Anytime a politician answers a question with "thank you for the question" you know they are going to fill you with BS!

If a Federal employee can't answer the question without blustering, they should be fired.

I served with NORAD during my time in the service. That balloon would have been shot down before it ever reached land a few years ago. The real question is: Who gave the command not to shoot, and why?

Whenever they start out with "Senator Thanks for the question" next comes an evasive answer. How do they have custody of something in the air.

Who is making these decisions to let the Balloon roam and how far?

"Senator, thank you for the question. We have been fully bought and paid for by the CCP. Almost all of us are compromised."

Why due taxpayers still have to pay people who are asked about there jobs NEVER KNOW ANYTHING???

He knows, she knows, we ALL know, that IF they didn't know about these balloons, they should have! It's literally their job, FFS.

And the only reason we are having this conversation is becaue the public could SEE this one?

Someone's going to have to come up with a new word because I believe the word classified has lost its value completely.

stop with the THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These people fail upwards constantly and consistently. And when they drop they ball they just stonewall or keep saying ahh and uhm until they can leave smh. YOU AS A CITIZEN , should try that next time you are under oath. You’ll be held in contempt fined and jailed until you cooperate.

Being Canadian, I did not find out until it was already in the lower 48. FJT and FJB

The bigger question and problem is why if 3 times before balloons came in our airspace wasn't the Trump and his administration notified about these things! To me that is the bigger problem considering the American people elected him as commander and chief anyone that knew about these balloons and didn't notify the president and his staff should be fired!!

Do we have a plan?? Response: We have to put 10 committees together in the next year to study a response.

Why can't anybody answer simple yes and no questions? I have a problem with it too!

I dont understand why The Montana National Guard didnt shoot it down. The Governor could've given the order.

WHAT ARE WE WAITING ON? WHAT IF THE CHINESE FILL THE BALLOON WITH FENTANYL?

Im so sick of HEARING. Thanks for the question. Blaaa blaaa ....

Sorry, our CDN air force was unavailable. Both of our fighter jets r in Haiti.

Any one else tired of being told that's classified on the things we actually need answers on

You know President Trump would have shot them down.

Classified setting because they're lying.

Thay are bioweapons platforms. Let's just hope that this balloon did not let loose a Plage or a covid variant it will take a few weeks to know if it did.

Total idiocy, not fit for purpose! Waffle, waffle , thankyou for the question, lets talk in a SCIF to reduce our incompetence level, ect ect!

They were surveying the 600,000 acres of farmland they own.

Very good questions. Have to question do these people know what their job description is? Heaven help us.

I'll never thank anybody for asking me a contentious question.😎🌴

I'm not so sure that the majority of Americans hold the same level of confidence in our senior military leadership that Senator Tester does. I was happy to hear the senator ask some pointed questions but disappointed in most of the panel's responses.

they sent a soft message that we won't do anything this was a big military fail

So these soft spoken, word salad, non answer losers are the ones making our military decisions and demanding more and more money? I would expect our military leaders to be straight forward powerful speaking individuals excited to explain their battle plans

Good grief, can they even answer his question?

We have guesses -- Really?

Hey Forbes can you move your banner to a different place? It covers up all the Peoples Names in Congress. Thank you ❤😅

Finally Tester shows that he indeed has some balls.

Was it transmitting while collecting?

B.S.PURE AND SIMPLE

That's a NO...

Yes I’m concerned about CCP balloons flying over my country as well.

well you cant have a circus without balloons.

It's possable that one purpose of the balloon was to determine the ability to detect it. And the capability to combat it.

Tracked it all the way through its mission to collect information from the United States. I feel so much more secure now after hearing your explanation. You're all doing such a fine job.

All these people have been trained by KJP on how to not answer a question, and waste a massive amount of time

What can you lift with this ballon with a min 1 ton payload?🤔🔥☠

What B.S. I'd assess them a $1 Billion budget cut for that stonewalling.

She doesn't know what she's talking about. No plan!!!!!!

Who is our real enemy ?

These people who get paid to lie. Need to b put in prison.

Its obvious, they wanted to see if wind currents can deliver optimum payloads throughout America

These people. Who r out there trying to answer need to b put in prison.

Tester is A Bozo & talking to a couple of dilly bars that can’t even answer questions about ballons . We are getting ripped off with our trillion dollar defense budget.

If we knew what they were looking for why would we let them get it?

It's time to stop this "classified settings" senerio. The people have the right to know.

I sure hope they aren’t paying these people very much.

Anyone else sick of all the secrecy bs!

note they didnt even attempt to answer what they will do the next time it happens. absolutely incompetent...

We have so many encompitant, and traitors running our government

WY didn't they shoot it down before it entered the U.S.A air space that's the question.

They had custody of it?????? as it was flying across the country

Well, considering how far it got before we even noticed it, I don't see why they couldn't attach a nuclear weapon to it.

What the he’ll is going on with this country. Our DOJ, FBI, and DOD are all weak minded

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Classified setting? Should the American ppl not know?

As long as Joe is in the pockets of the Chinese, stuff like this WILL continue.

Absolutely 🙄🙄🙄🙄

He wasn't kidding about the SCIF.

NORAD CAN TRACK SANTA CLAUSE BUT NOT A BALLOON

This is such bs.. it should've Never been allowed to even Enter our Air Space‼️

BIG WASTE OF TIME. JAIL PEOPLE THAT CAN'T ANSWER QUESTIONS.

How many millions of people saw, recorded, reported on, and tracked this balloon? Not a peep from anyone about any of the previous incursions until Monday.

No they didn't know until Chase in Montana got it out that's how we knew

Why was there a payload and could it be something airborne?hmm

my question is dI'd they use balloons to spread the sickness ?

That “protects” us and we paid for it. Let that sink in

why was it not shot down as soon as it entered U.S. airspace???????????????

I have no faith in NORAD!!!

Because there were no last ones. She sits there and lies.

Contempt of congress, these people need to be arrested and criminally charged.

I want to know....if it's happened before....why wasn't the President notified the last time....why didn't you let President Trump know 🤔 about it.....and if you didn't tell him.....who is going to be brought up on charges for treason?

Is anyone going to comment on the lack of respect Gen Milley busy calling China without his chain of command Pres Trump

Incapable of answering a question .

It's way above any of their pay grades, these chubby little old n young folks hav NO need to know.

I hear a LOT of words , but hear NO answer.. It was allowed to a LONGER duration WTH .. A strong msg to CCP , "Words will never hurt me".. WTH

Plot twist China are just trolling everyone with their balloon.

The military doesn't know how to deal with a balloon ffs!!

"Thank you for the question" means "I am wasting precious time."

If people are on in infinity loop of bureaucratic malaise, they know precisely what’s going on, they just don’t know the continent but the continent since it was a military drone has the implied by common sense that the drone itself as far as the balloons whereabouts was centered around gathering military intelligence, because of the trajectory we knew it was traveling To try to conflate the matter with water previous administration had done is pure nonsense - The problem is the Democrat apparatus has swung into deflection mode, but they changed the input, so they can’t deflect anything because they took an unprecedented action and allowing the things to penetrate the nations interior farther than they had before, which they don’t have an answer for, which they are not going to have an answer for. Which nail paint this potentially as a paid a play operation, specifically pointed at Joe Biden receiving payment from China, the speculation would be, that $53 million they received, for the so-called “think tank” Penn/Biden was does pay to play. And would make sense the Ty of why Hunter Biden was there, peddling or pimping dad‘s influence, and collect the checks

The reason the other balloons weren't shot down is because they didn't exist!

How Crooked is the DOD now?

Just answer the questions

I rather think it ought to be obvious to everyone what the intent of the balloons is

Thank you my Arse!

Oh please knowing about the Balloon

"It didn't count. It was just the tip."

I had to watch this one, I knew would be hilarious!

Let Intelligence Prevail GOP Not Intelligent to Prevail

Stop thanking the senators for the questions and answer in layman's English please

A whole congressional hearing about a balloon. Tax payers money at work people

They could simply answer , " we dont know , we lied , we f*cked up" Should of been down when it crossed 24 mile mark off shore .

Yeah you sent a very clear message when you shot down the balloon AFTER it traveled anywhere at damn well please to cross our country