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This has to stop and this administration needs to get tough on this. congress needs to take back some of this responsibility from the administration because they cant seem to make a decision. they cant even decide when to shoot down a spy balloon. >> john: its clear between the two of us, senator, there are a lot of questions yet to be answered about all of this. well see if we get the answers in the days and weeks ahead. thanks so much for joining us. it is a question, sandra, you know, we see ...

Some of that with this situation or how the military was going to react. as i said this wasnt the first time a balloon has crossed into our airspace in different administrations, and we need to have a pla stop. and i think our airspace is sacred to us, and we ought to protect it. >> listen to president biden ask what this whole saga has done to u.s.-china relations. >> have relations now between the u.s. and china taken a big hit? >> no. no. the idea of shooting down a balloon thats gathering in...

Blueprint on how to neutralize any power that this beautiful country, united states of america, has had over the last couple decades. its very dangerous. >> martha: how about this exchange with judy woodruff and president biden. its worth taking a look at what he said when asked about the threat from china and what kind of a difference this particular incident makes. its a little lengthy but worth listening to it. watch this. >> have relations now between the u.s. and china taken a big hit? >> n...

State departments assessment of what this balloon was used for. that had been a bit of a question after that initial fbi briefing that were getting clarity on? >> so the fbi is beginning to sift through some of this debris thats been extracted out of the water off south carolina, but much of the evidence is still under water but they said thats right, whatever they have seen so far including pieces of the balloon very much is consistent with the balloon being some kind of a surveillance airship....

Murkowski. >> quite frankly, ill tell you i dont want a damn balloon going across the united states when we potentially could have taken it down over the aleutian islands, no offense to alaska or in some of the areas in montana, and i understand public health, i understand doing damage, i understand that could have been a nightmare, but the truth is i got a problem with a chinese balloon flying over my state. much less the rest of the country. >> as an alaskan, i am so angry. i want to use other...

Sharp turn southward towardsmont and thats when u.s. officials became increasingly concerned and the president was then briefed. >> that was around the 31st that the president was briefed. natasha bertrand. >> lets discuss with former deputy director of national intelligence, beth sanders and cedric layton. colonel, let me start with you. you there in natashas reporting that the administration believes that the technology is not sophisticated. there were no intel-collecting capabilities on the b...

Seen it before. havent seen a balloon that was on the trajectory this one was on as weve already talked about here that was going to take it over the entire united states, and so because we havent seen it before i dont think we leaned as far forward into being prepared for this and, you know, thats unfortunate but the good news is, again, we understand what went wrong there. were going to be able to correct that now. i know the department of defense and others who have eyes on this are certainly...

Our due diligence in preventing that, and in the end, we will know how successful they were. >> and general marks, i mean, knowing this, knowing that this balloon had these sophisticated technologies to collect communications, do you think that the president should have ordered it to be shot down earlier? >> i do. look, we were tracking this as it approached the aleutian aisles. thats american airspace, as well, and i think this was an opportunity for diplomacy to really take center stage. the u...

Military. adding the spy craft had multiple antennas to collect and geolocate communications and solar panels large enough to power intelligence collection sensors. >> the tool package and equipment package on that balloon was enormous and not able to jam the transmissions and we dont know the extend of the program. >> further classified details shared with the house and senate today inside a closed door briefing. republicans left still convinced the administration should have shot the balloon d...

She dressed up to look like a chinese balloon. and then she sits there screaming at the president, liar, liar. which he wasnt, wasnt. there are rules in congress. and in all of the years. a member would rise and say, mister speaker, take her words down. the next day, she would be in the well of the house having those words right back to her. i saw what happened when people said inappropriate things about ronald reagan. or bill clinton. if the institution is not outraged itself by her behavior. h...