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And also stepping up how we share intelligence and how we monitor and protect our airspace. over the past few days, american fighterjets of shut down three more unidentified objects. off of northern alaska which lacks any system or propulsion. in the fighterjet shot down a height airborne object over the yukon territory described by officials as cylindrical and smaller than the first balloon and on february the 12th, us shut down the high altitude area. we february the 12th, us shut down the hig...

For not acting faster. the growing concern in recent days led us air defence to change the filters on its radars. that means they are now seeing many more unidentified objects. so after the first balloon, shot down over south carolina on february 4th, another object was spotted over alaska and shot down on february 10th. the next day, another object was shot down over yukon, canada. and then yesterday there was yet another shoot down by fighters over lake huron. but the last three objects dont l...

Able to identify three objects that were shot down from the airspace this past week but they say this balloon shot down on the ath of february was a suspected spy balloon from china. imjoined by february was a suspected spy balloon from china. im joined by the associate of national security for the us naval college and she is speaking in a personal capacity not reflecting the official views of the us government, thank you for being with us. we do not know if youre able to see the press briefing ...

Would it not be better, i am no spy l would it not be better, i am no spy expert, to use a satellite which cant see with the naked eye, rather than using a balloon that floats very slowly in the air and has strings to it?— very slowly in the air and has strings to it? very slowly in the air and has strinas to it? 1, , :, :, strings to it? balloons have a few minor advantages, _ strings to it? balloons have a few minor advantages, they - strings to it? balloons have a few minor advantages, they...

Has rejected that _ ties going from your? was initiation has rejected that claim _ ties going from your? was initiation has rejected that claim saying - ties going from your? was initiation has rejected that claim saying that i has rejected that claim saying that there are no he was balloon doing there are no he was balloon doing the same things. this could be a moment of taking a deep breath, generally in the spy versus spy game with the adversary gets caught it is a win for the intelligence se...

>> over the course of the weekend, they were able to raise some of the debris including some of the electronics and some of the structure. >> pentagon officials say they feel confident they will receive a mother load of intelligence on the chinese balloon surveillance program, which would have been lost if they had decided to shoot the balloon down over land. and tonight the national weather service said all of it balloons are accounted for. bret? >> bret: jennifer griffin at the pentagon, jenni...

Through and weve got to patch those and thats kind of an issue that has obviously bubbled up because of the latest balloon and other incursions. >> the new house intelligence community chairman mick turner says he prefers the biden administration to be quote, trigger happy, but is there a risk of the administration overcorrecting, congressman, and shooting down objects it doesnt know that much about? >> well, i think that i would trust the military commanders on this again, wolf. i think that if...

Balloon that they are not getting from orbiting satellites that go over us dozens of times? >> the caveat we have not recovered everything, but we have recovered some things from the bottom of the atlantic and analyzing that. with the caveat we dont know exactly what this balloon was surveilling or what its capabilities were. just in general, and important caveat i would like you to remember, when you are at a lower altitude than space, you could perhaps get a better fidelity of imagery, for ins...

We have been an incredible deten remember. the military made an assessment that they wouldnt gather the information that the military thought was important to china. and if that didnt happen that way, somebody screwed up. >> martha: so this is a really important part of this discussion as well. were told that they can look everything down. so no communication gets out of that icbm base that could be picked up by one of these balloons overhead. what level of confidence or insight have you gotten ...

The president also directed secretary blinken, secretary austin, director haynes to have these kinds of conversations with our allies and partners around the world, to share with them what were learning but also to get their perspective. >> quick to say its ours, but it was for commercial purposes? >> again, were going to have these kinds of conversations with our allies and partners to see what kind of experiences they have had, what we can learn from them, what perhaps they can learn from us. ...