see tough questions all the time, but that s the first time the president has decided to start and then stop. the broader issue here, whether or not this is something that is going to satisfy critics of this president who don t think he s been transparent throughout this process, remains to be seen. he s saying the parameters, the new rules they are coming up with for shooting down unmanned aerial objects over the u.s. will remain classified. doesn t want to give the enemies or bad actors the road map how the u.s. is going to respond. one of the big complaints on capitol hill a lot of stuff that is classified regarding this doesn t need to be, it could be out there. so as for whether or not people are going to pipe down on capitol hill and move on to some other issue, that seems unlikely. sandra: peter, that was an
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