let s go the white house on the breaking news. lucas tomlinson, i understand you have new reporting the share. lucas: that s right, senior official confirms that the u.s. government is weighing options on how to shoot down this chinese spy balloon when it crosses the atlantic, safely off the coast of the united states. now earlier in syracuse president biden was asked to do on the balloon and he said all options are on the table and this is what he said exactly. the chinese balloon we will take care of it. lucas: this morning former defense secretary chuck served under barack obama said this balloon should be brought down gently to exploit it. we don t know what the pentagon is going to do and what the president will ultimately decide and once it gets out over open waters i d be surprised if we would allow this balloon just to float back to china. lucas: both countries spawn each other, of course, just over a month ago the pentagon says fighter jet came to american sp
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Aircraft flying, 135, that s refueler that will refuel the jets. if it takes time to shoot it down, there is. if you want to know the indicator, it s right there. they will do something. there s a reason it s there. it s retanking fighters and give the fighters ability to either loiter over the area to take care of the balloon down or attack, hit it and bring back and hit it again. remember, i believe when you look at this balloon, when you hit it, it s not going to come down right away, it will deflate slowly. it may take multiple, this is a great tell. if you want to talk about indicators, this is it. griff: general, when we came back from break, we see jets, two aircraft pass somewhere in the vicinity. we don t know for sure that was military but it would be logical that it were because the faa ground stop due to national