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
it and actually find out what the technologies were that were involved. if it was designed to actually collect data or if it was designed to test our response capabilities. neil: we ll watch it closely. a lot of unanswered questions, a lot of things that don t click. by the way, the chinese foreign ministry issued a statement earlier today when the first questions came up, what the heck is this thing. they said no, no, this is an air ship. it s from china. it s a civilian air ship used for meteorological purposes. going on to say the chinese side regrets the unintended entry in to the airspace. the chinese side will continue communicating with the u.s. side and will handle the unexpected communication. in other words, events out of your control. not everyone is buying that. a quick foot note on what we re talking about here. this is not just like a weather