you can see the piece on the bottom of it. that is the piece that gathers the intelligence for this what loan. we ve known about this being in the skies over our country illegally for several days at least. some say going back months. so far, we have not done anything to impede this balloon from collecting surveillance over the country even though it s of clear violation of u.s. airspace. no word from the president of the united states at 3:00 eastern time. we ve known about this since last night really. twice now he has avoided shouted questions. watch this. mr. president, when will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? [question inaudible] are you worried about the balloon? martha: apparently not worried about the balloon as he walks across the lawn there. we know that it launched this instrument from china. you can see on that quick animation. maybe we can play it again from mainland china. now it has hovered over montana, h
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
vulnerable. we need to find out. if we don t, it will happen again. martha: you are the storm. i love that title. that is it for this friday, february 3. thanks for being here. the story goes on. we love having you with us for the story. i ll see you tonight on the five in a short hour from now. in between, we have your world. stick around. violated u.s. airspace, violated international law. we ve communicated that back to the government of china. we do continue to monitor the balloon. we know it s a surveillance balloon. it s moving eastward across the united states currently over the central united states. any potential debris field would be significant and potentially cause civilian injuries or deaths. once it s over a body of water, will you shoot it down? we re monitoring the situation closely reviewing