John Kirby uses Chinese spy balloon incident to take shot at Trump, boost Biden. But here's what a top general said.

Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, took credit for the security lapse and described the security failure as a "domain awareness gap."

"Every day as a NORAD commander, it's my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats," VanHerck said. "And that's a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out."--More...

KIRBY: "[Chinese balloon program] was operating during the previous administration, but they did not detect it, we detected it. We tracked it." pic.twitter.com/ynZGvGcTyr

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