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Balloons is hovering over missouri. >> one last question for you. we have pretty groundbreaking unsophisticated technology. people look at drones, undetectable in airspace. why a balloon? i mean, they move slowly. they are the size of buses. people can see them. they are creating a bilateral crisis. what about this technology makes it so enviable that we are trying to compete with russia and china on it? >> well, again, i dont want to go too far down a path that would expose the way we think abo...

U.s., you know, they were provoked by the united states. the united states shot it down, therefore, whats going to be the next challenge. let me also be clear, theres other things going on in that region. secretary lloyd austin, the secretary of defense, had just returned from, again, a very successful trip to the philippines with president marcos jr. and now reopening ties with the philippines and going to, you know, provide military basing that has been dormant for many years. thats significan...

Take thousands many millions of photos and bring that back home just to see what kind of information we can blame. works quick question here when you hearing rachel confident clues are in terms of gathering the debris? it seems the only analogy i can go to the horrible one its the one its in everybodys mind is when a plaintiff plummets from 30,000 feet that leaves a very, very wide and debris field that takes sometimes weeks, months if not years to regather. how long could it take to gather this...

At the end, in this map largely shows the same thing. currently, reports are its the over kansas city, missouri, as we speak. theres a photo yesterday, last night. you can see it there. its visible to the naked eye, you can see from a photo taken at ground level in kansas city. pete: surveillance equipment, and well talk about the size in a moment, because its not small. i think we could take care of it if we wanted to. will: okay. lets taken a look at in this balloon, first of all. its known as...

The presidents residences and offices. >> i would refer to you the white house councils office. >> ian just declined to comment on that as well. >> i think the white house believes theyre winning this standoff and maybe they are phil. >> yeah. the white house they like to tout recent polling from cbs news that shows that americans -- the presidents approval rating hasnt taken a dip here. i think thats notable, though, because at that point you suggest that people buy their argument. the strategy...

Administration went a different direction and i guess thats the right direction, and there was probably dialog, is this the right thing to do or go ahead with the meeting and they made the decision that they did and i think its correct. neil: and i think the chinese responded, well, there wasnt going to be a meeting with you anyway and theres no big loss. you dont know who is right on that. chuck hagel always good to see you. >> thank you, neil. neil: the former secretary of state under barack o...

WASHINGTON - A US fighter jet on Saturday shot down a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina, the Pentagon said, over what it called Beijing's "unacceptable violation" of US sovereignty.

Hes a fighter pilot with more than 3,000 flying hours. he was the principle attack planner for desert storm, commander of no-fly operations over iraq and serve issed on two commissions focused on americas future defense strategy. hes currently the dean of the mitchell institute for aerospace studies. thank you for being here. what exactly are the options when an object like this is at 60,000 feet? >> well, first, thank you for having me on and really appreciate it. its a great question. there ar...

Senior defense officials and reporters just wrapped. they said a single u.s. air force f-22 flying out of langley shot down that chinese spy plane firing a sidewinder missile, just one shot, one kill, so to speak. and it was blown out of the sky about 6 miles off the coast of south carolina. that debris field some 7 miles long in just 47 feet of water. a u.s. navy salvage teams are enroute, the u.s. coast coast guard as well to start recovering some of the effects. now, the pentagon also saying ...

Metal from 100s kyle hundred square miles of a crash site. but i think it would be pretty embarrassing for the secretary of state to show up in china while one of the chinese balloons is hovering over missouri. >> one last question for you. we have pretty groundbreaking unsophisticated technology. people look at drones, undetectable in airspace. why a balloon? i mean, they move slowly. they are the size of buses. people can see them. they are creating a bilateral crisis. what about this technolo...