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Democratic senator tim kaine of virginia, a member of the foreign relations committee and announced he is running for re-election in 2024. we will talk politics in a moment. there is that all senators classified briefing on the surveillance balloon thursday. what questions do you still have? >> i think finding out what china is up to the earlier instances of balloons over the united states during the last administration, how we put the dots together to figure this one out. what intelligence we c...

The former GOP House speaker "has no idea what hes talking about," Lieu said.

The U.S. militarys record on dealing with Chinas spy balloon challenge? Its a mixed bag.

Frankly the first time it was really over our country in a way it was -- when it came in from canada, it was the safety issue on why they delayed knowing they could minimize any risk factors of the balloon being over our country. im not ready to second guess the president. i think he acted prudently not to endanger human life. neil: think they should be punished economically, not necessarily militarily but we should slap sanctions or some economic measures on them for that? >> i think china has ...

It feels as though they will decide on the health of the country after the speech? one. >> steve: okay. >> brian: how many people think he should bring up the border? okay for good or bad. i know the president feels for bad. okay. how many people think he should bring up the balloon? >> spy flight. >> what about making china the number one enemy to people? make it official? >> absolutely. >> brian: do you realize that is the most unifying thing right now in the country, almost everybody agrees t...

Hopefully right out of the gate he talks about it. china doesnt care what biden says or what anybody in america says at this point. my question, we dont even know what that balloon was collecting. >> brooke: we dont and officials says they were not as concerned, they were unclear if this balloon had additional tools the ccp is using. members of the biden administration sounded the alarm that china is the greatest existintiel threat, but others say it is climate change. >> todd: overcomplicate fo...

Lets not take partisan shots at president trump or biden? >> you came on to be fair about this talking about a time of our choosing. that balloon was over the ocean in the aleutian islands. it would appear in hindsight that was a time to take your mark. would you not agree? >> look, i think those questions need to be asked and maybe going forward there needs to be clear policy that these balloons need to be shot down before they come close to american territory. but once the president was notifi...

Last Friday, strange video footage depicting what appeared to be an explosion over Billings, Mont., went viral on social media, only to later be decried as false by local and state officials. The [...]

The u2s tailed the balloon, photographing it up close. until it was shot down off the south carolina coast. the massive recovery effort now under way. unmanned underwater vehicles seeking out wreckage from the balloons huge technology bay, the size of three buses. those vehicles also searching for possible explosives. a senior u.s. official tells me the balloon had a self-destruct capability. as the u.s. collects debris, and with it information, china today declaring the air ship does not belong...

We all know china spy flight was finally shot down. the fbi is now beginning to analyze the debris they are collecting from the waters. in these new images show the navies salvage operators pulling those remnants of the flight from the waters off of the coast of myrtle beach, south carolina. we are learning at least three past flights have invaded u.s. forces. yesterday the commander admitted the agency didnt detect these previous threats. watch this. >> day today, we do not have the authority t...