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And puts our nation in peril, it is the itself alarming. you know, we dont exactly have the a-team in place right now which is also more than unfortunate. one of the things ive been warning -- and, again, i dont want to the alarm your audience here -- but it certainly doesnt seem like these unmanned craft, you know, whatever these objects are, i mean, we saw the up one balloon, i dont know what these last two objects are, theyre not easy to detect. and ive been warning for years about the risk o...

First balloon over Alaska was about the size of three school buses and the second object, downed over Canada, was the size of a small car

Why do they want to do? well, theyre preparing -- if they dont win the elections in taiwan next january -- they are preparing for a military conflict. and theyre trying to collect information about our military capabilities in the united states in preparation for that conflict. theres no question about it my mind -- in my mind. and thats why that balloon was so dangerous, and it was so dangerous for the president to allow it to go forward once it entered u.s. air space around alaska. it should h...

Of national defense describe the items shot down. a, small cylindrical object that was flying at 40,000 feet, smaller than the balloon shot down over the carolina coast. but, quote, potentially similar to the balloon. admiral, based on that descriptions you have any sense of what that object was? >> i think were gonna learn more about this one. about the one shot down north of alaska near deadhorse, alaska. and they won shut down off the south carolina. kind of a trifecta for the intelligence co...

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee warned the United States doesn't have an adequate radar system after ...

Mccaffrey who essentially said we are heading towards balloon mania. it seems like were shutting everything down these days. especially if they are floating within sight. what do you make of this latest shootdown over canada yesterday evening? and then, of course, the closing over airspace over lake michigan briefly. >> as a country, we have to be vigilant to protect ourselves against the risk of foreign espionage, especially at the hands of the chinese communist party. we know that the first ba...

Tell me what — is itjust obvious that if theres too much wind, the balloon will be uncontrollable? theres a lot of that. its not that its uncontrollable, it means that the landing will be faster, so you need a bigger space in which to land the balloon. so, not ideal. that suggests this is quite a challenging place for this event to take place? it is, yes. yeah, its not the easiest. but i think thats what attracts most of us here is the challenge, so... the festival began over a0 years ago and ...

Whatever these things are? >> i think that is really the question we need to ask ourselves but what are the new threats to the homeland? is it just surveillance or is it something more than that? honestly have a number of shootdowns over the course of just a handful of days that is concerning. think that is on the minds of a lot of americans, what exactly is going on. is the u.s. a target of some kind from an adversary? the more information the biden could dare on this the better off theyre goin...

40-60,000 feet above the earth. the imagery that they can capture and other intelligence data that i cant be specific about can be captured and then transmitted back to the mother ship in beijing. they have control over these balloons. you know, this was an act of espionage in plain sight, plain view of the american people. i know there have been reports of prior ones, but none quite like this. and the reason why this one is so damaging is i do a damage assessment about what really happened in t...

Permissive environment that they showed when the chinese spy balloon was coming over some of our most sensitive sites. i think one thing this shows is the fallacy of the argument of the biden administration saying that the height of the chinese balloon caused them to have no concern, because certainly as we know, whatever goes up can come down. and just saying that this chinese spy balloon was high and these are lower, and therefore they dont really pose a hazard really isnt a definition anybody...