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Below that balloon, could be salvaged and could be used for counterintelligence reasons. that balloon, of course, shot down yesterday off the coast of south carolina. a lot of questions remain, jim, and the administration is going to have to answer a lot of them to lawmakers as early as tuesday, when we understand there will be a briefing to the so-called gang of eight. those are the leaders of both parties in both houses as well as chairman and ranking members of the senate and house intelligen...

Theyve dismissed the head of chinas national weather service. analysts see this as a move from beijing to try and shore up its argument that its a weather balloon. that, of course, is something the pentagon strongly rejects, saying they are confident it is a spy balloon and that this balloon and the one spotted over latin america are part of a fleet of chinese spy balloons that have been spotted around the world in the last few years. jim. >> all right. selina wang, thank you very much. stayin...

Intention-gathering mission, was on an intelligence-gathering mission. and secondly, whether it was maneuverable. if it is a spy balloon, if its maneuverable, then clearly invading u.s. air space was of concern and i think the president made the right decision to shoot it down. so theres an awful lot of information we need to know in order to confirm or worst suspicions. >> and youve been in the position of defense secretary, cia director, white house chief of staff. would you have advised the p...

The balloon center package in the united states. and so the damage it took to the extent that there was any damage, was gone already. chinas in an embarrassing position, having pulled off one of the most boneheaded intelligence collection measures, literally in the last 50 years that ive heard of. can you imagine a giant white balloon hovering over beijing, and what the chinese wouldve thought of it? i dont think it was a coordinated action, and the whole of chinese government, the dependence on...

This was how america woke up to the news on sunday morning. late yesterday, an air force f—22 fighterjet fired a single air—to—air missile into the balloon, bringing it down. president biden was criticised by republicans for not acting sooner, but he chose his own time. i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. they decided — without doing damage to anyone on the ground — they decided the best time to do that was over water, within a i2—mile limit. chi...

Mainland and have this kind of slow, weak, frankly, terrible response by the biden administration. maria: i want to ask you what kind of capability if it has. but just to be clear, youre saying there were not three spy balloons from china that entered the united states air space and traveled and was able to do what weve seen this week. >> im telling you that very clearly. listen, maria, its -- every time something goes wrong in the biden administration, theres one of two responses. they either f...

The big white balloon that captured the american publics attention was first noticed by the u.s. military last saturday as it was filing over alaska. on thursday when the overflight of the suspected chinese spy apparatus was made public by the pentagon, the balloon became a political hot potato. the burning question to shoot it down or not. the answer came saturday afternoon when some of americas most powerful stealth fighters, f-22s met the balloon off the coast of the carolinas and took it dow...

Interests. >> can you talk more about that? you think about the timing of this, right? this was before an incredibly crucial meeting, secretary blinken was going to be heading there to have this meeting, in which he subsequently canceled once the balloon was spotted over u.s. territory, right? we know, china certainly wants to mend relationships -- relations with the united states as well. we have a precarious position affair with china -- russia and their incursion on ukraine, along with predic...

Doesnt want to escalate things. theyve been trying to repair this u.s./china relationship that significantly deteriorated throughout the pandemic, and that blinken meeting, which has now been postponed by the u.s. secretary of state of china, that was going to be a big political win for beijing, for xi jinping. meanwhile on chinese social media, the reaction has been a lot of mocking of the u.s. and some people even joking why shoot it down, its just a lantern that blew over from this months lan...

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