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Intelligence gathered will be of value. >> there was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons. this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed. and i think you will see in the future that that time frame was well worth its value to collect. over. >> a senior biden official says the first pieces of the balloon have already reached quanti...

Saturday, and we are told that "uss path find are" a survey ship, is on-site and mapping that out rooun right now and th debris field is 15 football fields by 15 football fields. theyre still going through this recovery operation and they have not given us any details yet on what they have actually been able to recover intact from this balloon. of course that is going to be really key in terms of what they are able to recover and then send to a lab to analyze and what they can find out anything ...

Florida. so im scratching my head tonight. were there balloons or were there not? i tonight. were there balloons or were there not? ., , tonight. were there balloons or were there not? ~ , , . there not? i think this experience calls into question _ there not? i think this experience calls into question to _ there not? i think this experience calls into question to even - there not? i think this experience calls into question to even bigger| calls into question to even bigger concerns than this ...

Flying across missile silos in montana, over ft. bragg in north carolina. i do see now that the military seems to admit or the administration admits there was, in fact, not a balloon that was off course, a weather balloon off course, that it was expected to traverse the united states in the way they did and was allowed to by the administration. >> so we have learned that the white house has been -- during the trump years and two times including this one after -- now the biden administration .

0 >> i mean she left behind her three beautiful children that are going to grow up without having a mother. to teach them. >> well but i see her in so many things. i am just constantly reminded of. her we i feel like she is still there, she still here with us. . this sunday up in the air. u.s. fighter jets shoot down a chinese spy balloon flying in u.s. air space >> i told them to shoot it down. >> reporter: the incident forced the secretary of state to postpone a high stakes trip to beijing a...

Elections. these protesters also want elections in congress. lets go back to top story — and the us shooting down that chinese balloon off the coast off south carolina. dr michael clark is a defence and security analyst. i asked him whether the balloon presented any intelligence danger. i dont think it presented any any surveillance danger, given the areas that it went over. it wasnt going to pick up very much from montana or the midwest states where the missile fields were, where the american...

This is bbc news. welcome if youre watching here in the uk or around the globe. im lucy grey. our top stories: shot out of the sky — the us military targets the chinese balloon that had been floating in american air space. they successfully took it down and i want to compliment our aviators who did it. three airports were shut and the airspace was closed. it came down off the us east coast. suddenly we saw something tackle from and when youre with the missile and we saw the explosion. we did n...

Balloon was actually engaging in some sort of surveillance or spying operation, as distinct from, as the chinese allege, simply gathering weather data. when president biden spoke about the balloon, he was very keen to say that he ordered it to be shot down on wednesday, that that order came from him and that was his initiative. so there is a lot about optics here, isnt there? 0h, very much so. and of course, the president had come under increasing criticism from his republican adversaries for no...

The United States (US) on Saturday shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon over the Atlantic Ocean. The suspected surveillance balloon, which entered from Canada, was taken down as it crossed continental America after hovering over its skies from Montana to South Carolina.

And that chinas explanation for this — that it had simply blown off course whilst it was gathering weather data — just doesnt wash. the context, of course, as weve alluded to before, is that although in recent months, it appeared that there was some hope for a better course for us—sino relations, the wider context is very fraught, isnt it? it is, indeed, and antony blinken�*s much—prepared—for trip to to beijing, of course, cancelled at the last minute because of this snafu over the ...