little bit late what i would ve done which at the sensor package added to secretary blanket goat would add it back to president xi can tell him that is the last time this type of spiraling, united states of america just a few years ago in fact i think it was two decades ago weather balloon floated over china they shot it down it was a weather balloon but they would ve done something much more aggressive earlier on that we did. think we re reacting to public pressure again all the indicators are there for the going to shoot down the got the aircraft available at langley that the refueling tanker the got the recovery that it s already coming south from south carolina. mike: general when new american republican or democrat there frequently tested by our adversaries in our rivals. is this a test? it is beyond the test with their doing is pushing the limit. i think what they are doing in my experience is the kind of incrementally going forward in seeing where are the limits out
inside the white house this decision would ve been made in situation room by the national security council party full of counsel. not just the principles that would ve made the recommendation to the president, pass the reclamation of the national security adviser to the president. member the president always has national security team travels with them full-time 24/7. so when he gets up to camp david the team is ready to go they vtc it in. think the decision is made by think is going to be a just a period of time before they can take it down because to me all the indicators are there, all the details are showing right now. in general, if you are in the national security council right now what would you be most concerned about this information that is been sent real-time back to beijing to chinese military, chinese intelligence personnel as this balloon is made his way across the united states. mike the information they gathered is massive. the sensor package under that balloon is a
not necessarily what you do the or when you do it, but how is that process, how is it evolving. and they would be picking that up. even though it would with encrypted, there s an ability to decrypt information. it s not always encrypted information that is passed. so what they gather is this decision making process. and then at the national level what kind of reactions are we going to make and what reactions do we have. so i think it s kind of a cumulative effort not only what they captured technology, in the spirit of technology, but also in the spirit of decision making. so it was a win-win for china. this thing should have been taken out long ago. and i have said this repeatedly, watch how the balloon s coming down. i said all along that balloon was not going to go erratically down, it s going to the fall slow are. that s how those balloons do it. the concern is, okay, it should have been what happens with the sensor package. if you re going to shoot that thing down, be able to reco
transiting the united states of america. this is a little bit late to decide to go take a shot and they are reacting probably to public outrage both republican and democrat as well that they need to take a shot at it. it s already past information to china. it s past over the missile fields that you see up in the northwest and whiteland air force base where our b2 s are. i just talked to someone a while ago. they got satellite coverage, it s 22 times the analysis of a satellite. it can look at your watch and tell what time it is. by taking this time to shoot it down and try to get to the sensor package, poor move by the administration. they either didn t want to offend china and they were very cautious.
takes. but this thing is being driven. it s not going strictly by the drift of the air. you see that the loiter time sometimes slower and sometimes faster, how it is traveling and clear it is being directed to some part. i ve had some discussions with some pretty senior people and they ve said this is spy balloon is a very sophisticated balloon and ability to drive it, push it where you want it to go subtly but think about it this way, jacqui, you are looking out at one-story building and then 50-story building, that s what i mean by slant ranges, how far you can long, you can look a long distance using the optics probably that s on board the sensor package out there. so this thing is like a vacuum cleaner, it s been scooping up information from critical sites. jacqui: do we know the balloon over latin america is the same kind of balloon, has the same maneuver ability to our