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Stronger. >> name a world leader who changed places with xi jinping. name me one . >> name me one . we shot down their balloon. so name me a world leader who can decipher what joe biden just said. >> name me one so you cant. ngn friends, democracy is winninigg tonight and we have no ideaa wht what any that means anymore than jean ping does. but the train sealut ts inhe t, the crowd loved it.this they clapped consistent with their speciestent w, actua. >> sorry, that is unfair a to seals. theres ...

Drifting towards the u.s. air space wasnt originally marked as urgent. and this has drawn ire from republican lawmakers already unhappy with how long it took for the u.s. presidents order to shoot it down. here is what the pentagon had to say about the incident. >> i can assure you this was not for civilian purposes. that is -- we are 100% clear about that. based on what we know and have se observed, it was an intelligent collection capability. you know, a question i would ask myself is if in fa...

That? >> first, erin, i would go back to what he said at the very beginning about the military failing to flag the balloon and going over alaska has an urgent matter. im not sure i agree with that. the tipper that some of our reporters talked about in a recent article in -- .com. talked about information that was provided to the command about this balloon coming across the aleutians and going into africa. now, i hate to see aaron, erin burnett, but i will give you a hierarchy of information mili...

Lifetime. it is -- the scale of it is unbelievable and the piles of rubble dont even look like rubble, they look like sand. it looks like everything just broke. sometimes were hearing that some of these buildings got both earthquakes. so like half of it crumbled and then the other half turned to dust after that. so it has been quite a lot for these people. and were also trying to figure out the situation with helping syria, which is not easy right now due to the circumstances to actually get aid...

Beijing claims Washington may be stirring up an information war over the incident.

Issue. the president says watch him respectfully. >> i was interested in his answer on china. how this spy balloon incident sort of worsened our relationship with china, and he said no. then he went on to say this. >> i made it clear to xi jinping that were going to compete fully with china, but we are not going to -- we are not looking for conflict. >> what did you make of that? >> well, he made that point to xi jinping well before xi jinping or his government sent a balloon over the united sta...

Countries across five continents will give you a sense of how vast this global fleet has been, and there were flybys that were revealing multiple antennas on board. the antennas are likely to collect the communications and geolocating the communications, and capable of signal intelligence operations. what that means is gathering information from electronic sources, and things like radar and radios an communication devices. and that is significant. we should note that we have been told by officia...

The US president has said China's head of state has "enormous problems."

It never happened. if it had, they never told us. this is different from the other one, two different universes. >> steve: if nord stream 2 can track santa, they should be able to track something that is the size of three school buses. >> unless santa is on a balloon. the point is, look, it is not just norads responsibility. it is can project this is where it is headed from its prajectory, they knew it was heading to the continental united states before it entered air space and they didnt do any...

Kaitlin. this morning happening right now house lawmakers are now in a classified briefing about the chinese surveillance balloon, the one that floated through u.s. airspace across the united states before it was shot down on the south carolina coast over the weekend. later this morning senators will have their turn to get their classified briefing with officials from the biden administration. this comes as we are getting new details about what u.s. officials knew weeks ago about the suspected...