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The balloon, but they are scheduling donald trump. >> anything on biden or pence? >> it is included, yes. >> that will all be included. is that this week? >> yes. it is supposed to be this week. well see whether or not the balloon happens first. it certainly should. again, urgency. this administration needs to understand we do have national security urgent matters. >> all right. mike turner, chair of the house intel committee, republican of ohio. thanks for coming in and sharing your perspective...

Way. and this shows it, right? we have a balloon. by the way, this is not the first time theyve used balloons and weve used balloons. in fact, we are increasing our budget for balloons. they have these things called satellites that are up there all the time. this was a visual. this is top gun. this is maverick. the politics get involved in a way that it gets overhyped. why this is a problem? because, chuck, i am a gen xer. i remember elementary school hiding under a desk doing those drills. are ...

Shot down over the weekend. >> brian: recovery effort underway as the white house claims three spy balloons flew over the u.s. urine detected during the trump administration. >> ainsley: thats what they say. >> pete: thats the new. >> brian: unkey texted it now. >> pete: detected the undetectable. charles is live in south myrtle myrtle beach with the latest. charles? >> navy divers were out searching the waters of the atlantic ocean to try to recover the debris from the chinese spy balloon shot ...

The shooting down of a civilian Chinese airship did not mark the end of the balloon episode, as US politicians continued to either advance

Collecting, emanating? we need to see whether the decision was deliberate or whether it was careless. im going to withhold judgment until we get that. >> well get to the politics in a minute about whether the president should have shot it down shooter, thats policy and politics i guess. in terms of what the intelligence community hopes to glean from this wreckage, walk through it. >> i think theres a really good argument that part of the reason the intelligence community and the administration m...

Theoretically they could have conducted that operation off of alaska. by this time the president hadnt been briefed yet. >> that raises such an important question. the biden administration says that previous balloons have flown over the u.s. before, but the trump administration may not have been aware. how is that possible? the department of defense not have known and then not briefed the president at the time? >> so there are a lot of things that could have happened. were playing a dpeguessing ...

What was the Chinese spy balloon, likely operated by either the Peoples Liberation Armys Strategic Support Force or its Rocket Force, trying to do?

Is they really want to know everything the balloon was trying to detect. naturally, we always go to visual imagery, just like david said, things like satellites, though, cover most of the ground very well. but the question really will come down to, you either either census? other types of payload that might be loaded in the balloon, which we would calm and signature intelligence? or, maybe theyre trying to use some sort of sensing technology that were not familiar with. getting that technology a...

Isnt ship that we deal with today? or is it somehow warranted? >> i think in the short term, its hyperpartisanship. there was a decision, apparently, by pentagon officials to not shoot this down, because the lower part of it, the machinery that clint was just talking about, is roughly the size of three buses. and there was a concern that you could, you know, have this debris hit people on the ground. but i dont think president biden can sort of be passive here. because theres a lot of jury quest...

Waiting to shoot it down allowed for ‘a better understanding to study the capabilities of this balloon’, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says.