because that is certainly within our rights to shoot this down in our airspace, and it was a violation of our sovereignty in terms of what this balloon did. so, again, we will find out more in the coming days, weeks, as far as the impact that this is going to have on the u.s. china relationship going forward. and, obviously because it was a provocative move, america had to do something, in the cancellation of the trip was at least the initial part of the something. but, in your analysis, given your expertise at the cia, how big of a deal is this. we know that the country severely xia they re, we know that balloons can achieve something satellites can t, because the satellite can t hover and it has to go around and you have windows of time. that balloon could actually sit over montana until it got the photos or data that it needed. how big of a deal do you think this is? well, i guess, it is unclear, as you point out, there are things that a balloon can do. given that the altitude w
hear those helicopters you have about 90 seconds to be able to repel down. and go in before bin laden is truly alerted to what is happening. chris: the plan they practiced so many times went south quickly. i was looking on the big screens there as helicopter came in. and i could see it start to waffle. chris: lead black hawk fought to maintain control, hit the call of the compound. i immediately said to bill mcraven, what the hell happened? bill didn t miss a beat. he said we have a back upheld held coming in we are going in with mission, they are repelling, this mission is going on, i remember saying, god bless you, let s do it. our pilot realized. if he can t hover i can t hover, i remember my first foot on the ground, i
truly alerted to what s happening. chris: the plan they practiced so many times went south quickly. i was looking on the big screens there as helicopter came in and i could see it start to waffle. chris: the lead black hawk fought to maintain control and then hit the wall of the compound. i immediately said to bill mccraveen, i said what the hell has happened. and bill didn t miss a beat. he basically said, look, we ve got a backup helicopter coming in, we re going ahead with the mission, we re going to repel and go in through the walls. this mission is going on. and i remember saying god bless you, let s do it. our pilot realized in an instant, if he can t hover, i can t hover, so you re not going to the roof. i remember my first foot on the ground, i thought to myself, i guess we start the war from here then. chris: you can watch countdown bin laden tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern on fox news channel and after it airs you can stream it any time on foxnation.com.
hear those helicopters you have about 90 seconds to be able to repel down. and go in before bin laden is truly alerted to what is happening. chris: the plan they practiced so many times went south quickly. i was looking on the big screens there as helicopter came in. and i could see it start to waffle. chris: lead black hawk fought to maintain control, hit the call of the compound. i immediately said to bill mcraven, what the hell happened? bill didn t miss a beat. he said we have a back upheld held coming in we are going in with mission, they are repelling, this mission is going on, i remember saying, god bless you, let s do it. our pilot realized. if he can t hover i can t hover, i remember my first foot on the ground, i
truly alerted to what s happening. chris: the plan they practiced so many times went south quickly. i was looking on the big screens there as helicopter came in and i could see it start to waffle. chris: the lead black hawk fought to maintain control and then hit the wall of the compound. i immediately said to bill mccraveen, i said what the hell has happened. and bill didn t miss a beat. he basically said, look, we ve got a backup helicopter coming in, we re going ahead with the mission, we re going to repel and go in through the walls. this mission is going on. and i remember saying god bless you, let s do it. our pilot realized in an instant, if he can t hover, i can t hover, so you re not going to the roof. i remember my first foot on the ground, i thought to myself, i guess we start the war from here then. chris: you can watch countdown bin laden tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern on fox news channel and after it airs you can stream it any time on foxnation.com.