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the white house from camp david today saying he wanted to shoot down the balloon at the first available opportunity and that, in his view, is exactly what the pentagon did. >> watch it come over into the united states from canada. i told them to shoot it down as soon as it was appropriate. they concluded we should not shoot it down over land, was not a serious threat and we should wait until it got across the water. >> thats, of course, what happened saturday afternoon. a usf-22 fighte...

>> sure, maybe you wait for it to go over alaska. you have an intelligence gain/loss factor. hey, can i gather intelligence on this as its airborne, pull signals off of it? see where it flies? and then shoot it down? should i wait for it to transit that and enter just the end of the aletiuan islands or see where its headed after itcrosses the aletians and shoot it down there. a difficult cold-water recovery. could i shoot it down the beginning of montana or anywhere along the states to make a la...

They had never heard of him. how important was this kill and obviously the capture of his wife? >> hes significant. hes one of the top leaders because hes -- think of him as the oil minister and finance minister combined so anybody like that is part of the top leadership in isis. this will be a setback for isis. it wont stop the military operations per se but the mission was largely what we refer to as a capture/kill mission. the purpose is intelligence. to get him and to get as much as we can i...