- A stage.
And he shot it down when he shot it down based
on the advice of the military.
You don't think he should have ordered
it to be shot down earlier against the advice
of the Joint Chiefs, do you?
MARCO RUBIO: Well, I think it first
begins by understanding when did we
first track it over airspace?
Theoretically, if it entered to Alaska NORAD,
it's our system of spotting things and protecting
both American and Canadian airspace sort
of spotted it a lot earlier.
So I'd love to hear from military officials
about why wasn't it addressed earlier.
What were the options at that point?
Again, look, maybe in a closed session
or maybe in the settings of-- with a benefit of hindsight,
they'll have some real good arguments
about why it couldn't be done.
I recognize that you shoot something out of the sky that's
the size of three buses and it lands in the wrong place,
it could hurt, harm, kill people or damage infrastructure.
But by the same token, I think that if that was the case, then
I think it really would have been helpful for the President
of the United States to get on national television
and explain to the American people.
This is what we're dealing with.
This is what I'm going to do about it.
And this is why I haven't done it yet.
None of that happened.
And I don't know why.
And in fact, I don't know why they waited so
long to tell people about this.
And if they knew the trajectory that it was on,
it seems from late last week--
- And we're also told, by the way,
that this happened three times under the previous president.
Obviously, there were no public notifications there.
Senator Rubio, thank you for joining us.
We really appreciate your time.
MARCO RUBIO: Thank you.
- All right, let's bring in Admiral Mike.