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An opportunity to bring it counsel and, honestly, i mean, if it had worked of the way that it should have, i should have never seen this thick to begin with. >> ainsley: u.s. intel officials say the balloon was not transmitting any intel information to china at the time. but mike pompeo is saying its probably not true. he said china probably got all its collection that they needed in those first few days before we shot it down. >> the bigger issue here was the response to that balloon. this is m...

Navy crews on a recovery issue to salvage what officials believe is spy equipment from the chinese balloon shot down over the weekend. president biden ordered military jets to take it down but not until it was over weight so debris couldnt endanger any people. republicans are criticizing the delay. >> clearly, the president taking down over the atlantic is sort of like the quarterback -- sort of like tackling the quarterback after the game is over. the satellite had completed its mission. this s...

Effect the biden team has inflicted a serious of humiliations on chief arrival they point to semiconductor embargo in china, the philippines expanding access to u.s. military of the things they say section to a job. looks unfortunately humiliation this week was inflicted by the chinese communist on the president. again we shouldve shot down this balloon over the aleutians as opposed to quote all across middle america on its merry way. the idea we are letting this go all across americas spy ballo...

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Montana, by the way, is also home to the airforce base which houses 150 intercontinental ballistic missile silos. there were sightings of the balloon over missouri and kansas on friday and over the carolinas on saturday. the faa had to close air space and pause flights at three airports in order to allow the f-22 fighter jet to shoot down this balloon six miles off the carolina coast with a single air-to-air missile the dramatic takedown at 2:39 p.m. saturday was caught on camera chinas foreign ...

Antelope. this is called big sky country. they had a chance to take it out. they needed to take that shot when it first crossed into airspace in montana. hovering over our icb mss. we are proud of that mission in montana. one of the scaring the hell out of americas enemies since 1962 the chinese werent afraid. those icbms are wednesday of mass destruction. those are the most powerful weapons known to mankind. we have those in montana. and as ronald reagan said thats about peace through strength....

62nd minute. but first, richard is here with the headlines. hello, richard. >> thank, you mehdi. senate majority leader chuck streamers as -- obviously briefing on february 15th on the suspected surveillance balloon from china. this comes after u.s. forces shot down with the pentagon called a high altitude surveillance balloon at the direction of president biden. and chile extended an emergency declaration to another region this weekend as firefighters try to control dozens of deadly wildfires. ...

Allowed to enter the united states and never should have been allowed to complete its mission. if you ask somebody to draw an "x" at every place where our sensitive missile defense site, nuclear weapons infrastructure, nuclear weapons sites, you would put them all along this path. clearly, this was an attempt by china to gather information to defeat our command and control of our sensitive missile offense and nuclear weapon sites and that certainly is an urgency this administration doesnt recogn...

And columbia sightings, and theyre having to now explain what that balloon is doing, and theyre also claiming that balloon is purely civilian for peaceful purposes. this is become ago headache for china as well. >> i believe we have george back now, george on the scene off the coast, what more do we know about the collection of this debris? >> reporter: yeah, lindsey. good afternoon, good to be with you. we know that navy divers and recovery boats are back out in that seven-mile stretch, that de...

Leaving this in the sky in his view, president biden is weak. >> never should have been allowed to complete its mission. they need to make clear to our adver sair are yous, youre not going to come to the united states and take a tour of our military sites and have a free shot >> we dont know that part. we dont know that part. again, maybe the chairman knows more than we do. he has not received a sensitive briefing, maybe working the phones, maybe knows more. well give him due diligence on that. ...