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Wind speeds vary hugely depending on how high up you are. and at the altitude where this balloon was flying, there is a very stable and predictable wind pattern between china and north america. so what are the balloons actually being used for? the answer is espionage. they carry sensors to collect signals and data as they fly over locations. us officials are analysing the wreckage they recovered from the sea in order to try and understand what exactly those sensors do and what china was after. y...

Trump wanted to nuke a hurricane. you guys wont even throw 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 ...

Going on in outer space. but the question is, 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...

Which can operate significantly above 50,000 feet, which is typically where fast jets 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 71 blackbird, again, spy plane. crews would wear kind of spacesuits, full pr...

Relationship diplomatically with the chinese. the balloon got in the way and now with xi going to ukraine, i think they realize now is not a good time otherwise for us to otherwise be talking with them right now. so they cant quite find their moment to get the relationship back on track. but we have a ways to go to figure it out. >> john: call for number two here. the antony blinken quote. he is saying xis visit is coverage for putin on war crimes. he said president xi is traveling to russia day...

Watching a movie with your family. >> bret: thats really interesting. the total number of operating satellites in space you list at 5465. the u.s. has the most of those. but china has 541 and most of those are reconnaissance or intelligence slitsd. >> they want to monitor what were doing up there. so they build these capabilities also to try to deny u.s. military efforts. >> we followed the balloon and the spy balloon and the pentagon talked about that saying they were tracking it before the par...

Russia and china. another theory that says the more we slow walk and drip into increasing conflict in ukraine, the more likely a miscalculation is made and it escalates but china is free and clear and can make its own calculations in taiwan and elsewhere after watching the balloon float across the country and afghanistan fall apart and ukraine be a slow motion what. what is the end state there? >> harris: i lean on military intelligence for this. the balloon went over military installations and ...

This country because i see iran on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon. i see an alliance betwee on iran ,china and russia emerging. i see the saudis now beingew a part of that, potentially a part of that new coalition. and you see the hostilities, l the balloon that joe biden leteo fly all over the united states . now weve go tt russiaheir and s hostility towards us . and joe biden doesnt lift a finger, doesnt do a thing. ao there are no consequences. so i would expect they see that as weakne...

Because i see we iran on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon. i see the saudis being part of that new coalition. you see the hostilities, the balloon that joe biden let fly all over the united states. now weve got russia and their hostilities towards us and joe biden doesnt lift a finger. doesnt do a thing. there are no consequence. i would expect they see that as weakness and we are only going to see more of it. what do you think? >> the whole world is a tinderbox, sean. since the day joe bid...

Way that they handle the beginning and even before the ukrainian war started to now. the biden administration, general milley and the dod continue to play patty-cake with people who are wanting to go to war. that will never work out in our favor. we have to show them that we mean business. >> ashley: jonathan i want to talk about general milley for a second. are you confident enough in him when he said there is probably not a lot to recover, frankly, when it comes to russia retreatment into blac...