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 fact that the reports that general milley didn t want to take the cost and austin. jacqui: general, there s faa stop in charleston, does that tell you it s going to happen in the very near future? the signal is yes. that s clearly what is designed. for a ground stop to occur for security reasons, that doesn t mean the balloon is going to transit overhead. they are probably going to take a shot at it. my concern is these things don t fall out of the sky. when you talk a debris field as large as it is, we have done this before in shooting down weather balloons, it takes forever to deflate. it doesn t deflate like a hilium balloon. we know the balloon was higher than commercial air traffic,
then the depth of it is really quite large and takes a while to go get it. that s the reason we would have done it over the ground. it s not going to have a 100-mile debris field. just bring the darn thing down. again, i m being repeating myself, they should have done this a long time ago. it s already the information back in china. it s the wrong place for it to be and we slow. my concern is this administration repeatedly does it, they are slow in the uptick, i don t care if it s giving armaments to ukraine or shooting down a spy balloon, it always seems there s a daylight and dollar short. jacqui: general, you were saying something that interest me during the break that would indicate that this is certainly not just a weather balloon that blew off course but they have an ability to move it which would tell you that someone is driving the train here. this balloon has maneuver ability to it. it s subtle but you can do it. vent or motors or whatever it
country. by the way we ve been told that they can move this balloon in some way, shape or form when they found when we found out. why didn t they turn it out. they clearly want today fly this thing across the entire country which they have now done, we have no idea when we started jamming the communications back to china. like i said, earlier, there are so many questions that are going to need to be asked but to your point also, what are we going to do in response, is canceling the secretary of state going over there enough, i don t think so. what is the response of the administration? i have a question for tim, it s jacqui heinrich in the other side of the studio. my question is about what the biden administration is or is not saying in response to lies that we are hearing from china. we have song and dance that it s a weather balloon. the pentagon is saying it s not. we had china today trying to claim that there was no blinken trip scheduled and this was all just a fantasy. we ha
jacqui: we are tracking the latest headlines on the chinese surveillance balloon, you re getting a live look right now at that balloon spotted over surf side beach, south carolina as it makes its way across the united states. we have learned the biden administration is considering options to bring the suspected spy balloon down once it is over open ocean in an attempt to collect remains. we are also seeing happening right now in ground stop at several airports in that vicinity. the faa closing all ground stopping all flights at 3 airports in the region for security reasons. that is just breaking now, griff. griff: more on the chinese spy balloon and the biden administration s response, joining us in the studio retired general keith kellogg. you heard jackie just