successfully shot down in alaska making sure that the message is clear, that any sovereign territory or airspace in this country, if there s a threat, if there s an incursion, there s gonna be consequences. so kind of a strong, firm message there from the senator about u.s. sovereignty. she said last week about the chinese surveillance arable in that did travel over alaska was not shot down in that case, of course that wasn t taken down until it was reversed the whole u.s. territory, it was taken down over the east coast on south carolina. dan de luz, thank you so much for joining us this morning, and for the latest. so how concerned should americas be about these aerial objects? what does all of this mean for our border defenses? coming up i m gonna ask security expert, and former assistant to the president,
another thing to keep in mind, this covered an area of seven nautical miles. the debris that range down from the balloon covered a really wide area. that is an important point that you made about the u.s. jamming the ability of this balloon to get any images. because i think most people figure, we ll, if it was still flying over u.s. airspace, u.s. territory. that it was still collecting information. but what you are telling us is that that is not the case according to the u.s. military. that s right, they were taking measures effectively to jam it. and prevented from collecting any further intelligence. and keep in mind, this was not super sophisticated it appears. it is not on the level of the satellites that the chinese have orbiting earth. but it does raise some questions here. and that is, what else is china up to? are there other balloons that they then deployed that we
chinese statement. i tons it is unprecedented, and they don t express regret for anything, but if you are looking at what and what is it doing, because i am surprised by the statements that we have heard from the administration coming out over the last 24 hours are dismissive of the capabilities of this airship, and it means that not has what is potentially a collection gold mine for the united states. i saw secretary esper talking about this earlier on cnn and i agree with him wholeheartedly, that we should take it down, and for the very clear message to the chinese, this is not an acceptable act of surveillance on u.s. territory. andy, that is an interesting
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