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Just said, this is sensitive intelligence work at its highest, and it goes on quietly, and we dont publicly discuss intelligent information that we have uncovered or what we have uncovered on us or in the united states, and so it is a strange situation, and yet, it is important to manage this public side of it, and this is unfortunately a public series of ev events, and so maybe not the president or somebody like the president of the dod to come out to say publicly what we are comfortable to say...

Significant threats to our air space puts us in a position of if you try and defend against everything, you defend against nothing. so i mean, the military and intel community are rapidly trying to assess this situation and provide the best advice, but unfortunately, we have too many people giving advice that dont know what these radars provide at norad, and what kind of decision making processes go on in both the department of defense and the white house to address these kind of threats. >> yea...

The Coast Guard is working to locate the object shot down over the weekend. It may have drifted into Canadian waters.

Coming up with a set of rules that makes sense about what you shoot down. >> yeah, general, can i just get your take on this? this obviously was a 180 in posture. we now have this aggressive take on this from the administration. but to davids point, is there -- should we be somewhere in the middle? what have you observed and thought through in the past few days? >> heres the thing, kasie, and thanks for having me. first of all, im going to say with about 95% certainty, i dont think this is the a...

Do you think its as benign as that? >> absolutely, i think what the administration was caught off guard last week or so with the chinese spy balloon, there was a political backlash to what happened. dod went back, recalibrated what its looking for. adjusted its filters. the security was probably briefed. you, so you have a lot more folks at norad looking closely that were identified maybe in the past that were either ignored or overlooked or disre disregarded. its really going to drive a vev rev...

Purely and simply on what was in the best interest of the american people. >> thanks, john. john, does the u.s. government have video or imagery of these latest intercepts and will you be releasing it? >> you have to talk to dod about that. i dont know what kind of imagery might exist, and they would be the one to talk about whether theyre releasable or not. obviously, certainly with respect to the spy balloon, we want to make sure that we are gleaning what we can from this imagery so that we ca...

Administration at this point about what is happening, and i expect that we will receive a classified briefing in due court as well. do you this they -- what i am hearing from you is that the administration is taking the appropriate time to find out what they have before they speak on this, but do you want to hear from the president on three shootdowns over the weekend and he should come out the say something? >> i think that he will, but the bottom line is that before they have the information a...

We dont know what carried out the operation. but we have the heightened sense of vigilant labs over the air space. and prompted of course by the c chinese balloon over the coast of south carolina. and they are deepening a clove e close eye on the object. and we heard from another congressman saying that he has been in contact with d.o.d. regarding the operations and the naral has decommissioned another object .

Integrated missile defense system. were going to have to begin to look at the united states air space as one that we need to defend. this shows some of the problems and gaps that we have. alicia: yeah, tommy, i think that folks in middle america are figuring that out quickly. >> the term used was unprepared and i think that sums it up perfectly, whether youre a democrat, a republican, a biden fan or not. it doesnt matter. anyone can look at this, whether these are spy apparatus or just a weather...

What is your reaction to this? >> well, this is really interesting. arlettes reporting has really piqued my interest, because what youre seeing here is something that we -- i dont think weve seen before. an octagonal object. so i dont know if thats a payload or if thats actually the balloon or the propulsion system or, you know, something else like that. so we dont have very many details, but these are the kinds of questions that we definitely have to be asking. and then the other thing that i t...