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THE MOST INCREDIBLE and intense video from the ground in South Carolina as people cheered the downing of a Chinese spy balloon. F22's roaring through the sky before launching missiles.

Began all this in 2016. not only misinformation but actually untruthful evidence that they were presenting and the federal government was co-opted by this also. every bit is not only realtime information we need but our friends, the democrats, of course, want none of this to be told and they say its irrelevant. its very relevant when the government is initiating their information to suppress free speech, we know we are in trouble, and that is what it appears as though we have captured that dead ...

Is actually training pilots to fly them. this seems to be a little crack -- the door cracked open a little bit for the ukranians because the brits had previously said, look, it wasnt all that practical to send fighter jets to ukraine because these are complex machines and it takes a heck of a lot of training to actually use them, to actually fly them, but the russians also had a warning, bianna, that if the uk were to provide jets that there would be political and military ramifications for that...

Was in that behind closed doors briefing on the china threat. >> mccarthy, very good to have you here this afternoon. our pentagon reporters have confirmed this program is actually massive, this chinese intelligence program, these balloons are part of a vast aerial surveillance program, been around for several years, pictures of the balloons flying over this country over the past six years, and it goes over five continents, outfitted with electro- optical sensors, digital cameras capturing highl...

One being that they were able to gather intelligence about and from this balloon and its payload over the days in which it was tracked above american land. and what sort of operational control china had over the balloon and what it was actually gathering. this is important because as andrea will provide greater details about here, next hour, secretary blinken is prepared to suggest that this was part of a larger balloon operation not only here in the u.s. but other can countries as well. and tha...

>> yes. you look at china and we all understand that it is a threat. you now have speaker kevin mccarthy put together a select china committee to take it seriously for the first time in years compiling members from all committees to look at all of the things china is invading airspace with a balloon. buying up space in the bahamas and either side of the panama canal. farm area in the united states of america. collecting intellectual propertyment looking at us through tiktok or other means of soc...

>> reporter: immediately after the shootdown, defense secretary lloyd austin tried to call his chinese counterpart to explain. >> i put in a request for a call, and they did not accept that request. >> reporter: speaking publicly for the first time about the chinese balloon, austin told cbs news biggest worry was it would spy on u.s. nuclear forces located at bases across the country. >> all of our strategic assets, we made sure were buttoned down and movement was limited, so that we didnt expos...

A Senate Democrat is joining Republican colleagues in calling for an investigation into the suspected Chinese spy balloon currently hovering over the United States.

Government is trying to do is figure out everything that they can about the balloon that was over the united states, just last week and was taken down off the coast of south carolina. those operations are still underway. theyre gathering those pieces. theyre taking them to a lab. there are fbi experts going through and trying to figure out what it was able to collect. then theyre also trying to cast a broader net and figure out what the extent of this chinese program looks like. we heard from th...

Medicare. but thematically, he was talking about things you talked about a lot in your midterm race, bringing jobs back to america, manufacturing in america, speaking to people who may be feel invisible in this country, a group of people that donald trump spoke to in 2016 to become president. >> actually, i had a guest in the gallery who is one of the presidents of one of my local uaw chapters make some gm cars in lansing. we were like, holy moly, that was a lot of minutes towards the issues tha...