collected. the fact the whole world saw america on its back feckless, watching a chinese balloon traverse our country, that hurts our geo political standing in ways that are well, they re as devastating as what happened to the 13 americans that were killed in afghanistan. our friends don t trust us, sean. our adversaries aren t going to fear fuss we allow things like this to happen. it s totally unexplainable. sean: director ratcliff, can you explain why in any way this was not accomplished and this balloon was not taken out of the sky when it was hovering above the alaska terrain? why wasn t this taken out immediately once they entered our air space? no one has given a good explanation for that. in fact, the excuses that they have given have all fallen apart. obviously, you know, we re all concerned about the safety of americans but we re talking about places like montana that has, you know, seven people per square mile. so those things, you know, really make no sense and, um, t