joining us tonight. let me start off with your reaction and the reaction on capitol hill this weekend to what is now the fourth unmanned object to be shot down over north america in the last week. one shot earlier today over the great lakes, a senior administration official telling nbc news that the strike was ordered by president biden at the recommendation of military leaders, that strike was carried out once it no longer pose a civilian threat. now, after the one that was shot down by the american f-22 fighter jet over the yucatan region in canada just yesterday, the downing of that object follows the aerial object shot down by the u.s. military over alaska on friday. that one following the downed balloon from china that crossed the u.s. before being shot down
have commercial airliners all through that spectrum of airspace and that becomes dangerous this is not a high altitude 60000-foot according to the information the government was giving us that is provocative they know the you will see it in the intelligence they get they are calculating whatever provocation value that they get a number two whatever short-term intelligence they get on signals intelligence about how the us reacts including radar signals including the signals coming off an aircraft of f-22 when they engage all of those signals are valuable intelligence. they are making the calculation they will get intercepted flying at
have commercial airliners all through that spectrum of airspace and that becomes dangerous this is not a high altitude 60000-foot according to the information the government was giving us that is provocative they know the you will see it in the intelligence they get they are calculating whatever provocation value that they get a number two whatever short-term intelligence they get on signals intelligence about how the us reacts including radar signals including the signals coming off an aircraft of f-22 when they engage all of those signals are valuable intelligence. they are making the calculation they will get intercepted flying at
have commercial airliners all through that spectrum of airspace and that becomes dangerous this is not a high altitude 60000-foot according to the information the government was giving us that is provocative they know the you will see it in the intelligence they get they are calculating whatever provocation value that they get a number two whatever short-term intelligence they get on signals intelligence about how the us reacts including radar signals including the signals coming off an aircraft of f-22 when they engage all of those signals are valuable intelligence. they are making the calculation they will get intercepted flying at
something that norad and canada and the united states are taking extremely seriously. that move coming a day after another f-22 fighter jet shot down an unidentified unmanned object off the coast of alaska. maryalice parks back with us from the white house tonight. maryalice, with several of these objects shot down in recent days, what are you learning about the efforts to recover debris? whit, it is remarkable the pace and frequency here, and no update on any of the wreckage recovered. off the coast of alaska, that recovery team really struggling with icy arctic conditions. it s been 48 hours since that object was shot down, and still, the white house cannot confirm what it was. now, as for that chinese spy balloon off the coast of south carolina, one u.s. official telling us that they think that large technology bay has been located. whit. maryalice, thank you. let s bring in retired colonel steve ganyard, former state department official. good evening. thanks so much for joi