balloon, object was actually flying, where it was floating, however, it was traversing, and that is about 40,000 feet, that s the top end of where commercial airliners usually fly and while this is a sparsely sparsely area, that and they had no concept of what this was, created an unacceptable risk when it came to how the pentagon was doing things and what the recommendations were to president biden. they were first indications of this on thursday evening, the president was briefed on thursday evening, they sent two separate efforts up fighter he jets to try and look at the object. neither was conclusive. recommending was to shoot the object down the president made the order earlier this morning and it was shot down shortly before 2:00 p.m. other, the canadian leader justin trudeau said he was briefed and supported the
the united states over a period of several days. and the reason here, the driving reason according to officials i ve spoken to, is where this balloon or where this object was actually flying, where it was floating, however it was trav traversing. that is at 40,000 feet. that is the top end of where commercial airliners usually fly. that in the minds of u.s. officials, who had no concept of what this actually was, created an unacceptable risk, one official told me, when it came to how the pentagon was viewing things and what their recommendations were to president biden. there were first indications of this on thursday evening. the president was briefed on thursday evening. they sent two separate efforts up of fighter jets to get a better look of what this was, to try and identify the object itself. neither was conclusive. the recommendation to the president was to shoot the object down. the president made that order earlier this morning, and it was shot down shortly before 2:00 p.m.
information, whether it ever be transparency? a lot of distrust of our government organizations and rightfully so. i hope they can correct that. was called a block the trust segment because they knew about the first spike balloon the minute it was approaching the alaska coast. we know that because they ve spotted two and told us about it right away. john kirby did not even announce they saw the second object we were talking about yesterday until a reporter asked him so you have to ask, why? why did it take it question for kirby to reveal that information when he should have been saying that the minute he walked up to the podium and then you have the president of united states and i ll leave it here, saying the spike balloon despite traversing across our country going over sites and hearing conversations that could survey, the president said it wasn t a major breach. apparently it was. to excuse it with the terms like there s all kinds of happens all the time. [laughter] no. oka
was over more remote areas of alaska. that you know pentagon officials who were at the hearing continue to insist that at the time, they wanted to both continue to gather information and intelligence from this balloon and they had determined that it wasn t of a danger or imminent danger to civilian life at that point. they decided to kind of track it and they cast it as somewhat as even an intelligence coup by having been able to gather information from the balloon as it was traversing to come to them. wait, i want to press you on that ellen. as there are more to the story about what intel the chinese spy balloon gathered? our officials telling you it is not as bad as some might think or to china really gather
out. i suppose this is an area where our intelligence community is working diligently to find out who has these capabilities that may be putting balloons up and circling the globe, traversing the united states, you name it. earlier on the show republican congressman from florida said it should be u.s. policy to shoot down any aircraft that enters u.s. airspace. i asked is that regardless of whether the aircraft is manned or unmanned? i want you to listen to his response. i do think so. if it s entering our airspace and we deem it s going to be again, if it s going to collect significant intelligence that could harm us in the future, i think that should fit the criteria and we need to make that red line well known to our adversaries. do you agree with that? well, this is raising a lot of questions. i do think we need to have a clear policy. we have to defend our sovereignty and that means defending our airspace. we need to improve our