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So this is completely unprecedented that the air force would be called upon to shoot down another country's air ship over our own territory and if the united states military, if you're general millie or van herk, the assessment they're going to have to make is that the debris field could be three fields wide, debris falling down potentially on hospitals and kindergartens, is that risk worth taking or can we jam the commune cases link, which the military said they were able to do. can we ensure this is not going to collect any sensitive intelligence? can we take counterintelligence measures on ...

According to u.s. defense officials the one that we first heard about over montana several days ago, that one has a surveillance capability that's somewhat comparable to a satellite. the difference is most of these chinese spy satellites that exist that are taking pictures of the u.s. pretty much every day, they're in a lower earth orbit. this is hovering around 60,000 feet. so presumably, it may be able to get a clearer picture than some of the satellites. what we don't know is how sophisticated the equipment onboard is. what we have learned late today is the u.s. is using some counterintelli...

Our own courtney -- has more. >> the u.s. military first detected the surveillance balloon in alaska this week, tracking it into canada and montana, spotted less than 200 miles from the u.s. into -- missile silos. on wednesday, president biden decided not to bring it down after senior military leaders fear that it could hit people on the ground. it's roughly the size of two school buses and flying at 60,000 feet. u.s. officials say that it doesn't currently threaten commercial aviation or civilians, they will eventually take it down. >> eventually, we will have to shut this thing down, and i k...

And they want to see what value they derive from it. and again, they're probably inexpensive relative to other aircraft. or other satellites. they may find that it's necessary for them. they want to feel them in the dozens or maybe in the hundreds. >> what should we be doing? sort of the pros and cons of shooting it down. is there a way to limit the intelligence it collects while it's up there? >> first of all, there's some basic things like you can put airplanes in hangers and cover sensitive facilities with doors or tarps. and i think those counterintelligence measures are being taken. secon...

Him with that, they can threaten him to expose that thing, since they know he wants to cover it up. the fbi handles counterintelligence measures. they want to find out if what flynn reported is true, given his public statements and his statements to other government officials that he didn't do it. that's why the fbi is interested. okay. when the fbi interviewed the defendant on january 24th about his interactions with the russian ambassador. he falsely stated he did not ask the russian ambassador to refrain from escalating the situation in response to the sanctions many and he claimed no memor...