#shorts a reporter asked White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, “Before the Chinese spy balloon incident led to a finetuning of radar, how is the administration tracking these flying objects, if at all?

MR. KIRBY: … how were we tracking these before?

Reporter: Correct. Because the reason why you were able to detect and shoot down these three objects the President said yesterday was because we finetuned —

MR. KIRBY: They adjusted the radar.
Reporter: Correct. Yeah.
MR. KIRBY: Yeah.
Reporter: So what were you doing before, if anything, to track aerial objects?

MR. KIRBY: The commander of NORAD, General VanHerck, spoke to this last week. And the way he characterized it was that they were — they were …

Reporter: So it sounds like — you know, yesterday, the President said that he wanted to work to establish a better inventory of unmanned airborne objects. Does that mean currently there is no inventory?

MR. KIRBY: I wouldn’t say there’s none, but — but I think it’s fair to say that he wants us to focus a little bit more on this particular issue

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. CBS White House reporter Weijia Jiang asked NSC Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby on how the Biden Administration was able to track Chinese spy balloons during the Trump years since the radar was just upgraded to track them. Kirby struggled to come up with a plausible response.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/8H5cTJhpB6A
How Biden Admin was able to track Chinese spy balloons during Trump years since radar was just upgraded to track them?