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Almost about to be under attack we know china is going to attack them so knowing what we know about the -- about the attack taiwan, knowing that we just been having these balloon just floating all over the united states. are we prepared from a military perspective, sir? >> well, obviously, lawrence if we let the thing fly across our country were probably not prepared. they do this for three reasons one is to gather intel, of course. other is to gauge our reaction to it it is like probing they ca...

Measurement intelligence which is signals from nukes, radar, sonar, those kinds of things. that is what it was measuring. i am really hopeful that this will be an intelligence boon for us, seeing what the payload have. >> lieutenant general, to traceys point, this balloon came in alaska, went over into canada, it spent some time over montana. there was some concerns that i had because i read we have more than 100 intercontinental ballistic missile standing at the ready buried deep underground mi...

And has now disappeared. the columbian air force, meanwhile, said the balloon spotted in their airspace was at an altitude above 50,000 feet, and its working with other countries to establish the balloons origin. the balloon has since left u.s. airspace. >> there were reports of a second balloon in at least two latin-american countries looking a lot like the chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down friday after flying over the united states. cnn is aware of at least half a dozen eyewitnes...

>> and many people witnessed the drama in the sky near the popular tourist destination myrtle beach, south carolina. earlier cnns jim acosta spoke to a man who watched the fighter jet shoot the balloon out of the sky. listen to this. >> ive seen a lot of crazy stuff at myrtle beach in the last few years, but this was by far the craziest. we were at lunch joking around what if we see it, what if its right here, and them shooting it down was ima continental. we went outside and saw the fighter jet...

Surprise, i suppose, is a sophisticated country like china is using what at first sight looks like relatively low technology. i think part of this could be that chinas experimenting with this way of conducting surveillance, but, yeah, at the end of the day, it is surprising. >> why would that be because satellites are so amazing at getting detailed piers of things. so what kind of information could you get from a balloon that you couldnt get or would be harder to get using a sate satellite? >> t...

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...

He was floating over Montana because he loves the TV series "Yellowstone," the irritable balloon explains in an "MSNBC" interview on the cold open.

60,000 feet over sensitive operations, what did they think whats gonna happen? i have a feeling that the chinese ministry of foreign affairs that had no clue that this was going on and it makes you wonder if president xi, has control of the pla, this made no sense whatsoever and they can, at lower level, i just thought it was over 100,000 feet up which is actually around 60,000 feet. so they can collect floor persistent eyes, it is a cheaper system, but having said that it is absolutely blasting...

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Like this happen and let it go without being at least concerned. >> so where do you think u.s.-chinese relations go from here? >> look, were in a bad spot. its very clear china has earlier this idea the idea they can be a super power. theyre not capable of that right now whether it comes to their economy, their military, command structure. i think its going to be a strained relationship and neither side want to go to war. so i dont predict that happening necessarily anytime soon. but no doubt th...