together with you broadcasting balloons. rachel: that s right. if you get a little chilly, i have a heat or here, will. will: is it on? pete: i don t know why you haven t turned it on yet. rachel: because it s been cozy. pete: have you been to the great american ballpark in cincinnati? will: no. never been to cincinnati. pete: never been? will: have you been to cincinnati? everybody acts, like, wow. pete: dial up a diner for will in cincinnati, and you ve got to have chili for breakfast. rachel: that sounds good right now. pete: on noodles. will: let s do a list of american cities by population and find the biggest city you haven t been to. want to do that? i don t think cincinnati is the biggest city we ll find out, let s do the three of us, what s the biggest american city you ve never visited? @. pete: it s going to be a small i know i ve been to all 50 states, multiple times over. will: i ve never been to. pete: i don t know if i ve been to big cities in maine. yes, i
after the u.s. military shot down that chinese spy balloon off the south carolina coast after it flew across the united states. we have more breaking, news now, the fbi has discovered an additional classified document with former vice president indiana s home. the search comes as former vice president mike pence was subpoenaed by the special counsel, investigating donald trump s efforts to stay in office after the 20. 20 election, as well as his role in the january 6th attack on the capitol. earlier today trump s former personal attorney michael cohen told msnbc donald trump should be worried about this. i think he is panicking. however, what he is very good at is hiding it. anyone that is in the room with him would be able to attest to things that i had seen in the past which is donald really losing it. but, in front of the camera, he is calm, cool, and collected because he is a sociopath. we ll have more on this breaking developments and that object shot down by u.s. mi
owned, we just don t know. the recovery effort will be made and we are hopeful that it will be successful, then we can learn a little bit more about it. some other important differences here. we are told that this object was the size of a small car which if you compared to the chinese balloon, that was about 200 feet tall. the satellite portion on the bottom was the size of a regional jet. we are talking about very different scopes here. we also talk about the height that the objects are flying, at the balloon was far higher, this unidentified object was lying around 40,000 feet which could interfere with commercial and civilian aircraft. that is why the white house said it was one of the reasons that they did assess a risk and a threat potentially to that kind of aircraft and travel. that s why they wanted to get it out of the sky. but again, we are going to learn a lot more once they re able to recover it. maybe be able to tell us where it came from, and any other capabilities that
sizes. now, that s not the size of the payload or the surveillance equipment. when the pentagon says look at all the wreckage that would be created, there s ways to puncture a balloon that doesn t break up the structural integrity of whatever the satellite portion of it, and then once it s on the ground, you can deal with it. and as you pointed out, alaska, canada, montana, ooh even now over the the heartland of our country, there s plenty of places to take this down. will: not exactly subtle [laughter] not exactly a hard to spot and is really kind of ancient in technology. take a look at the use of spy balloons throughout history. they date back to the civil war where balloons began to be the used as surveillance. got widespread, by the way, starting in world war i. pete: yeah. a rudimentary technology. there s plenty of these right now. drones you can use, high-level drones that are mostly remember b-2 the bombers during the cold war? and then, of course, satellites that we use a