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U.S. officials\xa0revealed\xa0a week ago, on Feb. 2, that a Chinese surveillance balloon was flying over the country. Two days later, on Feb. 4, an American fighter jet\xa0shot down\xa0the spy balloon with a missile.\xa0\nChris Miller, acting defense secretary under President Donald Trump, weighs in on the Biden administration\u2019s decision to shoot down China\u2019s balloon and whether he would have handled the situation differently.\xa0\n\u201cThat goes back to when was it identified and when did our sensors pick up that,\u201d Miller says of the spy balloon on \u201cThe Daily Signal Podcast,\u201d adding: \u201cI was a bad map reader, and people that worked with me in the military will attest to that. But I did look at the track of the balloon, and when it came over the Aleutian Islands [off Alaska], there was a lot of blue space.\u201d\xa0\n\u201cThere was a lot of doggone ocean where something could have been done,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve heard that whole [Biden administration] justification: \u2018Well, we didn\u2019t want to knock it down because it would\u2019ve fallen on somebody. Could have injured somebody or killed somebody.\u2019 I mean, that\u2019s a valid request.\u201d\xa0\nMiller adds:\xa0\nLet me give you this one, Samantha: You spent a trillion dollars, $850 billion, [on] defense and we did not have the capability to take control of that doggone balloon and bring it down on our own terms without having to send up a hundred-million-dollar fighter aircraft to shoot a $400,000 Sidewinder missile?On the podcast, Miller discusses some of Biden\u2019s comments on China during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, his thoughts on how the Biden administration responded to the Chinese spy balloon, and his new book\xa0\u201cSoldier Secretary: Warnings from the Battlefield and the Pentagon About America\u2019s Most Dangerous Enemies.\u201d\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.