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Accountant so many americans and our friends here, what are protecting us and if you dont think a balloon like that can capture data, guess what? we are sending 800 weather balloons worldwide every day as the cost of tens of millions of dollars to capture sensitive data and the balloons we send up the weather balloons are so much smaller. in fact they are about 6 feet wide and the chinese balloon was 90 feet long. three buses long. so its kind of sensitive data we get out of radio sounds with ba...

United states of america and sensitive sites and no they are realizing that they have to do something, and now the question is what did you do? is this an overreaction? and they dont know when they have not told us yet, do we shoot down a big weather balloon? or is this a chinese balloon? is there a sensor package? most people are saying no, now we get a reaction that is just totally different from what happened before, so it leads again to the crushed income okay you shot down a big object come...

Question. so a couple of questions. first of all, has anything like this happened before with an object this size, this shape, in this particular height, the 40,000-foot range, has it happened before? and second of all, why did you -- can you say more about why you knew that last balloon or object was from china whereas this one you dont know? >> so in terms of this particular object, again, as i highlighted, we dont know where its from. it posed a reasonable threat to civilian air traffic and s...

Community and the way the intelligence community may grapple with something like this may put the communications aspect on the back burner and perhaps nobody made the right phone call to the white house to alert people that, hey, you can take a picture of this balloon with your iphone which means its going to be a political problem that, sure, that they both, a, feel the need to do this but also the reality is the intelligence community probably does this more than we ever know, we just never he...

Happen. who were the people who had security clearances who failed to handle top secret documents in an appropriate way and why he did not manage them correctly. >> john: latest investment with the balloon, antenna, picking up signals, intelligence, conversations on the ground and found pieces of the balloon with english writing on them. and its unclear whether some components were made in the united states, but china leads the world in counterfeiting. and spy device, do you make it look like th...

Really issues that are important to americans. >> john: i want to jump ahead, we spent a little longer on this than i had originally planned, call 4 and 5, the chinese balloon just missed the state. ownership of american farmland by china is a huge issue. its becoming even bigger when you consider what happened in south dakota with the corn mill that they wanted to stand up there. here is a map of states that either ban or considering banning chinese ownership of land. iowa has long had restrict...

Balloon. that time -- first of all, apples and oranges here in terms of size. this was size of a small car, and it was over a very sparsely populated area, but also more critically over -- it was over water, water space when we ordered this down as we did the -- as we did the last one. but completely different size. and the debris field for this, we expect to be much, much smaller than would have been for the other one, thats difference one. difference two, we knew for a fact that the prc balloo...

Breach? we dont know that. >> what we do know is we knew the basic flight path of this thing and we were able to take steps at sensitive military sites. >> and as the recovery continues, some because of bad weather, the state department is reportedly considering sanctions if western companies are found to have helped produce the balloon that china used to spy on the u.s. >> officials tell fox that the administration is still assessing where exactly this object shot down over alaska landed and al...

The U.S. military on Friday shot down a “high-altitude object” near Alaska, the White House announced.

The future? or are we going to eliminate them before they enter our airspace? and do we have the necessary sensor capability to target, if required, in the future? >> dana: listen to senator tom cotton on prime time last night. >> i think they were shocked in beijing. joe biden was paralyzed by a balloon all week long. meanwhile the chinese communists were laughing at america. >> dana: what do you think happened in regards to the chinese? do you think it was a miscommunication amongst them over ...