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Chinese equipment. china continues to insist it was a stray civilian weather observation airship. our correspondent in beijing— barbara plett—usher told me what the reaction has been there. we have seen reaction building to this crisis over the past couple of days, and now that the americans have shut down the balloon, the foreign ministry and the defence ministry protested quite strongly. they said it was an excessive reaction and that they reserve the right to respond in some way. having s...

Were up to. just dont think it is a big deal. i think the political issue is more interesting. >> this reminds me of the dubai ports controversy which you will remember. in 2006, dubai company was taking over the leasing of l.a. port and we had massive collective freakout. didnt allow it to happen. and of course meanwhile, people probably dont know, but the port of delaware is currently run by another dubai company. it feels like a spasm that goes through the system. >> it does. i think as a bit...

To the states and over key military bases, it was a citizen, a citizen that spotted it wednesday in montana, by the way the air force base in montana is where we keep icbms in combat ready minuteman missiles. so what is with the delay, what kind of intel did china get before the military shot down the balloon. these are all questions republicans want answers to. >> i think its an open question this is not become public if the administration had not briefed the matter to congress thursday afterno...

The massive Chinese spy balloon spotted hovering over Montana could be a helium-powered airship with surveillance cameras and radar capabilities. Experts warn these kinds of balloons could be [...]

It, i know theres been a lot of conversation and a lot of debate about when you should shoot down this balloon or take it out. remember, theres at least three different considerations that the military and the intel officials are going through. the first one, of course, is what the intelligence vulnerabilities are, what kind of information that balloon is collecting about nuclear sites, about defense sites, and so forth. the second one is what is the counterintelligence value of observing what t...

And when you leave search, duckduckgo helps keep companies from watching you as you brows. join tens of millions of people making the easy switch by downloading the app today. duckduckgo, privacy simplified. (upbeat music) maria: welcome back. i am back with the chairman of the house ways and means committee, congressman jason smith. congressman, i want to get your take on this balloon, on the new provocations from china and what that means for the house ways and means committee. are you going t...

Engagement went. i want to see them practice some more intercepts and the ready in case another balloon comes over. but the bigger question is i want to hear strong words from president biden at his state of the union address explaining what he did in pushing back against china. after that, we have got to start to filter the communist chinese out of our economy, our universities and of course out of our airspace. >> vice president mike pence sent out a tweet said he believed it was a mistake wit...

Balloon. maybe. but, you know, mostly relying on something tricky and clever to half and most of the time its the messing upside of what explains what happened. arthel: this particular spy gam. you want to finish a thought? go ahead. >> i apologize. i was just saying the chinese screwed and you happen theyre complaining we overreacted, which is hilarious. they messed up. arthel: yeah, its something. i dont know if its i lair yous but this -- hilarious, this spy game was televised and the world w...

What do you make of this incident? >> boy, on a scale of one two ten on national security issues, ill politely give it about a two. this says a lot more about the inability of washington and congress and the white house to talk about relatively insignificant national security issues than it does about intelligence. look, if the chinese want to collect photos of america, you could get to google earth, you could get a chinese secret satellite. and i would agree there are certain advantages a ballo...

Colors. they threatened to shoot down the speakers planes. thats the type of outrageous behavior that we see constantly including with the balloon. >> you served in the national security counsel and on the hill for the house intelligence committee, we do expect classified briefings this week to let lawmakers know what the administration knew and when. >> absolutely, we need to figure out when our national infrastructure was able to detect the balloon, did it come back in atmosphere, what kind of...