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Hitting americans. dan: i think the state of the union would have been a problem for them with this balloon flying over. coming up, joe biden is bringing back a disastrous obama-era rule that could bring racial equity into your neighborhood. th

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Entailed. instead, they tried to flip the script, monitoring it constantly and tried to learn about it as it traversed the united states. there were days of planning to figure out the best possible time to shoot this down. in fact, it was decided not to shoot it down over the continental united states because of the risk to people and property. instead, that decision was made out over the water. the pentagon and northern command launched f-22s from langley air force base in hampton, v.a., as wel...

The militarys response. oren lieberman, cnn at the pentagon. >> cnns ivan watson is standing by in hong kong with the latest from there. china saying u.s. is overreacting, violating international practice. a lot of people saying how so when it was flight over u.s. territory. you imagine china would have brought down a u.s. balloon flight over its territory. >> its hard to see what kind of a leg the chinese government has to stand on here, michael. friday, the chinese foreign minute city surprise...

Again, peace through strength china is a bully. they dont care at all what were saying what they care is what our actions have been and what theyre going to be so we should be taking action right now and lets not make the mistake that biden made by not arming them sooner so there are actions that we need to do to make china stand down. lawrence: what action dos we need to take and what should president do right now to show strength? >> yeah well first of all lets shore up southern border and sto...

How are they collecting information? what kinds of things are they looking for? this balloon evidently potentially had some type of guidance system, probably propellers on a balloon, that took it across this approach across the country that over flew several military bases. not just the ones in the northwest, but also in the central part of the country and even in the south. some of the error ins * * -- air force bases and even some of the army bases. so i think, you know, the u.s. government is...

Send this huge, huge balloon over the continental united states? >> well, it looks like its a country thats not a super power thats trying to play super power. and so the concern about it -- i dont think this incident is going to lead to, you know, u.s. and china fighting each other. but it obviously shows that, look, china is not this, you know, undefeatable country that i think people thought russia was, for instance, even, but it shows they can make bad calculations. they can assume were goin...

WASHINGTON: The United States shot down a Chinese spy balloon Saturday that had spent the past week traversing the country, an explosive end to a drama that put a diplomatic crisis between the world’s two great powers onto television screens in real time.

S assessed as having limited value from an intelligence collection perspective, colonel. so what are your guesses as to what its actual purpose was? why did china launch this huge balloon across the continental united states? >> so theres several possibilities. i used to work collection management operations, and what that means is you pick what the type of collection asset that you need in order to go after a particular intelligence target. so what may have happened is that the chinese may have...

Who was talking to his troops and saying be prepared for war, you know, truthfully, wolf, i think thats been over blown a little bit. i know there were several occasions in my career where you try and fire up your subordinates by saying, hey, our job is to be ready for war at any time. im sure that was probably a part of the hyperbole were going in that particular air force four star who told his troops to get ready for war. >> it was pretty alarming. as usual, thank you so much for joining us. ...