down friday as well as the one yesterday came in from a different track than the big chinese spy balloon that ended territorial space january 28. that could suggest china and russia are working together on a one two punch. we don t really know but i don t think can rule out chinese and russian cooperation especially because we are coming up on the one-year anniversary of russia s attack on ukraine. february 24 and i assume russia is going to do something in china will support russian whatever it does. they had that meeting before the ukraine invasion and basically putin and xi jinping shook hands and said nothing is off the table. we got a great relationship here. that s right, a 5300 word statement issued february 4 when vladimir putin was in beijing for the opening ceremony of the
entered u.s. airspace over alaska. the defense intelligence agency did send a tipper, a essentially a report that flags foreign objects to government channels. this was disseminated across classified channels. anyone who wanted to read it had access. because it was in the urgent, it was not briefed to the highest level the u.s. has seen balloons like this before. we have learned a lot in the last several days about what the u.s. actually knows about this fleet of balloons and the surveillance program that they are apparently a part of and they believed at the time that even though it was probably headed towards alaska, it was not an urgent threat. it did not pose a military or a physical threat to the united states and, therefore, it seemed like the best course of action would just be to monitor it and potentially collect intelligence about it. but it did enter alaskan airspace january 28.
issing spy flight over our country? it hovered over military sites, our airports, billings airport had to shut down and we didn t find out until a journalist on the ground in billings montana report to the feds and they started talking about shooting it down. that was five days after it had been in the air and the administration knew about it. they said we have to wait until it gets over tocean, it was on january 28, saturday to saturday, it was in the air until they shot it down. they could have shot it down off the coast of alaska. brian: 82% of americans believe china is our problem, our enemy, you could get both sides stand up and cheer.
sightings. let s be clear. china s advanced technology to fobs, hypersonic glide vehicle that can deliver a nuclear weapon. that s why this is serious business. let s give some credit to what took place here, too. they tracked this system from january 21 to january 28. seven days. from china to alaska. in that seven days, they knew it wasn t weaponized, they knew it was an intel surveillance vehicle and when it came in to the united states, they defeated that system in terms of its ability to surveil. martha: are you confident in that? when a four-star general tells us he did that, i have no doubt. the culture i martha: so you re not worried about it drifts across the country i don t think it should have been permitted to enter the u.s. airspace. we should have taken it down before it entered alaska. we tracked it for seven days. i don t accept what he s saying
traffic control that depict the moment the balloon was hit. the balloon is completely destroyed. reporter: it was first spotted on january 28 when it entered alaskan airspace. by tuesday, it entered the continental u.s. and was spotted over idaho and montana. i told them to shoot it down. on wednesday? they said to me, let s wait for the sauffest place to do it. reporter: they warned that it could pose a risk to civilians and infrastructure on the ground. the suspected chinese surveillance balloon continued to make its way across the u.s. moving all the way to the east coast. once it was over the atlantic, it was shot down. the key is the payload attached to it which you reported is the size of three buses. that s obviously huge. it was being commanded and controlled by mainland china and delivering information to china. if you look at the path and put