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Marjorie taylor greene, the administration briefers pushed back and detailed their time line about why the decisions were made to ultimately shoot down the balloon after it traveled across the united states and after it came off the coast of north carolina. now, they said that according to sources familiar with that closed door meeting they say little intelligence was gleaned from the -- by the chinese throughout its course of this trek across the united states and said thats because essentially...

Were asking questions, specifically people like jon tester of montana, lisa murkowski of alaska, they were pointed in the questions they were asking of administration officials, and you could see there was clear frustration both over how this was handled and over the lack of transparency from the administration. officials were able to be more forthcoming behind closed doors in a classified nature with lawmakers. several emerged said there should be levels of transparency on this circumstance and...

Because before the balloon was shot down, you two spy planes flew by it, taking high-resolution photos of what officials described as an array of antennas for intercepting communications. >> i am so angry. i want to use other words. but im not going to. >> you guys have to help me understand why this baby wasnt taken out long before. >> reporter: jon tester is the democratic senator from montana, where ball over fielf h tercnental bstic on t comcationed for the command and control of nuclear wea...

National security experts believe the Chinese spy balloon which recently traversed the continental United States was a curveball for officials charged with guarding military secrets and a test for American responses to unconventional threats.

Biden administration officials testify that week-long wait gave military extra time to observe airship over US and understand China’s capabilities.

Sensitive information. we dont know that at all. i mean, as you know, this thing hovered or loitered for quite a while over one of our missile feels and we just dont know what information they gleaned or what information they were able to transmit. >> do they provide any follow-up as to that claim there was no sensitive information that the balloon got? >> no, not at all and they just dont know that yet. we may never know what information they gleaned from that. but, again, we know there was a r...

China is really much more advanced and aggressive in its surveillance capabilities than we were aware. this was a kind of method that people werent familiar with, wu but the big story of china as a technological and economic and even political competitor has been out there for a long time, and anyone who wanted to be paying a little bit of attention should have known that. is this sort of a slap in the face to the ordinary american who understandably has been worried about a lot of different thi...

And tonight here, the moment, what we witness with rescuers on that pile. right here on the ground with me tonight. back in the u.s., the urgent hunt for crucial pieces of that chinese spy balloon off the east coast. tonight, u.s. officials now revealing the balloon was capable of not only conducting surveillance, but monitoring communications, as well. martha raddatz with new reporting. in the u.s., at least four reported tornadoes across multiple states. and tonight, the system now moving ...

Shooting it down over land, they say, would have endangered lives. >> the recommendation was made to shoot the balloon down over an area that minimized the risk to u.s. citizens. >> reporter: but montanas other senator argues that wouldnt have been an issue in his state. >> the greatest risk would have been hitting a cow, a prairie dog, or an antelope. >> reporter: state department saying tonight that the balloon was capable of high resolution surveillance and intercepting communications, but of...

Worse. this is not good and i dont know why chairman xi decided to do this right now at this time when the secretary of state was getting ready to visit. >> bret: senior pentagon officials say they felt confident they were blocking whatever the balloon was trying to do. also interesting that the secretary of defense trying to call chinese officials and put on your hat of previous chairmanship of homeland security. a report fox digital and rendition of anthony moving most of the surveillance ball...