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>> secretary cohen, do you agree with director clapper that there should be some sort of publicly announced protocols or at least explained protocols? >> i think general clapper is absolutely correct in terms of making sure that congress is on board. one of the things thats taking place is everybodys trying to be quick draw mcgraw, come out and say, whos got the fastest gun in the west? i think what we saw is this administration acting and our military acting with restraint to, first, understand...

Risk to civilians on the ground and also generally from firing off missiles in that space, so for a period of time it was kept under observation until it was flying over shallow water, over the atlantic, at which point it was shot down, as we could see the ground past below the object, below the canopy of the balloon and the aircraft, part of it, the thing with all the equipment on it separates and apparently i understand now that has been located. it has yet to be retrieved, but people from sta...

Security and foreign affairs correspondent dan dilutes. dan, good morning, thanks for joining us. what else do we know about senator murkowskis private briefing? >> she is saying that it was, that she was told that it was not a balloon. so their sole mystery here exactly what this is. the u.s. did look at it relatively up close to those fighter jets, one to have a look before they shot it down, concluded that it was not manned. but also you heard u.s. officials yesterday from the white house and...

The united states over a period of several days. and the reason here, the driving reason according to officials ive spoken to, is where this balloon -- or where this object was actually flying, where it was floating, however it was trav traversing. that is at 40,000 feet. that is the top end of where commercial airliners usually fly. that in the minds of u.s. officials, who had no concept of what this actually was, created an unacceptable risk, one official told me, when it came to how the penta...

New show the bottom line on foxx business. its on weekdays at six pm. eastern. and harmeet dillon , chairwoman of the republican national lawyers association, shawn,er great to see you tonight.d that now, we were reliably told that shooting down objects was dangerous and it was too dangerous. anythinthisg take that this administration and this pentagon told us today seriously?denl and suddenly civil aviation wasp hampereder by the, quote, object ,so much so that it had to be taken down. good q g...

In one famous case they used the unexposed film from one of the balloons, which was developed by us intelligence and used by us intelligence and used by us intelligence and used by us intelligence and they repurposed it to take photographs of the moon on one pair lunar probes, which i think is a fascinating example both of recycling, but also how you can recover useful materials. what is interesting in this case, unlike the balloon last week, is that it has fallen, as i said, on foreign ground. ...

Chinese balloon that entered u.s. aur space two weeks ago. so that puts it at 40,000 feet. that make it is a possible collision hazard for commercial airliners. so that was the logic for shooting it down once it was identified as being unhabited. >> are there other civilian abouts beyond aircraft at that level? im try ing to ask and not be s naive, but how much stuff is floating around at that height? >> not a lot. but 40,000 feet is particularly over alaska one might think, jeez, alaska is way ...

So fingers crossed things improve. but all hope isnt lost. ive been told that over the nine 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. yeah, so theyve given us the clearance to fly this morning, but the winds ab...

>> today, the search with ice and snow is underway for any debris from that second flying object in u.s. airspace. this object shot down by an at 22 friday afternoon at the direction of joe biden, while flying off of the coast of northeast alaska. the pentagon says the object of flying at 40,000 feet, a risk to civilian flights. the president calling this mission a success while u.s. officials admit, they still have more questions than answers, including the unmanned objects origin, capabilities...