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Lawmakers more. but they have been getting the believing this morning. the first of several big things on the capitol hill surrounding the topic. the full senate gets their briefing later this morning. so expecting to hear more from them once they learn more. and keeping an eye on a couple of hearings that will be happening in the foreign relations committee and subcommittee, the appropriations committee, looking at the spy balloon itself and u.s./china relations. you know lawmakers on both side...

Expand their efforts and their areas of influence and power. he has got to be stronger. that balloon should have been shot out of the sky over the allusions. never have let it get to montana. the other thing is we never would have known about it if somebody didnt happen to be watching it and said i have to take a picture of that. it looks odd. >> harris: can you even believe it? >> unbelievable. >> harris: this was worldwide. ten days over the continental u.s., 12 days if you include alaska. the...

Time? >> reporter: essentially the day before the balloon entered the u.s. airspace, the defense intelligence agency, the intel arm of the pentagon, they sent whats known as a tipper. basically just a short classified report that is disseminated across government channels and flagged that a foreign object had been detected and it appeared to be headed towards the united states. now, this was not viewed as particularly urgent. as we know the u.s. has surveilled a number of these balloons in the p...

As possible, not only because it could, of course, provoke some kind of conflict with the chinese but also the argument weve seen because it could pose a risk to civilians on the ground there. in addition to this, the u.s. says that they have been able to collect a lot of intelligence about how this balloon actually worked and that is another reason they say why they wanted to wait until the balloon had kind of exited the u.s. to see what they could collect. when this entered u.s. airspace the u...

Raj you and evan perez. >> reporter: its because of that that the collection aspect of this balloon that the fbi is involved and now they are analyzing the first components that have been brought back from the atlantic ocean. they are now, you see pictures there, at the fbi lab in quantico. they were -- theyve only recovered limited parts of it. the umbrella -- the balloon canopy, some wiring and some of the smaller electronic parts. the bulk of what they call the payload which is the electronic...

On the incursion. jessica dean is there to watch us. a lot of hearings, and thank you for doing this for us. >> yes, a number of moving parts here, because members of both parties have been asking for as much information on this as they can get, and today, they are beginning to get this, and so we have a couple of hearings on the senate side on the foreign relations committee, and a subcommittee of the appropriations committee, and we have heard from the deputy secretary of state wendy sherman, ...

The House unanimously approved a resolution on Thursday condemning the Chinese Communist Partys use of a spy balloon over the continental U.S.

Equipment necessary to sur veil us more accurately. also because it came as a balloon and we were ostensibly tracking it but we dont know what they could or couldnt see. the size of the package indicates the strength of their ability to look and transmit. >> harris: when we couldnt jam their transmissions, what does that tell you? >> there was so misrepresentation maybe from the administration for whatever reason. number one. number two, it indicates that we have a bigger hole in anti-surveillan...

Right now, two separate senate committees are drilling into u.s. and china relations. in the wake of that chinese spy balloon entering the u.s. just last hour senator jon tester made the stakes abundantly clear. >> chinas a real threat and one we need to take seriously, which is exactly why were here today. >> house members this morning receiving a classified briefing on the balloon ahead of a vote scheduled just a few minutes from now to condemn chinas use of a spy craft. senators are set to re...

Addressed and they do feel more comfortable about the situation. chris, they couldnt reveal to us what that plan is, but that is clearly the overwhelming concern by members of congress what can be done to prevent this from happening again. >> so michael, florida republican congressman michael waltz said yesterday this china balloon might end up being a sputnik moment. hes suggesting that the balloon is waking the americans up to the reality of the chinese threat, kind of in the same way the sovi...