last few days is they were able to collect intelligence about the way the balloon was transmitting information, for example, and other ways about how it maneuvered. ultimately we re told that the administration doesn t believe it was able to gather that much intelligence at all because the specifications were not all that sophisticated, no more sophisticated than the satellites the chinese have hovering in orbit as we speak. the issue with the satellites is they do not stay in one place for as long as a balloon can. a balloon can loiter for a much longer period of time as it did over montana, for example. the officials we spoke to said there are with steps taken to cover up certain areas, to make sure no unencrypted communications were happening in the vicinity of the balloon and minimize the ability of the balloon to collect intel. one detail we learned today is that the u.s. military actually doesn t have the capability on a day-to-day basis to collect intelligence on thing
over the skies over asheville, north carolina. now it s possible one of the latest known tracks of the balloon as it flows eastward heading towards the atlantic ocean. more video into our newsroom just a short time ago shows that over clover south carolina, that is a neighboring city of charlotte north carolina, and this is international drama playing out in realtime as u.s. officials ponder their next move. just moments ago, president biden responded to a question about it. listen closely. mister president [inaudible] balloons [inaudible] we re going to take care of it. joining me now is it mr. bce vest of gated reporter dan. dan, what is taking care of it mean? any words from the u.s. officials about these ladies reported sightings? based on what the pentagon has said before right, they said that they were not ready to shoot down when it was overland because they were worried that this really large balloon would break up into debris, and dangerous piece of of debris
last few days is they were able to collect intelligence about the way the balloon was transmitting information, for example, and other ways about how it maneuvered. ultimately we re told that the administration doesn t believe it was able to gather that much intelligence at all because the specifications were not all that sophisticated, no more sophisticated than the satellites the chinese have hovering in orbit as we speak. the issue with the satellites is they do not stay in one place for as long as a balloon can. a balloon can loiter for a much longer period of time as it did over montana, for example. the officials we spoke to said there are with steps taken to cover up certain areas, to make sure no unencrypted communications were happening in the vicinity of the balloon and minimize the ability of the balloon to collect intel. one detail we learned today is that the u.s. military actually doesn t have the capability on a day-to-day basis to collect intelligence on things inside t
shared over unclassified bases. our guest in our last, in the first few minutes of our show said this could be a way for china to push the envelope, essentially saying that a lot of the satellites that china already has up in the air can probably gather more information to this balloon can. do you agree with that assessment? i think the one difference is that, as you know, he high altitude balloon can loiter over a specific area for much longer periods of times then a satellite can for the most part. those satellites the travel, especially in low earth orbit, basically go over or go around the world about 90 minutes. and so there s going to be intermittent photography or images taken of any given spot. especially if it s maneuver, ball can basically hover over a