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I dont think these are partisan claims im making. i think there would be broad agreement that we need to know moving forward what our policy will be. >> secretary blinken did cancel his trip to china after it was disclosed this balloon was flying over the u.s. what additional consequences should be there be for the chinese government now? >> i think the first consequence has to be, what are we going to do the next time? i dont think it will be the last time. i think youll see it again. beyond co...

Risk. first, i would hope you can track a slow-moving balloon clearly headed here, as you can see from its trajectory. thats one of the things well learn, how late into january did they know there was this high altitude balloon and what its trajectory was and where it was headed and why didnt they take action at that time thats number one. the other thing we need to know and understand, why did it take so long to disclose this to the american public. i dont think the trajectory of where this bal...

Washington, thanks very much. all eyes on surf side beach, south carolina with the suspected spy balloon push it is small coastal town into the national spotlight. charles watson live in the ground on myrtle beach. hello, charles. charles: hey, good afternoon, mike. myrtle beach, south carolina is a tourist town and when folks come they are expecting to have fun and expecting to have fun in many restaurants here. no one was expecting to have front row seats to a national defense operation playin...

Spectacle and came out into the balconies an streets and snap pictures of what they were seeing out in the ocean. we spoke to a gentleman who lives out in the beach. this was an operation that he took different from others because hes a retired lieutenant colonel in the air force. he says, what he saw up in the sky was sort of like operations that hes used to -- that hes used to conducting on his own out from the ground. take a listen. >> i was right outside my house still in the street with my ...

Security. >> of the people on the desk understand the threat that china is. i know some democrats, we need to do something about china but does our country appreciate the threat that china poses to us? >> i think we do the people in america understand there is some form of threat. the problem with the people in charge in washington i do want to add one thing to the two cant be true story, with the distraction, these unnamed sources. in addition mark esper, kt mcfarland, others that were there an...

Biden is because of the length of time between when he was told about it to when it was eventually shot down. we now know according to the pentagon, jim, that this balloon first entered american airspace up in alaska on the 28th. so a full week before it was eventually shot down, and it wasnt hl three days later, on tuesday the 31st that president biden, in fact, got his first briefing. he was told by his top military commanders that this balloon was swooping down through canada and was about to...

Talks with democrats. we should have bipartisan hearings on this. and i think, ultimately, we will. but, you know, if we cant detext a balloon, were in a world of hurt as far as defending in the country. maria: real quick, senator, you have been raising your hand about debt and all of the reckless spending of this in the government for a long time. has anything changed in terms of your feelings on defense spending given these provocations from china as we approach this massive debt ceiling debat...

You think theyll be able to get from it, best-case scenario? >> i think that the navy, you know, is out there, ready for the debris to come down. they have a lot of experience removing debris and objects from the ocean. obviously theres a lot of eye strain on the remains of the balloon coming down, so i think theres a very good chance to retrieve, you know, something there. until they get their eyes on it and look at it, you know, its going to be difficult to predict what state, you know, all th...

Is that you think that the administration acted as it did because they felt pressure not from the chinese but really from kevin mccarthy and ted cruz and marco rubio. >> i think, in the end, they would have shot it down any way. along the way, instead of all of the front page news about republicans suggesting that the white house was weak on this, that the two sides should have just spoken. i think there is an opportunity in letting the balloon go. for example, im sure the intel guys were trying...

By people watching on the ground. then, what was left of the balloon came down in the sea off the coast of south carolina. suddenly we saw something to go from the jet and we knew that was a missile and you could see the explosion. gosh, it was almost like a moving cloud coming down. a bit scary. it is a different- way of spying on us. the us navy is now recovering debris spread over seven miles in relatively shallow water. down to earth, the us should star in a suspected spy billing monitoring ...