were loiters over the nuclear arsenal sites, trace. thanks, jen. let s bring in retired four star general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox news senior strategic analyst. great to have you on. as jennifer said, we may never know what these unidentified objects were, be there are some reports that they could have been hobby balloons, right? and i would ask you, what do you think of scrambling f-22 fighter jets and shooting $500,000 missiles to shoot down what could be $80 hobby balloons? let me establish a foundation here. i think the issue we have with the administration and it s still out there, most important thing when you have a crisis, the president has to have trust with the american people. it s a major credibility issue
criteria? it can t be that it is possibly going to interfere with civilian aircraft. that just isn t sufficient and doesn t make sense. we re told this recovery weeks.ion could take up to two dana. dana: thank you for that. let s bring in general jack keane fox news senior strategic analyst. i ve been looking forward to this interview. react to the pentagon briefing yesterday. here is a snippet of what was said. are they weather balloons? i won t categorize them as balloons. we call them objects for a reason. i believe this is the first time within the united states or america airspace that norad or the united states northern command has taken kinetic action against an airborne object. dana: do we have any idea what these things are? and what does it mean that we increased our ability to look at radar? does that mean we ve been missing some of this for a long time? i think it does mean that.
president biden downplayed that balloon s significance in an interview this week saying the flight was, quote, not a major breach. let s bring in retired four-star general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox news senior strategic analyst. general, good to see you. thanks for coming in. so do you think the administration did the right thing here shooting down this latest object so quickly after it had waited a long time to shoot down the balloon? no, yeah, absolutely. it s the right call. i mean, it s interesting what we don t know, as you indicated, we need a lot of answers. what s very revealing though and concerning is that this we did not pick this up before it entered u.s. air space which is very similar to the historical record we were able to put together after the spy balloon
trace: back to you as the news warns, let s bring in senior strategic analyst general jack keane and she makes a good point there, general, that we are on high alert status right now, and another good point saying that we don t shoot aircraft, and shoot down balloons whatever, so there s a reason this was shot down. there s a reason they watched it for 24 hours and we just aren t privy to that reason at this point in time. yeah, and we have to be a little sensitive, a couple of hours into this and if you are a government official dealing with breaking events and we have 24-hour nurse don t make a new service and capability worldwide together information information, you know, it s really quite extraordinary, and i am a little sensitive and have some empathy for what the pentagon and john kirby was dealing with. i think he went into that briefing knowing full well this event took place, but he certainly was not announcing it as a breaking news story and why is that? because they are
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