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>> you did a good job at hissing on the key ones. what sort of information were they collecting? were they able to transmit it in realtime? what actual capabilities does this balloon have? what communications networks were they using to get the information off the balloon? those are obviously technical questions that we want to answer, but there are also strategic questions. what do they intend to do with these balloons? whats the broader snurps did they think they could get away with them being...

Meanwhile, three biden administration officials tell nbc news the administration is working to declassify intel on dozens of other chinese surveillance balloons spotted over hour than 40 countries. and in the state of the union address, president biden vowed to protect the u.s. against threats from china. >> make no mistake about it, as we made clear last week, if china threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our can country and we did. >> nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard joins u...

The most important thing that this demonstrates, it should be no shocker to anyone that the balloons are part of a larger chinese surveillance program. i think that is the most important thing. >> what does that speak to? in term of chinas capabilities? >> the first thing that it speaks to is that this incident , on the eve of the secretary of states visit to beijing, it is chinas continuing bad behavior. at this point, they continued to play the line that the balloon was innocuous, and somehow ...

Ability to track these kinds of objects. >> reporter: ryder did say they are hoping to learn more about so that the payload or equipment it was carrying could be left intact and examined by the fbi lab in quantico, but he didnt go into a lot of detail what the u.s. is hoping to learn from it. were told from sources that among the details that the u.s. wants to learn about chinas -- about these balloons is, of course, its technical capabilities, what satellites it was linked to and importantly wh...

The rest of it with the currents. >> dana: joining us now is former c.i.a. officer and f.b.i. special agent tracer walder. >> i think the biggest thing they will hopefully be able to glean is what it was collecting. what are the chinese capabilities in terms of measurement and signals intelligence and what was the purpose of this balloons sworn journey across the united states >> dana: you dont believe it was just for collecting information about the with like the chinese said. >> i absolutely d...

The United States held briefings in Washington and Beijing with foreign diplomats from 40 nations about the Chinese spy balloon that entered the US

The photos were published on Tuesday by the US Fleet Forces Command on its social media handles.The

Office. he needs to come off as vigorous and ready for six more years on the job. >> it might as well be four more years or six more years, thats the translation. and how does he address the doubts in the country hes physically up to the job? i think thats a huge challenge. and when he says fix the job the president wants to do things on the economy like the child tax credit, things on policing, more things on guns, things on immigration. none of that is going to happen in the next two years wit...

The record with him. im not sure hes 100 percent decided exactly what hes going to do. and so maybe some of the speech tonight was testing out some of those themes. he did talk about looking forward, but hes still got two years left in this term before he moves on to a decision about the next. he does, indeed. just to kind of get back to your point, bret, about the fact that he said very little about china. he didnt mention the balloon. he didnt mention the the now nine or ten balloons that were...

Be running against somebody whether its donald trump or someone else on the republican side going to be talking about so in terms of the limited amount of foreign policy i think its important to talk about america, to the extent theres a balloon controversy its really over the day it got shot down, not so much what the actual handling of this was. and i think there are some other pieces all the talk about buying in america. hes like were going to buy american on all this stuff, but i think thats...