Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Chinese spy balloon

U.S. officials said the Chinese spy balloon shot down last weekend was part of a global surveillance program that has operated for years. David Martin spoke to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about the U.S. military's response to the balloon.

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[stingrayman]

This was literally a balloon drone since it had the capability to maneuver. Why on earth would they allow this? Austin should resign

[realtyrocks]

If they had made the balloon blue it would never have been discovered.

[Leo-zv]

Why freak out about a balloon a bunch of Chinese all ready own thousands of acres of American land and property should of been freaking out about that

[mdp]

And, Austin is Surprised That China Did Not Take His Call? No Kidding???

[Ho_ten]

You Sir should have taking it down thousands of mile before SC! Why

[stevanr]

"Tried to call the Chinese to explain" ?? Sounds so weak.

[greetingsearthlingspluto]

Austin can't look the guy in the eye while talking, his eyes are looking to the left. Liar.

[thmountainvet]

The DoD’s Executive Leadership should be investigated. Inexcusable leadership failures from Afghanistan, the boarder, including our airspace. Fire Austin, put Milley out without retirement, pray for new capable non-political military leadership.

[exerciserelax]

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ How did we miss this? Our military has really fallen behind!

[AverageJoe]

It was a weather balloo, just like they didn’t release COVID, and treat Uyghurs wonderfully.

[emersondvortex]

The multi-billion dollar Dept of Defense didn't notice, some farmer did ???

[cbeto]

Yep it was shot down AFTER mission was Accomplished 🤦‍♂️🤡🤦‍♂️ they KNEW about this yet it continues😑😑

[anotherguy]

Would Austin be OK with the balloon if it was rolling low and slow with some 20-inch gold rims?

[MrChange]

This is a great achievement for the USA military. Something the USA should celebrate every year from now on.

What a huge achievement, using all that technology to bring down a weather balloon!

[anotherguy]

Austin said, "try to catch me ridin dirty."

[veramae]

It went like this --
Chinese launch balloon: evil laughter
American military: "meh"
Chinese: weep into elbows

[darvoid]

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When I switch to another channel from this one I have to turn my volume WAY down.

[SAVAGESUN]

We should consider this an act of war.

[Monkey]

Reminded me of US Secretary of State Colin Powell sitting straight face lying about Iraq's WMD at the United Nations!

[gtfivehundred]

So instead of addressing the country our security leaders call CBS