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Criminal charges that could be brought. >> moments ago the state department told reporters they are looking into taking further action against china for the balloon. >> we are always going to protect our interests. we did so in the case of this balloon. we also said today in the release that you mentioned that were exploring taking action against prc entities linked to the pla and that supported the balloons incursion into u.s. airspace. well look at continuing these broader efforts to expose an...

Federal government. plus, in the next 30 minutes, president biden takes his political fight to florida, home to his biggest potential rivals. and devastation in syria and turkey, almost unimaginable as the death toll closes in on 20,000. were live in turkey where one of our reporters just witnessed an incredible rescue. but we start with some explosive moments in those hearings we just mentioned, both democratic and republican lawmakers going hard at the biden administration and its offici...

Children— needed from these families and children and yes, the children can have _ children and yes, the children can have a _ children and yes, the children can have a nice — children and yes, the children can have a nice place to play for a time but the _ have a nice place to play for a time but the longevity of what they have experienced both for the adults in the children, dont be something that all— the children, dont be something that all countries should come together— that all co...

Culminated in all senators getting their own classified briefing. coming out of that, we heard along mostly party lines, democrats being a little bit more muted in their criticism of the administrations handling of this. republicans continue to be critical of the way and process by which the white house handled this situation. listen. >> the administration acted correctly in how it dealt with the surveillance balloon. >> the biden administration had a chance to shoot it down over alaska, and the...

Alaskaen islands and before it was able to enter the air space with mainland america and the united states and collecting data and intelligence. >> bret: congressman, this is what democrats say and ill paraphrase here. they say, yes, there arent that many people in those remote places in alaska or in montana and to senator danes point theres a lot of cows and prairie dogs, but had it been shot down and a piece of that equipment, that size of three buses or something even bigger than that hit one...

♪ >> the idea of shooting down a balloon thats gathering information over america - um aand aa making relations worse? i made it real clear to xi jinping that we are going to compete fully with china, but we are not going to look for conflict. >> hes enabling this aggression, this sort of dismissal of the united states as a preeminent super power of xi jinping. this is a continuation of tough words and weak action. this president has 47 years of what i call big carrots and small sticks. >> con...

Know what that balloon was trying to gather? do we know what information it was trying to gather from the united states? it didnt fire over us by accident, it was intentional. do we know with the chinese communist government was looking for? we communist government was looking for? ~ . communist government was looking for? . . , communist government was looking for? ., , for? we have some very good guesses about that and — for? we have some very good guesses about that and were _ for? we have ...

Apparently abandoning its spy mission. but still communicating with controllers back in china. according to u.s. officials, china has a fleet of high-altitude balloons, which is military has used as a cheap alternative to satellites to fly over some 40 countries around the world. the search was suspended this afternoon because of rough seas, but officials say some of the parts already recovered have english writing and appeared to have been manufactured in the west. the state department is consi...

Hello, and welcome to "inside politics." im john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with u. not your average balloon. u.s. officials sharing new information and they say, yes, china was spying. its balloon part of a surveillance op and scooping up communications snooping on locations in the united states, plus, the presidents dual purpose road show. watch me, joe biden says, when asked if hes too old for a second term and today in florida, a state donald trump w...

Break tonight, members of congress receiving classified briefings today on chinese spy craft, which floated across the country last week and shot down on the coast of south carolina saturday. we learned the suspended ands far from the only country china surveilled in the exact same way. and we found out exactly where some of the parts on the balloon were manufactured and what the balloon was capable of doing. congressional correspondent iowa hawkeyeaisha has more from the e house. reporter: fox ...