options. neil: up, up and not going away. a suspected chinese spy balloon flying high above the continental u.s. and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. u.s. officials did consider shooting it down. no more. antony blinken cancelling his trip to china. china confirming, yeah, it s ours but blames high winds. some people don t believe that. we are all over it regardless with jennifer griffin at the pentagon on how the military is reresponding to this. griff jenkins with growing calls for investigations into this. senate armed services committee mike rounds on how long the administration may have known about this. general jack keane on the new tension with china because of this. i m neil cavuto. who saw this one coming? new signs that we might have seen it for quite a while. so why are we just finding out about it now and growing concerns about what we re going to do about it now to jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer? neil, secretary state antony blinken is
balloon so it s incapable of collecting information. it s now just sitting there flying there and we know most recently it keeps moving because kansans are now calling me saying that they ve seen it in our state. neil: yeah, they say that is indeed it s not collecting information anymore. i don t know how they would know that. you said something interesting in the beginning. but the point about as recently as wednesday, an intelligence briefing, this issue never came up? it did not. again, we know this balloon has been over the united states and our sovereign territory for more several days. it s an intelligence committee issue. it s also a defense department issue. they are there to protect our country. and clearly we need more information. but don t again, i work hard at trying to get the amount of money to the defense department to defend our nation. those dollars are hugely
i think that s a good sign, as some of your guest there s the first image we see. this tape will be played back and we ll watch it as soon as the audio comes up. that is the moment. donald trump in the oval office with president obama, with the pool there. you can see the microphones and the pool around them. that is the group of selected rotating every day camera crews and wire service, print journalist, the television journalists, the others from the media, the close advisers, but that is just a still photo or a still image from the video that is about to be played out, replayed live. they don t run the cables normally into the oval office. they carry that back out and feed it back out through the briefing room. but, good lord, that is an image a lot of people did not expect to see. bill kristol? i didn t expect to see it either. on the defense department issue and generals, i find among trump s comments i disliked the
and child pornography, taking that down, is a crime, and also it s there s an added factor here, considering the fact that there s a lot of security information, national security information that the world shouldn t know, that a lot of times foreign operatives will use this sort of criminal activity to blackmail, to get information. so there s a lot of things involved because it s a defense department issue as opposed to any other department of government. if your numbers are correct, 1700 people out there who allegedly purchased child porn, we don t know if they were ever cross checked or investigated, right? that s true, and there s been some other names in the hundreds where there s the names have actually been given out that we don t know what s going to be done about them. there s some reason to believe that the it s a criminal act. it s been so far since this happened, that they could be
general pornography here, we re talking about child pornography and child pornography, taking that down, is a crime, and also it s there s an added factor here, considering the fact that there s a lot of security information, national security information that the world shouldn t know, that a lot of times foreign operatives will use this sort of criminal act e activity to blackmail, to get information. so there s a lot of things involved because it s a defense department issue as opposed to any other department of government. if your numbers are correct, 1700 people out there who allegedly purchased child porn, we don t know if they were ever cross checked or investigated, right? that s true, and there s been some other names in the hundreds where there s the names have actually been given out that we don t know what s going to be done about them. there s some reason to believe that the it s a criminal act.