it goes back to the question you asked, and i think everybody is asking, why not shoot down the chinese spy balloon before it had the ability to traverse the united states for a week. sandra: if these were just weather balloons, wouldn t somebody have claimed them? i would think someone is missing a balloon somewhere, maybe they are embarrassed, maybe the administration knows, but somebody is missing three balloons, so i suspect we ll find out in due course. john: so just, if we are going to go after every weather balloon that happens to pass by or end up on this newly tuned radar, what s the cost associated to the u.s. taxpayer of doing that? you have to send up f-22 or f-16, firing off missiles at $400,000 apiece, the one over lake huron missed, pretty much a million dollars inside winder missiles there. how much is this going to cost the u.s. taxpayer in the
0 out because it was jammed. are we to believe that this didn t get any communications out back to beijing because it was effectively jammed all the way through by either the intelligence agencies or the military? yeah, well, dealing with the first thing, it s obvious, i think, given the action we took against these three unidentified objects, we did not act accordingly when air space was about to be violated by the spy balloon in alaska, did not shoot it down, that reacted in i think what may be an overreaction to the others. he has to be absolutely clear what we are going to do about it. i don t think he s going to fess up to the fact that they may have made a mistake in permitting it to go across the united states. i believe he did, he s going to get questions around that. in terms of what did we learn and did we shut them down, i m not a technology expert but my gut tells me we would never know for sure about that until we get ahold of the devices which we have in our hands now a