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Involved in this decision. he ordered it at the recommendation of pentagon leaders. he wanted it taken down. and they did that. they did using fighter aircraft assigned to u.s. northern command. were calling it an object because that is the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it, whether it is state owned or corporate owned or privately owned. we just dont know. >> experts say that this chinese balloon and this latest object could be based on economic as well as military ...

Way. mike: congresswoman debbie dingell, the great state of michigan, thanks for your time. have a wonderful weekend. >> thanks, mike, you, too. alicia: from the other side of the aisle were joined by republican congresswoman from florida, a member of the house oversight and accountability committee, anna paulina luna and also serves on the houses natural resource committee. congresswoman, thank you for being here. first, id like your thoughts on the shootdown of the aerial object and the admini...

Strict definition of the phrase, we just had our first ever ufo shootdown briefing. youve got your pun, im done with it, im not going to do that anymore. but it is -- as of late last night, the pentagon was saying that they have no idea, and if they do know, theyre not telling us. several people at the pentagon and throughout the administration quietly said to us yesterday that they thought it was a balloon, a much smaller balloon than the one we shot down a week ago, but then that got contradic...

Military doesnt have the capability to make those determinations. we could argue whether the balloon should have been shot down for the pacific or atlanta, and i want to clean that up. our military would never allow weapons platform they had been watching for days to penetrate u.s. air space. to your question, look, the chinese-- this balloon overflight was brazen. now, we dont really know at what levels of the china government this was approved. we dont have that information yet, but the very f...

Looking at made in china, owns a trillion dollars of or sovereign debt. so the argument im making, we need to make it clear that its not okay and even as were careful with the economic relationships we have. your point what if. im still concerned with what the general said. i could come on tv as a member of the gang of eight, what if the most recent balloon they shot down was full of covid virus or full of ebola. i could ask all sorts of what-ifs. we deserve in tense times, it is a tense time, t...

Stay right where you are. cory coffin comes to pick up the coverage right now. >> good morning, welcome into you, im cory coffin current you from new york. we will begin with the latest on the high altitude object that was fly over alaska airspace, and shot down by the u.s. military yesterday. ce, and it has been less than ak since a trial spy balloon was discovered flooded over the u.s., it was a sudden eventually shot down over the coast of south carolina by an air force fighter jet. pentagon ...

Military brought down what it says was a chinese spy balloon. jon donnison reports. its almost a week since the us military shot down what it said was a chinese spy balloon off the coast of south carolina. now the pentagon says fighterjets like these have intercepted another unidentified object, this time in the skies above alaska. we have no further details about the object at this time, including any description of its capabilities, purpose, or origin. the object was about the size of a small ...

Are you by reporting that on the initial spy craft that was shot down a week ago, that there was english writing on it. are you concerned that it may have been produced by an american company? >> i am. i mean, i think weve got to look at all of these relationships and i think weve got to get a lot more information. weve got to get the facts. they are going to retrieve as much of this balloon as they can and study it, but we need to make sure that we are protecting ourselves. weve got to get the ...

60,000 feet which is above civilian air space, didnt pose any danger to civilian aircraft, but it was flying more in the 40,000 foot range. we do know that from public reporting. that does pose a potential challenge to civilian aircraft. thats why the president ultimately ordered it taken down. neil: we talked about senator tim kaine talking about it coming down. it was an object flying within the range that commercial aircraft do. and bipartisan support the president having done that. not so mu...

Administration does not know what these objects are is an absolute lie for there is no way it f-22 pilot or any other fighter pilot is going to shoot an object out in u.s. airspace or nearby without knowing what that is or getting clearance as they do identify with the object is. so once again congress is being kept in the dark right now. jon: it strikes me the first spy craft that gigantic a balloon was up there at 68000 feet and above where propellers dont work very wellin fact they dont work ...