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I think the united states needs to disclose what happened between china and the united states about the specific nature of this balloon. now, for the united states to go such a lens to shoot on the chinese balloon and shoot down with the most sophisticated fighter plane and miss those three of its own balloons for whether observation it is a farce. let us call a spade a spade. i balloon is a balloon and is not used in sophisticated espionage. both china and the united states have sophisticated s...

Violent sphere destroying the object and popping the balloon, like we saw over the coast of south carolina. >> ashley: that is good to know for people wondering like me. >> todd: great work. richard newton has this warning about chinas spy campaign. listen to this. >> this is a significant threat and it is a wake-up call forern ms. the fact the chinese are operating a spy vein through balloons, the first balloon shoot down by f-22 was at 65,000 feet, near space regime that i believe the chinese ...

Not necessarily routinely but every once in awhile we would launch on a radar track that was unknown, that we did not know what it was, whether it was a feed from our norad radars, on the periphery of the continent, or the needs that we get from navcan and faa radars from the interior. >> okay. i wonder as were now coming to terms with the fact that russia -- sorry, china, with this large surveillance balloon has sent others, not just over north america, but also south america, other parts of th...

Test that this is. >> interesting. you think it might be tied to preparations for military action over taiwan? >> what i -- what i think is is that theres the possibility. and this is complete conjecture on my part. but that things like this arent just about measuring the pure intelligence from the look down capabilities that are on board that air -- that balloon. there is a distinct possibility that this is gauging the coherence, the resilience and the, you know , firmness of bot governments. >...

China that the countries cant get beyond at this point? this unfortunate _ get beyond at this point? this unfortunate incident - get beyond at this point? to 3 unfortunate incident and the implications of the shooting down of this harmless balloon by the united states of the pentagon itself is unfortunate. both china and the united states need to do as much as they can to control, contain they can to control, contain the incident. however, allow me to emphasize another point washington mrs. that...

Went and how maneuverable it was and what was on board and they were going to jam it. all of that could be an excuse, not an excuse, could be an explanation, couldnt it? >> okay, let me ask you a few questions. could they say with assurance that that payload under the balloon which they described as equivalent to three buses did not contain a nuclear weapon? >> well, i certainly cant answer -- >> could they say with certainty, thats right. and they cant either. look, heres all -- >> that would b...

Reforms. so thats something ron desantis has to answer if he does run for president. >> but he is putting -- this is time and effort, very specific and very explicit. >> its also rank hypocrisy. were talking about taxpayer dollars here. this small liberal arts college he wants to turn into a conservative college, this is an ideologic exercise of power. this isnt about we want things to be more neutral and fact based and not politicize. we want explicit bias to bias implicit bias the money were t...

I want the military to investigate this. but by all means. and so, its odd that we have expensive planes and expensive missiles to pop balloons. thats a little odd to me, but fine. protect my air space. now, do i think these are visiting alien, it would be odd if they were. aliens moving across the galaxy? dropping some balloons? oh, what alien would do that? i dont want to meet those aliens. i dont want the low-tech aliens. >> i mean, its high-tech to think you could come in and launch a balloo...

Chris wray said, china has taken more business data and personal data than any other nation state actor combined. -- former director of the nsa said this is the greatest transfer of wealth in human history. >> wow. the balloon -- people dont know exactly was being captured by the balloon tech. some people think it may have been views of the military installations across the country, its unclear as of yet. when you talk about the value of personal data, to just be a dummy about it, what is so val...

Oh! i just have to bask! in the majesty of that image! this is a gas cloud. a rigid gas cloud. and the james webb space telescope, because it uses infrared light, infrared can penetrate into gas cause where you bear witness to the birth of stars. stellar nurseries, not only the birth of stars, but the birth of planets. and that is just in front of our nose. it does that in addition to looking at the birth of galaxies in the early universe. it is a cool telescope. >> if it finds a balloon -- [lau...