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One, it's a threat because it's gathering intelligence. but nobody disagrees it didn't see anything they can see from the satellite. it can last longer and look closer. and the key is, what is the advantage of letting it go? if you're thinking of it as anan intelligence officer, it's their collection platform. can we get its telemetry. >> can we still do that? >> we can pick up the pieces. it's going to otd, operation technology division. they will put the preisses together and see what they recognize because this is the time stuff they build there. the key is, will they be able to find someth...

They had to wait for it to be over water because the debris scatters over something like six miles, you can tell me, john. but when they be -- if it fell over someone's head? >> we've picked them up in alaska, there are many -- there aren't too many people and a lot of trees and maybe a few animals and birds, and that's it. i'm just saying, i don't know. and that here to second guess anybody. i'm just telling you the average person looks like this and says, we let this thing fly all the way over the united says before we took action against? it it seems a little weird to the average person. >>...

They have obviously had to acknowledge its existence because of people frankly being able to see it from the ground. they say it is of no danger to aircraft or indeed to people on the ground and they also say, and perhaps they would say this, that it is of limited value, in terms of gathering intelligence. there are more efficient ways like satellites. nevertheless, they have protested to the chinese here in washington and have done the same in beijing. the chinese have not acknowledged it is their balloon at this stage. they say they are still investigating it. but it does come at an extraord...

Implications tied to the suspected chinese spy balloon hovering in u.s. air space. nbc's courtney kube first broke this story. kristen welker is at the white house. ali vitali is on capitol hill and with me is victor cha at the national security council, the senior vice president for asia at the center for strategic and international studies. courtney, china says the suspected spy balloon over the u.s. is a civilian airship used for weather research. just as canada says it is monitoring a potential second incident. we're likely to hear more from the pentagon at noon, but walk us through what w...

Concern, but there are ways i am absolutely sure of being able to, in one way or another, not just track the balloon, but be able to maintain some element of control over where it goes. >> i assume if you were the secretary of defense or the cia director or the white house chief of staff at this moment, your advice to the president of the united states was whatever our capabilities under no circumstances let this get outside of the united states air space now that it's in it without capturing it or taking it down, right? >> no. i think that's correct. you cannot allow a balloon -- i mean there...