every bed wonders what is it a verdict come from? hello everyone welcome to fox news led by eric shawn. hi arthel. arthel: hi eric hello everyone i am arthur neville for this let us latest takedown lesson a week from another f-22 shot down a chinese spy craft off the south carolina coast last saturday you might remember. fox news live shows you that dramatic event exclusively as it happened. now, republican senator from mississippi is voicing new concerns. this one did not seem to have any way to decide the direction but it did not have a steering mechanism like a chinese balloon had. i don t know they were not testing us with the first balloon incident. we do not know where this one came from. possibly china possibly russia. you can almost guarantee it was launched by someone who does not wish us well.
exposed what could this mean? do you think they will stop or will they just continue with these chinese spy balloons? at this point there is no consequences to whatever foreign policy decisions they make. if they want to float these balloons over. recognize china airlines are back and forth across the north america continent every week. other commercial operations but there could be surveillance equipment put in the bottom of those aircraft. the specific nature of these balloons, very low-tech. they are probing us. even if is not something highly threatening it does make us question our sovereignty, our command and control, our political leadership. i does tend to be a sigh up of sorts the chinese are operating. i would offer to the american people we now see norad do what they are doing best they re intercepting these things for their shooting them down.
they should hand it to the secretary of state and he can use that as leverage in negotiations with his counterpart in china. completely unacceptable. arthel: but you do feel we are the u.s. we do have the upper hand in the long run, right? if not immediately. i would say so, yes. ultimately it is a top down organization. the commander-in-chief is ultimately in charge. so, the line of communication between the commander-in-chief and the leadership in the field needs to be delegated down so they have the authority to respond appropriately. and if they do not seem to have go ahead i m sorry. no, no i apologize to you but it is my understanding for the balloon that was shut down the president gave the order on a wednesday and they shot it down on saturday because the military wanting to wait again when it was over say space.
understood, that is a good idea. they knew it was approaching the u.s. they got the weather briefing the to the winds aloft. they knew it was going to transit sovereign airspace without permission. it was not pre-coordinated. so under normal procedures, norad would give the order to take that thing out before it became a threat to anybody on the ground in the u.s. so, we can adjust our intelligence profile to cover some of the things they were looking at, but ultimately this is a blatant violation of sovereign airspace it needs to be addressed firmly, decisively, appropriately and a pulse of the secretary of state to talk to his counterpart in the chinese communist party and demand this does not happen again. arthel: will be watching for them for sure but really quickly top gun at maverick did you watch it? eventually i got to it. i am og fighter pilot top 10
is vital that is where the onboard electronics are. the balloons entire payload is said to be the size of a regional jetliner weighing a couple thousand pounds. the spy balloon was 200 feet tall, taller than the statue of liberty and is still mostly 50 feet under water prints technology and underwater unmanned vehicles brought into map, tag and eventually assist naval divers and pulling up the debris. according to u.s. officials divers have recovered potentially high valued equipment in recent days. the fbi says the investigation is in its early stages only a small amount of electronics, the balloon canopy and wiring have been sent to the fbi lab in quantico, virginia for analyzing for fbi agents onboard the uss carter hall are cataloguing and decontaminating the debris they do find because of course it has assault and seawater. we are told this entire operation could take up to two weeks. we will see if the weather complies, eric.