loitering in montana w, whichme is home to our nuclear silos and intercontinental ballistic missiles. beijing claims that it is a i civilian aircraft used foraircra meteorological research thatft got knocked off course by bad weather. but the pentagon says that sat a bunch of b.s. we know this is a chinese balloon and thatbao it has the ability to maneuvern . the balloon ha s changethd itss course, which is , again, whchy sp re monitoring. ea the balloon continues to move eastward and it s currently overnues the center of the continental united states. again, we currently assess that the balloon does not present a a military or physical threatr s to people on the grounicd this time. and we ll continue to reviewti excuse me, continue to monitor id review options. we assess that it ll probably be over the united states forteo a few few daysr . so why the hasn t joe biden shot this thing down yet? thi defense officials have advised t the president not to take it out, fearingd
america, somewhere in latin america. does that surprise you?t surp it sobviously we not surprising. obviously, wine know they have multiple instances of these balloon activity. in fact.s, there was other ue case s over us territory as well. tnite so this is notd evestatn the ft time this happens over the united states . amazing. shelly. thank you so much for coming. on saying that perspective. appreciate. thank you. we saidhiso, as we said, this o spy balloon came to the attention of most americans yesterday when it was spotted flying over the state of montanana.a military base, a bae with intercontinental ballistic missiles. non w, the pentagon did not inform the governor of montana about until after the balloond a was over montana. so, of course, they would have known because they ve been tracking it since it was china, but they didn t tell greg gianforte, who is the governor of that state and reputed to bep we can t say we don t livehere there. one of the best governors in
loitering in montana w, whichme is home to our nuclear silos and intercontinental ballistic missiles. beijing claims that it is a i civilian aircraft used foraircra meteorological research thatft got knocked off course by bad weather. but the pentagon says that sat a bunch of b.s. we know this is a chinese balloon and thatbao it has the ability to maneuvern . the balloon ha s changethd itss course, which is , again, whchy sp re monitoring. ea the balloon continues to move eastward and it s currently overnues the center of the continental united states. again, we currently assess that the balloon does not present a a military or physical threatr s to people on the grounicd this time. and we ll continue to reviewti excuse me, continue to monitor id review options. we assess that it ll probably be over the united states forteo a few few daysr . so why the hasn t joe biden shot this thing down yet? thi defense officials have advised t the president not to take it out, fearingdefense cau
if you were to fly your cessna into restricted airspace and parts of this country, a the u.s. military would scramble jets and they might shoot you downn unless. e ch so it s not a small infraction y opless, of course, you happeounr to be the chinesere governmentwt and you re operating an enormous white dirigiblee designed to spballoosignedy on n nuclear installations. in that case, you could relax. you ve got friends at the white house. absolutely nothing is going to happen to you . that. e now, that s not an imaginarye scenario. we re not guessing. we know it sing it true becausee seeing it right now. as you ve doubtless heard, anen enormousormo spy balloon the sie of several school buses has floated over from central china . it s currently, we think, drifting across the continental united states. yesterday, passed over malmstrom air force base inn montana. that s one of only three place s in this country that houses minuteman, three intercontinental ballistic missiles3. by this af