options. neil: up, up and not going away. a suspected chinese spy balloon flying high above the continental u.s. and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. u.s. officials did consider shooting it down. no more. antony blinken cancelling his trip to china. china confirming, yeah, it s ours but blames high winds. some people don t believe that. we are all over it regardless with jennifer griffin at the pentagon on how the military is reresponding to this. griff jenkins with growing calls for investigations into this. senate armed services committee mike rounds on how long the administration may have known about this. general jack keane on the new tension with china because of this. i m neil cavuto. who saw this one coming? new signs that we might have seen it for quite a while. so why are we just finding out about it now and growing concerns about what we re going to do about it now to jennifer griffin at the pentagon. jennifer? neil, secretary state antony blinken is
he thinks it s going. first of all, general, what do you think it is? certainly it s more than just a meteorological balloon or something to the extent that the chinese have said it is. it s very different than almost any others that we ve been in contact with. so your thoughts. well, they it s a spy surveillance device that they have attached to it. probably a little bit more comprehensive than what they would fly on one of their spy airplanes. but look, i want the american people to understand, we just didn t know about this yesterday. north what we have in this country is norad, the north african american aero space defend command. they have surveillance. they have a sophisticated sweep of radar stations around the world and satellites.