the suspected chinese spy craft brought down a week ago. according to the white house this is about the size of a small sedan, a lot smaller than the balloon. it was not equipped with a significant payload, in fact, who or what yesterday s object belonged to is still up for question. we re calling this an object because that s the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it, whether it s a whether it s state-owned or corporate-owned or privately owned. we just don t know. well, the object s flight path over alaska was north easterly. it s unclear where it was first detected. the pentagon says it was spotted using ground radar, and again, altitude, 40,000 was determined safety threat to civilian airplanes so president biden ordered it shot down yesterday and summed up his feelings with one word. do you have anything to say about the object shot down over alaska, mr. president? and it was taken down 1 p.m. yesterday off the cost of alaska near the p
how the documents got out of there and into joe biden s personal papers, all the way to his house, and all the way to this office in washington d.c.? yeah, and from a time he was a very young senator, first term senator. so a lot of open-ended questions. john, thank you very much. good luck watching the super bowl. i won t take sides here just hoping you enjoy the game. all right, always good seeing you, john yu on all of this. and in the meantime, the latest on this alaska shoot down and why we still don t know a lot and that might be by design, but lieutenant general jerry boiken has some thoughts and wants to relate worries that he s had about china for some time after this.
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bombs to use against us and now, other groups in afghanistan are using roadside bombs to go after the taliban, having nothing to do with us. lieutenant general jerry boiken on this, the former undersecretary of defense. what do you make of this. the latest occurred overnight. one person was seriously hurt, it could have been many more and the likely culprit was one of these isis-k fighters, but we just don t know, but the target was the taliban vehicle. yeah, neil, remember, when we went into afghanistan in 2001 we joined forces with a group of tribes that were loosely knitted together by a common hatred of the taliban and we called them the northern alliance and you still have that faction that is very anti-taliban and they are, they still exist and they are going
the u.s. says as these people return to their towns and villages, wherever they re going, if they find them involved in activity again, they will seek to capture them. they will obey the rules they say and turn them back over to afghanistan. if they get into fire fight with them, they will some 2,000 u.s. troops killed, some 20,000 wounded. the longest war in u.s. history. barbara, thanks very much. let s get some more on the outrage over this prisoner release. joining us is the retired u.s. army lieutenant general jerry boiken, commander of u.s. forces. when you hear about this, general, what goes through your mind? well, wolf, like most americans and certainly all veterans, i am absolutely outraged by this. you know, karzai needs to remember that he s in that position today because of the united states. and afghanistan is a sovereign nation today because of the