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China accused the United States of 'indiscriminate use of force' after officials shot down a suspected spy balloon.

Authorization to collect intelligence on this balloon while it was over the united states, jake. >> anew, house republicans are discussing whether or not they should pass a resolution to condemn the biden administrations handling of the balloon entering and traveling across u.s. airspace for days. biden says the pentagon warned him shooting it down over land posed a real risk to americans. whats the real risk youre hearing from republican lawmakers? >> reporter: republicans are saying the presid...

Theres been a lot of discussion, wait to go hear from karine jean-pierre in the next couple of minutes around the microphone. what does the u.s. china relationship look like given how big of a drama this was. theres new reporting you and the team have as it relates to congress being informed of all of this. there was concern about members of congress that they hadnt been kept in the alone about this. they wanted a briefing, et cetera. >> thats right. i think its important to note that the white ...

Ground should that debris wash onshore. >> take a glimpse. not a chunk of it home. the white house says the u.s. was able to mitigate. do you think china was able to gather some intelligence? >> well, lindsey, perhaps, and i think were going to have -- theres going to have to be a forensic analysis of some of the debris. more than likely the intelligence community and the pentagon did collect quite a bit from our own exquisite collection of what the balloon was doing. theres also reports that we...

Posing and congress and the intelligence committee, they are fully cognizant of the national security threat. i mean, china has been an aggressive perpetrator of intelligence activities against the united states for years now. if we could do a visual where we take the 2015 theft of data from the office of personal management and could have a visual that depicts how that could have gone up to a balloon maybe that would have seized peoples attention back then. it doesnt in the same way as this vis...

Of the surveillance. we dont know whether it was data linked with satellites and other things that we just dont have the capability to jam. so it was very clear it was an isr threat, and in my opinion, we should have taken action before rather than let it loiter over our mainland and sensitive military sites for three or four days. >> a u.s. general says publicly that the delay in shooting down the balloon will be, and im quoting now, well worth its value in intelligence collected against china....

Him the guns and showing him where the children sleep and then allowing him to leave. >> it is like tackling the quarterback after the game, and allowing a robber on the porch to come on in. and it is not just republicans, but former secretary panetta said that chinese balloons should not be allowed to go over the united states, so is your response that it was too little too late to shoot it down? >> it is a violation of the united states air space and sovereignty, and no question about that, an...

But dont mess with any of the debris. the department of defense is working with local law enforcement to recover as much debris as possible, any equipment to gain insight into those chinese spying capabilities. >> george solis, thank you. admiral stavridis, what can you tell us. >> you know the admiral will sats the u.s. navy recovering that balloon and that debris. it will be quickly handed off to our wonderful cleanse community partners. theyll look for three big things, jose. number one, th...

Myrtle beach. senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake has reaction and the hill and im joined by a former cia officer and intelligence analyst. how much of this balloon have searchers been able to recover so far, and what do they hope to learn from it? all right. doesnt sound like we have george. were going to work on his audio. dan, well go to you here on some of whats happening behind the scenes here. senior administration officials telling nbc news they discussed how best to take this...

Their scientific balloons. were getting into the stratosphere at this point in time. the problem is these types of devices cannot be picked up very easily in terms of radar traffic, so as things go floating through the united states, this basic path right here, which is what the balloon took, when it does that, its not always possible for radar installations to pick these balloons up. so thats why we need to fine-tune radar. we also need to fine-tune the intelligence capabilities to recognize da...