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Getting to these debris fields you heard me say its very tough to get to the north coast of alaska temperatures 20 degrees below zero yukon territory also very rugged hard to get to as well been the canadians are leading that search we heard canadians prime minister and pass defense minister saying this was a cylindrical object, we heard from u.s. officials that said as they small balloon small metallic blue and tethered to a small payload. we heard the object shot down over alaska was the size ...

Have to stand up to bad behavior if we want it to stop. jon: give us your take on the administrations reaction to the first balloon, the chinese spy flight. it seems to be a bit muted. >> it did, it was slow. i cannot imagine a scenario where it was good policy to allow the balloon to fly all away across united states to the coast of south carolina and now they are saying how brilliant there were that they were able to learn so much and thats why they were so successful with recent balloon taked...

What is your reaction to this? >> well, this is really interesting. arlettes reporting has really piqued my interest, because what youre seeing here is something that we -- i dont think weve seen before. an octagonal object. so i dont know if thats a payload or if thats actually the balloon or the propulsion system or, you know, something else like that. so we dont have very many details, but these are the kinds of questions that we definitely have to be asking. and then the other thing that i t...

But i want to you ask, because you were the guy who colin powell dispatched to negotiate with the chinese in the 2001 episode. and the way resolved was the united states offered this regret which the chinese were able to interpret and translate as an apology. given the political climate in washington, where, you know, the republicans are just begging for blood on this, could you have solved the problem in that way this time? >> i think the answer is we could have, but it would have come at great...

>> and yesterday president and canadian prime minister justin trudeau took the rare step jointly authorizing the shooting down of the unidentified object over canada. so far the white house described it as an unmanned object. and for the time being the white house is trying to take it very cautious approach with attaching any type of description to the object 237 and they are still trying to glean more information especially as the recovery efforts are under way. but earlier today chuck schumer ...

Impact with the hot—air balloons. yes. but you have to know that every season is different to fly. thats why if you want to be a good pilot, you have to fly every week. otherwise, you are a bad pilot. with some balloons starting to take to the skies, ijoin nick in the basket. oh, wow! and within just a few seconds, we are whisked high up into the air. nick, can you tell me what youre doing? i mean, theres all sorts of things going on. yeah, so at the moment, all were doing is keeping the ballo...

Pentagon know that that threat doesnt exist, tell us and tell us why. if they dont know that it doesnt exist, but they know they can protect us, tell us and tell us why. were not asking for all the answers, were not asking for all the details. were not asking for the state secrets and how we detect things. were asking should we worry. is this a prelude to something bigger? is this nothing at all? or is it something in between? thats not too much to ask and leaders know that. leaders dont weigh t...

Days, organisers hope for at least five days of good flying weather, and some days with bad 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 ...

Of course, the balloon from last weekend was much bigger. the us was quite quick to come out to say they believe that was a surveillance platform operated by the chinese. they havent reached any conclusions, and that includes the canadian authorities as well. they havent reached any conclusions in terms of the nature of the most recent three objects. the terms of the nature of the most recent three objects.— terms of the nature of the most recent three objects. recent three obects. the last on...

But that takes a fair bit of focus for the intelligence community to 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 spying on each other from the skies, and usually things are monitored and watched closely but no action is taken. it is sort of seen as a quid pro quo. i think these ones for numerous reasons the international security situation is heating ...