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Sovereignty, international law, and i told them quite simply that was unacceptable and never happen again. will: one of the things i find fascinating about listening to any continuing commentary the about the chinese balloon is its always in the singular. they, of course, have never confirmed for us where the subsequent balloons that we shot down came from or even what they wereful but they have continued to address the chinese balloon as the chinese balloon, not balloons concern the. pete: or b...

Administration, weve seen competition, not conflict with china. so i make no apologies for taking down that balloon. >> that was on thursday, you think the president was pressured to address americans about this before knowing precisely what those last targets are, or were? did you clear up confusion, or two serious questions still remain? >> after what, two and a half weeks of this balloon, ufo business, i think its time to step back and take stock a little bit. what we know is that whats new h...

Were. the president saying the objects are not believed to be foreign spy balloons or to have had nefarious intent. instead, offering official speculation that they were more likely private research, or even recreational balloons. pointedly, the president said they were not related to chinas balloon program, which gained attention after an alleged chinese spy balloon transited u.s. airspace earlier this month before being shot down by u.s. fighters. the president saying he makes no apologies for...

Correspondent mike emanuel is here with more and that story. >> sources and says the united states has been aware of the chinese balloon program four months. debriefed congress about it and august and officials telling ou colleague, jennifer griffin, they saw this blue take off on january 21. they thought it would travel east. the us was not tracking at the whole way, noting the pacific ocean is a big place. now they want answers about the balloon and the other objects that have been shot down b...

Administration. theres a bit of a different die tactic, a bit of a differentan approach.d and thats probably why president biden and not his predecessor was able to ralls ay the world and the globalakin community and taking steps against against russiasssion. aggression. >>e toe able to determine that china has a high altitude balloon program for intelligence collection thats connected to the peoples liberation army. reviou it was operating during the previous administration, but they did not de...

What could these balloons possibly do. as a cia director you want many views, many possibility, you want sound, you want imagery, you want all of those things. and a low flying balloon over our military installations is a significant, not an insignificant event in the united states of america. >> ainsley: what are they planning? >> brian: keep in mind, china not only isnt apologetic they said yesterday that america abuse force and overhe is indicate lated used these throat illegally sanction chi...

0 out because it was jammed. are we to believe that this didnt get any communications out back to beijing because it was effectively jammed all the way through by either the intelligence agencies or the military? >> yeah, well, dealing with the first thing, its obvious, i think, given the action we took against these three unidentified objects, we did not act accordingly when air space was about to be violated by the spy balloon in alaska, did not shoot it down, that reacted in i think what may ...

Msat, another balloon maker on the blacklist. in this 2017 state media report on m-sat, the anchor touts that they can carry a large number of detectors for surveillance oreck sans for civilian and military use. cnn has reached out to all 6 entities for comment but noun have responded. thinking balloon program is not just for surveillance, but also for strike and the potential for dropping warheads, including hypersonic glide vehicles from high altitudes. >> reporter: this week beijing has made ...

In fact, these objects are benign. >> amid reports the u.s. is considering the possibility china didnt intend to penetrate the american heartland with its surveillance equipment with wind in part possibly driving the balloon along an errant path. u.s. officials are sharing a fuller picture, confirming to fox its unclear whether the chinese intentionally sent the balloon into alaska, then canada, then into the continental u.s. with wind possibly playing a factor. but, also pointing out the balloo...

Threat to anyone on the ground. they do, however, present a risk to civil aviation and potentially an intelligence collection threat. >> the white house says the objects were not sending signals, were drifting and not propelled, but one was flying at about 20,000 feet over sensitive military sites according to the pentagon. >> in light of the chinese balloon program and the recent incursion into our airspace, the united states and canada through norad have been more closely scrutinizing that air...