hovering over montana. there is a mystery out there. i m bill hemmer. i love your red. you got to pin on. dana: way to represent. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. the communist eye in the sky. the ball on does not pose a threat moving well above air traffic commercial air traffic. officials are advising the president not to shoot it down over concerns that falling debris from this balloon could hurt people on the ground. bill: the balloon entered u.s. airspace a couple of days ago and flew east into montana. not clear what it was doing there. the state is home to 1 of 3 u.s. air force bases with intercontinental ballistic missiles. dana: discovery days before blinken is set to visit beijing. china said it is looking into the balloon but general jack keane says he is not buying that. what we do know is they ve done this before. we know it s a spy balloon. it is going to depart at some time. we don t want this to happen again. shoot it down on the way home
january 13th we found on january 21st zoo staffers found a vulture dead in its enclosure. scroll monkeys stolen from the louisiana zoo. it goes on from there as people can see that even denver was told to be on alert after the dallas disappearances. are these things connected? i believe they are, dana. i think what s going on is somebody got away with it in the beginning. at least until today. and that s spurred the idea that you can walk into a zoo, typically a pretty low-security facility. cut through a fence or hop over a railing and grab these animals which is incredibly unfortunate. this isn t stealing a snickers bar but stealing a living life that doesn t deserve to be mistreated. dana: do you think it is being done to resell the animals or is it because somebody wants an animal for themselves or something even more nefarious?