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That that was a military project that didnt necessarily have president gs blessing? uh a military project for sure. and this is one thing thats a little scary about china because their military has no recent combat experience, and we want to keep it that way. and so are military officers have observed that sometimes the chinese are a little unpredictable. theyre not sure what the reactions will be. they may think. oh well, go ahead and stand a balloon across the united states now, did she want t...

Know, drone or whatever it was . its unidentified at the moment, but do you think this forces the president to act on china? now is he kind of box in ? i mean, republicans and democrats are now are being critical of the president. yes they are. and even senator ben cardin from maryland who is a democrat, talked about needing to be much stronger on china. the commerce department did sanctions six chinese companies , but we need to see much, much stronger responses. and im concerned that bidens ow...

Know antony blinken canceled his trip but should there be further punitive measures based on that one incident? >> i think theres something our administration needs to take into account based on fact and one thing we use in the military was the first report is always wrong and to wait for follow-up to determine what the facts are. i do believe in this case though that message isnt our response, the most important message we should ask. the message is one of strength and immediate reaction based ...

Over canadas yukon territory. over ca nadas yukon territory. that over canadas yukon territory. that is all we know. we do not know where it came from, what speed it was flying at, which adds to the mystery. the one over alaska — adds to the mystery. the one over alaska was _ adds to the mystery. the one over alaska was flying - adds to the mystery. the one over alaska was flying at - over alaska was flying at 40,000 feet which was lower than that balloon which china called is whether balloon ...

In the latter two cases than he did the first one and presumably that is from the political pressure that has been on him. how are people in general in the us reacting to this? when the first balloon was a spotted, it was quite alarming for people, being able to see it with the naked eye, film it on their phones. it was quite alarming. they knew that there were satellites in the sky from china but the fact that they could see these with their own eyes and film them made people feel quite differe...

Officials telling us at one point it did travel over land in alaska but was headed back out to sea. the white house move also praised by alaska senator lisa murkowski, who had blasted the biden administration for not downing a suspected chinese spy balloon that flew near her state two weeks ago. >> i think the message was very important today to say any aspect of u.s. sovereign territory that is encroached upon, theres going to be consequences to it. >> reporter: and off the coast of the carolin...

Spy satellites constantly monitor military bases in china and russia looking at u.s. troops -- adversaries true movements in china and russia, any movement in ukraine as well but does not appear the satellites were able to detect the last two objects to even the spy craft earlier a week ago. right now alaska is using ground-based radar to pick these up when it comes to the curvature of the earth, the ground radar can only see so f far. jon: you are a navy veteran, you know how these things go, a...

Fighter jet shutdown what national security adviser john kirby described as a high altitude objects, flying over alaskan airspace in arctic waters. they say it was roughly the size of a small car without elaborating. but it is unclear, who owns this object and even the kind of unidentified object is, aside from the fact that it cannot be described as a balloon, like the suspected chinese surveillance balloons that was shot down a week ago. lots of unanswered questions as of at this hour. joining...

Is there more sensitivity to this? is there more vigilance towards this because of the chinese balloon, are we biting things and are more concerned about certain objects in the sky than the past, overlooked aesthetic in or some sort of clutter in the sky. now are we just shooting these things down? three in a week is pretty amazing. >> dan, youve given us a lot to digest, so well leave it at that. hopefully we can get some answers. nbcs dan de luce, appreciate it. lets bring the composition to n...

Weather are still good for partial flights. balloon pilot nick dunnington has been coming to this festival from the uk since he was a child, and hes offered to take me up later. so, nick, whats the status? everyone seems a little bit tense. laughs. yeah, so theyve given us the clearance to fly this morning, but the winds above the tops of the mountains are actually quite strong, so we have to stay within the valley and the winds are going to actually drop, the quicker winds are going to speed up...