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Japan's government says three unidentified flying objects spotted over the nation's territory in three years from 2019 are "strongly suspected" as Chinese spy balloons.

Potentially have a negative impact in terms of surveillance capabilities? >> well, i certainly think that one of the questions that we have in the u.s. cases, are we getting what we might call almost false positives in the sense that as you are mentioning by opening up the apertures of the filters of how we are looking at the radar data, we are seeing more things than we had in the past, and decisions are being made to take them down, but the problem is as we just heard, if you cant recover them...

Today on capitol hill may have brought the temperature down a little bit in terms of providing these explanations about the likely benign nature of these balloons, but nonetheless, were seeing john kirby come out every day talking about this. >> and yet that is inconsistent with what trudeau just said because he said this is a threat. it needed to be removed from canadian air space. were viewing this as a very serious matter. theres just a fundamental difference, and we cant tell from a public p...

Leader you dont leave during good times only, you have to lead through all times including bad times. and right now, four objects have invaded our space and by the way one of our military jets missed one of these objects with a missile, not a good sign for the rest of the world. joe biden should come and address the country. i think why he is not doing it is the fact that joe biden has been able to live to the american people and the media has covered for them whether its afghanistan or inflatio...

Islands from japan, they project out the united states might get involved and so they are —— their patients that would have to be the united states. whether or not a war actually happens is when china believes its military has its capability to take taiwan quickly. unfortunately i think that that timeline is quite short, probably in the next two to three years after 25 years of preparations, the chinese military might be confident that it could take taiwan by force 50 military might be confi...

The other three identified objects shot down in places that are just inhospitable, anyway, especially this time of year. is it possible to never recover that debris and never know exactly what these are? >> its possible given the location they are and the nature of the environment and the difficulty in obtaining them. i think that outcome from the briefing looked good from a bipartisan perspective, the fact that those two senators were pleased with the information that they heard. but look, the ...

One last thought. very important for us. im sorry, to go back and look at the original balloon and understand their surveillance capability and to know what information they collected on these very important and very sensitive military sites. >> harris: i mean we still dont know if there is any connection with these other objects. biden administration would like us to look to the sky and think about little green men walking around. thats a convenient disney-like narrative. >> distraction. >> har...

Recovery efforts are ongoing. in the case of the chinese surveillance balloon a significant portion has been recovered as the fbi begins its analysis there on what the u.s. has said is a chinese surveillance balloon looking at what it was capable of doing. >> there at the pentagon, thank you. joining us now democratic senator from michigan. thank you for being with me. lets start with the characterization from the white house that the leading theory is these were benign balloons. based on what...

The United States so far has no evidence that three unidentified aerial objects shot down this month were connected to China or any foreign spying program,

>> bret: congressman garbled had china trying to depict the furor over the spy balloon as a sign of u.s. decline. why else would a power be spoonged by a craft. if not for a raft of internal problems like a intensely divided society partisan strife driving president biden to act tough on beijing. thats chinas take. >> well, what else would you expect from china? but the reality here is that mike is on the right track. all of us learned a great deal about the balloon issue and then the subsequent...