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>> not true. not doing it. absolutely not true. >> let me push you further then. the u.s. is not using these balloon technologies over china? >> that is right. we are not flying balloon over china. that is absolutely true. >> lastly, will that viewpoint be expressed directly to beijing, beyond here on the friendly confines of "morning joe"? when do the next conversations start between washington and beijing over a matter thats clearly inflaming tensions twoen the two countries? >> we have diplom...

A threat to commercial flights and were brought down in the interest of safety. following a wave of speculation on social media and elsewhere, the white house said there was no evidence of alien or extraterrestrial life being involved. lets have more details from our security correspondent, gordon corera, who was with me. thanks, huw. suddenly, they are everywhere over the skies of america. balloons and unidentified flying objects being shot out of the sky byjets. so whats really going on? nine ...

Civilian and drifted off course because of weather even though u.s. officials of many experts disputed that. the u.s. is now announced sanctions of six chinese entities related to the balloon according to cnn reporting as sweeping global intelligence gathering effort by the chinese state. the chinese for their part have been pushing back very hard all these allegations and we are expecting them to condemn the latest sanctions and announce their own threat of countermeasures. as you mentioned the...

Sunday. this after the reaction to the spy balloon was delayed, after it drifted for days. justin trudeau ordered the takedown of an object over the uconn on saturday afternoon. he spoke with president biden who also ordered the object to be shot down. the faa closed the air space in montana, when norad detected an anomaly and sent aircraft to investigate. they did not find anything that correlated with the radar hits. just a day earlier, biden ordered another subject, roughly the size of a smal...

Gears now and get your take on a story weve been covering extensively this morning. c these unidentified flying objects that the u.s. has been shooting out of the sky in ut recent days. what do we think here? has this been going on for a while and weve either just gotten, a, better at detecting them or, b, there is an urgency to shoot them down because of the big balloon that was over the nation a few days and downed over south carolina? or is this a deliberate, you know, yeah, provocation from ...

Near the canadian border. these are objects. i am not able to categorize how they stay aloft. it could be a gaseous type of balloon inside a structure, or it could be some type of a propulsion system. its been a busy few days for the canadian and us air forces, with two other mysterious objects being shot down over alaska and the yukon territory. the hope is, once you find whats left of them, they wont be mysterious for much longer. us officials have already begun salvaging the balloon that fell...

Garrett, im not surprised that the limited information thats been briefed to congress, and it does feel like congress has had to drag stuff out. not only we as reporters, but congress is. >> this is what we call the "seinfeld" congress something to be about over the last week or so. they are about oversight on this chinese balloon and other octobers, whether intelligence, foreign affairs, basically every chamber wants a piece of this. the only people who might know more than jim himes are the tw...

Transparency, question, folks have around the documents, i think they handled this quite well. >> jonah, this is sort of i think -- it feels like america is sort of changing its posture collectively on china, not just politicians. like all of this is going to change all of our sort of perception. >> yeah. ive been saying for a while now the only area of bipartisan consensus in america for the last couple years has been hawkishness towards china. and the debate is between dumb and smart hawkishne...

Reports are almost always wrong. >> yeah. >> so lets give the president and his team time to really get into it before we start making announcements. >> let me ask you, then, in that fact-finding space that we are in now, is shooting them all down the right response because you do have genuine risk of escalation, now you have china threatening to shoot down what it says is a u.s. balloon near its base but i think -- my mind goes to u.s. uncrewed drones flying around china but then of course crew...

Balloon may have come from. but its foreign ministry has accused the us of carrying out espionage in the skies above many countries — including china itself. translation: it is also quite common i for us spy balloons - high altitude i balloons — to enter into other countries. last year the us high—altitude balloons flew over chinas airspace for more than ten times. the us should first reflect upon itself and change course, instead of smearing other countries and finding confrontation. earl...