well, in fact, cuba has had an, sorry, china has had an eves dropping post or listening post in cuba for years. and then in fact, when president biden came into office, he and his senior team were briefed on it and they made a decision early on to put some sort of motion, some sort of plan in motion that they could somehow curtail china s efforts. we don t know what that looks like. in fact, the administration official even said that in 2019 under president donald trump, that somehow that eves dropping post was enhanced or upgraded. all that, we know that in fact china does have surveillance capability that exists just south of the u.s. in cuba where they re able to monitor u.s. communications and that has existed for years now, jose. it s amazing that they initially said no, no, no and now they say it s been going on
so just to be clear, there is not an investigation going on. there was forensic analysis done on the material that we recovered from the payload of the spy balloon that was done by the fbi and quantico largely and i don t know the status. i don t know whether they are complete or they still have things they are sort of looking at. but i would not expect, and i have said this before, we are going to lay all that out for the public. this was an espionage piece of equipment and we want to get a better handle on it, understand it for our own national security purposes so i would not expect that we would lay some sort of public summary of everything we have learned. this was a capability, a surveillance capability that we certainly knew and were tracking the chinese were trying to develop and to improve and we exploited it when it was in the air and exploited the material
one last thought. very important for us. i m sorry, to go back and look at the original balloon and understand their surveillance capability and to know what information they collected on these very important and very sensitive military sites. harris: i mean we still don t know if there is any connection with these other objects. biden administration would like us to look to the sky and think about little green men walking around. that s a convenient disney-like narrative. distraction. harris: great to have you in focus today. thanks for hanging through the breaking news as the senate was briefed. congressman stewart of the great state of utah. thank you, appreciate it. harris: this is tough. three people, gunmen all dead after a mass shooting at michigan state university campus. police say five other people were wounded and still in critical condition. surveillance pictures now show 43-year-old man police say was a shooter. they say he was in no way
actual spy balloon. is that the only way in which to do it? no. it is not. however, it seems to be at the moment the best way but having said that i ll emphasize at the moment part of what i said because we have to establish a mechanism to down or remove the surveillance capability or jam that capability because in the long run it s going to be quite expensive to send up an f-the 22 every time something like this happens especially if a wave comes across the pacific and confronted with something like that. not beyond the realm of possibility. doesn t seem to be happening yet but it could be. that s what i think we have to prepare for and think worse-case scenario. great to see you again. thank you so much. you bet.
officials but we have not heard that before. as you mentioned this was on orders of president biden. right now in terms of the surveillance capability on this object is not clear right now. to put this all and some all up this is the fourth time in eight days the u.s. military has shot down an object over north america. it s a time in the last eight days. lucas a quick question. there is 15 seconds left we have a blind spot with talked about that in our radar we do not see these balloons coming until they are basically right here because there is no question top generals are saying they re not spotting them until they breach airspace. as part of the investigation where we not seeing these unsung they re basically upon us? lucas tomlinson is standing by at the white house the very colatest. we ll staytrit on this story. arthel and myself reporting. vitamins and minerals,