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Enforcement information was taken, but they said they were able to segregate that system. there wasnt further damage. they were able to continue to do their jobs and now theyre investigating how it happened. >> they wouldnt have told anybody about it if nbc didnt uncover it? >> they didnt do it until we asked. >> well, also in your basket of activities, is this crowd strike report which says arguably that chinas hacking, ransomware and all the rest, that kind of cybersurveillance is the biggest ...

Related to the balloon that we shot down off the carolina coast, those -- the recovery operations have been concluded. our technical folks our lab folks, our counterintelligence folks who specialize in chinese spying are working hand in hand with our military and other government partners to analyze all the debris and that work is ongoing. and i dont have a whole lot to add to what the pentagon and the nfc have said about the links between the balloon and the chinese government right now other t...

Democrat want open borders. some of reason that left wanted it because they became open borders advocates in -- to trump administration, i dont know it is well thought out. but, the result has been, we have more drugs coming in than we have over 100 thousand overdose deaths, not all are fentanyl but a lot are, we have criminal aliens coming in last fiscal year there was over 90 people to terrorist watch lists that came, that is what they know. i think it has been a diswasser and humiliating, we ...

Images, but electronic warfare signals, which means that could be anything from cellphone communication and other types of data, because they were flying over an intercontinental ballistic missile site, over montana, which the us military 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 satell...

We have something called the quick reaction alert force, which involves typhoon planes which are kept on 24/7 readiness to police our airspace, which is incredibly important. so what are the challenges in dealing with these balloons? so, what are the challenges in dealing with these balloons? were going to bring back our graphic for this part. flying a spy plane lower in the atmosphere would be seen as an aggressive act and much more deliberate than just releasing a balloon into the wind. and me...

As our european allies this would be a real mistake because those weapons would be used to bombard cities and kill civilians. china should want no part of that. >> ashley: the biden administration reiterating this claim china will face real cost if it provides lethal aid for the russian military. cia director says he cant say for sure what chinese president xi jinping and other top leadership knew about the intelligence gathering spy craft that flew across the country. >> do you think that he kn...

Altitudes using cheaper gunnery, youve had instances where hundreds or even thousands of cannon rounds have gone straight through the balloon, not gone off, in the sense that the rounds havent exploded because the skin of the balloon is too insubstantial to trigger the fuse. and so theyve just put tiny holes in them, which doesnt really cause them to leak at any particularly significant rate, and theyve just continued. and of course, if its over a civilian area or, say, the continental united st...

Although only limited. it was flying at about 60,000 feet. but its thought that these kinds of balloons can go up to twice that altitude. and to really understand why theyre so useful to china, we need to look at a weather map. 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. th...

Norad, to adjust their radar settings. domestic political pressure may have played a part. this is the atrocity thats happening here to america. happening here to america, and if we dont speak stronger, china will continue to do this. scramble some more f—22 raptors, throw some lead in that sucker. 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 classified session. but, yes, sir, we understand that this is part of the broader suite of operations that chinas undertaking to try and get a better understanding of us... i got it. i mean, theres all sorts of suites of operations we have with whats 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 wha...