reporter: you mentioned there was a reasonable threat. was there also a threat to potentially this object detecting some of our more sensitive radar capabilities that are based in alaska? and then what hasn t been said is where this object has come from. is there any indication that this was also a chinese surveillance balloon, object, whatever it is? at this point, we don t know the origin of the object. again, we will know more once we re able to potentially recover some of those materials. but the primary concern, again, was the potential hazard to civil flight. again, we ll know more later. the perceived threat to any of the radar installations that we have based in alaska? again, right now, we ll know more once we assess it. we ll just leave it at that. thank you. liz.
the origin of the object, again, we will know more once we are able to potentially recover some of those materials, but the primary concern again was the potential hazard to civil flight and so, again, we will know more later. thank you. a perceived threat to any of the radar installations we have based in alaska? again, right now we will know more once we assess it, but we ll just leave it at that, thank you. liz. thank you. thanks for taking my question. what made this threatening enough to shoot down? what is different about this object in the last object to that was over alaska, because it was chosen not to shoot the last one down over alaska? so the important thing to understand here is any time we detect anything, we are going to first of all observe it and then make a decision and take appropriate action, so you have to look at each individual case
0 a little further detail on that, the decision was made this morning he just revealed, asked when did the president give the order to shoot it down? this morning. john: talk about burying the lede, talks about all of this other stuff, and then a reporter says, oh, by the way, did you shoot something down? oh, yes. here are the details. my gosh. martha: grade to be with you come have a great weekend. i m sandra smith. martha: elsey and monday, thank you for joining us, the story with martha continues to breaking news. it s actually a trace, good afternoon, and trace gallagher in for martha maccallum, the story is a bombshell as we can train new breaking news, about to go to the pentagon as a white house confirms a high altitude object was shot down over alaska today. though there is no confirmation on who owns the object. we don t know if it is state owned or corporate owns, we just don t know that right now, mainly because we spotted this thing at night. in a moment, repu
0 president lula has to make. reporter: i wanted to follow up on a question i asked in september. in light of the chinese spy balloon incident does this administration consider chinese land purchases near u.s. military bases a national security threat? we are always concerned about potential foreign collection near or around our military sites, and you re right, last week is a good example of that. we take that seriously, whether that s terrestrial related or whether it s from the air. and i think i ll just leave it at that. reporter: would you work with congress to put in place legislation to prevent that we are always willing to work with congress to address our national security interests and threats as best we can. reporter: real quick, is there a time line for recovery of this object? you would have to talk to the pentagon. i don t know, guys, this just happened within the last hour and a half, and they re still assessing where this thing landed and the degree to whi
their scientific balloons. we re getting into the stratosphere at this point in time. the problem is these types of devices cannot be picked up very easily in terms of radar traffic, so as things go floating through the united states, this basic path right here, which is what the balloon took, when it does that, it s not always possible for radar installations to pick these balloons up. so that s why we need to fine-tune radar. we also need to fine-tune the intelligence capabilities to recognize data streams that may be emanating from a balloon like this so we can figure out the command and control associated with it an then track it that way as well. colonel leighton, thank you for breaking all of that down as always. you bet. and now where does the u.s. relationship with china go from here? let s bring in cnn s global affairs analyst kim dozer to talk a little bit about the diplomatic side of this. so, kim, why would china make