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Russia, we obviously should be concerned. and i think weve made it clear -- the president has made it clear, and dod has made it clear that were not going to allow incursions into our airspace. if china wants to put something up, a balloon in some cases or maybe possibly whatever this object was, its going to cost them because we will defend our airspace, and i think thats the right call because thats the way you actually stop this kind of encroachment from happening, is you make it clear it wil...

So fingers crossed things improve. but all hope isnt lost. ive been told that over the nine days, organisers hope for at least five days of good flying weather, and some days with bad weather are still good for partial flights. balloon pilot nick dunnington has been coming to this festival from the uk since he was a child and hes offered to take me up later. so, nick, whats the status? everyone seems a little bit tense. yeah, so theyve given us the clearance to fly this morning, but the winds ab...

Wont be serious consequences. and we dont quite know what the motivation was for the first balloon last week. i wouldnt be surprised if it was intended to be a poke in the eye in the united states before a diplomatic visit. weve seen that before when i was working for defence secretary gates in 2011, he made a high—profile visit to beijing and as soon as he touched down in china tested a new stealth fighter. welcome to beijing, heres a new powerful plane to contest america. it may have been in...

To the balloon they were tracking last week, where they watched it as it came the andalusians, dont through canada, into idaho, there is only a short stretch a period where it was over an area that was determined it could injure, or even worse, printable on the ground, or infrastructure. in this case, they were able to take this down when it was over frozen water, so there was a high degree of confidence that no one would be heard on the ground. one thing i find interesting that they learn to be...

To the pilot briefing. small changes, you know, that wouldnt affect many other leisure activities have such a big impact with the hot air balloons. yes. but you have to know that every season is different to fly. thats why if you want to be a good pilot, you have to fly every week. otherwise you are a bad pilot. with some balloons starting to take to the skies, ijoin nick in the basket. oh, wow. and within just a few seconds, we are whisked high up into the air. nick, can you tell me what youre ...

This time around? well, the reaction is that, really, he acted as fast as he could, it seems, and that perhaps that was as a result of some of the political criticism that he faced last week. now, the reasoning given last week was that the balloon was hovering over land and potentially, there was a danger if it was shot down — as it eventually was over the sea — but if it was shot down over land, it couldve posed a danger to people back on earth. now, it seems in this case, it was brought do...

Show, the bottom line on fox business obanya 6:00 p.m. eastern -- on # p.m. eastern and sean. great to see you tonight. we were reliably told that shooting down objects was dangerous and was too danielous. how can we take anything that this administration and this pentagon told us today seriously when suddenly civil aviation was hampered by the "october" so much so it had to be taken down? >> good to see you too, laura. good question. theres the three bus sized balloon and the country and icbm s...

More critically over -- it was over water. but, it completely different size. the debris field much, much smaller. >> will: biden wasted no time in shooting down this so-called object. this thing was shot down less than 12 hours after being identified. it didnt make it to the u.s. mainland. it was shot right over alaska. now, thats not what biden did with the chinese balloon. he let that puppy fly around for days. sucking up, well, all of our intelligence. remember, they told us they didnt shoot...

>> will: youd think maybe they would be getting on their phones trying to get to the bottom of this. but they are acting like foreign objects flying around our airspace is normal well i guess it kind of is becoming normal and thats what joe biden admitted last night. >> the total amount of intelligence-gathering thats going on by every country around the world is overwhelming. the idea that a balloon could traverse -- break american airspace is -- anyway, its not a major breach. >> will: its no ...

>> will: no regrets. we just handled this one completely differently than we handled the first object, the chinese balloon. and i guess its because unknown objects just keep flying all around us. in order for some answers, maybe we can now turn to florida congressman michael waltz because he serves on the armed services committee and he has served this great country. congressman, great to have you on "jesse watters primetime" tonight. what do you make of this? >> what are we supposed to assume t...