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>> yeah, and ivan, that balloons not the only one. theres a second reported balloon over latin america. any response to that one? >> yeah, i mean, there are so many unanswered questions here. because not only have you had this balloon flying over the entire u.s., but now you have a costa rican aviation authorities and colombian air force saying, were seeing something that looks an awful lot like the same balloon flying over our own air space. theres been this statement from the colombian air for...

They are not going to come today to their assistance. the biden administration either thinks this is not important or they dont care, or they are scared of china. i dont understand one thing. they are afraid of having a confrontation with china. every time somebody warns them were getting -- we are getting dangerous with china, they say dont worry, putin cant be serious. but they take a balloon very seriously, they were apparently afraid for days of escalating with china. but they dont care that...

Was a surveillance balloon, which we all suspect and believe to be the case at this point. >> youre the ranking democratic member of this new china select committee in the house of representative. what will your committee do about this flight over the united states by this huge chinese balloon? >> well, i think that it just reminds us of the -- of the threats posed by the chinese communist party, and thats it reason for the formation of the committee. you know, basically we know that theyre mili...

Can deal with that in some way. given that, what would have been the value of intelligence they could have gotten from this balloon? it is really not clear that there was a great deal of value from it. the analysts here speculate that this may have been a mistake, that there was some sort of mistake made at some level, but this happened at this time. 1, ., some level, but this happened at thistime. ., ., ~ some level, but this happened at this time. ., ., ~ , this time. barbara, thank you very m...

The world. it is going to spy on it the way lots of other countries do. >> well i think what we need to recognize is that typically in the past, you go back 20, 30, 40, 50 years when the conversations in the white house, the politics stops at the shores. the conversation should not be about a potential threat to china. the fbi should be able to evaluate with that balloon collected. the conversation should be why cant the white house sit down with congress and say look what are we going to do abo...

Towards the ocean. explosion. whoah! did you hear that? a few moments after the impact, the sound of the explosion could be heard at ground level. then the remains of the balloon its canopy torn to shreds, falls to the earth. a satisfying moment for president biden although he had to wait a few days for the operation to be carried out. i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down as soon as possible and they decided not to damage anyone on the ground and decided the best way to do that was to wait ti...

You for being with us, i want to pick up where janice left off. this was probably not an accident, you cant really generally get a balloon to hover over montana, above 60,000 feet, where you are actually legally able to be there in the accident. it is not a civilian weather balloon probably, but in the end, there is something here that china does not want to risk and that is the ire of america. so what is your evaluation of where we stand right now? >> well, ali, i think as was mentioned, there ...

Crossed over the atlantic ocean saying china will resolutely safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of relevant companies. they have been claiming this is a civilian balloon, not a military or surveillance balloon despite the pentagons strong rejection of that. they say, as i said, they reserve the right to make further necessary reaction. what that means here in this region we dont know. in taiwan they said they have seen similar balloons flying over this self-ruled democracy as recently...

Both sides will need to tamp down their rhetoric to avoid further unnecessary fallout, Chinese observer says.

The balloon, which Pentagon officials said was a surveillance device but China claims was a civilian meteorological aircraft, was shot down Saturday.