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In size or shape to the high altitude surveillance balloon that was taken down off the coast of south carolina on february 4th. defence 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 a...

Itself. it was sort of riding the air waves, which makes its movements very unpredictable. they are still calling it an object at this point. we are reliant on what the military and fbi are able to determine by recovering this object 10 miles off the coast of alaska and who owns it, what is it. they dont know yet. >> lets talk more about this. retired general wesley character is a cnn military analyst and a former nato supreme allied commander. this is the second object shot down in a week. is t...

Lets see if we can figure out when and where it entered u.s. air space which we were not able to detect. we picked it up north of alaska -- paul: right. >> -- which is north of anchorage about 850 miles from where it was shot down. paul: it sounds as if you think its a more serious issue than the way the president put it, calling it not a major breach with. i mean, if we havent detected balloons in the past, that sounds like its a real problem. whats the hole in our defenses? what are we missing...

Decisions. >> and on the foreign policy front, experts that have spoken with, they describe the balloon as just a symptom of a bigger problem, festering with a more aggressive china, one that obviously looms over the future of the pacific and taiwan. in your opinion, sir, what more could the u.s. do to prepare for a rise in china? >> boris, thats what youve described is whats normative. nations spy on other nations. lets assume this was, lets assume this was, assume, this was a balloon that came...

Down. hundreds of protesters were involved. a number of arrests were made for public order offences and criminal damage. eventually, after more officers were drafted in and local roads were temporarily closed, police were able to disperse the crowd. well, this is what the van looks like now. now the police are withdrawing, things have calmed down and the roads are being cleared. but rebuilding relationships here — well, thats going to take a lot longer. as most police withdrew from the area an...

Defence 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 republicans in congress and elsewhere, for not dealing with that last balloon more quickly. and i think its no surprise that when...

Territory. it comes just days after lawmakers got a formal briefing on the downing of that chinese spy craft which unfolded exclusively live during this our last saturday. alexandria hoff is live in washington with those details. alexandria? >> arthel, this object was a texan on thursday to send in the senate held its first public hearing on the response to the chinese surveillance tool but republican senator roger wicker said today he is hoping the second takedown shows that lessons were learne...

Think thats a big part of what the new select committee on china, what the republicans are going to do and i serve on the ways and means committee and the subcommittee. we ought to be working on the economics and isolate china more. i think that has to be a big part of that. i think that the biden administration has done nothing in this space and that will be a big focus with the select committee on china. neil: im curious, sir. have any intelligence briefings been planned or telegraphed to you?...

What could this thing be? >> a lot of unknowns as was just reported. the government has indicated that they have called it an object, that it doesnt resemble the balloon that the chinese launched and trans itted the united states and they called it and said it is not a balloon so it falls into the ufo category for lack of a better term, it is aun unidentified flying object of some sort and it is really speculation what it could be, and katie went over the possibilities, it could be a drone, it c...

The balloon nice and level, so were putting in little bits of heat every now and again to keep the buoyancy up. uh-huh. so tell me a little bit about the specific challenges of a landscape like this. so obviously, up on the side of the mountains, theres a lot of snow, a lot of trees, but not a lot of roads. so youre having to land as close to a road as possible to make the retrieval of all the kit easy. the mountains also produce a different climate, so there can be a lot of different wind patte...