and then he does all of this spending, what, $400,000 apiece for side winders. >> sean: per side winders. and misses one. >> and misses one, has to shoot a second. my problem is this guy, everything is political. nothing is based in like logic or makes sense that we know of. and that's why the question about hunter biden and the biden family's question to china is so important. because -- >> to bring it up when you talk about chinese planes -- you have to focus on what -->> sean: do you believe that the biden family is compromised by china? [ applause ] >> sean: almost everybody, geraldo. and this is your liberal city of new york, not mine. >> these are my fellow liberals not. but, listen, sean, i really do believe that biden is a decent person who's trying to do the -- (crowd: oh)>> sean: one, two, three -- oh! really? >> the fact he did not shoot the balloon down initially when he crossed through alaska is something he deeply regrets. >> sean: justifies shooting the object that -- >> i'm not saying it justifies it. it could have been party balloons or research or private companies, wha

buff the second side winder missile ultimately took down this unknown object.ered or recovered in lake huron or the surrounding area. and just a side note, each side winder missile costs about $400,000 olivia beavers reporter for politico. guy benson, political editor at town hall.com and fox news radio. what's going on? we are trying to get information it seems like there is this lack, this void of information that they don't know. >> i was watching the briefing earlier with john kirby a number of developments friday. we were all talking about this when your show went off the air last week. there have been a lot of developments. two more objects shot down. doubles the total to four. but, despite more things happening, we really don't have any more concrete answers. we have little details you were rattling off a few of them there in terms of what are these objects, where are they coming from, what are their capabilities, we know nothing beyond what we knew 7 # hours ago which is kind of extraordinary, considering that the whole country has been talking about th

with side winder class air air each side winder ai, m9x.han 400.000 dollars, fragments of mysterious objects have not yet been discovered, but aliens already know for sure in the white house. nothing to do with it, i repeat there is no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity in the case of whipped objects, the laughter in the hall could become nervous if the journalists remembered the unclassified part of the us national intelligence report in less than 2 years, the intelligence service registered a message about almost 250 , unidentified aerial phenomena, only verified reports from military pilots and operators are included in the report air defense systems three unknown objects, if they had not been shot down over alaska by the yukon and the lake, the huron had every chance of getting into the next report. now american experts and politicians are wondering. what proportion of unidentified phenomena can be attributed to spy vehicles in us airspace and united states airspace has been neglected for decades, if we talk about such ob

side winder missile took out that suspected chinese spy balloon that caused such havoc this week. up, nearly 12 miles or 20 kilometers that it took a few seconds for the shock wave the reach the ground. have a listen. [ explosion ] >> the shootdown happened saturday off the coast of south carolina near myrtle beach. it was a sensational ending to a saga that had been unfolding for days as the giant craft drifted silently above the american heartland. china loudly protesting the shootdown, accusing the u.s. of overreacting. beijing continues to insist it was merely a civilian scientific balloon that blew off course. after studying its movements and patterns for several days, pentagon officials say they're confident it was conducting surveillance. for now, many answers will have to wait until the balloon and its payload are recovered and analyzed. at last report we're told the wreckage is lying on the ocean floor about 50 feet down, about 15 meters, and salvage efforts are around way. joe biden says he issues the order to shoot down the balloon last wednesday as soon as possible. he

when you shoot them down with side winder missiles you it leads you believe it might be something more. >> harris: one thing i pointed out yesterday with one of the missiles it missed and on the floor of lake huron. the military assured us it's not armed. congressman stewart of utah who has been all over this since the beginning and everybody is being briefed. that's helpful. says there is a whole lot of classified information, though, on those missiles. so you might want to go get that. >> makes sense. also speculation as to if the side winder missile heat seeking missile wasn't able to hit a stationary balloon. why? one pilot noted some of his systems were jammed when approaching one of those objects. it is speculation. we might want to get that technology and get whatever is at the bottom of lake huron. it will tell us things we deserve to know as the american people. >> harris: the vice president not at the border we would point out. she is the border czar and a lot of stuff down there obviously. kamala harris said the recent u.s. downing of the spy flight from china should not hav

air force f-16 fighter jet shot down an octagonal missile use ago side-winder missile at 20,000 feet. much lower than two objects shot down the past two days and this is now the third object shot down in the past three days, guys. starting on friday when an object was shot down over the north coast of alaska. as you see here on this chart. right on the northern coast of alaska. that search for the debris has been hampered by rough weather, it's minus 20 degrees up there, very, very difficult and then yesterday, another object was blasted out of the sky by a u.s. air force f-22 raptor, notable it was a u.s. air force jet shooting this down over the skies of canada in canadian air space. that was on joint orders from president biden and canada's prime minister and just as we know now, moments ago, a u.s. air force f-16 fighter jet shooting down this object over lake huron. of course, going, this came just hours after some air space over lake michigan had been closed because they thought they detected something, but norad and f.a.a. lifted that restriction and we don't 0 know if that's b

these side winder missiles are expensive. number one. $500,000 or so.if i'm way off the mark on that. it's also not guaranteed they're going to hit the mark. this is not an object these missiles were designed to hit and we know this because it took two to get the one over lake huron. >> i think you are going to see us look at what the right parameters are. are e with going to make the decision to engage or not. what are the factors and how we engage. we're willing to take a look and see if we need a different approach going forward and that's what the president wants us to look at right now. but obviously again, you've got to make the safety and security of our national interests and the american people first and foremost and if you look at the decision process we made over the weekend, that the president made over the last three objects, each and every one of those decisions was made with a firm recommendation by his senior military leaders in keeping with the existing protocol procedures for how to deal with the potential threat of objects over our sk

that's how washington summed up the items taken off by 400000 dollar side winder miss n s a. what's the lord? edward snowden and ron meadows, funder of scientific balloon solutions. believe there's nothing mysterious about the objects, but washington doesn't want to climb down from this aggressive president or why i tried contacting the military and the f. b i. and just got the run around to try to enlighten them on what a lot of these things probably are. they're going to look not too intelligent to be shooting him down. please tell me the white house didn't spend the month of february scrambling jets to for $400000.00 missiles at the local hobby clubs. 12 dollar balloon lord have mercy. well, after the initial shooting gun earlier this month, the suppose a chinese spy balloon story made endless headlines in the american media, including rhetoric about a legit threats coming from beijing and it sort of balance missions. but more and more questions have arisen, mr. biden abruptly left the stage when asked by reporters about his reported business ties with china. i talk to my

general van hert decided the best way to do this was with side winder missiles and fighter aircraft.eactive to the chinese spy balloon, that there's political pressure so we're going to act quickly to take down anything over our airspace because of pressure -- >> these were decisions based purely and simply on what was in the best interests of the american people. >> john, does the u.s. government have video or imagery of these latest intercepts, and will you be releasing it? >> you'd have to talk to dod about that, jackie. i don't know what kind of imagery might exist. they would be the one to talk about whether they're releasable or not. obviously, certainly with respect to the spy balloon, we want to make sure that we are gleaning what we can from this imagery so we can answer your questions better. so to what degree there is or -- will or will not be public release, i do want to stress that we're going to want to make sure that we have had a chance to analyze that imagery for ourselves as much as possible. >> to follow up on phil's question. what we're trying to discern is, you s

that, certainly in a timely and efficient effective way was through fighter aircraft and the side winder air to air missiles. and they looked at, and he talked about this, looked at other options to try to bring them down to include gunfire, but that would have presented a greater risk to the pilots themselves. so this was the safest, most effective way to do that. now, where we go from here, i think we just don't know right now in terms of whether there needs to be threshold changes as you put it. i think it's important to just take a step back here and what the president did was ordered these actions with the safety and security of the american people foremost in his mind, and there were very good reasons to do it. the military then, once given an order, determines how they are going to execute that order, the general decided the best way was with side winder missiles and fighter aircraft. >> this is not reactive to the chinese spy balloon, there was political pressure so we are going to act quickly to take down any objects over our air space because of the pressure from the republican

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once the balloon reached the atlantic coast, it was shot down with a single side winder missile from whoo! boom! >> i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down, on wednesday as soon as possible. they decided that the best time to do that was when it got over water. >> chelsea: wow, joe biden really liked giving that announcement. he hopped off his big, strong plane, and he walked over with his aviator sunglasses, looking like a real tough guy, popping a balloon. giving off some serious "top gun: maverick" vibes. the straight kind. honestly, though, poor joe biden. obama got to order the assassination of bin laden, and all he gets to do is murder a bag of helium. and as you heard, this balloon was the size of three buses. i love measuring things in buses. and for the rich people out there who don't know what a bus is, they're those big yellow vehicles that bring matt gaetz's girlfriends to school. [cheers and applause] so the balloon went over alaska, then through canada, and into u.s. airspace. and by the way, canada, thanks for the heads up on that. canada saw the balloon and they were

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flying objects responded over north american aerospace and were dispatched by heat seeking fight winder miss styles, president biden subsequently admitted the balloons were most likely tied to private company studying the weather with an american hobby group. also saying one of their tracking balloons had gone missing at the same time. the u. s. or a force intervenes. well, that story made headlines over many days. it's just as a train derailment in eastern ohio cause a huge release of toxic chemicals into the or soccer officials, then set the remaining chemicals up the side on fire in what they described as a controlled bird to prevent further contamination. not sent a pill of thick black smoke into the sky. some time later, the states governor said it was safe for residents to return to their homes, but local fear, they're not being exposed to the truth. here i thought i was hopeful that i was going to get it, but i feel like it was just a big run around. i feel like a lot of the questions that were asked for people's rantings and just speaking in circles, the answers that were given

we now know it was a single side winder missile fired from an f-22 that hit the balloon. its giant surveillance bay the size of three buses detaching, plummeting into the ocean. at least 60,000 feet below. this image showing the fighter jet, it eventually reached an altitude of about 58,000 feet, as it tracked the balloon and fired. a u.s. senior official saying they had been monitoring the balloon for a week, and they took immediate steps to prevent its collection of intelligence. the balloon making its way across the continental u.s., crossing out to sea over the carolinas. china claiming the balloon was a civilian aircraft, condemning the u.s. action, and saying the country retains the right to respond. >> and for the first time tonight, we're hearing audio from the fighter pilot who shot that balloon out of the sky. we have team coverage tonight. maryalice parks at the white house standing by. but abc's elwyn lopez leads us off from myrtle beach. >> reporter: tonight, an urgent mission under way to recover debris from the chinese spy balloon after it was shot down by

military shooting down yet another high altitude object with a side winder missile. this one over the great lakes near the michigan/canadian border. it's the fourth object shot out of the sky by u.s. fighter jets in just eights days. administration officials say president biden gave the order to down this latest object out of an abundance of caution and at the recommendation of military leaders. on saturday, u.s. f-22s shown down an object over northern canada after canadian prime minister justin trudeau gave the order. a joint recovery operation under way there. on friday, another object 40,000 feet in the air over a remote part of alaska. these incidents coming about a week after the u.s. military shot down a chinese spy balloon off the coast of south carolina. a senior u.s. official telling abc news that the u.s. military now has its eyes focused on the skies in a way it didn't before. tonight, urgent questions about who owns these flying structures and what they're capable of. abc's white house correspondent maryalice parks leading us off from washington. >> repo

the first missile, a side winder missed over lake huron. >> the missile landed harmlessly in the water of lake huron. we tracked it all the way down, and we made sure that the airspace was clear of any commercial, civilian or recreational traffic. >> so small you can't see it. >> reporter: new audio from the pilots trying to figure out what that pilot was over the great lakes. >> some kind of dark object. you can see some strings hanging down below it. . >> the u.s. and canada haven't yet recovered any debris from the last three objects shot down. a senior biden administration official says it's possible they may never be able to. >> very, very difficult terrain. the second one off the coast of alaska, that's up in some really, really difficult terrain in the arctic circle with very, very low temperatures, in the minus 40s. >> blast one. >> copy, splampblt. >> meanwhile, new audio of the moment an f-2 shot down that chinese spy balloon that is a complete kill. the balloon is completely destroyed. >> discoveries were able to get into the water over the course of the weekend and were abl

spokesperson said two f-22 jets like this one intercepted the object and one of them shot a side winder missile and shot it down. the military said this was not as sophisticated as the device confirmed a chinese airship shot down off the coast of the south carolina. >> at this point we don't know the origin of the object. we'll know more once we are able to potentially recover some of those materials. but the primary concern is the potential hazard to civil flight. >> the debris landed in the waters off northern alaska. but it's winter there so it's on ice. the military has the airplanes and they are coming into that area to retrieve what's there. >> joining us, senator ron johnson. what's your reaction to this report? >> i think they did the right thing this time. i wish the administration would be more transparent with the american public and reveal what they were telling senators and house members yesterday. from my standpoint i can't think of a piece of information that would be harmful to have the american public understand and we could have understood that a week ago. the larger p

anything can we expected to hear in terms of outcomes from vladimir putin's meeting and also within the winder context of all these discussions about whether or not china will get more involved in backing russia in this invasion? >> yeah, i mean, this is a meeting that he will chair of the board, putin himself a former intelligence agent, used to work for the kgb. he is officially going to summarize the work from 2022, the report that says strategic priorities will be the fight against terrorism, corruption and border security. the things to look out for is the messaging that we've seen increase in recent weeks. really stepped up in recent weeks about how this is a defensive operation, how this is an existential battle for russia. this is how he is trying to sell this to his people now that we're into the second year of this war. that is this about defense. we did hear putin in december address zer ssecurity services called for them to step up against the traltsitors and spi. this has all been about population at home, control of information. there is barely any free media left. border securit

if we're sending up an f-22 takes it down with a side winder, clearly, they got -- you know, the aircraft got a shot picture on it, so, just as it did the first time, why couldn't we then report back? it's just, again, it begs more questions and i think the bigger question is why is the ccp doing this? right on the heels of its meeting with biden just before blinken was supposed to come. we were made to believe that there was going to be some kind of a reset. yet, these are in your face actions and, again, to the criteria. we allow one. biden says it's no big deal. but, yet, it not only hovered over our icbm site it hovered over a stealth bomber base and over the command and control center for our entire nuclear arsenal. hovered over it, loitered over it at 60,000 feet. you can collect a lot. clearly the chinese believe that this is providing them something. so, we still have a ton of questions from an oversight standpoint. and we're not getting a lot of answers right now. >> will: let me ask you two questions at one time if i might. in hopes that we can get some actual truth. so, you bro

it was launched from langley air force base in langley, virginia, that killed this arks-1 side winder, a heat seeking missile. it was 58,000 feet. quite high. the balloon, 65,000 feet and one missile killed the balloon and caused it to come down. there were support crew in the area. at 2:39, that balloon was down. it know goes from that etffort o a recovery effort. lloyd austin says, president bind gave his authorization to take down the balloon as soon as the mission would be accomplished without undue risk to american lives. after careful analysis, they determined that it posed undue risk to people across a wider area due to the size and altitude of the balloon. we know that payload in the water, the recovery effort on going now. >> all right, warren lieberman, thank you very much. let's go over to the white house. cnn arlett is there. he didn't speak long. he was very emphatic that he made this call to take down the balloon. >> he was, and president biden was actually aboard air force one flying to maryland as the military had the operation to take down the spy balloon. but preside

military took the shot, one shot with an air to aramis ill known as a side winder as soon as the balloon left the continental u.s. six minutes into its flight over the atlanta was brought down from af22 launched from virginia. they estimated they had approximately 18 minutes to shoot it down after it left the u.s. mainland and still remained over u.s. territory before it entered international waters making it ill will el to shoot down at that point. it would be illegal to shoot it down over international waters another reason they didn't shoot it down near the allusions. u.s. intelligence was collect than on the balloon as it floated across the country and raised security protection shields over sensitive sites. we learned a lot from the balloon. one u.s. official told me indicating the u.s. had the ability to retrieve information about the balloon's capabilities while it was in flight. the balloon was not transmitting any intelligence. it was gathering that for china according to the u.s. intelligence officials. >> we're at the beginning of this. good reporting. thank you. >> dana: let'

we have a sharp 24-hour temperature change because of the approaching cold winder storm. you can see most locations right now are 10 to 15 degrees cooler than they were at this house yesterday. and the high winds have whipped up some high and rough surf along the coastline. so we have a high surf advisory until 4:00 p.m. torch tomorrow large breaking waves could reach 25 feet in height. and the opposing storm by the way on which we'll give you more details later ranks one on the abc7 storm impact scale. more details later. larry: see you then, spencer. want to give you ana look at pg&e's outage map the people that have so far lost their electricity. green is less than 50. yellow means 50 or less without power. orange means 500 to 5,000 if you see red and we don't see a lot of red here -- kristen: that's good. larry: that's a good sign. that means that's over 5,000. we spoke to pg&e. estimated as many as 70,000 customers had lost power. we have team coverage on all this win. diop limb is monitoring the damage in -- dion lim is monitoring the situation. kristen: let's go to

video shows the moment the f-22 raptor out of langley shot down the chinese spy flight with the side winder. and the first time since pearl harbor the u.s. has shot down a hostile aircraft over u.s. territory. of course hawaii was not even a state back then. earlier, the top general from norad admitted they did not detect them during the trump administration. john kirby spoke. >> i can tell you that we discovered these flights after we came into office and there's, i'm not going to get into the specifics of how we did the forensics, i think you can understand that we are going to be careful about that. >> john kirby also says no plans for the u.s. to return the debris from the chinese spycraft. many officials are relieved the spy ship was shot down and will not be floating over the united states when president biden gives the state of the union arrest tomorrow night, john. >> john: lucas, thanks, talk to you soon. >> gillian: lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are calling for the u.s. to take a tougher stance on china. aishah hasnie joins us from capitol hill with details. sounds like eve

>> this video shows the moment an f-22 shot down the chinese spy flight with a side winder heat seeking missile. the first air to air kill since the f22 entered service in 2005 and the first time the u.s. has shot down -- the foreign ministry in china denied it was a spy flight and saying they oppose a u.s. attack on an unmanned air force by force. the chinese side repealing side of the civilian nature of the air ship and conveyed its entry into the u.s. was totally unexpected. president biden's transportation secretary took a victory lap yesterday. >> great example of the coordination and cooperation between a lot of different players in our government to make sure everything happened safely. the president gave the order on wednesday that he wanted this thing brought down but brought down safely. >> president biden and many white house officials are relieved this chinese spy flight was shot down and not floating over the united states when the president gives the state of the union address tomorrow at the capitol. >> harris: interesting noting that timing, right? they had eight days to

video shows the moments that f-22 raptor out of langley shot down the chinese balloon with a side winder missile. the first time since pearl harbor that the u.s. has shot down a hostile aircraft over u.s. territory. hawaii wasn't a state back then. in a press briefing with reporters, the top general admitted the u.s. military did not detect the earlier flights during the trump administration. john kirby also spoke earlier with reporters. >> i can tell you that we discovered these flights after we came in to office. i'm not going to get into the specifics of how we did the forensics. you can understand that we'll be careful about that. >> john kirby also said that the u.s., there's no plans to return any of the debris found in the ocean back to china. certainly there's some relief here at the white house because officials here did not want that chinese spy craft still floating over the united states when president biden gives his state of the union address tomorrow night at the capitol. neil? >> neil: thanks for that. go to jennifer griffin at the pentagon and how our defense folks are we

. >> reporter: brian, the f-16 fighter jet fired a single the side winder missile yesterday droppinghigan. there is no explanation for what the object was other than the description of the object with strings hanging from it and no discernible pay load it was traveling at 20,000 feet. the military will recover the object from the lake waters in the coming days. it is unprecedented number of encounters started on february 4th with the surveillance balloon was shot down over south carolina and then another object over alaskan air space. that is roughly the size of the small car. on saturday, the fighter jet shot down the object over canada it is not clear where the latest three objects came from or who sent them or the intent of the objects. it seems clear the white house is under pressure to provide answers to this as the week goes on brian. >> i have 100 questions and not enough time. are we going to get -- when can we expect to get real information? they are having the press conferences not on camera. pentagon giving us basic facts the u.s. government, as far as they are telling us,

specifics on how once the balloon reached the atlantic coast it was shot down with a single side winder from an f-22 fighter jet. >> we got it >> boom! >> we have eyes on the balloon falling. >> a spokesperson for the chinese ministry of foreign affairs responng this morning, calling it an unacceptable and irresponsible action china raised eyebrows over the weekend saying they retained the right to respond further meanwhile, republicans slam president biden for not shooting it down immediately. >> the president taking it down over the atlantic is sort of like the quarterback tackling the quarterback after the game is over. the satellite had completed its mission. >> on saturday, the president said his military advisers did not want to risk harming civilians or damaging property with falling debris. >> ordered the pentagon to shoot it down as soon as possible. they decided that the best time to do that was when it got over water. >> the biggest question puzzling top u.s. officials, why would president xi risk sending a spy unit across the entire united states, clearly visible from the gr

general confirming the first missile a side winder missed the object over lake huron. >> the missile landed harmlessly in the water of lake huron and tracked it down and we made sure that the air space was clear of any commercial, civilian or recreational traffic. >> reporter: new audio authenticated by the air force from the pilots trying to figure out what that object was over the great lakes. >> some kind of dark object. we can see something strange down below it. can't tell anything. >> reporter: the u.s. and canada having not yet recovered debris from the last three objects shot down and senior biden administration official says it's possible they may never be able to. >> very difficult terrain. the second one off the coast of alaska is up in some really, really difficult terrain in the arctic circle with very, very low temperatures in the minus 40s. >> blast one. coi one. >> reporter: audio of the moment an f-22 shot down the chinese spy balloon. >> the balloon is completely destroyed. >> reporter: the u.s. military has recovered a significant portion of the balloon. >> divers

secretary sent f22 raptor recording its first air to fair kill in the history firing a side winder heat seeking missile destroying the apparatus from that video shot by the fox news team outside of myrtle beach. two u.s. officials say a similar chinese spy balloon crashed into the pacific off the coast of hawaii four months ago and that's not been previously reported and the pentagon said three other chinese spy balloons crossed into the lower 48 during the trump administration and something trump and his top administrations refute. here is john radcliff on sunday morning features. >> you remember during the trump administration when photographers on the ground and commercial airline pilots were talking about spy balloon over the united states and people could look up and see with the neighborhood eye and media that hated donald trump wasn't reporting? i don't remember that either because it didn't happen? as i said to you earlier, this was unprecedented. >> it'll congressman said the pentagon told his office about the spy balloons it crossed into the lower 48 states including one that

the impact of the aim 9 side winder missile into the balloon and the instrument array below it fallingas it floats down back to earth. there's the envelope once more. there was a huge restricted piece of air space put in place by the faa. what i think is likely the largest piece of restricted air space ever put in place by the faa. we're talking about 150 miles by 150 miles. to put this into context, that's about five times the size of the restricted air space over washington, d.c. twice the size of the state of massachusetts because these military fighters were essentially circling like sharks waiting for the right moment to strike here. we have found out from president biden, he said getting off of air force one in hagerstown, maryland, earlier today, that he ordered a shootdown of this chinese spy balloon on wednesday but the department of defense wanted to wait until the balloon was out over the atlantic ocean and not putting any risk to those on the ground below it. the other really critical thing here that really tipped us off from this temporary flight restriction when it was pu

. >> sean, like the old amx commercials, raptor jet $200 million, side winder missile, $400,000, butiles an hour, 60,000 feet, classified information, like -- >> harris, how amazing to see such a display of strength. >> if i tell you, i have to kill you. >> it's all about strength and freedom, and especially live on air, incredible. >> i'm greedy. i don't know why we were the only ones to capture it, wall to wall to wall that we were kicking some, and china would have kicked earlier in the journey had we been flying in their air space. maybe just listen to the pentagon. i'm with joey jones on this, i'm not so certain they were listened to the way they should have, but with afghanistan the generals were not listened to how to pull out either. >> that's right. >> the president must have strained his back throwing people under the bus this weekend. [laughter] i love the stats that you recited because now we know, if it's possible and military aircraft, some day that will be the reality in civilian aircraft and i will be in paris in 90 minutes. >> thank you everyone for watching. thank y

it was f-22 launch out of langley air force base that fired an a-9 side winder missile that's a fairly short range weapon. so they had to get up close. the pentagon says the jets were about 28,000 feet. the balloon, between 60 and 65,000 feet. it was one shot, one kill for the balloon. >> thank you very much. let's go to arlette sciaenz fors at the white house. busy saturday afternoon. what are we hearing from the president? he was very emphatic this afternoon to make it clear he issued this order on wednesday. i thought that was interesting. >> yeah, jim. president biden really trying to lay out the timeline for when this decision was made, saying he told his military leaders to shoot down that plane as soon as possible when he was briefed on wednesday. of course, the military leaders put together options for him and ultimately advised they wanted to wait until there were safer moments where fewer people might be impacted compared to if they had shot it down over land, for instance. but president biden was on air force one as the military carried out this plan this afternoon. here's w

fighters, f-22s met the balloon off the coast of the carolinas and took it down with a single side windera's foreign ministry responded with strong dissatisfaction and protest. a day earlier secretary of state tony blinken had postponed a planned trip to china. joining me to talk about all this is phil mudd, who had top roles in both the cia and the fbi. phil, welcome. what do you make of this incident? >> boy, on a scale of one two ten on national security issues, i'll politely give it about a two. this says a lot more about the inability of washington and congress and the white house to talk about relatively insignificant national security issues than it does about intelligence. look, if the chinese want to collect photos of america, you could get to google earth, you could get a chinese secret satellite. and i would agree there are certain advantages a balloon would have. but, fareed, we twisted ourselves around a balloon and the secretary of state canceled a trip for a balloon. give me a break. this is a two on a scale of one to ten. >> and it does strike me like the line in casa blan

fighter jet, somewhere, uses another side winder bissell to popular number five, or to hit you a phone number five or when irish or what now is to use. one of the top lawmakers on the intelligence community in the house. from what they called a gang of eight which gets briefed on all the most sensitive intelligence stuff. he's just gonna join us live here tonight to help us understand what exactly is going on with these now multiple shoot downs. i -- a lot more about what's going on here and they have thus far told us. is there big information gap between what we know in the government knows. that's ahead tonight. we're also gonna be talking tonight about president biden surprise firing. a federal official he was still in place as of today from the trump administration. here's a trump appointee but president biden has fired him tonight. and interesting ali both the republican leader of the senate and the republican speaker of the house, say they support the firing. they support president biden, getting rid of his trump appointed official, that is a somewhat strange story that's breakin

of northern illinois fears its silver coated party-style balloon may have been shot down by a side winder missile over canada. the missile costs a lot of money. the balloon not so much. >> sandra: estimated cost $12 of the balloon. >> bill: the missile upwards of $4 hundred grand. dana has the day off. welcome, i'm bill hemmer. sandra, welcome back to you. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. president biden said three of the objects taken down by the u.s. military were likely tied to private companies or related to recreation or research. now he is directing his team to develop sharper rules for distinguishing objects that present safety risks and require action from those that are harmless. he says the u.s. will continue to engage with china. >> bill: republican presidential candidate nikki haley former governor of south carolina, key state for presidential primaries. i understand you are in new hampshire this morning. welcome to our program. a big week for you and want to get to all this now. first of all, joe biden, the president, called peter alexander of nbc news after the press conference

force base as well as f 15 and tankers in the end it was a single f 22 that fired a single a 9 side winderange heat seeking missile that pierces the balloon bringing down the surveillance balloon as it made its way across the u.s., that's the military side the diplomatic side as well, the u.s. making it very clear they found this unacceptable and considered a violation of u.s. air space and now would have seen the military's response >> senior ivan watson is standing by in hong kong with latest from there, china doubling down issuing strong words after the u.s. downed the balloon. >> that's right, beijing is saying that if the, essentially, if the u.s. fly as balloon over china it will probably shoot it down look at the statement coming from the defense defense ministry, the u.s. used force to attack our civilian unmanned air ship which is an obvious overreaction, we express solemn protest by this move and reserve the right to use necessary means to deal with similar situations. there has been a shift in the tone from beijing on friday evening, the chinese foreign ministry expressed regret

military tack one shot with an air to air missile known as a side winder when it left south carolina on saturday. six minutes on the flight over the atlantic ocean it was brought down by an f-22 fighter jet. i'm told they estimated they had approximately 18 minutes to shoot it down after it left the mainland and remained over territorial waters before it entered international waters 12 miles off the coast. it's illegal to shoot down anything outside of that 12-mile coastal range, that's the reason i'm told they did not shoot it down near the aleutians. they tell me u.s. intelligence was collecting intelligence on the balloon as it floated across the continental u.s. and raised security protections, shields over any sensitive sites. here is john kirby. >> we took steps to mitigate whatever collection capability the balloon would have over sensitive military sites. no, i'm not going to talk about what the measures were but did that, we had the time to do that. >> and we have just confirmed that u-two spy planes were circling the balloon as it crossed across the continental u.s., we hav

do that in a timely and efficient effective way is through fighter aircraft and through the side winderair missiles. even though we had no indications that any of these three objects were surveilling, we couldn't rule that out. >> can we call then objects or balloons? >> still objects. where we go from

it is expensive using side winder missiles at $4 hundred thousand a pop. >> what is the game plan forssion they were quite surprised by all of this. that would suggest that maybe we need a new plan to protect our own airspace. but the complete absence of any useful information has been what has been most on display here over the last week and a half. so i hope the president will say something to the american people. i hope it goes far beyond what we've been able to glean from these so-called classified briefings that we've had over the last week or so. >> dana: it looks like from reading that many in the foreign policy establishment especially on the left are encouraging the administration not to get too mad at china about this and secretary blinken might have an opportunity to talk to one of his counterparts in the near future. what do you think the biden administration should say to the chinese? >> well look, the chinese are clearly an adversary. they've teamed up with iran to support the russians in ukraine. and they are not being helpful on anything i can think of in the national

, you outlined the difference in cost it aches to scramble an f-22 and then i believe it's a side winderot it down. we're talking hundreds of thousands into the millions if we do this over and over again whereas one of their balloons is less than a million dollars. in other words, we're going to be the on the paying side of this, so they can just keep sending balloons regardless of capability and cost us a lot of money. if we look at this map, we have f-22s, i believe this is the flight path. they come up, they scramble, they wait on the mission, they go out. this is burning fossil fuels, it's costing a lot of time and resources. is there a chance that's part of the mission here? >> that's part of it, certainly. china, what they're trying to do is sort of test the ability of the united states to track these balloons and other drones and see how we respond and just sort of impose costs. they've been doing this to japan with aircraft for about a decade now. so they force us to respond, spending $80,000 an hour with an f-22, spending $300,000 for a sidewinder missile, so that's part of the

do that in a timely and efficient effective way is through fighter aircraft and through the side winder air-to-air missiles. even though we had no indications that any of these three objects were surveilling, we couldn't rule that out. >> can we call then objects or balloons? >> still objects. where we go from here, we don't know right now. >> neil: a lot we don't know right now. the white house defending their decision to shoot down three more aerial objects. that makes four in eight days. but we actually know little more this day. this pressure is growing and growing a lot on the president to address the issue himself and in person head on. so far that's a no-go. we've got fox team coverage with jacqui heinrich at the white house on if the administration is lowing the bar on future shoot downs. jennifer griffin at the pentagon on defense secretary lloyd austin speaking up and the chairman of the house intelligence committee, mike turner, on what he wants to hear about possible future shootdowns and where we go from here. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. jacqui heinrich has more. >

are able to, you know, we had one shot with an f-16 that was unable on the first shot with a side winderare very complex, you know, very complex mission, again, we are not trained or are they designed f-16 or f-22 to go after a slow mover 5 or 10 knott balloon. can i tell you at the weapon school or certainly at top gun we don't train, this isn't in our playbook. >> jesse: you don't train on popping balloons. >> no we don't. >> jesse: i would agree. >> this is a significant threat. and it's a wake-up call for americans. the fact that the chinese are operating this global spy campaign through balloons. they are in a region, at least that first balloon shot down on the 4th of february by an f-22 that was operating up around 65,000 feet. that's in a near space regime that i believe the chinese are trying to exploit. we don't operate up there very much. we have got some reconnaissance aircraft u2 and hawk unmanned vehicle. a region the chinese will try to exploit and they are doing it. five continents. >> jesse: biden team is saying that the wind just blew it around here. they are saying thi

stef what we don't have is pictures of the up identified objects planes they missed one with a side winder have a lot of information other than now there's this inclination to say it might just be weather balloons or exploratory things from people and companies. >> yeah. we are certainly hearing from senators on both sides of the aisle who are pushing for more transparency. they think the american public needs to know more about what went down over the weekend. what we do know about these up identified objects so far. you know, have told senators it seems they have not been able to identify those objects. have not been able to recover those objects that were shot down. that's part of the problem. with the lack of information. they are still trying to find those. especially given kind of the more rural areas where these things were shot down. they were difficult to locate. i'm sure we are going to continue to see pressure from republicans especially for president biden to speak to this and address the american people on this. >> speaking of which the white house press secretary dealt with a

. >> brian: side winders. >> ainsley: how do they not interfere?e: here's why, most flights last two hours. drift 125 miles and can reach up to 100,000 feet at which point often they just explode. >> brian: i have a ship in the bottle. do you think the navy is going to attack it? >> steve: no. no. don't tell. >> brian: i don't want a submarine to take it out. >> ainsley: laugh about it is outrageous. >> he is saying who is going to be the one to tell the american public we blew up a $12 balloon? >> well, senator ted cruz of texas said put this out on a tweet to be fair joe biden is providing powerful deterrence for any high school science clubs that might try to invade america. >> steve: that's how much we know so are if a. could have been just a $12 balloon. >> china not off the hook. you still did the first one. the other three well, stand down. >> remember that description of that object so he lynn demois i lynndemocratic call. >> what happened to our balloon? though just made the news. i think suddenly. >> brian: they need a balloon. they are o