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the biden administration to shoot down the balloon over the atlantic ocean. the federal aviation administration has issued a ground stop close airspace in north and south carolina until 2:45 p.m. eastern time. the balloon is currently floating over south carolina and moving southeast republican congressman anthony of the homeland security committee standing by with his reaction. but first lucas tomlinson is live at the white house with 30 tables unchecked details. >> good afternoon mik...

>> absolutely. communist china is pushing the envelope so to speak. they see our leader as weak. he is not taken a hard line on defending us here in america and standing up to the chinese government. and now we are seeing they are actually sending balloons into our airspace. going over the nine states of america. arthel: you free some really strong concerns they are. can you pinpoint specifically what you are talking about so our audience will understand how you believe we are vulnerable? >> any...

Theyre going to use the excuse we do not to harm anybody or hurt anybody. look, actually the horses left the barn. all the information is scooped up by china its a lot of information because that is a very slow loitering device. both are very, very good for that. but they get if you think about it is much much better than the satellite that is orbiting, a lot better. mike: how critical will be for the data collection equipment to the bottom of the equipment to be preserved so american officials ...

Inside the white house this decision wouldve been made in situation room by the national security council party full of counsel. not just the principles that wouldve made the recommendation to the president, pass the reclamation of the national security adviser to the president. member the president always has national security team travels with them full-time 24/7. so when he gets up to camp david the team is ready to go they vtc it in. think the decision is made by think is going to be a just ...

Not necessarily what you do the or when you do it, but how is that process, how is it evolving. and they would be picking that up. even though it would with encrypted, theres an ability to decrypt information. its not always encrypted information that is passed. so what they gather is this decision making process. and then at the national level what kind of reactions are we going to make and what reactions do we have. so i think its kind of a cumulative effort not only what they captured technol...

There at the white house. they have had this chinese spy balloon flight over the continental united states in recent days. quick status right we first saw the spy balloon over montana come to air force base we have a number of nuclear missiles. minuteman three missiles in the chinese are building their own missile silos back home. in fact the pentagon says a chinese nuclear forces are going to double and stockpiled double over the next decade, theres no question chinese wanted to look at how the...

There? where are they going to make the decision? this is a very critical president joe biden is a very risk adverse president. this is same individual as vice president did not want to take out osama bin laden. the situation he recommend to obama to not do it. here we have something hes been very slow to react to something like a spy satellite, spite balloon coming over the united states. there is a concern were going to offend the chinese. they are offending us. we need to protect the american...

Will make its way home. >> i do not have the pentagon is going to do with the president ultimately decides but once he gets out over open waters i would be surprised if we would allow this balloon to just float back to china. >> of quick history both countries of course spy on each other for just over a month ago chinese fighter jet came just 1y plane flying over the south china sea as you can see here. back in 2006 and was accused china of stealing underwater drone was later returned into many ...

Should respond. general keane has been very right on that this is a test by the chinese i think on us. they so we did not respond with great speed or with great force. theyre going to put that into their thought process. this is not a simple decision by some random general in china. this was something a senior level within the chinese hierarchy. within their government less just tested out and see was going to happen. people think this is an errant balloon and it was a random descending of a spy...

Terms of the reaction time and willingness to react on the part of the u.s. also they did, perhaps, collect realtime information of the military equipment that you outlined. so what part of that is concerning, or should we just not be concerned about that at all in. >> well, no, we should be. its not just maybe on the equipment, but when it was the loitering and the sensor package they had, they were gathering signals intelligence and communications intelligence, and thats very important. what w...