any safety risks because there was an urgency here. this balloon is not armed, it does not pose some physical threat to the united states, even from an intelligence perspective. the chinese have much more effective ways of picking up intelligence from the satellites and otherwise. the fact that the president said what he said about taking care of it. now we have the physical fact that the balloon is heading towards the atlantic. these airports in north and south carolina are being closed for the moment. it does seem to set the stage and present an opportunity to have this shot down. it is really not a reversal. i think they ve been preparing for this and contingency planning. once it is not overland, it changes the calculus. general, weigh in for me if you will, you heard the presidents words there, we are going to take care of this. from your estimation, what is taking care of this look like and what are the risks and calculations going into that decision? i think what
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balloon that is visible to the human eye? it is probably because they have hundreds of satellites that spy on us every day and look at geo intelligence. so something tells me that they wanted to get more fidelity. as you know, out in montana we have our nation s most sensitive sites out there with our new color triad. the monster airbase out there, be two bombers, we also have a new color silos. hovering over those locations for quite some time, that tells me that they want to get more fidelity in there as well as they may want to tap into what we call signal intelligence, cell phones out there, so phone towers, we need more information. that is what i think probably happened. do you think it was a mistake that the chinese