cnn military analyst retired major general james spider marks. general, john kirby, as we heard today was how this ended is uncommon, flights like this are not uncommon. russia trying to intercept the d drone like this is not uncommon. how does this happen and why? what do you see here? i wouldn t say it s a matter of routine in that every week there s some type of incident, but it is totally not unprecedented. look, in 2020 the russians tried to ram with one of their naval vessels, the uss john mccain guided missile destroyer. before, a week before this illegal invasion occurred a russian fighter went after a really kind of provocatively went after some poseidon p8s
the argument that by china this was accidental, that this came into the united states, you know, it went off course and came over u.s. territorial airspace. they believe that china was doing this sort of provocatively. and so he took down the trip calling what they were doing unacceptable. just listen to what he said. china s decision to fly a surveillance balloon over the continental united states is both unacceptable and irresponsible. that s what this is about. it s a violation of our sovereignty, a violation of international law. and what he also said was that he wants to make this trip to beijing. they plan to reschedule it, but what he didn t say is what conditions have to be met in order for that to happen, and state department officials said they want to go ahead with it. but right now what the u.s. government is really focused on the secretary said that today is making sure this balloon gets out of u.s. airspace.
they think the balloon might be doing? element that is just it. that is what they want to know. china have said about the first balloon that it have said about the first balloon thatitis have said about the first balloon that it is a weather balloon so taking scientific research from the atmosphere, for example, they have not made any official comments about the second balloon but when i spoke to him earlier he said that there is a significant possibility, in his opinion, that it could be used for spying. opinion, that it could be used for s- inc. , opinion, that it could be used for s. in, , ., opinion, that it could be used for s- inc. , ., ., ., opinion, that it could be used for spying. here is what he had to say. esionaue spying. here is what he had to say. espionage is spying. here is what he had to say. espionage is one spying. here is what he had to say. espionage is one possibility. - spying. here is what he had to say. espionage is one possibility. the i espionage is one
time you were courting, your husband wrote a book which he said there should be no marriage, the government should get out of the marriage business and it should be domestic partnerships. what did you think about that when you were about to get married? when you re about to get married to him writes oftenly and provocatively as we does, you do not get in the business of parsing his latest thought experiment or his latest m missive. i won t comment on my vprivate back and forth with my husband. on the way to this interview, i was arguing about something he was writing. he speaks for himself. i want to take a sad turn here. you say the worst day in your professional life was in 2016 when you went to cameroon to visit a refugee camp and your
conversations with security people when they say, listen. you have to assume that there are some people out there that have an unhealthy interest in your life. you just had to keep that in mind. we try to keep it a little bit muted, as well as the larger question of telling a 17-year- old, you know what, some of the stuff you re putting out there is really kind of strange. it may come back to haunt you. can you follow my kids? you might want to take a look at it. you know, what they think is funny and funny now, it can go into some pretty strange places pretty quickly. whenever there is a story like that, i show them. here is a kid who is college acceptance was revoked based on something that was pretty funny. he probably does not think it is very funny now. those girls, by the way are not dressed provocatively. that is how teenage girls dress. they looked great, his daughters. the idea that i like what he said. why is it my daughters responsibility about your sons?