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The size of a small car, was flying — if you want to say it was flying, it was floating — it was moving relatively slowly 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 ...

Companies may have been able to skirt sanctions to sell china the balloons antenna and surveillance tech. we know the prc used these balloons for surveillance and a state department official said high resolution imagery from youtube fly buy byes that the high altitude balloon was capable of signals collection and refers to information thacks gathered by electronic means, things like communications and radars. that sounds really ominous. touchdown pass our commander in chief and slept through the...

So there are -- and the other part of this is there are ways to collect intelligence on the balloon that is not directly connected physically with the balloon itself. so if we have some insight into its launch facilities and the protocols the chinese use when they launch, thats all valuable stuff. and particularly if you can connect that with the actual operation of the balloon as its flying. >> secretary cohen, do you agree with director clapper that there should be some publicly announced prot...

Balloon up or some other object, we have to take it down. its not without expense to us as well. i doubt if thats the cost formula going into effect right now. >> yeah. >> but i think it was right to take it down, and i think it was right to wait on the first chinese balloon that went up. >> the u.s. released very few details about the object shot down. would they have photographed it before shooting it down? would they have actually had eyes on it, do you think? >> well, i dont know. hopefully ...

Ordered the object to be taken down this afternoon as it was traveling off the coast of northeast alaska. the object flying at 40,000 feet, an altitude many commercial jets are capable of reaching. the pentagon calling it a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. officials have not identified who sent the object, but notes it is smaller in size than the chinese balloon brought down over the south carolina coast last week. tonight searchers in alaska are working to recover debris from...

Protocol that could be explained to the congress and to the public as what the ground rules are on when and where and under what conditions wed shoot one down or those conditions that we wouldnt want to observe it for intelligence purposes. now, speaking purely as an intelligence guy, i was amused a bit by those who were complaining about the chinese balloon being an intelligence failure, but, yet, also complained because we took the time to learn something about it, and its not like we can fly ...

Last week, the president makes the decision that it clearly violates the airspace. we dont know what it is. we scrambled jets up to take a look at it. it was emanating signals. it wasnt necessarily collecting things. it could have been a balloon from a not for profit foundation. >> the one today? >> the one today. >> when you talk about the context here, which is what happened a few days ago, we see this one that was at 65,000 feet, and it usually is up at 100. when they track back and look at i...

Federal support. what could not support look like for alaskans? >> well, we do have tremendous missile defense and radar capability up in alaska. maybe he means we could do more there and im sure, you know, the protectors of the continental u.s., and of course hawaii, and alaska, and northern command will take that under advisement and see if there is not more that we could do there. but you know, i think the lesson of the balloon is, while it may have started up in alaska, it got down to the co...

That need to be dealt with and dealt with on a broad basis. >> i fear the next generation a may look back at us and say,, wt what fools? what fools they were. how did how did they not seeor it? congressman issa, gordon chang, youre not fools. b youre talking about it.os thank you for being here tonight. we appreciate it.e riy concerne tonight, most americans areover rightly concerned about chinas tilenow overt, open, hostiles to behavior, but not joe biden. coun high flying cross-country incursi...

Before it crossed back over into the continental united states and my state and some of the other states and they could have done it and they did it. that was a catastrophic misjudgment and this guy is completely asleep at the switch and maybe focused on shelling out cash to the ongoing war in ukraine but whatever it is east not focused on keeping -- but hes not focused on keeping americans safe. >> laura: hard to understand how this balloon today was a threat but the other one wasnt. none of it...