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>> reporter: yes, both haven confirmed the sightings that first occurred around thursday in costa rica and with friday and saturday here in ain colomb. and they are monitoring the situation, but they concluded that the elements do not represent a threat to security and national defense. the big question, where is the balloon now because it was cruising at about 30 miles per hour in the northern short of colombia heading eastward. and so it could be that it is now deep in air space or it could be...

Civil war before coming in the fashion in world war i. look at the names of the planes that were used in the mission that down the balloon. frank 01 and frank co2. named after frank luka junior who was a war were to hero known for destroying more than a dozen german observation looped balloons. it is poetic. china has admitted that the balloon is there but says it was, quote, a civilian airship used for meteorology purposes. a weather balloon. which had, quote, deviated far from its plane course...

>> good to be with you, ali. this is a situation where you see how unexpected events can change the dynamics and change them quickly. to medically, diplomatically, and on the international scene. for president biden, part of what he was trying to project in speaking with reporters, briefly, was really speaking to messages. one for a domestic political audience, which includes the republican critics who had been urging him to take action more quickly. certainly a message to china and the internat...

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And the kind of thing that you are hearing on sunday morning talk shows. >> you certainly are hearing it and you are hearing about the headlines of this chinese outrage now condemning the u.s. actions, especially as -- reported. now the balloon, their balloon, floated over the entire continental united states. do you think that this outrage is unwarranted or, rich, really given the circumstances from china? by the chinese? yeah. its hard to imagine that they can plausibly complain, how dare you ...

You heard the vice chair of the senate intelligence committee, marco rubio on the show basically saying hes got a lot of questions. one of them is why did it take so long for president biden to disclose this to the american people? >> yeah. i think weve got to separate some things out. first of all, i know were stuck calling it a balloon. its a drone, a spy drone. it just has a different mode of transport. second, the military significance, intelligence significance of this wasnt that big. but t...

An in-between solution where we dont have, you know, an embargo and no trade with china. im not for that. but at the same time, im not for serving them any money. we still send research money over there. and what the house intelligence committee released in an unclassified report about a month ago was that our money is going to u.s. universities, and then its going to military research in china. not even civilian research, but actual military research. the academy of military medical sciences in...

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That they reserve the right to act. so, what do we make of it? several days in a down balloon into this, we still have no information yet on who the balloon actually belongs to or a vague idea of what it was doing, as it was hovering over the u.s.. and balloons arent a thing of the past, they are not even entirely anachronistic, as surveillance tools. there was some coverage and state media here a few months ago, that was celebrating and praising the advances being made in chinese blue technolog...