options. neil: up, up and not going away. a suspected chinese spy balloon flying high above the continental u.s. and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. u.s. officials did consider shooting it down. no more. antony blinken cancelling his trip to china. china confirming, yeah, it s ours but blames high winds. some people don t believe that. we are all over it regardless with jennifer griffin at the pentagon on how the military is reresponding to this. griff jenkins with growing calls for investigations into this. senate armed services committee mike rounds on how long the administration may have known about this. general jack keane on the new tension with china because of this. i m neil cavuto. who saw this one coming? new signs that we might have seen it for quite a while. so why are we just finding out about it now and growing concerns about what we re going to do about it now to jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer? neil, secretary state antony blinken is
montana, which is home to our nuclear silos and intercontinental ballistic missiles. beijing claims it is a civilian aircraft used for media meteorological research. that got knocked up by bad weather. but the pentagon says that is a bunch of b.s. we know this is a chinese balloon and it has the ability to maneuver. the balloon has changed its course, which is again way we are monitoring it. speak with the balloon continues to move eastward and currently over the center of the continental united states. we assess the balloon is not a military or physical threat to people on the ground at this time. we will continue to monitor and review options. we assess that it will probably be over the united states for a few days. judge jeanine: so why the hill hasn t joe biden shut this thing down yet? defense officials advise the president not to take it out. fearing it could cause debris to fall and put people in harm s way. any potential debris field would be significant and pot
tensions with china. nbc news was first to report the suspected chinese surveillance balloon hovering over the northern united states around montana for the past few days. china is now responding claiming it is a civilian airship used for weather research that was blown off course. but how credible is that claim? minutes ago we learned secretary of state antony blinken is postponing his trip to china for what was supposed to be a highly anticipated meeting with china s leader next week. the pentagon is set to hold a briefing in the next hour. we know the department of defense is tracking the balloon closely, even at one point discussing shooting it down. we even have air traffic audio from wednesday about a, quote, special mission. we just got alerted from salt lake tmu we re on a ground stop right now until further notice for a special mission going on over the livingston area. we don t know exactly when we can have our next departure. it is landing with a thud on capito
implications tied to the suspected chinese spy balloon hovering in u.s. air space. nbc s courtney kube first broke this story. kristen welker is at the white house. ali vitali is on capitol hill and with me is victor cha at the national security council, the senior vice president for asia at the center for strategic and international studies. courtney, china says the suspected spy balloon over the u.s. is a civilian airship used for weather research. just as canada says it is monitoring a potential second incident. we re likely to hear more from the pentagon at noon, but walk us through what we know at this hour. so we know this high altitude surveillance balloon has been over canada and the united states for the past several days. during that entire time the u.s. military has been tracking it and watching its movement, trying to figure out how capable this is of gathering intelligence. it got to the point where they were so concerned that secretary of defense lloyd austin on wednesd
mir is coming up next, and i will see you back tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. news coming in, the suspected over the u.s.alloon hovering - where it is now, and will there be a window to shoot it down? also tonight, the dangerous life threatening cold moving into the northeast. the live readings already. first, the pentagon tracking that chinese balloon, the intelligence bay hanging beneath it, the size of three busses. where it s spotted over the u.s., where it s believed to be headed now, 60,000 feet in the air. will the u.s. shoot this down? secretary of state antony blinken postponing his trip. the deadly cold already tonight, the national weather service is call it a once in a generation arctic blast.