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US-China balloon dispute widens

This is been happening, coincidentally, concerns of the us about the first balloon which was a chinese balloon and accused of spying here in london, we have an issue today which is in peace who have been very upset that there is a visit which downing street says is going to happen this week by a very senior chinese official who is a high—level member of the chinese communist party, governor of the far west region which infuses things that he is a figure was been sanctioned by the us for a role...

Identify. >> the house intelligence committee held a public hearing last year on ufos, the first formal inquiry by congress into ufos since the 1960s. lawmakers adopted legislation require to military to document and compile unexplained sightings. >> there was a major shift between the first report from the director of national intelligence in 2021 to the second report in 2022 in the sense that the second report did not include the many technical details or did not reveal what all of the objects...

I think we clearly made the right decision. im sure theyre learning more as they collect the debris and figure out exactly where theyre from and what was involved in those pay loads. >> we heard from the president through a pbs interview last week that he said this episode does not hurt u.s.-china relations. what we heard from john kirby today, and i wrote it down, this certainly is not helpful in moving in the direction that the white house was hoping to move. how do you think this episode impa...

Operational security measures to park the airplanes in the hane g -- hangars and shut down communication, and those in bomber bases, they are secured by landline or buried underground, so i dont think that it posed an intrinsic threat, and these other device, it is hard to know. we need to know the information. >> i am concerned about the concerns of escalation, because china said within days of the first balloon, they have the right to do the same, and now they say they have spotted something o...

Complicated things. the fbi is on the scene, and some of that debris has been brought back to a lab in quantico, virginia, and theyre examining those electric pieces and parts of the balloon as we speak. >> okay. were also lucky to have joining us jamil jafer, the founder and executive director of the national security institute. lets get to this with you. jamil, unlike the chinese balloon shot down off the coast of south carolina, norad said in a sunday briefing its unclear how the most recent ...

Mmp increased presence and also that we ramp up and step up how we share intelligence and how we monitor and protect our airspace. that intelligence and how we monitor and protect our airspace.— protect our airspace. that was jens stoltenberg — protect our airspace. that was jens stoltenberg there. _ china has not commented on where this latest 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 ...

So i -- the silence is unacceptable, the fact that a foreign adversary is penetrating air defenses at will is unacceptable and we need to get to the bottom of this. next time it could be a weapon and were vulnerable. ideal way to deliver an ipm weapon is a high-altitude balloon. >> bill: they are missing an opportunity. as commander-in-chief he is missing an opportunity to have his own reagan moment and really take charge of the situation. "wall street journal," what is going on up there, mr. pr...

Narrative, a whole bunch of folks are going to make it up, and so this administration needs to get ahead of it. >> and he chinese foreign agency has come out to say that the united states has been flying balloons over their airspace for years. >> and it is a diplomatic what about it, you did it, too. so you have to expect that from the chinese, because they are embarrassed by the initial balloon that they admitted is theirs. but nevertheless, those of us in the intelligence game or those of us w...

Set to get under way any minute. spokesman john kirby will be part of that, and well have it for you live. in the meantime, national security officials say they still dont know what those objects were. in part because, officials say, they havent even gotten to the remote scenes of the shoot-downs. while the first object downed over south carolina was clearly a balloon, the last three are being described only as objects. norad isnt even sure how they stayed in the air. kirby said this morning w...