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Nato supreme allied commander. very good to have you here today, commander. can we get your general take as what you think has happened over the past week? balloon was shot down last weekend and we had a series of hearings this week. members of congress seem very unsatisfied, a bipartisan position. >> yes. dana first thanks for having me on and i think that every day we are learning a few more details. what we really need to understand is from the beginning, when did we first see it? how did we ...

Dialed in they were listening in and american officials believe the spy balloon was tuned into u.s. conversations. president biden is down playing the entire episode. >> president biden: it is not a measurable breach. it is a violation of national law. or airspace. we can do what we want with it once its there. >> the balloon had multiple antenna to eavesdrop and soak up information. the government wants to know exactly what the chinese heard. >> until we actually have the hardware that was on t...

Recovered, they said it amounts to the size of a small car. the most important parts of this remain under water. and i want to show you where we are. it is actually relevant to the search this is normally a public docking area behind me. this is now turned into a joint operations base if you will for both the navy and the coast guard. you see a bunch of military vehicles, military boats and if you turn over to the left, it is when you see those brown containers, those shipping containers are whe...

China has expressed its firm opposition to a U.S. House of Representatives resolution condemning Beijing's use of a suspected spy balloon over the United States, reiterating its claim that the airship was used for civilian purposes.

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Object, but what they know about the balloon and the fact that its part of this massive fleet thats, you know, covered over 40 countries across five continents, they are confident this was used for surveillance and not for weather. >> picking that thing up off the ocean floor will be a big step for investigators. thanks so much. joining us now "washington post" columnist josh rogin, the author of "chaos under emp: trump, xi, and the battle for the 21st century." first, if i can, to the sits of...

Capability, but officials also dont believe that that was all that sophisticated, especially because united states actually did take steps to try to prevent the balloon from being able to intercept any communications by, for example, avoiding unencrypted coms in the area of the balloon, so they believe that this balloon even though it had the ability to take photos in the form of 360-degree views that it was not able to see or hear very much. now, we are also learning that the u2 spy planes sent...

Soil and they were able to jam some of these capabilities but still an open question. i want to ask you about this initial assessment as described of xis knowledge of this. xi has exercised more control over the peoples liberation army as he has consolidated power in china, extended his term, president for life, et cetera. is it plausible to you that the pla would in effect defy the chinese president and do this as something of a freelance operation? >> no, its much less likely that somebody wen...

>> thank you. you mentioned that there were fighter aircraft who were able to determine that it likely was not manned. were those fighter aircraft able to determine anything else about it from up close that they wouldnt be able to find out otherwise? >> they worked really hard to get as much information as they could about this object. given its size, which was much sma smaller, and the capabilities on the fighter aircraft themselves, the speed at which they were fl flying, it was difficult for ...

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