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Balloons with part of a fleet of chinese spy balloons spotted around the world in recent years. both the u.s. and china use more sophisticated satellites to spy on each other, but balloons have some advantages, as chinese state media has pointed out in recent years. this military expert explains how balloons can linger longer over a target and take higher resolutions photos, compared to satellites, adding that chinas achieved breakthroughs in surveillance balloon development. in this 2019 state ...

Either, secretary pum pum, i am having a hard time putting this together in my mind because it doesnt make any sense to me at all whatsoever. how is it that the president of the united states knew that this balloon was flying over the state of alaska where you have a lot of empty terrainnd there and allowed this thisue balloon to continue through canada, back down to idaho and across and up and down the country, all the way across to the east coast. how is that possible? >> does that make any se...

Telegenic, we know learn something we did know before. we simply havent analyze the intelligence that wouldve revealed that the spy balloons flew over the united states. during my time in intelligence community, we had more intelligence than we had analysts to look at the stuff. so very possible that we just and see it. >> thats interesting, shawn. so another words, sean, there was just too much intelligence and it was an oversight and we do know that this was happening. isnt necessarily somethi...

A response to this. they should be in no position to talk like this, it is incursion in our country, yet the biden administration weak response embolden the balloon and this response they should never feel embolden to give. >> brooke: you will hear president biden tonight say we will reassert our leadership around the world, he plans to tout the alliances he made and discuss competitionen 22 the u.s. and china. i dont know if he will address the balloon. >> ashley: if he does not, that is going ...

Administration officials tell nbc news, u2 spy planes were circling the balloons taking pictures about the chinese capability. >> theres immense intelligence value in watching an asset like this actually behave, its maneuverability, its emission characteristics. >> reporter: but the white house is facing questions on capitol hill. >> members of congress on both sides of the aisle have some serious questions about how long they knew about this, why they didnt shoot it down sooner, what informatio...

They cant even pay the bills. you are better off doing what we do here in china. that is the case that they want to make. not just of their own people. they want to make that case around the world. they went make that case in your, they want to make it in that america. it would be absolutely devastating. i dont make the consequences of a balloon flying over this country for a few days. nobody would remember that. it would pale in comparison to the impact of what would happen if the republicans, ...

Andrea mitchell now with the latest. >> reporter: tonight, the head of u.s. northern command says the ten-square-mile debris field from the chinese surveillance balloon has been narrowed to less than a square mile. the coast guard setting up a security zone around the crash site with the military saying the balloon was 200 feet tall with a pay load weighing more than 2,000 pounds. the president taking a hard line against china which today escalated its attacks, saying it reserved the right to re...

U.S. officials said Monday that improvements ordered by President Joe Biden to strengthen defenses against Chinese espionage helped to identify last weeks spy balloon - and to determine that similar flights were conducted at multiple points during the Trump administration.

Was on that balloon as the payload, and what was it designed to do. >> the fbi said its the size of a regional jet. this is a huge thing. >> hufnlgt. >> and plummeting through the sky into the ocean, the damage has to be pretty extreme. >> pretty extreme, but not as extreme necessarily as it would have been were it shot down over some vast unoccupied place in montana. but heres where the people at otd are going to make their money or not, or earn their money or not is not just helping -- and the...

Decisions. it starts although it with afghanistan. it seemed like a rash isolate decision that was under informed, even as we go through this morning, watching this balloon incident. i dont want to quarterback and forgot were to shoot that thing down at, but i feel like the commander-in-chief should have communicated to america whos wondering, what in the world is going on? communist chinese government has a balloon going uncontested across our country. trying to figure out the rationale behind ...