what was going on, what the response was going to be. and, look, china s one of our biggest adversaries, so to see this, you know, when people look up in the sky and i was driving around earlier, people were pulled over on the side of the road, they were pulling out their camera phones. a lot of intrigue about this. you know, this is an interesting, you know, interesting time, but a lot of people have questions about this. and for me, i m incredibly concerned about where, you know, where this was headed and why it took so long to address. mike: a sense of relief as a south carolina congressman that this has been successfully shot down, apparently over the atlantic ocean? i think so, and i m super proud of the men and women at south carolina s shaw air force base for doing so. i think that shows our resolve and that we re able to take any task. it was really interesting to the watch this spy balloon go over my house and to see fighter planes really circling this balloon as i
base. it appears they used their 20 millimeter cannons to shoot through the silks. it does appear that this balloon is taking its time coming down to everett. you would think if there s tons and tons of machinety under that balloon, you don t have to be a ballistics expert or a balloonist to realize it looks like the silks are just floating right now in the sky. they re taking a long time to get down. if there was tons of, you know, material underneath, it would be pulling down, it d be like throwing a car out of the back of a plane without much of a parachute. it would just be screaming down to splash down in the atlantic. so it is quite possible right now that the sophisticated surveillance equipment that was attached to that chinese spy balloon is now not attached and is probably has probably already splashed down in the ocean, so the recovery effort will be much more difficult if it s down in the bottom of the ocean right now, mike. mike: so that sound from president biden was hi