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On this matter, he did not address any of them. congressman henry cuellar with us, homeland security. what is odd about this congressman, how little we are told and whether we would have been told anything had not a reporter raised the question 11 or 12 minutes into a white house briefing. it is just odd, some people were notified, we know last two senators were notified about this and the presence of this small object flying over alaskan skies, and the governor dunleavy. public statement was ma...

Senator from alaska, was really livid. >> john: she was hot. >> that they had not shot down that balloon when they could over alaska. by the way, 9 other thing is it proves you can shoot down an object over alaska and not endanger anybody on the ground. >> john: again, put it down in a place where you can, it looks like, recover it. i want to switch gears and talk about the search of mike pences house in caramel, indiana. it turned up one more document with classified markings on it. but harold ...

In communication? >> you know, i think thats a really key issue here. it pre-dates this balloon episode. its something that u.s. officials say they are concerned about. a lot of former ambassadors and a lot of former military officers will tell you, this is the key. its lacking. even during the cold war, we had communication channels with the soviet union. even at the height of the cold war. we dont have those kinds of channels open with the chinese. its something that the pentagon has asked for...

Purposeful the flight path within the jet stream. >> that would suggest that many -- >> well, the pentagon has already spoken to this question about whether or not they should have or could have shot it down over alaska air space. it was hours and hours of testimony yesterday on that. >> on the communications, though, we still dont know, correct me if im wrong, we dont know what intelligence or communications could have been collected or what devices they were targeting as i understand it, so th...

Its unclear what the object was, but officials say it was the size of a small car. last week, a chinese balloon was shot down, off the coast of south carolina, with beijing saying it was a civilian device, for monitoring the weather. well in the last couple of hours the pentagon, gave this update. north american aerospace defence command detected an object on ground radar and further investigated and identified the object using fighter aircraft. the object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 fee...

What does that tell you about the capabilities of this object? >> well, i suspect its less than the balloon sensor suite. im speculating here. i would think it sounds as though it was less sophisticated. a smaller payload. didnt have the guidance. whoever the owner of this object is, had not made the investment in resources and technology that it appears was made in the case of the chinese balloon. >> when you look, general, at the vastly different handling of this object versus the chinese ball...

High, as high as 300,000 feet in some cases, and are very slow moving. its very easy for radar, for example, for them to evade, for example, radar detection. >> so then you see the questions being asked by members of congress of both parties. i assume theyll get more pointed now. if you have a tracking method that you have worked on and perfected or made better in the past year, why was the most recent balloon allowed to enter u.s. air space if you were tracking it? >> they made a strategic deci...

Union message to florida, keeping the focus on the fate of social security and medicare. and the administration is receiving support from a prominent republican over its handling of the chinese surveillance balloon. well have that and new details about the balloon from the state department. good morning. welcome to "morning joe." it is friday. friday finally, willie. february 10th. joe is on assignment this morning. willie, your pick for this sunday, "sunday today" or super bowl? >> my pick ...

The entities include Beijing Nanjiang Aerospace Technology and China Electronics Technology Group Corporation 48th Research Institute.

Very unlikely to be manned. presented a reasonable threat to civilian air traffic, we took it down. >> what speed was it traveling at by the way? >> i dont have that information. >> reporter: on the chinese balloon if we could go back, is it still in the pentagons view plausible or maybe even likely that it was not necessarily intentional when that balloon blew eastward, that it seemed to have not had some technical problem. >> what i would tell you is based on the information that we have, it w...