all arrivals and departures at three u.s. airports in the carolinas. under an abundance of caution. it turns out president biden ordered the shoot down on wednesday. why did it take until today to carry out those orders? here is how president biden explained it a short time ago. on wednesday, when i was briefe
demonstrating weakness. he let this balloon hover over sensitive military facilities. presumably taking photographs, taking infrared no doubt trying to intercept communications and likely sending all of that data up to satellites and back to beijing and after a week, after it had completed its mission, only then did biden discover the courage to shoot the damn thing down. once it was done, once it was over. what he should have done is shot it down as soon as it entered u.s. airspace. he should have shot it down on the front end. now, as you noted, several senior trump officials have said it isn t true that chinese spy balloons entered under trump. the biden administration is trying to leak to the contrary. i will tell you what i said on my podcast. i do a podcast three times a week. today s podcast verdict is all on this chinese spy balloon. and i said, look, if it happened under trump and if it was
they try to collect, you know, they collect on the ground. joel, now, president biden said that he gave the order to shoot down the balloon on wednesday. those orders were just carried out, of course, today. was there a national security risk in waiting those few days? and if there was, was the risk worth and given the number of americans who may have been endangered? well, secretary castro, thank you for having me tonight. the president, he is really executing this in a flawless manner. in fact, there wasn t a security risk by having this hover over. we gained intelligence by having the balloon hover over as we were disabling it. as dan mentioned. and waiting for this moment to shoot it down. the united states is able to understand better now how china conducts its surveillance. better able to watch the balloon and its effects.
on the ground. but they didn t do that. one why didn t they do that? no one no one will say. instead, the trusty pentagon robot offered this explanation. this is one of the dumbest explanations ever articulated from a podium in washington. here it it is. is . air you said that this is violating our airspace. t does why not take it down?e we assess that it does not posev a risk to people on the ground as it currently is traversing the continentad statesl united h and so out of an abundance of caution, cognize of the potential impact to civilians on the ground from a debris, righe goin field. w op right now, we re going to continue to monitor and review options. letti song the u.s. military is , in fact, protecting you by lettingu a chinese spy balloon hover over our nuclear facilities.y ri that is indi total and insultingly ridiculous. series of sentences.it ion they makeon no sense. but the administration s position on the chinese spy balloon becomes not just ridiculous, but scary