into the united states, was there an open could it have been shot down earlier? i think so, abby, but there are certain things you have to consider when you look at this because for one thing, you ve got this timeline here. norad detected this on the 28th of january. and the president wasn t briefed until tuesday the 31st. by that time a lot of paths had been crossed right there let s go to alaska where the first sightings occurred and there s some reporting that the balloon actually overflew shimya island here in the aleutians. this particular island has a radar station associated with it, so that would have been the first installation that the balloon would have been able to take a look at from a surveillance perspective. then the path was around this, going up the aleutians and possibly like this. we have an air force base right here. that air force base does have f-22s stationed right there, so
there was a domestic cause for it, and maybe they thought that they were weather balloons or failed to pick it up, but it is going to raise an interesting question. it also says that when the biden administration saw this thing coming over the aleutians, why didn t they make a bigger deal of it both to the chinese and the public? so they undercommunicated this in the beginning of it, and so they were playing catchup after it was seen by the public. all great points, david. it is going to be interesting to see how president biden chooses to handle this. and to see how president xi does, too. very true. and how president xi handles it. yes, david sanger, thank you so much. so the judge is about to make a key decision in the murder trial of alex murdaugh, and we will be discussing what exactly it means coming up next.
effect the biden team has inflicted a serious of humiliations on chief arrival they point to semiconductor embargo in china, the philippines expanding access to u.s. military of the things they say section to a job. looks unfortunately humiliation this week was inflicted by the chinese communist on the president. again we should ve shot down this balloon over the aleutians as opposed to quote all across middle america on its merry way. the idea we are letting this go all across america s spy balloon completed spy mission before shot it down i m afraid is an embarrassment to the united states might not an embarrassment to the chinese communists were constantly pushing the envelope. constantly probing to see how far they can get away with these malign actions. and unfortunately they feel like they probably got away with it here. shannon: let s talk about classified documents for numeral briefed about documents found in for president trump, current
billings gazette identified the bullet and pulled the whistle on it. front and then ministration fess up to the american people. took another 12 hours for secretary of state cancel what was already an ill-advised trip. this a lot of answers to provide the american people. quickly ask you about that. you called immediately for the trip to mccann to perform present my pants had a different take shootdown the following to go ahead and send the secretary of state to china sounds better never happen again. that is pace through strength. why not let them go and have a confrontation face-to-face? if they d chosen to shoot down the billing when they should have over the aleutians as soon as it entered our airspace that might ve been worth considering. again president biden was hoping to not take any confrontational action for the chinese. continue the momentum from his meeting with changing paying
the u.s. military shooting down a chinese spy balloon off the coast of south carolina. this is brand-new video we are getting in a few moments ago. we should note recovery efforts are now underway to collect the balloon debris from the ocean. let s bring in marc hertling. general, good to see you. your sense of how this went down. well, it s interesting because there s been a lot of breathless flurry over the last couple of days. what i would suggest, i don t know how right i am on this, this all started probably last weekend with an intel comment in the president s daily briefing saying china had a balloon somewhere over the bering sea heading towards the aleutians. the pentagon and others tracked that over the next couple of days, tracked it through canada as part of the north american air defense command, and i ll remind everybody that norad is not just a u.s. organization,