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"China was able to control the balloon so it could make multiple passes over some of the sites (at times flying figure-eight formations) and transmit the information it collected back to Beijing in real time," quoting the officials, the NBC report said on Monday. "The

It made multiple passes over security weapons sites like in montana. the balloon was doing figure 8 formations to repeatedly go over certain areas to pick up electronic signals from weapons systems and send it back to china in real time. back on february 9, president biden downplayed the risk. watch. >> no, look, the total amount of intelligence gathering going on by every country around the world is overwhelming. the idea that a balloon could traverse -- break american airspace is -- anyway, it...

And thats not because of any natural law. its because of policy choices in this country. your president forwards pay attention to energy and people dont. >> and i know that you do. >> thanks so much for that analysis. appreciate leisure. so when administration told us that the big chinese spy balloon wasnt really a spy balloon because it wasnt actually collecting sensitive data because we had somehow shielded our military bases, nuclear sites, remember when national security reporters repeated t...

United states. >> thats a plausible statement ,though. >> john kirby in the pentagon told us these things and so we will uncritically report them to you endlessly. our next guest was actually brought into the white house or into the dni to receive intel on the balloon shortly after it happened. >> joining me now is john ratcliffe, former director of national intelligence under president trump. john , thanks for being here. so you came along with other trump administration officials saying this d...

Sites, including secure nuclear weapons sites like malmstrom air force base in montana. >> and the balloon was doing figure eight former to repeatedly go over certain areas to pick up electronics signals from weapons systems and send it back to china in real time. back on february 9th, president biden downplayed the risk. oh, look, the total amount of intelligence gathering is going on where every country around the world is overwhelming. and the idea that the balloon could traverse american air...

Again the government lied to us

Data erased by the chinese government. and that raises a lot of questions, of course. about whether it collected intelligence and captured images that the us simply does not know about at this point. now we are told that the fbi is still conducting its investigation, but ultimately, you know, it raises questions about whether when this balloon was passing over the sensitive military sites. it was able to capture imagery and then send it back to beijing. in real time, were told, and then beijing ...

Going to make us feel safer. that begs the question are we saved from homeland security standpoint? >> we are absolutely not. a lot of people are focused on the southern border. but the balloon should we have problems in the northern border as well. essentially he failed to invest and protect a home that we spent a lot of money on employing military but when it comes to border security and understanding error airspace and comes to understanding the area around the united states, we have done a p...

And how we have so many people in power who are in cahoots with communist china businesses. make a lot of money through communist china. its interesting, the previous administration we had peace breaking out all over the world, peace agreements, no new wars, ending of wars, a strong economy, pivoted to china and then we were told that adults would be in charge and they would take care of things. we have world war iii on the brink of breaking up because we have no strategy for how her managing th...

U.s. marines still being detained. i note that the state department spokesman said theres two different scenarios when talking about the currently detained wsj reporter. why? watch to be treated differently? we werent privy to that articulation between brittney griner and paul wheeler last year, can we have insight into it now? every american life should be valued exactly the same way through the eyes of arden mr. risch end. if there is been different. maybe we should know about it. the irony, t...