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Transparent as the administration will be allowed, and the biden administration should be applauded for locating these, because in the trump administration, there were three that went undetected, so i give credit to biden administration for detecting foreign espionage, and as far as im concerned, it was the righconcerned, it was the right decision to shoot down the balloon as swiftly and safely as we could. it was size of three school bus, so you cannot impulsely shoot it down over land, and end...

Former u.s. ambassador to china and former six-term democratic senator from montana. dan, we just got new details from the state department on chinas spy balloon program. what can you tell us? >> thats right. a senior state department official is saying that spy planes captured high resolution photos of this balloon and it had the ability to conduct signals intelligence, ie to eavesdrop on radio signals on the ground and it had multiple antennas that could geolocate communications, and it also h...

Carrie, you have expertise in this area so sometimes words have more meaning to you. when you hear the details were getting and hear officials behind closed doors on capitol hill theyre trying to say this is an intelligence gold mine. this is a win/win. is that fair, or is any of this information raising questions about how this was handled? >> i think theres a timing question and substance question. the substance issue is, look, this balloon is one piece of the vast chinese intelligence collect...

Short time ago, and we will give you more of what we are learning in a moment, and with reclosely following what is happening in europe. the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is calling on the european allies to step up the assistance and talking about specifically what they could do in his mind game-changers. fresh off of the sales pitch in wisconsin, president biden is headed to florida to expect to drive home his pledge in particular to protect social security and medicare, and we wil...

China maintains the balloon was a civilian meteorological airship that was blown off course and that the U.S. "overreacted" by shooting it down.

In the face of the US excessive and groundless hype on the threat of Chinas civilian airship to the world, other countries holding their tongues is a sign of their silent disapproval and objection against US actions.

Chinese surveillance program from the prc that was likely conducted by the chinese military and pla and they say that these operations are something that the chinese military is in charge of, and when it is coming to the manufacturer of this balloon, according to the state department, the manufacturer of this balloon has a relationship with the chinese military. it is one of their trusted vendors, and so that is pretty significant, and they dont name the actual company, but they say that on thei...

It down before it entered airspace over the united states. i dont dismiss, imagine this thing falls or kills somebody or damages property, i dont take that piece lightly. flip that over and say what if this thing had a self-destruct mechanism, had capability to bring itself down, chinese military operating it, that posed air risk, as well. what if this malfunctioned and fell on someone, then you have to answer those questions. those are things the president could have come on camera and said, th...

At that point officials said this is strange we havent seen this before. and montana is home to a number of sensitive sites. so that is when concern started growing and we are told norad did send fighter jets up to make a positive identification of the balloon to see if it was what they believed it was, later on, on january 31st, president biden was briefed this balloon was over montana but the initial urgency was not there because they did not believe this posed a threat to the united states. >...

Merchandise, $80 billion, a new record. worried about all this, we do are to protect the national security. lets remember, lets not overblow this thing. >> ambassador, ali vitali mentioned there is bipartisanship on making sure that dealing with these china relations are a top priority. there is a lot of disagreement on how this has been handled so far. we know there is that all senator briefing coming up at 11:30, but just this morning we heard from senator marco rubio, vice chair of the intel ...