#shorts a reporter asked White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, “The President’s critics obviously see it differently. And what they depict is a Commander-in-Chief who, according to a Washington Post reporting, was able to track this Chinese spy balloon from the inception of its mission off of Hainan Island, all the way to U.S. airspace and across the country. And eventually, that was shot down after the Chinese had a good look at whatever they wanted to see with that balloon. And who then presided over a series of missions in which millions and millions of dollars were spent and missiles were fired at objects that you now concede most likely were benign in nature. And that suggests a Commander-in-Chief who overreacted after allowing the Chinese spy balloon to do what it did and then went trigger-happy on a bunch of kites and balloons that had no military threat to them. What do you say to that depiction of events?

MR. KIRBY: I’ve already — I’ve already reacted to that exact criticism in the first questions of the briefing. I’ve already reacted to it. Nobody — no Americans in the air were hurt. No Americans in the air or — and the ground were hurt, James …

Reporter: And with everything you know now — knowing everything he knows now, would he take the exact same steps and shoot off these expensive missiles at these benign objects?

MR. KIRBY: We’re going to put some more policy parameters in place, James, to govern the way we handle these going forward. You make the best decisions you can

On 2/17/2023, John Kirby told reporters that Biden launched a $439,000 missile to pop a $12 balloon near Alaska — but insisted that it was “exactly the right thing to do” either way. Kirby faced the press one day after the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade said its silver party-style balloon may have been one of three unidentified objects that Biden ordered shot down this past weekend.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/8H5cTJhpB6A
Commander-in-Chief overreacted, allowing balloon, then trigger-happy on bunch of kites and balloons