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Day one, we dont think its a big deal but -- >> the main line theyve been having is, look, when -- the presidents words, when i was briefed i ordered it to be shot down. the question going forward is, well, wait, why werent you briefed sooner? were you briefed sooner? how long did you know about this? my colleagues reported that a month ago that u.s. officials told congress that foreign governments were conducting aerial surveillance. thats a bit broader than what we know now but there were indi...

I want to use other words, but im not going to. >> i want to bring in nbcs ryan nobles whos on capitol hill and michael crowley as the diplomatic correspondent for "the new york times." michael, you wrote that the downing of this balloon was the ending of the diplomatic crisis. clearly it is not over for folks on the hill. what do you make of these demands for answers, and is this something the administration could have avoided if theyd done things differently? >> reporter: obviously its a polit...

Today, the house of representatives unanimously approved a resolution condemning china over its spy balloon entering u.s. air space. >> the fbi announced they are in the early stages of examining the remnants of the shot-down spy craft. officials told lawmakers some of what theyve learned, including the revelation that the balloon was capable of monitoring u.s. communications and was just part of a larger multi-continent chinese espionage program. cnns natasha bertrand is in washington with deta...

This is what the u.s. officials have run by the peoples republic of china to send the balloons like this one, not exactly the same, but similar in the purpose and similar in the intent over some 40 countries in the course of the past years, and number of missions undertaken, and several officials according to cnn and this latest balloon is part of that, and there is more information coming out according to the biden administrations briefing the hill here, and we do expect more, and one of the ke...

Significant. they were probably pretty similar to what the chinese can get from their satellites. what natasha did mention was the fact that they probably cut the communications link from the balloon back to china, back to its home base in china in order to avoid get intercepted and giving us a better look at how they communicate with each other. so i think these balloons have the potential of being sophisticated, but i dont think we know all the answers yesterday. i would still consider it to b...

While Democrats and the politicized intelligence and defense agencies all claim that the Chinese spy balloon President Biden allowed to traverse the entirety of our nation before a token [...]

Acknowledged what they have called what he called a domain awareness gap that led to the united states not detecting three other balloons, and i asked the former national director of intelligence james clapper about this, and he said that the awareness gap is military jargon for that we all missed it. did you get any other intelligence about how that happened in this briefing? >> well, as i noted earlier the chinese balloon were originally undetected and classified as ufos, but the biden adminis...

Youre getting are definitely all one big piece of the intelligence part of this. what was missing in the assessment from the broader biden administration was just the fact that unlike cyber, unlike other intelligence issues, people could actually see this with their eyes. you could capture it in pictures. you can capture it on video and it just changes the dynamic and perception is everything and we know, i mean, look, kids are all over using tiktok on their phone. we know that the chinese are u...

Beijing has dismissed American accusations that a downed Chinese balloon was part of an extensive surveillance program,

People understand the failure of the balloon and understand the failure of afghanistan and something that will stick with them for the next couple of years. >> harris: seven continents, 40 countries that are dealing with what we shot down after several days of dealing with it in our skies. it will continue to be an issue. the president has to define what his foreign policy really is. are we first? great to see you. thank you. "outnumbered" after the break.