the u.s. military would love to recover the spy satellite, spy balloon and be able to recover and exploit the material. any information that it transmitted from the spy balloon that s already been transmitted in realtime certainly floating over key u.s. military bases including silos in montana and other states as well. i heard kellogg b2 in missouri. certainly you would not want to destroy the whole thing a mid air. you don t want to cause a giant debris field but certainly brought down gently by poking holes in it with 20-millimeter cannon you would have the thing land in the ocean and exploit it. griff: lucas, as we are continuing to look live at that balloon wondering what its fate will be, you mentioned general kellogg, he s with us in studio and i m going open this conversation to all four of us as we watch this moment and general, you heard lucas talk about the options, no shortage of fire power but you were speaking a little bit earlier about the need to recover the
and why didn t they do something when they had the ability to do it over the pacific. griff: matt, you raised such a great point as we look live exclusively, fox news showing you spy chinese spy balloon over surf side beach, south carolina as we await whether or not the administration will take it down from the skies and, tim, to matt s point about we don t really know when the pentagon and the administration knew it was coming into air space and shouldn t we have taken it down before it got to u.s. air space? we know that president biden got a briefing and i m not at the pentagon. we are not military experts. that s a decision that pentagon officials as they monitor the decision are making. griff: hold the thought, if they knew about it and they knew what it would do in terms of loitering at will across the entirety of the continental united states looking at our
you in because of your background with military assets, you were talking about if you have any questions for general kellogg. lucas: general kellogg, you certainly don t have no shortage of jets, shaw air force base, langley where f22 s are based, combat air patrols around the balloon and certainly have the ability to bring it down. would you say the best way to do is with 20-millimeter cannon, let it guide down gently and normally have u.s. military, navy warships in the operating area be able to go down and scoop it up. makes sense to me. if you are going to use aircraft use 20-millimeter cannon. it s not going to come down rapidly. it s going to take time to come down. we had experiences where the navy tried to shoot down a weather balloon and takes a lot of rounds inside the balloon to get it to drift and finally get to the ground. we don t know where it s going to end up at. if it goes to continental shelf,
clear skies over south carolina, you are looking live at the chinese spy balloon. we ve learned in the last hour the administration considering options to take it down earlier today president biden saying it would be, quote, taken care of and we know that there is an faa ground stop due to, quote, national security effort in the south carolina area. we will be back in just a moment as we track this spy balloon.