US MILITARY SHOOTS DOWN CHINESE SPY BALLOON OVER ATLANTIC OCEAN
In this photo provided by Brian Branch, a large balloon drifts above the Kingston, North Carolina area, with an airplane and its contrail seen below it. (Brian Branch via AP)
I think the American people are owed answers. I mean, you look at this when it was discovered by a local press outlet in Montana, it was monitored for days. The White House was completely quiet on it for the most part about what was going on, what the response was going to be, and look, China's one of our biggest adversaries. To see this, when people looked up in the sky when I was driving around earlier, you know, people were pulled over to the side of the road, they were pulling out their camera phones — a lot of intrigue about this. This is an interesting time, but a lot of people have questions about this, and for me, I'm incredibly concerned about where this was headed and why it took so long to address.
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Hats off to the men and women for a successful mission and for taking this thing out.