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About the decision to shoot it down. i want to hear your reaction. >> decision to shoot it down before it entered too far into the u.s. air space, the pentagon bowing to political pressure from the hill? >> again, were going to judge each of these objects its own merits. it entered into u.s. air space on february 9th. we sent up aircraft to assess what it was. the decision was made that it posed a reasonable threat to civilian air traffic. the president gave the order to take it down, and we too...

Dribble out information it seems like they could do. even in the press conference with mr. kirby he didnt lead with that he had to be asked a question about it. i was curious about that. two, this begs a lot of questions that we just dont have answers to. one being who was behind this? do we have a space force? do we have an ability to detect this sooner? i mean, we certainly know when anything is in the sky where its coming from with all the technology that we have. i hope congress exercises mo...

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0 prude obey witches on the border of canada and alaska on the northern side of the continent. thats all we know, we know that it was there for the better part of 24 hours and was shot down at 1:45 east coast time today. we will continue covering breaking news. i will see you back here on "fox news at >> can you speak to rumors that there is another chinese balloon above alaska or any other u.s. territory that the u.s. shot down? >> so i can confirm that the department of defense was tracking hi...

0 a little further detail on that, the decision was made this morning he just revealed, asked when did the president give the order to shoot it down? this morning. >> john: talk about burying the lede, talks about all of this other stuff, and then a reporter says, oh, by the way, did you shoot something down? oh, yes. here are the details. my gosh. >> martha: grade to be with you come have a great weekend. im sandra smith. >> martha: elsey and monday, thank you for joining us, "the story" with m...

0 president lula has to make. >> reporter: i wanted to follow up on a question i asked in september. in light of the chinese spy balloon incident does this administration consider chinese land purchases near u.s. military bases a national security threat? >> we are always concerned about potential foreign collection near or around our military sites, and youre right, last week is a good example of that. we take that seriously, whether thats terrestrial related or whether its from the air. and i ...

Hurtling. continue text around all this new reporting were getting on the spy balloon, i guess for lack of a better word program of china. the state department confirming today this chinese surveillance program extends far beyond the united states. what more can you tell us about it? >> well, you know, first, erin, ill go back to what you said at the very beginning about the military failing to flag the balloon going over alaska as an urgent matter. im not sure i agree with that. the tipper that...

Urgency atacttaches to it. the next day, thats when the balloon did enter u.s. airspace over alaska. fighter jets were sent up to positively i.d. it. there was no real sense of alarm. no urgency because it did not appear to be a threat to the united states. it was seen as somewhat of an opportunity to study it, monitor it, to try to understand the intelligence that it was gathering. in fact, the trajectory it was expected to take was across alaska and continue over the northern part of the globe...

. theres breaking news on the chinese spy balloon. on the day we learned from the pentagon the balloon is part of a larger chinese surveillance program, intelligence sources tell us more on what u.s. officials knew and when about the balloon before it entered u.s. airspace. joined by alex march court. >> reporter: it was seen the day before. we are told on january 27th, the day before it entered u.s. airspace, the defense intelligence agency, the intelligence arm of the pentagon, they filed a ...

It and gather intelligence. today, the pentagon forcefully pushing back. saying that this was not an intelligence failure, in fact it was an intelligence opportunity to learn about this small part of the chinese intelligence program. in fact anderson, by planes were sent up to watch the balloon. in fact, we are told that a pilot actually took a selfie of the pilot and the balloon. that picture unfortunately has not been published. but we are told that it has attained somewhat of a legendary stat...