Dan Lamothe

I think in particular, the idea that you would restrict it for 10 days was pretty striking.

You know, it would be one thing to restrict it for a couple hours for a specific reason.

But a 10-day period of time, that's a major airport, that's a major city.

It just struck people as kind of like completely out of pocket.

The Pentagon was interested in testing counter drone technology, and I think using the counter drone technology.

And we're told it was a laser based technology, basically shooting down drones was the idea.

And FAA was not sufficiently comfortable with how this would work, and whether commercial flights would be safe.

So when they didn't have the level of detail they wanted, we are told that they then restricted the airspace.

They apparently did shoot down a couple things.

There is reporting that they actually ended up shooting down Mylar party balloons.

So not a threat, if that's what it was.

I think when we look forward, the question is going to be, how do you address this?

And that comes around airports, around military bases, around stadiums.

Like there's all kinds of places where you would potentially have a concern with these drones.

We've got an incoming president who has openly and repeatedly threatened to fire anyone associated with the fall of Afghanistan. We've got a nominee for the defense secretary job in Pete Hegseth, who has said that one of the first things he would do would be to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

We've got an incoming president who has openly and repeatedly threatened to fire anyone associated with the fall of Afghanistan. We've got a nominee for the defense secretary job in Pete Hegseth, who has said that one of the first things he would do would be to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

We've got an incoming president who has openly and repeatedly threatened to fire anyone associated with the fall of Afghanistan. We've got a nominee for the defense secretary job in Pete Hegseth, who has said that one of the first things he would do would be to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

So I think at minimum, there's a great deal of apprehension and concern and alarm that I'm hearing from my sources right now in the Pentagon and just kind of around the Defense Department as an institution in general.

So I think at minimum, there's a great deal of apprehension and concern and alarm that I'm hearing from my sources right now in the Pentagon and just kind of around the Defense Department as an institution in general.

So I think at minimum, there's a great deal of apprehension and concern and alarm that I'm hearing from my sources right now in the Pentagon and just kind of around the Defense Department as an institution in general.