let s go the white house on the breaking news. lucas tomlinson, i understand you have new reporting the share. lucas: that s right, senior official confirms that the u.s. government is weighing options on how to shoot down this chinese spy balloon when it crosses the atlantic, safely off the coast of the united states. now earlier in syracuse president biden was asked to do on the balloon and he said all options are on the table and this is what he said exactly. the chinese balloon we will take care of it. lucas: this morning former defense secretary chuck served under barack obama said this balloon should be brought down gently to exploit it. we don t know what the pentagon is going to do and what the president will ultimately decide and once it gets out over open waters i d be surprised if we would allow this balloon just to float back to china. lucas: both countries spawn each other, of course, just over a month ago the pentagon says fighter jet came to american sp
the u.s. military would love to recover the spy satellite, spy balloon and be able to recover and exploit the material. any information that it transmitted from the spy balloon that s already been transmitted in realtime certainly floating over key u.s. military bases including silos in montana and other states as well. i heard kellogg b2 in missouri. certainly you would not want to destroy the whole thing a mid air. you don t want to cause a giant debris field but certainly brought down gently by poking holes in it with 20-millimeter cannon you would have the thing land in the ocean and exploit it. griff: lucas, as we are continuing to look live at that balloon wondering what its fate will be, you mentioned general kellogg, he s with us in studio and i m going open this conversation to all four of us as we watch this moment and general, you heard lucas talk about the options, no shortage of fire power but you were speaking a little bit earlier about the need to recover the