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That it posed wasn't great enough and the calculation to kill anyone on the ground. apart from the unknowns, this is because it flew so high in the sky, if it shot down, the landing area was much harder to calculate. instead, they waited until about just over an hour ago now. about an hour and ten minutes ago is where they took the decision to shoot it down. they have the order, they have the 0k, they were waiting for it to move off the coast of south carolina away from people, and when it was in territorial waters, they didn't waste much time at all. using a single missile, took the balloon d...

Arguably two most important countries in the world are going to meet, they can usually embarrass for the chinese. they don't send 100 feet tall, and not nearly as tall and they are clearly having a problem. >> mister jean, i think there are some people watching right now that would say okay, they shut the balloon down, got it. competition, not conflict. all right about why should every day americans who don't do foreign policy right, who aren't keyed in on this issue on a regular basis, why should they care about this particular -- the relations between china and united states? >> well i mean ...

Political decision than it should be allowed to enter simply because they felt it was harmless? arthel: i want to give you an opportunity to answer and centers question while you're at if you can tell me, if you believe this was accidental a wayward weather balloon and how should the u.s. respond? >> i do not believe this was accidental this is every bit of intentional. mike is at the beginning of the segment when we had the opportunity with administration knew about this over the waters of alaska and we should have taken the balloon down in a swift manner before it entered u.s. airspace comin...

0 effort to take this balloon down, that would pose a risk to these airplanes down below. so we're seeing this sort of take place to make it so that the area below is clear and safe for this to possibly happen. we will see exactly when that takes place. we know from the ground stop that was published by the faa, that is in place until 2:45 eastern standard time, so another 45 minutes. and this is also impacting, you know, flights that are going into other places. so this might mean that commercial flights on the ground are being told to stay on the ground so the trickle effect, the trickle-dow...

Not to get on the record answers, somewhat understandable, this is a spy balloon, a lot of information is classified and the u.s. government doesn't want to give away what it knows and how it knows it, they are walking this difficult line. it is i think the most interesting thing that i've learned in the last 24 hours, there was serious consideration about shooting the balloon down, it is not just a balloon, it is the size of two to three buses and has heavy equipment underneath and it may have been over montana, sparsely populated issue the consideration what happens if this lands on a school...