the biden administration to shoot down the balloon over the atlantic ocean. the federal aviation administration has issued a ground stop close airspace in north and south carolina until 2:45 p.m. eastern time. the balloon is currently floating over south carolina and moving southeast republican congressman anthony of the homeland security committee standing by with his reaction. but first lucas tomlinson is live at the white house with 30 tables unchecked details. good afternoon mike if you going to shoot down a chinese spy balloon over the atlantic that s exactly how you do it. you close airspace you launched fighters. that appears to be what happened are present biden spoke earlier indicated a decision had been made without offering specifics. [inaudible] earlier this morning on fox former defense secretary chuck said it s unlikely this bible it will make its way home. i do not have the pentagon is going to do with the president ultimately decides but once he gets out
terms of the reaction time and willingness to react on the part of the u.s. also they did, perhaps, collect realtime information of the military equipment that you outlined. so what part of that is concerning, or should we just not be concerned about that at all in. well, no, we should be. it s not just maybe on the equipment, but when it was the loitering and the sensor package they had, they were gathering signals intelligence and communications intelligence, and that s very important. what were we saying, how were we reacting to it. and when you sweep up that kind of information and pass it back, they can decipher that kind of information, and it s all based on decision making. we weren t just being silent when all this was going on. the military command authorities were making calls, i am sure, we were passing information back and forth. and it was sort of like eavesdropping on a telephone. they were just listening in, and they were passing that information back to china. so part