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Issues and information sharing. what matters to us is that this was a violation of our sovereign airspace, and clearly with intent. now, whose intent? i dont think we have a perfect picture of that right now. clearly without question, the intent of the prc. because we know that this balloon belonged to them. and president biden acted decisively in support of our national sovereignty. >> our reporting is that u.s. officials briefing lawmakers this week, told lawmakers that this is the u.s. intell...

Balloon turned and blew eastward, that it seemed to have had some technical problem? >> so dan, what it would tell you based on the information we have, it was being maneuvered and purposefully driven along its track. again, recognizing that winds do play a role, because of the maneuverability of the balloon, it is our assessment that this was a purposeful mission. in terms of the chinese motivations, again, i would have to refer you back to china to talk about that. >> thank you. sorry, ive got...

Hypervigilant in this case. it sounds like the details of this are quite different from the other balloon, including that theres not really much of an indication that there were any communications going back and forth. the size of the balloon was far smaller. but i think theyre trying to send a message that they know whats up there an theyre going to take it down if it comes close to the united states. i think the white house also probably -- this is a bit of a guess -- they dont mind the narrat...

Reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. >> okay. and to given what you said earlier about intent, with regard to the chinese spy balloon, does the u.s. give any credence to the chinese argument that the balloon accidentally veered off course and ended up where it did? >> which -- the one from last week? yeah, say that again. >> would the u.s. give any credence to the chinese argument that this thing accidentally veered off course and ended up where it did? >> no. >> so was it targeti...

Not be included in that particular report. in terms of whats in that report and whats not in that report, again, we can go back and look at that, but i can assure you that there are a lot of activities that we continue to monitor to include this balloon program, and weve learned a lot the last couple of years. [ inaudible question ] >> id have to go back and look. i do not know the answer to that. let me get a couple other folks here. mike. >> the only reason the american people know about the f...

About children who are totally i about children who are totally separated on their own. so what we are seeing, especially in the context of earthquakes, other major disasters, they are very likely vulnerable and are likely to be either exploited, abused, including sexual violence. so it is obsolete critical, along with life—saving medical assistance and health care, food and water, we step up child protection measures, especially for young girls. fight! protection measures, especially for oun...

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When the norad commander last week said the last balloon showed some domain weaknesses, thats a problem. we usually dont tell our enemies where those are. so this is going to be normal course of business if things violate our airspace. >> colonel, back to you. im going to ask you a question that i assume is tough to answer. based on the description we have, this is the size of a small car. it was about 40,000 feet. nonmaneuverable. and when people hear small car, dont think of the dense ity of c...

Investigators have been able to recover the balloon canopy, wiring and very small amount of electronics and have begun removing salt and sea water and extremely limited amount of evidence has made its way in for analysis. this unidentified object shot down in alaska a few minutes ago and this balloon shot down in south carolina is 200 feet tall, higher than the statue of liberty in new york city as opposed to the object over alaska, that was size of a small car. that payload in south carolina is...

That threat or potential threat was really the driving force behind president bidens decision to give the order. now, the president was briefed about this on thursday night around the time when two u.s. aircraft, two u.s. fighter jets got the first view of the object. those fighter jets went back up this morning to take another view. there are still so many questions about the shape, about the object itself, what it was actually doing. they do believe it was unmanned. they have said it was unman...