it was a good week. and thanks to you at home for joining us. as you are probably aware there is a balloon in the sky. it is a big balloon, about the size of two school buses according to the pentagon. it traveled from china, to the solution islands of alaska late last week, through the northwest canada, until finally being spotted somewhere over montana on wednesday. chinese officials said that the balloon was a civilian air ship used mainly for weather research and that it had just been instantly innocently been blown off course. the pentagon says that they are confident that it is a surveillance balloon. you know? for spying. flying at about 60,000 feet above ground and moving eastward across the continental u.s.. the pentagon has yet to confirm the balloons latest citing but the national weather service in kansas city and kansas city, missouri, said earlier that they have several reports of a large balloon on the horizon, and that the balloon is not one of their weather b
it is a big balloon, about the size of two school buses according to the pentagon. it traveled from china, to the solution islands of alaska late last week, through the northwest canada, until finally being spotted somewhere over montana on wednesday. chinese officials said that the balloon was a civilian air ship used mainly for weather research and that it had just been instantly innocently been blown off course. the pentagon says that they are confident that it is a surveillance balloon. you know? for spying. flying at about 60,000 feet above ground and moving eastward across the continental u.s.. the pentagon has yet to confirm the balloons latest citing but the national weather service in kansas city and kansas city, missouri, said earlier that they have several reports of a large balloon on the horizon, and that the balloon is not one of their weather balloons. in neighboring kansas senator roger marshall said the balloon was above his state. the pentagon has yet to con
also chairman of the defense appropriation subcommittee. thank you for joining me tonight, senator. i ll get right to it. when did you first learn of this balloon and how did you learn of it? it was i learned yesterday. that s when i learned about it. and quite honestly, it was very disturbed by what i had heard. we had a surveillance balloon flying over montana, a place where people appreciate freedom and privacy, a place where you have 150 icbms jon tester. and a balloon that was put in space by china. this is a very bad situation, quite frankly. china has been trying to replace us as the world s economic leader and military leader for sometime now. and they have done some very provocative things around taiwan in the indo-pacific. they do things on the internet
rural america, there aren t people everywhere there s a land my next guest might disagree with that. joining me now is democratic senator jon tester of montana, also chairman of the defense appropriation subcommittee. thank you for joining me tonight, senator. i ll get right to it. when did you first learn of this balloon and how did you learn of it it was i learned yesterday. that s when i learned about it. and quite honestly, it was very disturbed by what i had heard. we had a surveillance balloon flying over montana, a place where people appreciate freedom and privacy, a place where you have 150 icbms jon tester. and a balloon that was put in space by china. this is a very bad situation,