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Distract america and in terms of national security issues. i think it is a really interesting opportunity for the chinese to evaluate the american political response, fareed. >> what you seem to be implying 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 repub...

>> so, whats interesting here is the senator says, ive spoken to a lot of former trump officials. and they say, they arent aware of anything happening like this. but meanwhile, the defense department put out a statement yesterday or a little bit ago, saying yeah, actually, it has happened. so are republicans trying to make more out of the senate really is? >> of course they are. they are full of hot air, thats their specialty. so theyve got a balloon they can talk about now. but they knew nothin...

Able to study it. so all of this, to me, just demonstrates -- and i believe it demonstrates to the american people that they made the right decision in terms of the person that they elected, somebody calm, cool under pressure, strategic, responding with intelligence as opposed to a party that knows nothing other than knee-jerk reactions and is the definition of being trigger-happy. >> let me park the balloon to the side for a moment here. let me ask you about this new polling from "the washingto...

Too late, before something far more dangerous than a balloon is flying over american territory. >> are you satisfied with with any of the answers coming out of the administration? what questions used to have. >> there is rumbling from democrats this been a very difficult dynamic in their concerned about it. if youre american you have to be concerned about it. the questions also go back to not just why did it take a week, whatever guest yesterday implied there is months balloon from china crashed...

Officials in Colombia confirmed a sighting of an airborne object similar to a balloon flying over its territory, although ...

To people and property on the ground. >> jim, now that we have -- the united states has shot the balloon down, theyre collecting it. what do you think they can get in terms of usable intelligence? >> im told by a senior u.s. military official this this balloon had surveillance capabilities, but limited, that the u.s. believes it was able to jam, in effect, while it was over u.s. soil. its not clear this is the be all and end all of chinese surveillance equipment. it did have surveillance capabil...

Will you be seeking that senate seat. >> no. im planning to vote as a resident of michigan. the job i have here, first of all, the best job in the federal government. it can be tough and demanding with all the problems that the transportation system has confronted, but also incredibly rewarding and im proud to be part of an administration that is doing more on transportation than has happened in my lifetime and then some. not since the eisenhower administration have we had this much going on in ...

Crisis onto television screens in real time. was it or homeless weather balloon, as a chinese claimed? or a spy in the sky? moments after it arrived over the atlantic, the us brought an explosive end to the drama. that trail of white vapour you see on the left of the screen is an american fighterjet heading for the building. ——is an american fighterjet heading for the balloon. the second vapour trail is from a heat—seeking missile fired from the jet, easily finding its target. whoa! did yo...

Maneuverability. to say it didnt have any steerage is, again, false. so, you know, once again a lack of action has consequence. and its not only us, our allies are also looking at this going, what is the u.s. doing? and, quite frankly, i dont know, but were going to get some answers. were going to get some answers when the u.s. picked it up, when the other balloons were. im curious as a former secretary. if theyre saying theres oh balloons and they didnt tell me as a tech -- secretary, we have p...

With the united states says with a chinese surveillance balloon, roughly six nautical miles off the coast of south carolina. well within u.s. territorial airspace. the balloon crashed into the atlantic ocean, creating a debris field at least seven mile spread out in relatively short shallow water. the recovery of that debris is ongoing, including navy divers, the coast guard, and other manned and unmanned salvage feedback vessels. the fbi counter intelligence agents are also on board the recover...