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Biden and has talked to him. but house republicans writ large havent heard from him on this and thats something theyre going to be looking out for closely. >> mike, is the balloon going to play a part tonight in the speech? >> well, when president biden was asked about this yesterday, by our own kelly odonnell, he said this hasnt led to a big rewrite of the speech, but we understand from aides we have been talking to that part of why that is, why he said that, is because china was already a subs...

Not detect those threats, and thats a domain awareness gap we have to figure out. do main awareness gap, joe, we have to start using that one. this was huge. the president decided the middle of last week he wanted to shoot it down. department of defense said, we agree, we can shoot it down, but lets wait until its out over water. were getting an idea of how big this was. balloon seems an understatement to describe this thing. >> it was massive. domain awareness gap, by the way, i wish i had had ...

>> you have no doubt seen that the u.s. government shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon over the weekend. and according to the republican party, the mere existence of that balloon in u. s. airspace is tantamount to equivocal abdication of duty by the biden administration. in a saturday piece from fox news digital, basically, any elected official within an "r" next to their name sounded off on president bidens career ending balloon failure. republican senator josh hawley of missouri, running...

Maneuverability. earlier china condemned the u.s. for shooting down its balloon calling it an overreaction. china also says it reserves the right to deal with similar situations. but earlier today at a briefing, we heard from a spokeswoman who said that the debris from the balloon that was shot down belongs to china. she said, the airship is chinas, not the u.s. she goes on to say that the understand should have handled it properly in a calm professional thon infnonforcefu, but this was a clear ...

And also to make sure hes also accounting for the political dynamics here and where republicans are really hoping to seize on this china issue against president biden in the years ahead. >> so, jake, are lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are actually asking questions about that balloon. are they expected to get any answers to those questions? >> i think the big moment here, jose, is behind closed doors where the gang of eight, the leaders in both parties from both chambers and the leaders on ...

Thing that you want to get here to analyze just what was the center suite, and what were the chinese actually trying to do, and what were they are trying to collect with this balloon. >> absolutely right. and to another big question that is being reported by oren liebermann, and the previous incursions and what the u.s. commander is saying about the previous incursions by chinese balloons is that they went undetected and what he said is a domain awareness gap. what does that mean to you? >> well...

The predictable outrage from China hawks in Washington over the suspected spy balloon has pushed Biden into another political corner. A wholly avoidable blunder on Beijing’s side, the incident has for now deflated hopes of de-escalating US-China tensions.

These things move in between where we can detect altitude and satellites. did the china know that and exploit it? so, again, a lot of questions are being answered. we will have a series of briefings to understand this better and then if we need to, in the defense bill, address it, obviously, we need to do so sooner than later. >> house majority whip steve scalise said the house is gathering more details on the spy maroon and is working to draft a resolution that will condemn the china government...

>> the chinese government. >> a laugh from the president there. were learning more about the balloons design now. the commander of norad says it was 200 feet tall, thats about four times the size of the snoopy balloon at the macys thanksgiving day parade. the debris field was 1500 meters by 1500 meters or 15 football fields by 15 football fields. its huge. officials failed to detect surveillance balloons in the past. this is not the only first time. they only learned about it later from intellig...

China's spy balloon raises questions as to how far the Chinese Communist Party is willing to go to spy on or otherwise harm the United States.