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Ongoing process of refining the radars? a defense official says that process is ongoing to try to make sure they can find anything that poses a threat to u.s. national security, but perhaps to avoid some of whats not a threat to national security that forces norad to scramble fighters. >> today the chinese foreign minister accused the u.s. of "illegally flying multiple balloons into chinese air space in the past year." the u.s. government has denied that. >> absolutely. this got a forceful respo...

The hot—air balloons. yes. but you have to know that every season is different to fly. thats why if you want to be a good pilot, you have to fly every week. otherwise, you are a bad pilot. with some balloons starting to take to the skies, ijoin nick in the basket. oh, wow! and within just a few seconds, we are whisked high up into the air. nick, can you tell me what youre doing? i mean, theres all sorts of things going on. yeah, so at the moment, all were doing is keeping the balloon nice and ...

Going to leave it there. laughter from the white house press call, but why was it necessary to shoot the objects out of the sky? even though we had no indications that any of these three objects were surveilling, we couldnt rule that out. you want to err on the side of safety in terms of protecting our national security interest. officials say since the chinese balloon was brought down, theyve been monitoring us airspace more closely and that may explain why objects have been spotted that might ...

Passed through its airspace but washington denies that. for now, the search continues for wreckage from the balloon and the three still unidentified objects, while tensions with china show no sign of cooling down. peter bowes, bbc news. a national state of emergency has been declared in new zealand in the wake of cyclone gabrielle. the prime minister said the storm — which caused widespread damage and flooding — is the countrys biggest weather event in a century. and as phil mercer reports, ...

China has bought farmland overseas to grow its food, but its surveillance balloon over Montana prompted concerns about this type of relationship.

Our next guest is retired canadian air force major general scott clancy, the former director of operations at norad. also john miller is here. john miller, lets start with you. does this make sense that we dont have... we really dont have many answers at all at this stage. >> it does, because were getting a lot of answers on the chinese balloon that began all of this controversy in early february. these others dont match. dont know what they are. dont know if they are corporate, weather related ...

Then, of course, thats something we would take a look at. >> laura: senator cotton should this meeting in any way, shape or form go forward? >> i dont think it should, laura. you know if it was ronald reagan sending schultz or george bush sending gates to meet with his scanter parts that would be one thing but joe biden to send blinken is going to result in a safer stronger america. >> laura: what do you think these objects are, senator? i mean ones described as cylindrical, ones described as oc...

Regard to air surveillance protecting our sovereignty and taking the appropriate actions. clearly, they didnt make the right call allowing the balloon to traverse the united states for five days and then decide to shoot it down. that should have happened before the chinese scooped up a lot of important intelligence from the country from our most important strategic sites. >> dana: your gut instinct on the three other objects. do you know what they were or where they came from? >> my sense based ...

Long-lasting in the atmosphere. >> but do you, think congressman, we vote the government owes us? or what they ought to explain to us? we said united to be more transparency with the public about whats going on here. how do you think they should handle this in terms of communicating to us, letting us know they know. and indeed, what they should decide about future policy making about perceived incursions like this? >> yeah, look at the end of this whole experience, tonight after three weeks in f...

Aware things marjorie taylor greene has said. this is a difficult position theyre in, but if were honest, if we step back, i dont think in talking to people in the administration and looking at what theyre putting out that theres any way these three things would have been shot down had there not been the original chinese spy balloon. i think john kirbys explanation makes common sense, which is after the hull abulieu over that balloon, they have to look more carefully for balloon surveillance. wh...