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Just become more focused and more concentrated and there are simply a lot of questions and a lot of talk about how to deal with this moving forward. abby. >> yeah, absolutely. and, evan, my understanding you came out of an fbi briefing. theyre charged with analyzing pieces of this balloon that came down in the atlantic. what are you learning? >> reporter: yeah, abby, so the fbi has now in its hands the initial parts of this balloon and some of the equipment that was recovered from the top of the...

US will look at continuing the broader efforts to expose and address China larger surveillance activities that pose a threat to its security and that to its a

Balloons have flown across dozens of countries in five continents, and oren lieberman is going to join us from the pentagon for us. oren, what are you learning about this? >> kate, not only are we learning more about this balloon itself and the capabilities, but more about the pattern that the u.s. has observed in the years, and first on this balloon, the state department official says this balloon had significant signal intelligence gathering ability, and communications and transmissions below ...

Quantico which is the fbi lab that is going to be doing this analysis hoping to learn a lot more about the signals intelligence collection the communications collection this balloon was doing. we asked the question on the briefing that we had with senior fbi officials whether there was anything that has been recovered so far that indicates, you know, explosives or anything that could have harmed the public as this balloon made its way across the united states. we were told that at this point, ag...

The alleged Chinese spy balloon that flew over the U.S. was capable of collecting communications signals and was part of a broader People’s Liberation Army intelligence-gathering effort that spanned more than 40 countries, a State Department official said Thursday.

The military-linked aerial spy program targeted more than 40 countries, the Biden administration said on Thursday.

Shot down chinese spy balloon. officials now say the balloon was, indeed, capable of monitoring u.s. communications and was part of a larger mu multicontinent chinese espionage program. im joined now by chris stewart. he represents utah and serves on the intelligence committee. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. you have been briefed thus far and republicans and democrats seem a bit divided as to whether now knowing what they do whether the u.s. acted accordingly given what we know a...

Tester peppering defense officials with questions about not getting a lot of answers. >> do we have a plan for when this happens again? and what were going to do and when were going to do it? i will tell you this, and i appreciate, but the truth is, we think we know what will they were going to collect. we dont know. that scares the hell out of me. the truth is, i got a problem with the chinese balloon flying over my state. much less the rest of the country. why didnt we shoot the previous ones ...

Balloon at this point. a lot of it remains underwater. this is the first time the fbi has been able to examine any parts of one of these balloons, obviously weve learned in recent days there have been a number of them that have been detected crossing u.s. territory at this point right now at the quantico lab, the fbi lab in virginia, they have the balloon canopy and have wiring, some small electronics floating at the top of the ocean, the rest of it is still underwater. fbi and the navy divers a...

But even still as we have seen a few briefings and hearings this morning and then of course the full senate will get their briefing about half an hour or so from now, the house was, of course, briefed in a classified fashion this morning, there is still some concern that theyre not getting the information that they want, specifically senator jon tester of montana, one of the people who called this hearing, said they want more information about what this balloon was actually trying to gather over...