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Describing the mysterious objects shot down over the yukon saturday afternoon. the senior u.s. official describes it as a small metallic balloon with the tethered payload for u.s. air force f-22 raptor described the craft of 100 miles from alaska. for another object was shot down in a separate incident friday. >> alaskas on the front lines of defense for the united states of america for. >> norad said the origin of the two objects destroyed over the past two days remains unknown. american raptor...

This time biden waste of time shooting out a client born ensure the white house seems to underestimate the bipartisan political anger and allow a spinys spy craft to wander over military sites for days before shutdown. so bill, they have seen and heard the backlash and also no hesitation with this. >> went beer with you in washington this past week for state of the union the administration was giving off a vibe we took care of it. i thought it was a little tone deaf. everywhere went the previous...

Is this a part of the globe that china and other countries have been trying to exploit more in recent years? and that seems to be the suspicion here. you had the nato secretary general say this morning, thats exactly the suspicion of the u.s. and its allies, that this is a space that not just china, but perhaps other countries are using to look down at earth and gain intelligence. >> jim, what about how they actually took it down. because i know we heard from the pentagon yesterday, they conside...

The truth is if were weak, this is what happens. balloons are serious. there are a lot of things that can be attached to a balloon. electronic magnetic pulses for instance. you see chemicals. a lot of things that can be attached to balloons. we need to take it serious. im glad were taking the shots. we should have taken a shot at the first balloon right away. at least were taking the shots. i dont agree over water because its hard to recover. we need to defend our airspace and strongly without b...

China says US high-altitude balloons flew over its airspace without permission more than 10 times since the beginning of 2022, widening a diplomatic row between the two countries over balloons. 

Happened? what could you tell them about what we are experiencing from the pentagon. >> i dont think were being invaded by mars. >> dana: good to know. >> it is a chinese balloon. we need to be up front. the first balloon series the administration was not telling the truth. china said it was a civilian air ship. thats not true. our administration we didnt down them for fear of collateral damage. thats not true. taking intelligence off it and thats why they didnt shoot it down. that isnt true. we...

Really need to do, erica, is just unpack everything thats happened. were certain that the first balloon that was shot down off the south carolina coast was a -- was a balloon for reconnaissance. got signals coming off of it, got pictures of it, watched it, watched its trajectory. okay, were going to get the pieces of it, we will assemble it, maybe there was a self-destruct mechanism in it so some of it may be burned in addition to whatever damage the sea water does to it. the other three objects...

Been 250 objects found since about last march in the skies, about half of those are things that are balloon or balloon-like. and not all of those are surveillance. so i think pretty familiar there. but half of them, we still dont actually know what they are. >> we still dont know what they are. listen here, this is the former chief of norad saying we dont know what they are, so be suspicious of everybody. >> ill let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out. i hav...

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To provide them everything that they need to defend themselves until it is over. >> i know that you are not involved in analyzing the china spy balloon and all that, but i just want to ask you about the diplomatic context. have you been able to speak to your chinese counterpart in the security council since the shoot shootdown? any contacts at your level? >> i dont want to discuss our discussions, but this is a bilateral issue and were addressing it by lottery. by lottery. >> and there are new r...