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The situation. all this comes only a matter of days after the us shutdown this balloon off the coast of south carolina. washington says china was using it to spy on america. beijing says it was simply a weather balloon. the wreckage of that balloon. the wreckage of that balloon is now being recovered from us waters and the hope is the remains of the objects brought down over canada and alaska will also be salvaged. perhaps then we will know who sent them and why. tim allman, bbc news. 15 people ...

Because i dont pay enough. have you seen what we pay in quarterly taxes? you could do that, too. this other lie from biden proves my point. joe biden doesnt even think a chinese spy balloon traveling across the country is a threat. those are his words. >> the idea that a balloon could traverse great american air space is -- anyway -- its not a major breach. dan: no big deal. last week he said it was too much of a threat for us to shoot down this chinese spy balloon. fast forward to this week and...

Reasons why the chinese are using them. we have to get better at detecting these kinds of aircrafts. this last one was very small. especially compared to the 200 foot tall balloon that we shot down a few days ago. but these packages can get smaller and smaller and smaller. and the smaller they get the more difficult they will be to detect. we have to redouble our efforts and develop the capability to see these things as a drift over our airspace. katie. >> karina, quickly before i have to let yo...

Sort of got to sort out as we talk to government officials. the first question is, is there really more activity out there or are we just seeing it. and that has to do with the question of the sensitivity of the systems that we use, radar, satellite systems, to detect these incoming balloons, particularly the smaller ones. and what im hearing from government officials is that after the large chinese balloon incident, actually after they missed some in hawaii and florida last year, they had begun...

Believe its more of a state sponsored activity as opposed to a private entity. but you cant preclude the possibility that there is a private entity or that is somebody is engaging in a kind of hoax, although it would have to be pretty elaborate to fly something at 40,000 feet or more. >> any indications in your mind as to these two last flying objects being related versus all of them being related to the spy balloon? >> well, it certainlisomes as if the last two objects are more closely aligned ...

Like that, 30% that is a big nose drive. >> i would just throw in the fact were democratic audience tuning in for the democratic president of cnn acknowledge that the same is true when a republican is giving a speech. i set the emotional highlight was the acknowledgment in the highlight of the parents of the tyre nichols black man who was fatally beaten by five memphis police officers but a lot of the pregame reporting had to do with how the white house was scrambling to change the speech, to de...

The latest development, fighter aircraft sent to investigate a radar anomaly detected in montana. no object was found, but officials say they will continue to monitor the situation. all this comes only a matter of days after the us shot down this balloon on the coast of south carolina. washington says china was using it to spy on america. beijing says it was simply a weather balloon. but if the americans were right about that, what do they think it could mean? what you see here, it is a provocat...

Getting from the administration because, number one, they dont talk to us. trudeau called a press conference yesterday. wheres the president? goes to his suv, will not even answer a question shouted from 900 feet away. -- 100 feet away. they dont tell us anything unless we find out for ourselves. i find that unacceptable and just poor leadership. will: yeah. rachel, ill just say this, i think that that release, that statement from the chinese state-owned media, again, state-owned media, is as mu...

And right now we are in kind of a shoot first, ask questions later mentality, and we are taking care of objects that we havent readily identified, which is unlike what happened with the first object, the chinese balloon we shot down a week ago yesterday. >> yeah, and from our exclusive cnn reporting this monitoring system is quite new in the last year or so. so are we seeing more things in the sky, or is it because we are just looking harder now? >> well, yeah, we are definitely seeing more thin...

Expected anyway, but that takes a fair bit of focus for the intelligence community too to be working on that. in that context of whats going on around the world, it may help explain why this is happening now. of course there is a long history and continuing history of nations are spying on each other from the skies, and usually things are monitored and watched closely but no action is taken. it is sort of scene as a quid pro quo. i think these ones for numerous reasons and these ones for numerou...