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Recovered and studied. >> was its appearance like the chinese aircraft? >> no, it was much, much smaller than the spy balloon that we took down last saturday. >> reporter: another big difference, duration. the chinese spy balloon was shot down eight days after the u.s. government first detected it, while this time spotting to shoot-down was about 24 hours. in the wake of republican criticism that the president should have moved sooner to stop the china incursion, complaints he rejects saying the...

Happening. that embarrassment pre-dates them. we know there was one that happened when esper was secretary of defense. nonetheless its an embarrassing situation. >> its not great. i think the administration acted wisely in acting quickly for this object right here. there still are a lot of questions. when it comes to national security, i want folks to be thorough. i want them to be aggressive in getting the information. it seems like theyve learned something over a short period of time from the ...

But i want to add that john kirby did say in that briefing, he said he doesnt regret, sorry, the president does not regret the way he handled the first balloon. ive been speaking to matt kroenig, senior director at the scowcroft centre for strategy and security at the atlantic council and hes given me his take on the incident. we dont know what this was exactly yet. i think in terms of the biden administrations decision there is the old saying, fool me once shame on you you come up only twice sh...

>> yeah, let me ask you. you were unhappy over how the chinese balloon, which flew over alaska, was dealt with by the administration last week. are you satisfied with how todays object was handled? >> i think there was a level of precision and identification that was necessary and important to successfully take down this unidentified object. i understand that were perhaps dealing with different, different entities here between the high-altitude balloon and what was taken down, but, again, what y...

Literally. but a lot of things they need clothing they need toilet paper. is have been supposed to provide them for free? >> and think people who are delusional. joey johnny whatever your name is today, i dont know. you look at these stories effectively youre looking at a culture thats penalized by fear of being ostracized so we are seeing a delusion take place but nobody can pop that balloon so to speak. >> somebody who is a huge fan of giant prosthetics didnt think somebody could think that up...

Balloon, object was actually flying, where it was floating, however, it was traversing, and that is about 40,000 feet, thats the top end of where commercial airliners usually fly and while this is a sparsely sparsely area, that and they had no concept of what this was, created an unacceptable risk when it came to how the pentagon was doing things and what the recommendations were to president biden. they were first indications of this on thursday evening, the president was briefed on thursday ev...

It seems at about 40,000 feet — thats about 12,000 metres, which is about the same altitude as civilian aircraft — and that was the reason given — that it posed a danger to those aircraft, thats why it was brought down. but it leaves so many, as you suggest, wider questions about what was it? what was it doing there? who put it up into the sky? who owns it? is it a foreign government? is it corporate? is it privately owned? we still dont know those answers. and whats happening now is an at...

Balloon thats garthing information over america and its in that brink that makes relations worse. >> laura: which begs the question, what would derail bidens plans to get closer to china? nothing if hes bought and paid for, which many of us suspect he is speaking of data collection by china, imagine what the ccp must have collected on hunter when they made him a millionaire. despite the spin at state of the union, things are spinning out of control at corporate layups and big tech ceos that cove...

So its -- its a great week for joe biden i think. >> really interesting. congressman, i wouldnt say that by shooting this down he has silenced the republican critics. what is happening i think theyre now casting about for, ooh, was the last one too long and was this one too soon. here is congressman mike waltz of the foreign affairs committee today with this response. >> im trying to understand why this much smaller by their own admission much less capable balloon with a much smaller payload was...

Criteria. then is that to say if it were at 60,000 feet it wouldnt be allowed or conversely if the chinese spy balloon was down where civilian a aircraft are it would have been shot down is that our only criteria or main criteria? it doesnt make any sense. and from an oversight standpoint from congress, were going to keep demanding answers. >> will: you know, congressman. i dont want to push you beyond the responsible limits of your immediate knowledge on this. im not going to ask you to specula...