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Honestly if this had been up to montanas we would have taken it out of the air in the moment into our sovereign airspace. will: but governor and the rest off in the pentagon is too dangerous, and the debris. do you buy that or is it more important that we dont give away our secrets to let the fly balloon over our heads? >> they have been tracking this. montanas not a blat and him bad space you have a lot of open space. it is important we are concerned about safety on the ground. but doing enough...

Testing americas air defence systems, for example. there have been calls for it to be shut down as we heard in those reports but so far president biden has resisted those calls not least because it could ratchet up the tensions with china and it could shower debris. this is and it could shower debris. this is a building that is set to be the length of three buses, on to americans below. but there where some speculation once the balloon has passed over american aerospace and into us airspace over...

To fall and put people in harms way. >> any potential debris field would be significant and potentially cause civilian injuries or deaths or significant property damage. so, again,r deaths were this ise the calculus in terms of in term our overall assessment. but again, ove well continue to monitor it. well continue to review our options and keepr it youou updated as able. >> but republicans say biden jei looks weakne with each second he keeps this communist balloon in the air. we ought to bring...

Thats why its important. neil: right. >> if we can retrieve this, its really, really, i think, critically important. neil: what if we dont? what if it just floats all the way back over the atlanta ocean for all i know back to china? >> well, again, i dont know what the pentagons going to do, what the president will ultimately decide, but once it gets out over open waters id be surprised if we would allow this balloon just to float back to china, but i dont know that. neil: okay. i did want to ge...

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Take care of that, and of course, president biden has been briefed on this matter, since tuesday, and it has been receiving continual updates from his team, including military advisers. initially advisers had suggested not to shoot down the balloon while it was over land. of course there were concerns about what that might do, regarding debris and the impact that it could have on the ground. but certainly, over the course of last few day, the president has been trying to weigh all of these optio...

Underway right now? >> absolutely. as you pointed out, those efforts are already underway. navy and coast guard assets were standing by already knowing that this was the outcome the military was going for. the pay load, the object hanging below that balloon about three school buses long we have reported crashed in about 47 feet of water the senior defense official said. pretty shallow making it fairly easy to recover. in terms of what shape its in, what did the impact with the water do to it, th...

Or take us inside what happens on a day like today when you get the order she down this balloon? >> youre like its one of the targets once i was involved down to shoot ganz over in afghanistan for own balloons or lower altitude you could fly by them at the helicopter and puncturing the smaller rounds like a machine gun. you can control the dissent then you can control better than damage of any of the electronics and the payload underneath as well for the biggest difference here, much larger expl...

"oh, my god, its going down, they shot it." im not sure how many other people have it on their radar. everyone in myrtle beach knows there was a chinese balloon overhead today. was a chinese balloon overhead toda . . ~ was a chinese balloon overhead toda . ., ,, i. was a chinese balloon overhead toda . ., ~ ,, , was a chinese balloon overhead toda. ., , . today. thank you very much indeed for “oinint today. thank you very much indeed forjoining us- _ im joined now byjohn parachini, a defence e...