That they knew the election was not stolen, despite the paranoid conspiracies exploring the very opposite idea the conspiracies that were all over the fox airwaves. you should really read the whole thing. well, we can tweet a link to it. but the one you really need to see is this. on january 5th, 2021, rupert murdoch, the owner of the media empire that fox news is part of, he emailed fox news ceo suzanne scott. it has been suggested our primetime three sean hannity, tucker carlson, and laura ingraham should independently or together say something like the election is over and joe biden won. we re not continued that such a statement will go a long way to stop the myth that the election was stolen. fox s ceo then for that email to the executive president of prime time programming at fox, saying, i told rupert that, privately, they are all there. we need to be careful about using the shows and hissing of the viewers. but they know how to navigate, which is all wow. if you widen the aperture a bit,
Spy balloon that had been shot down prior, and likely not some new phenomenon but something that had been happening over time and we just picked up by u.s. radars that have been expanding in their aperture since that chinese balloon and also that there are significant number of steps that u.s. officials are now taking to try and address these objects going forward, including this, as the president said. make no mistake, if any objects presents a threat to the safety and security of the american people, i will take it down. i will be sharing with congress these classified policy parameters when they are completed and they will remain classified so we don t give our roadmap to our enemies to try to evade our defenses. the classified parameters in terms of when u.s. fighters would be called to shoot down objects they are also a series of steps that national security adviser jake sullivan is leading a team on to better understand how to grapple with these issues going forward. public, private, stateowned this is clearly something that officials are in the midst of trying to get their heads around at this moment. they are also trying to have a
There s no question you should understand it. the same point we ve got to control our airspace. and what we ve done is send a signal that this was permissive, and this shoul not be permissive. it s hard to criticizes them from being trigger happy when you want them to defend the airspace. there s been taking down things in response to criticism rather than just really looking at what is a national security issue. remember, we weren t shooting things down before. clearly this is a change. a change because we also widen the aperture on our radar, but it change because of the political heat they were taking? right. and rightly so. everyone who looks at this has an assessment of what china benefited, what did they get from this, realize that s the risk is incredibly high. what they looked at were our most sophisticated military sites. that means the risk is damaging to us. how dangerous is it that for a period at least there s been
reporter: biden made very clear yesterday that the u.s. intelligence community believes most likely these three unmanned aerial objects shot down between friday and sunday are benign in nature and also making clear there is no evidence to suggest that there is any kind of rise in these kinds of unmanned objects above u.s. skies, instead pointing to the fact that the u.s. widened its aperture on its radar systems which led to spotting some of these unmanned objects and ultimately the president on the advice of the military deciding to shoot them down. what s really interesting ask the decision for the president to actually speak out on this publicly and deliver those remarks. for days white house officials deliberated the possibility and the wisdom of the president delivering these remarks, there were concerns early on about making this a bigger issue than it was by having the speak on this, and they also wanted to make sure that there was enough information. i m told that by yesterday president biden believed that it was the appropriate time to deliver these remarks.
no. it s how you use your radars. they recently made some adjustments on radars and opened up the aperture and they are analyzing the video data abba differently. we are typically focused on things that are moving very fast. and so it is a bit more difficult to collect on slow-moving objects, like a balloon. china today, insisting again that its balloon flew over the u.s. accidentally and that in response to the u.s. sanctions it will, quote, take countermeasures against relevant u.s. entities. austin acknowledge recent tensions with china have halted communications with his military counterpart. when something happens, they somehow tend to shut down the military channels of communication. i think that is dangerous. but it won t stop me from continuing to encourage them to open up the lines of communication. i think that s the right thing to do. for more, let s welcome former republican michigan congressman mike rogers. during his time on the hill, he chair the house intelligence committee. i m glad you are here.
May not have appeared in our airspace. we re learning a lot more about that. reporter: the fact that the u.s. military didn t know about these until recently, is that an intelligence failure was it a military failure? no, it s how you use your radar they recently made some adjustments on their radars and opened up the aperture, and they were analyzing the data a bit differently. we typically are focused on things that are moving fast, and so it s a bit more difficult to collect on slow-moving objects like a balloon. reporter: china today again insisting that its balloon flew over the u.s. accidentally and that in response to new u.s. sanctions, it will, quote, take countermeasures against relevant u.s. entities austin acknowledged recent tensions with china have halted communications with his military counterpart. when something happens, they somehow tend to shut down their military channels of communication. i think it s dangerous, but it won t stop me from continuing to encourage them to open up the lines of
Of aliens or terrestrial activity with these recent takedowns. i can t believe the first time she said it. i still can t believe it the second time. the white house confirmed on monday that the mysterious objects shot down over north america in the past we were not sent from outer space. but that does still leave loads of americans with a whole lot of questions about what is going on up there. luckily, our own courtney kube sat down with the secretary of defense today for an nbc news exclusive. and you flat out asked him directly, what is going on? is this something that the american people have been potentially in danger from four years and just not noted? we don t know how frequently these things may or may not have appeared in our airspace. we are learning a lot more about that. the fact that the u.s. military did not know about these until recently, is that an intelligence failure? why is it a military failure? no. it s how you use your radars. they recently made some adjustments on radars and opened up the aperture and they are analyzing the data differently. we are typically focused on things that are moving very fast. and so it is a bit more difficult to collect on slow-moving objects, like a balloon. china today, insisting again that its balloon flew over the u.s. accidentally and that in response to the u.s. sanctions
Can t shoot down everything all the time. and i guess i m sort of stating the obvious but sometimes it needs to be stated. two weeks ago there were things throating over the u.s. and we weren t shooting them down. either we didn t see them or didn t shoot them. what are you going to do? shoot everything? it feels unprepared. yeah, quiet on the northern front today. nothing shot down thaad. that s what they re doing increasing the aperture and concern is false positives, we would be scrambling f-22s and f-16s all the time for potentially bird formations. these are radar equipment with imperfections. it tells us we have to reinvest in the infrastructure and get better, both near term and long term with regard to this kind of situation. and, look, congressman, here s the issue, there is a reality here which is that it wouldn t have happened if the balloon, the chinese balloon would not have become public and everyone knew about it and forced us increasingly that this
Unprecedented been researched. it has been unprecedented the been researched. it has been unprecedented the number l been researched. it has been| unprecedented the number of unidentified flying objects that have been through american skies recently, but is this a possibility of a case of finding more stuff because people are looking for or have always been there, detected? most likely that is the case. we started looking once you what to look for and that is like unchecking some folders on an internet search suddenly you start getting things that may have been there in these hard times but that you just did not see. with some of these objects that were flying at an altitude that were flying at an altitude that was pulling pretty normal to see more stability in aircraft and they were flying slowly which is not usually what some of our surveillance cupolas look for. with a you what to look for the aperture and have seen a lot more. the big question now is what the decisions should be ones who see these objects. see these ob ects. china now sin as see these ob ects. china now sing as wett see these objects. china now sing as well that see these objects. china now sing as well that there - see these objects. china now sing as well that there have l sing as well that there have been cases of us balloons and its space illegally but the
Americans couldn t imagine a week ago, white house officials though they have been keenly aware of the idea of unid unidentified objects there have been briefings on tem in the classified session for the president specifically even a report that they would be having to grapple with it in this moment and i think that s why you saw today john kirby also announced there would be the implementation of a task force of sort, interagency team led by jake sullivan that would draw on the entirety of the government to try to figure out not just why this is happening now but what the blooder policy response should be. that former senior u.s. official says we can t shoot down everything all the time went on to say we knead a policy response here and we clearly don t have one yet because we simply haven t seen this before. now, what that policy response will be, officials say they want to move quickly on that as they ve noted publicly, they ve widened the aperture in terms of the radar and may be picking up these objects, three objects because of that which means more may be coming in the future and need a broader policy response