Security concerns for days. Most of the wreckage is believes to be sitting in 47 feet of water at this hour. Lets go now to oren at the pentagon. Do we think we might have get an update this evening as to whether or not they have been able to secure that wreckage and retrieve it . Theyll put a perimeter around it with navy and coast guard assets that were in the area. Whether they can retrieve it tonight or tomorrow, thats a different question. 47 feet of water according to a Senior Defense official, so not that deep, but still its a question of whats left, whats down there and what shape is it in and how do you bring it up without damaging it further. Salvage vessel is on the way. It might not be there in time to do it tonight, but it will get there as quickly as possible to begin. Why is that so important . Because the pentagon has said repeatedly this was a chinese Surveillance Balloon that had the ability to maneuver, loiter. And because of that, theres information they want to gle
security concerns for days. most of the wreckage is believes to be sitting in 47 feet of water at this hour. let s go now to oren at the pentagon. do we think we might have get an update this evening as to whether or not they have been able to secure that wreckage and retrieve it? they ll put a perimeter around it with navy and coast guard assets that were in the area. whether they can retrieve it tonight or tomorrow, that s a different question. 47 feet of water according to a senior defense official, so not that deep, but still it s a question of what s left, what s down there and what shape is it in and how do you bring it up without damaging it further. salvage vessel is on the way. it might not be there in time to do it tonight, but it will get there as quickly as possible to begin. why is that so important? because the pentagon has said repeatedly this was a chinese surveillance balloon that had the ability to maneuver, loiter. and because of that, there s information
what will that reveal. and that underlines what us navy dives off the coast of south carolina retrieve, they recovered this piece of equipment because i assume and we ve been told once they do, it s going to be brought up to quantico there in virginia. that is going to be a very interesting operation once they pull that thing on board whatever ship they have out there and start examining this at quantico. sure for our intelligence community professionals looking in the forensic professionals who are going to be looking at this information. this potentially could be a really interesting period for them to be able to observe what exactly was in in. what is it that the chinese were intending. what they were able to collect. throughout the course of the day, we ve been talking about the decision to shoot down the plane. aside from the public safety and
well-taken. our soldiers, our diplomats, our foreign assistants, workers, our intelligence community professionals have all sacrificed a great deal over these 20 years and today i think that as we begin to absorb the new reality, the reality of an afghanistan that we don t know the shape of yet, it s too soon to tell, my thoughts go back to them and their families especially those who gave everything in afghanistan. eric: michael murphy, on and on, we think of those and honor those, they are not forgotten, lieutenant general douglas lute, thank you. thank you for your service to our country. thank you. arthel: now from the man made disaster if afghanistan to a natural disaster in haiti, with more people confirmed dead in the massive 7.2 magnitude earthquake that shook haiti yesterday.
of the trump team individuals or that they were the ones that were being discussed. have you brennan, clapper and ben rhodes who we remember famously bragged about the echo chamber and how easy it was to put out a message when he wanted to to the press and have it take on a life of its own. i doubt you re going to confirm whether you think ben rhodes is behind this but do you have thoughts on that? what i know is the intelligence community is the one who makes the decision when they are asked to unmask someone s name if there s enough information if they should do so. take the white house and susan rice and ben rhodes out of the conversation. if the intelligence community professionals decide there s value in unmasking someone they ll grant the requests and we have seen no reports there were partisan political motives and we can t assume that unless