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Feet, which is higher than most commercial airliners fly, but it is within the range that a civilian jet could fly and you do get some planes above that altitude, i believe, so this posed more of a direct safety risk to air traffic over the united states than at first chinese balloon did, which was so high it was only going to affect any stray you to pilots all starring weather balloon operators in the area. i pilots all starring weather balloon operators in the area.— operators in the area. i...

More questions than answers after the u.s. shot down this un iden dentified object over alas. second time in less than a week that u.s. fighter jets have had to take down an object after that chinese surveillance balloon was brought down last saturday. >> and the latest object was shot down about 10 miles off the coast of alaska. the federal aviation administration issued a temporary flight restriction in the area around dead horse alaska as the military took action. the pentagon says officials ...

Our southern border is open now. be open for our northern border appears to be open for aircrafrcraftt. t >> gordon, are we at more threat today than weve everwev been from china basedl on their calculation of this administration? >> i actually think so, becauset deterrence is broken down. and weve known for the lasty cs two and a half years or so thate the primary chinese narrative about the u.s.n te is that wern terminal decline, were finished as a powe therstar and countries around the world ...

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Altitude surveillance balloon that was taken down off the coast of south carolina on february 4th. defense officials say this latest object had been flying at around 40,000 feet close to an area called prudhoe bay, much lower than last weeks balloon. a military transporter plane, as well as helicopters, have now been sent to try and recover the debris. the biden administration came under a great deal of political criticism, particularly from republicans in congress and elsewhere, for not dealing...

Accusing u.s. lawmakers of political manipulation. rachel: alexandria, thank you so much. well, lets bring in republican congressman mike gallagher. he is the chairman of the select committee on china. mike, what do you make or -- i know you, so -- [laughter] i should say congressman. what do you make of this situation? do you believe that this is a chinese, a new chinese balloon, or is this -- its a cylinder. what is it, wheres it coming from? what are your thoughts? >> it sure looks like the s...

Criticized by republicans for allowing the balloon to fly across the united states for days before shooting it down. so the pentagon says in this case, the object was flying low enough to interfere potentially with air traffic. so they had to act fast. do you buy that? >> also remember what the pentagons was saying and what the white house was saying. they wanted to wait until the it wouldnt affect civilians on the ground. thats why they waited until the waters off the coast of south carolina. b...

And now what weve got is china relations. biden is trying to say, oh, no, everythings fine until even judy woodruff had to say to him ,but have you spoken to him you since he said no and right now we know that general austins counterpart in china would notps accept this call. so we are nol.t in a good placeo right now. o be and weve got china that wants to be number one in the world militarimili economically, and y see us as a threat. or and sooner or later this o is going to happen. as long as ...

It did not have a mechanism like the chinese balloon had. but, for quite some time at least a couple of years said norad does not have all the capabilities that we need. your points about the hutzpah with china i absolutely agree. i do not know that they were not testing us with the first incident that we do not know where this one came from. probably china, possibly russia. you could almost guarantee it was launched by someone who does not wish us well. neil: what has come forward thats so weir...

1:45 eastern time with the f-22. it does tell me perhaps the administration is still trying to gather the facts, theyre trying to understand, now, what are the nature of this object. they may not have all the facts. you know, from a policy maker standpoint, especially on the heels of that chinese spy balloon that was shot down last weekend, you would have thought that we would have been really on top of this and maybe alerted the american people, but well -- i think the greater point here is not...