expend the political capital here. washington lost its collective mind yesterdayyester on this. e the chinese doch spyines on on . i think this goes back to maybe some kind of old cold war worryg about, you know, about th something kind of tangible looking up at us .n my houthe joke i had in my househa is that, you know, they art e kind of getting a preview of the next season of yellowstone, yellowstone. what a riot o send you outroun on the comedy circuit. well, the chinese e are laughing s at us , that s for sure.ur the role of the pentagon under r biden seems clear , unless we re talking about sending billions of weapons to ukraine. well, the pentagon s role is pretty much one of an observer. once it s over, a body of water, will you shoot it downf at the north american aerospace defensame command continuess to to monitor it closely. monit now?controlling this balloon right now? is the chinese government withrolling the movement of the balloon or is it just floating
to see what our response was, is fulfill their expectations. they have contempt for us wherur i work at stanford university,ke we hired a neuro scientistty lecturer that we found out work for the people s liberation army people . we also didn t and we didn t inform the government that over, ten years communist associated kleine thai intel from china donated fifty million to the universite. until so so it s everywhere. and until somebody stops it, it s going to continue. they have contempt for absolute contempt. now, jason , get back something that victor raised earlier thatm this is , as i said in the angle, the ultimate trial balloon. do you put any stock into this that they they really wantr hi to test our high altitude targetinghg programs at that sixty thousand fifty thousand0 altitude feet altitude? oh, sure,e? sure. this is no this is no accident that look, the chinese have
what are they going to do when they start sending drones over the united states ? wh they re jus they stt sendintt that go . where is the line in lin the biden administration? they i well, victor, clearly j they think thaant january six protesters are a much bigger threat to the united states. to ththan they do china. i mean, there s no doubt about r that. s tand the new york times to this point is not at all concern. and one of their writers that t the ccp is spying on uars with , they re worried about is thatisl we might actually protect ly our own airspace. the fact that this balloon is still. in the air and moving east, there s stilley r the possibility that this thing escalates. the u.s. has to shoot it down. that s very dramatic.tic. just the idea that we re usinggt military force against a chinese asset would be very dramatic, very dramatic.mati thc! victor, they don t want to hurt. jeezey do no, feelings or or poe the poke the you know, the red star of china, right? ye
canceled, not postponed hisin trip to beijing. over this chinese provocation, this trip that was planned th the secretary of state. we hope thatin ultimately thingd will settle down and they ll be able to get back to thetiatin negotiating table now. now, that s stupid. the u.s. statement on thisthe should have been shortu.s. and o the point, something like we consider this move to beprovoc a deliberate provocation and a blatant violation of our airspace.ata blytonn my point in vand our sovereignty.ave ta we have takeken swift actiono to eliminate the potential thre, intelligence threat to action posed to our nation and anysh nation or organization that attempts anything similar. we ll find the same result allall fu future high level discussions with china are hereby postponed indefinitely. indefthat s what we should have said. now, this balloon may or may not be really good at collecting sensitive informatioollectinn. we have no idea.by but that s frankly irrelevant. by launching it,
we re monitoring the situation closely. we will continue to monitor. we ll continue inue to review our options and provide options and s. we are well, since we re e on the observation and monitoring business, norad s simply tracking the reds. businora it does have experienc, though, in doing this trackinge thing. after allballoon. , the continental u.s. narod region, also known as konar, continues. our new film mission is securing the airspace over the united states .on still, on december twenty four , we take on the extra special mission of tracking santa claus, just likea it do with santa norad s should set up a website for all ofall f us t uo follow to track this round figure. you said several times thate u.. the u.s. is reviewing its options. i i d like to see some clarity. is the option of shooting down the balloon, particularly as it s going over more populated areas off the table? tha is that still among the options that the u.s. military con is considering? we re just not