we told them to shoot it down on wednesday. they said to me let s wait for the safest place to do it. way to the safest place to do, it that s exactly what they did. six nautical miles off the carolina coast, the atlantic ocean is where they shot it down just about 60 minutes or so ago at this point as we are hearing from the pentagon. want to go to gary braun walk, nbc correspondent standing by for us. , gary we heard from the president he was arriving and maryland, he gave the orders on wednesday. they waited until saturday, when it was over the ocean to issue the spy balloon down. they had successfully dug so and are now seeking to gather the debris for intelligence collection. what more are we learning from the white house here in this hour? so this is interesting to, me biden has been quiet all week about the story. showering questions for a number of days now and ignored them. until this afternoon when he said they are going to take care of it as he was getting
That from the water. the navy will be involved in this, it will be a multi agency and an organization effort here and they will seek to recover this and see what they have here. gary for us, thank you gary. want to bring in quickly if i can marc polymeropoulos lisbon with us throughout the hour. mark if i, can i want to get final thoughts from you on this. what you are most concerned about looking ahead and i also want to get you to weigh in if you can about the benefits of being more transparent about intelligence gathering with the u.s. public. if you believe there are any? i think that previous vector is set something that was really important. talked about the use of authorize intelligence to what the biden administration has done for russia and ukraine. now is the perfect time to do that, and i think in this case. what we get from that debris field. evidence that this was chinese