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>> i think we wanted to be cautious about what it was. i think once you made the determination that it did not pose an imminent threat to aircraft flying in the united states, 66,000 feet, then you could take a very deliberate approach. having said that, i think we would all prefer to have shot it down before it entered or as it entered u.s. air space and i would guess that is probably what would happen again. it is important to distinguish between the reaction to the first balloon and the other...

♪ >> welcome back to the big sunday show. new york city mayor eric adams appears to be threatening to bring back the city strict covid mandates because he didnt like people doing whatever they want. listen to this. >> those who make the determination that, you know, no, i still want to come into a work environment, not going to be vaccinated, or no, i want to do whatever i want, that just wasnt right. that wasnt right. there may be another time were going to have to do mandates again because t...

Retirement age up a couple of years or three or five? especially when folks like me in our 50s, we still got a good 40, 50 year scientists, maybe. >> thats right. alleging the payroll tax doesnt fix the entire program. i think we need to put everything on the table. i think we need to look at raising the retirement age from social security began. determination of 65. life expectancy was 62. the sixth of change. gradually, facing an older determinate for people who cant work. not people who are d...

Administration does not want to have a scenario this week or going to next week in which theres a balloon finding in the united states and say, no, its ok, we wanted to do, that thocht have to be in that position, so when they get up and make the determination that probably isnt going to be information we can glean from it, the ok to go ahead and shoot down, make sense that the biden administration from a political standpoint willer on the side of not having the thing spend any more time over th...

Opposed to the fact we found out there were others where that one had come from. this puts the administration in a tight spot. >> yeah. thats certainly the case. obviously the biden administration does not want to have a scenario this week or going into next week in which theres a balloon flying over the united states and they have to tell everyone, no, its okay. we wanted to do that. they dont want to be in that position again. when they get up there and see this thing and make the determinatio...

Hopefully, to the find the pieces. >> reporter: u.s. officials cothe not believe that this object was carrying a significant payload, and the pentagon does not believe that it was manned. >> i will give credit to our pilots that they are very capable in terms of looking at an object, assessing whether or not this had the potential to be manned. at that altitude something that small, very, very unlikely that it was manned. given the fact that it was operating at at an altitude that posed a reason...

Was unmanned so they can make that determination. so why would they be so mysterious? is it that they just do not want to reveal what they know yet? or they dont know what they dont know yet? >> i think it is the latter. they dont know what they dont know. the worst thing they can do is come out, and declare something and then find out oh no, it really isnt that. general kellogg was just on our air a little while ago. he said first reports are almost always wrong. the other part of that is, noth...

Aggression and increased determination from the special counsels office to bring these trump officials in. you got obrien, and now you got tents. i think its a reflection that this investigation is going faster than people anticipated. >> do you agree with that? >> i do agree with that. the investigation, were clearly seeing signs that its moving quickly. youll remember that the first year at the biden presidency, we had a brand new attorney general in office. there were no signs of an ongoing i...

Stuff back to review it and make a more thoughtful determination as to what exactly that is. >> i just have to ask you about this object that was shot down off of alaska. did any of this kind of business, spy balloon business, spy craft business ever come across your desk over at the fbi? is this something the fbi would be involved in in terms of monitoring, trying to get to the bottom of? >> you know, jim, the fbi is very deeply involved. as the lead for counter intelligence in the united state...

>> again, right now -- well know more once we assess it and just leave it at that. thank you. liz. >> thanks for taking my question. what made this threatening enough to shoot down? what is different about this object than the last object that was over alaska, because it was chosen not to shoot the last one down over alaska. >> yeah, so the important thing to understand here is any time we detect anything, were going to, first of all, observe it and then make a decision and take appropriate acti...