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Military aircraft to check it out. they could see it was unmanned and flying at about 40,000 feet, which did raise some concerns for interference with civilian air traffic. this is a very different situation than the chinese spy balloon a couple weeks prior. in that instance, the u.s. military knew they were looking at a part of an existing chinese surveillance program that they had previously been tracking and had been aware of for at least a year at this point. they thought at that point they ...

Phase those people are protected, kept warm and then moved a very, very quickly into sustainable transitional shelter solutions that can take them long its in the future. >> jamie, thank you for that on the update. you are doing the lords work. we are passing along numbers and ways people at home can help. in the meantime the operation of red cross to help people in turkey on. it is going to go on for some time. in the meantime after they shakedown up a balloon and of course this latest object i...

This is your concern. do you know anything more than what weve been told about this object? >> neil, thanks for having me on. i dont know any more than has been publicly reported, but i will say this, neil. we have to wake up to the fact that china has a plan to replace the united states and theyre working on that every single day, from an economic standpoint, military standpoint, technological standpoint and diplomatic standpoint and the ccp is aggressively doing this and i think that was a ref...

It is small, it could be a real weather balloon that china sent in order to support their bogus claim. the first balloon was just a weather balloon. it couldve been sent before the chinese knew that we discovered the balloon over montana. as part of a continuing effort. the balloon is the smallest part of all of the balloons. they are the smallest part of chinas invasion of our sovereignty. the way that they control american corporations by treating access to the chinese market like dog training...

Wrong with him. everyone in the country knows it right now. nowthe unfortunate part is our ball to this issue with the balloon. it was you know, it was just testing to see, you know, how he would react, how long they would have before he woulde do anything the leas. wet bitvey decisive. and we saw the answer to that.ct it was verhiy unimpressive. it was very scary. and i think things are going to continue to get worse. and sot know i want to know hs physical exams that they said tt were going to...

To whoever sent this up, whether it was china or russia or some other country. if you invade our airspace, were going to take it out. theres a cost to it. im sorry. congressman kiz nzinger said theres a cost to them. theres a cost to us. every time they put a cheap balloon up or some other object, we have to take it down. its not without expense to us as well. i doubt if thats the cost formula going into effect right now. >> yeah. >> but i think it was right to take it down, and i think it was r...

Behave yourself, brian kilmeade, and maybe youll get lucky. thank you, sir. the u.s. military shooting down an unidentified object in our next story over u.s. air space in alaska yesterday. joey: the new incident comes as president biden faces criticism over his decision to shoot down a chinese spy craft after it went all the way across the entire u.s. rachel: thats right. alexandria hoff has all the details from washington. good morning, alexandria. >> reporter: good morning. it was a bit int...

Eliminates the object, whatever it might be. absent that at, and this became an issue in respect to the spy balloon a couple of weeks ago he is obligated to report up to his boss who is the secretary of defense. who then would notify the president and then and decisions would go from there. clearly theres a bunch of indecision and uncertainty from the pentagon and the white house that was evidence of last week as a chinese balloon across the entire continental united st states. it was pretty cle...

The suspected chinese spy craft brought down a week ago. according to the white house this is about the size of a small sedan, a lot smaller than the balloon. it was not equipped with a significant payload, in fact, who or what yesterdays object belonged to is still up for question. >> were calling this an object because thats the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it, whether its a -- whether its state-owned or corporate-owned or privately owned. we just dont know. >> w...

Over the united states. eventually shot down off of the coast of south carolina by an air force fighter jet. now pentagon officials will not confirm whether or not the new object was also a balloon or its country of origin. officials did say the object was roughly the size of a small car, and was flying at an altitude that will make it a potential threat to civilian aircraft. alaska senator melissa -- spoke with lester holt last night, said she was briefed and told the object was not a balloon. ...