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About a 20-mile perimeter where they are not going to allow other vessels at that time because theyre attempting to continue to retrieve debris from the suspected chinese spy balloon. were told theyre using navy divers and unmanned vessels if needed to try to lift things up to support it. now our colleague josh campbell reported there are pieces of that suspected spy balloon that have arrived at quantico for intelligence officials to begin coming. i -- examining. yesterday evening our colleague ...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre heartily defended President Joe Bidens handling of the Chinese spy balloon that flew over parts of the United States throughout the past week.

Operation. the debris field is larger than 15 football fields by 15 football fields. a top u.s. general said monday. >> it will take some time and people, all of us, including myself, will have to be patient, as we do the recovery, and do the exploitation. >> reporter: in a rare admission, china claimed the air ship was theirs, but called it a weather balloon taken offcourse. and deemed the shootdown an overreaction. furious critiques quickly emerged from bidens mpolitical rivals. >> the preside...

Islands. so there was a risk on the ground, marianne. there was a risk. think of the people in the aleutian islands. joe biden hasjust spoken in the last few moments. he said it was always his view that it should be shot down, just a question of where. be shot down, ust a question of where. . ., ., be shot down, ust a question of where. . . . , , , where. once again, republicans tend to shoot first — where. once again, republicans tend to shoot first and _ where. once again, republicans tend t...

Veiled threat that u.s. surveillance aircraft cross into chinese airspace that china would have the right in effect to respond in similar means. now, i went to the pentagon, following those comments from the chinese defense ministry to ask what their response was, and the pentagon said two things in effect. one, we do not fly. the u.s. does not fly into chinese air sparspace, but two, u.s. air flights will continue. this is a statement, the balloon was in u.s. territorial airspace, a violation o...

Leading this hour, were learning more about the downed chinese spy balloon that has left behind a debris field 15 football fields long. u.s. military officials revealing there were concerns about potential explosives on board. some republican officials have criticized bidens decision to wait until the balloon was over water, the atlantic ocean, to shoot it down. pentagon officials are defending the decision claiming they were able to gather more intelligence about the balloon that way and also d...

How much information do you think the pentagon will be able to glean overall in terms of the debris that they are finding right now and sending to quantico? >> well, a lot of it just depends on what survived on impact. they seemed to say that they knew what was going on in the balloon, it was tracking whatever it was tracking. so id like to think that that is a true statement, that they wanted to track it. im surprised were still talking about it frankly. i think that this is really an opportuni...

Beijing has urged washington to show restraint, after the us air force shot down a chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of south carolina. us navy divers are working to recover the wreckage of the balloon, which was brought down over the atlantic. a government spokesperson for china claimed that the aircraft was for civilian use and had drifted off course. it described the us response as an overreaction and a serious violation of international law. a similar chinese balloon is flying over ...

Is similar in description to the one flying over the united states, and the explanation of how it got there in the first place is also very similar. take a listen to chinese foreign ministry spokesperson speaking from beijing. [ speaking non-english ] >> translator: after the verification, the balloon over latin america is used for weather flight test, and due to weather, and the limit ed steering ability, it entered the latin america air space by mistake. >> so we begin with questions as if the...

>> ainsley: charles, they are warning the residents to steer clear of any of the debris. have you seen anything? >> you know, i was just looking out in the water. and i thought i saw something in the water. but i think they are just birds. we heard from the myrtle beach police department who are telling people look if you see any of this debris, dont touch it. call authorities so we can make sure its collected. >> brian: thanks, charles. >> brian: lets bring in montana state senator steve daines...