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Officials say the hot air balloon they were riding in caught fire. The cause of the accident was under investigation

The narrative. now the media conveniently leaves out anything that it doesnt want to be front and center. its all january 6. did you see what they did? january 6. trump is coming back. how about the fact that the guy who is the president right now cant form a sentence. he makes up words and stumbles through things and no one says a thing about it. brian: is america going to survive another two years or six years with this guy. this is critical time. anything you want to contest. >> contest, no, ...

Brian: what are we doing about it? blowing up our drones in international flight space. >> repeatedly asked secretary austin if we changed the air space we were flying the zones we were flying. he didnt answer that question. brian: they arrested an american reporter from the "wall street journal" on laughable espionage charges in russia. the chinese balloon flying over our country. there was no decision for five days. >> the intel community made me aware on the 27th. >> did you speak with secret...

Brian: what are we doing about it? blowing up our drones in international flight space. >> repeatedly asked secretary austin if we changed the air space we were flying the zones we were flying. he didnt answer that question. brian: they arrested an american reporter from the "wall street journal" on laughable espionage charges in russia. the chinese balloon flying over our country. there was no decision for five days. >> the intel community made me aware on the 27th. >> did you speak with secret...

Brian: what are we doing about it? blowing up our drones in international flight space. >> repeatedly asked secretary austin if we changed the air space we were flying the zones we were flying. he didnt answer that question. brian: they arrested an american reporter from the "wall street journal" on laughable espionage charges in russia. the chinese balloon flying over our country. there was no decision for five days. >> the intel community made me aware on the 27th. >> did you speak with secret...

Tend to stop in terms of going higher, f—22, typhoon can operate up to 60,000 feet or even a little above. its tricky being up there. there are considerations around pilot life support and pressurisation of the cockpit. typically, aircraft are designed to operate at really extreme altitudes above that, like the u—2 spy plane or the sr71 blackbird, again, spy plane. crews would wear kind of spacesuits, full pressure suits, and most jet fighters arent equipped for that. also, where there have ...

Did we know what that balloon was trying to gather? do we know what information it was trying to gather from the united states? it didnt fly over us by accident, it was intentional. do we know what the chinese communist government was looking for? senator, we have some very good guesses about that. and we are learning more as we exploit the contents of the balloon and the payload itself. 0k. what might the chinese be trying to find out? lee hudson covers defence and aerospace for politico. lee, ...

Typically tries to protect. people at first thought, why balloons? but i guess your point is that there are things balloons offer that satellites and other techniques might not. it can be hard to distinguish where a balloon is coming from. for example, a satellite or a drone, you could say its coming from x countrys military, but with a balloon, its more benign. and so beijing tried to say that it was being used for meteorological purposes. a bit of deniability about what theyre really up to, yo...

Brian: what are we doing about it? blowing up our drones in international flight space. >> repeatedly asked secretary austin if we changed the air space we were flying the zones we were flying. he didnt answer that question. brian: they arrested an american reporter from the "wall street journal" on laughable espionage charges in russia. the chinese balloon flying over our country. there was no decision for five days. >> the intel community made me aware on the 27th. >> did you speak with secret...

A dart at a balloon? there was outcry in america as to why a massive spy balloon had not been spotted and shot down earlier. but that meant in the next few days, they were now seeing many more of what were described not as balloons, but objects. if anything enters into our airspace, whether we know what it is or not, we will monitor it and well take appropriate action. one was seen over alaska and shot down near a place called deadhorse on february 10th. the next day, another object was shot dow...