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Alaska, mr. president? mike: matt, the president and the white house all relieved they caught this one early? >> they should be. i mean, yeah, its not over south carolina coast. at least its alaska. our so much air space needs to be sovereign. if chinese spy balloons are going to get across the country, its going to invite more foreign powers, china and whoever else to keep testing us. we talk a lot about the balloon and thats right but we also have chinese spy in phones with tiktok. thats a con...

Commercial, we dont know. and the objects, the balloon last saturday with the one shot, one kill from the f-22, any violation of u.s. air force, u.s. sovereignty i think is a serious threat and its become a significant wake-up call for the american people either on chinese mone monetizization weve got gaps in what the air space is adding up to. neil: general, if this were a russian craft or a chinese craft or some other countrys craft, would they have said something, would they say thats ours, y...

Here at the white house jon kirby explained. >> posed eight reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. out of an abundance of caution and the recommendation of the pentagon president biden ordered the military to down the objects. >> the pentagon said the object was shot down it was cursing at 40000 feet over alaska. the same altitude dangerously close to many commercial airliners, arthel. arthel: seen that chinook helicopter on skis is pretty awesome. lucas tomlinson thank you. eric. e...

Dangerous given the fact the ocean temperatures up there are in the 30s and the depths can reach up to 18000 feet, jon. >> brian, thank you. lets take up more on all these questions south: republican nancy mase a member of the house armed services committee. lets go back to the event a week ago the balloon that was shot down. the pentagon says bring it down over land was not such a great idea because somebody on the ground might get hurt. now they are exploring the waters trying to pick up the p...

That went awry, this will turn out to be a false alarm. but juliet makes a good point. if there is nothing underneath likely to be harmed, you have very little cost to shooting it down. the calculation made with the chinese balloon was quite different. by the time we all focused on it, it was already over montana and there was concern about what would happen if it hit a populated area. >> yeah. and i think the question moving forward is, what are these objects? and you know, certainly, we have t...

Cameras and actually take samples if not recovered directly this probably how they are deploying these owners there just down there. boxers a renewed focus as to why the chinese spy balloon was not shot out of the sky over alaska and allowed to transversely u.s. for a week. defense officials and their key differences to the car sized object shot down over alaska yesterday. one companys bible and was 200 feet tall the pale of the size of a learjet possibly creating a 28 square-mile debris field h...

They should hand it to the secretary of state and he can use that as leverage in negotiations with his counterpart in china. completely unacceptable. arthel: but you do feel we are the u.s. we do have the upper hand in the long run, right? if not immediately. >> i would say so, yes. ultimately it is a top down organization. the commander-in-chief is ultimately in charge. so, the line of communication between the commander-in-chief and the leadership in the field needs to be delegated down so the...

Accused the us of political manipulation and hype. jon donnison, bbc news. im joined now by brendan kearney, former military colonel from santa rosa, california. again, i should say, because we spoke just 2a hours ago about the shooting down of an eye identified object over north american airspace. that was a week after the shooting down of a suspected chinese spy balloon. is there a pattern emerging?— balloon. is there a pattern emerging? balloon. is there a pattern emeruain ? ,, , , balloon....

The latest situation we dont know one way or the other. but their behavior and even their response to us, they want it back, why did you shoot it down. hanging up on calls from the defense secretary. they dont seem like a recalcitrant country. >> before i answer your question, i need to clean up something that general boykin said. and its important that people understand the capabilities and the competence of the military that they pay $800 billion a year for. our military watched this balloon a...

Happening, i suppose, until something puts a stop to it. it is very strange. we were just talking about a chinese spy balloon a week ago and things have changed dramatically. whats going on? we dont even know what these objects are. isnt that puzzling? >> yes. it is. i want to pick up on what natasha was reporting. after the chinese incident balloon last week, our air surveillance has increased. that goes through norad. norad is a unique entity. its commander reports to both the united states pr...