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Official visit. that is it of course was abruptly cancelled in the light of this balloon and broke leo and thatis of this balloon and broke leo and that is being seen as a setback, given that relations between the two largest economies in the world have sunk to what some have described as a new kind of cold war and there was hope that some of that relationship could be averaged by antony blinkens visit to beijing —— balloon imbroglio. today the two nations took rather contrasting views of th...

Remnants of the balloon that are now in the ocean. i would hope that once they have brought it up and have investigated it and looked at it, then we will have that briefing so we can see and understand exactly what it is and isnt. i think that is important. we are looking for the facts of the matter, and so i fully expect a classified briefing to happen this week or early part of next week. >> okay. so you know that republicans are quick to call saturdays mission too little too late. listen to t...

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>> reporter: yeah, the commander of norad did speak to reporters and he was giving an update on the state of the recovery operation here. and he told reporters that the debris field right now from this balloon is expected to be about one square mile. so not nearly as much as had been projected previously which was as much as seven miles. but at the same time it will take more time of course to analyze and recover all of the debris. but he did also touch upon some fwa gaps in the u.s. ability to ...

Last few days is they were able to collect intelligence about the way the balloon was transmitting information, for example, and other ways about how it maneuvered. ultimately were told that the administration doesnt believe it was able to gather that much intelligence at all because the specifications were not all that sophisticated, no more sophisticated than the satellites the chinese have hovering in orbit as we speak. the issue with the satellites is they do not stay in one place for as lon...

Going to do about it? they were still steering it. the chinese was still steering this balloon. they didnt make an effort to turn around and bring it back. they just kept going as if daring us to shoot it down, which we eventually did. how do you explain that? >> it is a difference in the way we look at national security in the united states of america. this could have been bipartisan, hey, we are tracking your balloon headed our way and we are looking forward to having something similar to a ta...

The price of gold regained some of Fridays steep losses on Monday even as US bond yields rose further with the Dollar amid worsening US-China tensions over the disputed spy balloon

That border. we need a particular kind of road to provide the heavy trucks access. so, even if we have the world, logistically we are now presented with those kinds of very real—world challenges. presented with those kinds of very real-world challenges.— real-world challenges. thank you very much _ real-world challenges. thank you very much for— real-world challenges. thank you very much for explaining - real-world challenges. thank you very much for explaining just i very much for explain...

Failure projecting weakness of the united states of america. >> this became a situation of argument, what in the world is this administration doing? why are they not looking out for america number one? >> they can message to taiwan, our allies and others that on top of afghanistan america is a declining power and they cant even stop one of our most basic surveillance tools, a balloon. that theyre either incapable or lack the political will to take tough action. >> i want to bring in nbc white ho...

Sanger, and thank you for joining us. >> great to be with you. >> yes. so i was reading that you have a new analysis piece in the "times" and i note that "for pure gall, there was something different about this balloon." what do you mean by that? >> this is visibility. it was not by a long shot, the biggest hack by the chinese that we have seen. think about this, they have stolen the design by the f -25 fighter, and they took the security clearance of 22 million americans, and including 6 millio...