president biden downplayed that balloon s significance in an interview this week saying the flight was, quote, not a major breach. let s bring in retired four-star general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox news senior strategic analyst. general, good to see you. thanks for coming in. so do you think the administration did the right thing here shooting down this latest object so quickly after it had waited a long time to shoot down the balloon? no, yeah, absolutely. it s the right call. i mean, it s interesting what we don t know, as you indicated, we need a lot of answers. what s very revealing though and concerning is that this we did not pick this up before it entered u.s. air space which is very similar to the historical record we were able to put together after the spy balloon transversed the entire swath of united states. we went back and looked at what s the history of chinese fleet balloons, and we found several of them that had, in
transversed the entire swath of united states. we went back and looked at what s the history of chinese fleet balloons, and we found several of them that had, indeed, had penetrated u.s. air space, i think one during the biden administration, three during the trump administration. put this together, we have a serious issue here in terms of surveillance, radar systems, satellites picking up devices that are penetrating our air space. that is an area of major concern. with this recent activity, we obviously don t know what the object is concern. paul: right. it looks like the f-35 pilot who got close to it thought it looked more like a cylinder, therefore, it s likely not a drone that can fly at that altitude, at least we have them that can fly actually higher than that also tuesday. and the f-22 pilot that shot it down thought it sort of shattered when he hit it. so we re not going to get all the facts in terms of who owns it, what is the mission and