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To find out how much china was able to collect. the balloon passed over extremely sensitive sites. its much lower than a satellite. how much intelligence did china get? that will be kind of a damage control assessment. third and finally, looking forward, youre going to see an effort made to kind of reverse engineer this in that how can we know about this sooner? when can we take it out? what more advanced capabilities might be added to this in the years ahead? how are we going to respond the nex...

The american people are questioning why arent we? dont we have a capability to do that? and look, the real reality here and we need to get this explanation. the balloon left mainland china on january 21st. for seven days it was en route to the united states off the coast of the aleutian islands. norad, responsible for tracking nuclear ballistic missiles and nuclear bombers, certainly had the capability to track this every single minute leading to the united states for seven days. what were we th...

Antony blinken had to cancel his first official visit to china. he was set to arrive in beijing last night >> the presence of this surveillance balloon over the united states, in our skies, is a clear violation of our sovereignty, a clear violation of international law, and, clearly, unacceptable. i can only imagine what the reaction would be in china if they were on the other end >> now, before the balloon was taken down saturday, republicans on capitol hill were lashing out at president biden ...

>> all right. were running out of time, but before i let you go, you and others in the gang of eight have asked for a briefing on all of the classified documents discovered from presidents trump, president biden, and vice president pence. where are we on that? >> you know, what is striking about this, chuck, is the biden administration told the american public that they raided donald trumps home because it was a national security risk. what we found in the intelligence committee is that the bide...

Consumer spending and inflation? >> quite a worrying development there, john. credit card spending was up 18.5 percentage points from a year ago. a record debt of $930 billion for 2022. also bear in mind because the interest rates have been rising, the average credit card rate is about 20% now. if you were to pay the minimum paymentive month, it would take you 17 years to pay off the debt with a 20% interest rate. the reason people are leaning more on their credit cards is simply because of the ...

This is a man in his 80s, the american president and still much confidence for forgetting his words and things he said before antagonize what we seen from his own mouth. he doesnt instill confidence and add to that the debacle in afghanistan and add to that certainly the u.k. and complete freezing of so-called special relationship, no trade deal and no ongoing relationship with these great countries. and i think certainly from the u.k. perspective, he is very underwhelming. now, we have this ext...

There are a lot of questions suggested. im not sure theres any harm in raising them. >> absolutely not. ask away. i think the questions are good to ask. i just dont know an answer as to where it would have been appropriate to shoot it down. 8,000 people live on the aleutian islands. officials say the balloon was up to 200 feet tall, weighed a couple thousand pounds that we know the debris field in the atlantic outside the carolina coast was seven miles long. if it was shot down theoretically, so...

Surveiler, i wonder? >> good morning, chris ttine. thanks for having me. its a combination of all of the above. why it took so long to shoot this balloon down. look, i firmly believeful we had taken the shoot first and ask questions later approach today we could be asking questions why we failed to consider the ricks of lives and property on the ground. a legitimate concerner the fact of the matter is, once we zuved this balloon was in u.s. airspace, the first thing is to stop and think and figu...

Something that is violating american borders like this. so im concerned by that answer because of what the chinese have capability of. they have a space station. they have the ability to already see a lot of the things that this balloon was looking for. to me it is a great power trial balloon so to speak, and it was sent on purpose to see what our response is. hopefully it leads to a great american awakening. im not sure the american public is aware of the threat that china poses to us. >> and t...

Weather balloon, as the chinese claimed, or a spy in the sky? moments after it arrived over the atlantic, the us brought an explosive end to the drama. that trail of white vapour you see on the left of the screen is an american fighterjet heading for the balloon. the second vapour trail is from a heat—seeking missile fired from the jet, easily finding its target. whoa! did you hear that? shortly after impact, the sound of the explosion was heard by people watching on the ground. then, what was...