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The Biden administration says the China balloon shot down by the U.S. was equipped to collect intelligence signals as part of a huge, military-linked aerial spy program.

With anxiety and other stuff. i wish the administration was quicker to tell us everything they do know. >> bill: wow, well try to get some answers. we have brand-new video now in north myrtle beach, south carolina where the naval vessels are headed out yet again to try and locate and bring to the shore what remains of that chinese spy flight from last week. marc thiessen former speech writer for george w. bush. as we look at this video we are looking for answers. we dont have them. there is a li...

Certainly not that which would reach the threshold of the national security threat. >> there were a number of questions raised ahead of the shooting down of this chinese surveillance balloon, and questions of whether the president of the administration waited too long, and now as we are seeing that jim pointed out one a day with these other objects over the weekend, and how concerned are you about politics bleeding into some of the decisions? >> well, frankly, im not really concerned about it. i...

Sophisticated missile couldnt hit what some administration officials are saying might be sky trash? >> bret: whats the reaction on the hill? is there outrage? whats most lawmakers -- what are they saying? >> i talked to a few house republican sources today and i think they are pretty frustrated. they are going through trying to figure out what the biden administration knew or didnt know. one source pointed out that there was a report from last year that said these balloons were spotted back as f...

Soldier, sailor, and marine speaking to somebody just in the military, they know we have a weak and feckless commander in chief, thats not good for our military and that sends weakness abroad. >> martha: other people speaking out fairly on the shows swiss chuck schumer. maybe the most prominent voice on all of this, heres what he had to stay on sunday, watch. >> we have enormous information from surveying the balloon as it went over the united states. >> was it in normans intelligence as well. >...

Possible to draw some tentative conclusions. its quite interesting that three of the objects we have seen so far if we include the balloon that was shut down week or so ago and theyve made the right to the next flight across alaska and parts of yukon. and there are many military facilities that part of the world, particularly facilities of great interest to china and russia. in alaska, we have the launch interceptor site for the ground—based vent system, missile defence system that is designed...

>> neil: these three events, each of them presented a risk to safety of light. we dont know if they were actually collecting intelligence, but because of the route they took out of the abundance of caution, we want to make sure to have the ability to examine what these things are and potentially what they were doing. >> neil: all right, secretary with these three objects, whatever they want to call them. it is obvious the operative word, shut down immediately whereas the chinese balloon also ove...

In concert with u.s. coast guard but theyre also involved in trying to locate the degree. there was good communication with our canadian allies. >> a foreign government taking a special interest in this object from yesterday? reacting in an unusual way? >> no. >> thanks, john. two questions. one, you mentioned early on that the the china balloon might have been giving limited additive capabilities. i assume youre meaning onto their satellite surveillance. can you specify what exactly its getting...

They do appear somewhat trigger-happy, but there is the permissible attitude they had when the chinese balloon was coming over our site. >> and i do have some concern that the biden administration is not more forth coming with everything they know. >> that is comments from both parties of why they havent heard more from the administration about the unidentified objects deemed suspicious enough to be shot out of the sky. three objects brought down in the last three days. joining me is democratic ...

To answer many questions. the one on friday was shot down in the arctic ocean off the northern coast of alaska. its 30 below or colder there. theres snow, theres ice, and the team -- recovery team has not even reached the site yet. the sect object on saturday shot over canada. that was shot down over northern canada. that has not been retrieved. the one as we just heard about in michigan, that hasnt been retrieved. until they get their hands on these objects, which theyre calling them, we really...