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Administration has talked about it, you know, its not a balloon. its an object. its an unidentified flying object. thats how we always characterize things from mars. >> katie: not an alien though. >> steve: this is why the "new york post" has this on their cover "take me to your leaders." white house bumbling to insist its not aliens. apparently the "new york times" has got some great reporting on in this morning. this is something. a sign of how closely the united states was monitoring the ball...

Briefing. >> president biden came into office directed the u.s. intelligence community to do a broad assessment of chinese intelligence capability. china has a high altitude balloon program for intelligence collection connected to the peoples liberation army operating during the previous administration but they did not detect it. we detected it. >> dana: how do you respond to that? >> look, in the trump administration we were constantly assessing chinese capabilities intelligence and military do...

American people about the challenges we face and to protect citizens on the ground and the air. >> sandra: john kirby took time to answer questions but did not offer up a lot of new information other than confirming china has a balloon program and has for quite some time and they could develop it further and it could be, you know, a force to reckon with. i want to ask you about the economy. it seems this president and his team tout success on the economy, yet brand-new numbers in the inflation w...

Maybe criminal airlines couldve flown into them. and if youre looking for a pretext to justify shooting them down, that seems as good as any? the three latest objects to be shot, down he was officials are not yet saying what they, are we dont even know with the right now on is to describe them, object seems a little vague. the call from yesterday, an octagonal structure. all these things are balloons? if theyre not of balloons, are they all anyone thing? or theyll do from each other? i do have a...

Balloon program for intelligence collection thats connected to the peoples liberation army. it was operating during the previous administration, but they did not detect it. we detected it. we tracked it. and we have been carefully studying it to learn as much as we can. we know these surveillance balloons have crossed across multiple continents including some of our closest allies and partners. we assessed that at this time, these balloons have provided limited additive capabilities to the prcs ...

In june of 2021. he was briefed that this is not just an issue for the united states but one for the rest of the world. and as i said, our friends and our partners are dealing with this as well. we worked on a bipartisan basis to stand up an office at the pentagon to study this. in partnership with the intelligence community, academic institutions, and the private sector. these unidentified aerial phenomena have been reported for many years without explanation or deep examination by the governme...

BEIJING (AP) — The United States has blacklisted six Chinese entities it said were linked to Beijings aerospace programs as part of its retaliation over an alleged Chinese spy balloon that traversed U.S. airspace.

Officials telling us at one point it did travel over land in alaska but was headed back out to sea. the white house move also praised by alaska senator lisa murkowski, who had blasted the biden administration for not downing a suspected chinese spy balloon that flew near her state two weeks ago. >> i think the message was very important today to say any aspect of u.s. sovereign territory that is encroached upon, theres going to be consequences to it. >> reporter: and off the coast of the carolin...

Gather intelligence data collect intelligence on our three major nuclear sites in this country. why? theyre looking at what is our capability in the event of possible future conflicts in taiwan? theyre really assessing what we have in this country. >> that is very detailed, very specific. he is linking the china balloon, mark, to gathering nuclear intel for possible taiwan conflict. does that make sense to you? >> well, shirt as. the chinese operate not only balloons, we all have a better sense ...

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