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That to me is staggering. >> clearly this is the friday night show that we are leading with a liar. that is not something that you hear very often. it is friday night at 11:13. so we are going to let that one go. harry lippman, im not, and john allen who im so glad to have here at 30 rock, it gets lonely here on friday nights. ive got john with me. coming up, a spy in the sky. for real. what the pentagon is saying tonight about that chinese balloon flying over the u.s., how worried should we be?...

Worth recovering. balloons are not easy to bring down. they failed in the past. this will take a lot of cannon shells, but they dont deflate them enough to bring them down. it looks as if it was f—22... that must�*ve been about 10,000 feet below it. they fired at least one missile. in the past, they have been known to surpass the rate through a balloon. maybe it was an approximate fuse, and it looked from the little bit of film we got, as if it was a single hit with the sidewinder

Spy on us. the national security agency has probably the biggest budget for all of this kind of stuff around the world. the chinese also have military satellites going around, you know, the united states constantly. probably have all the information that they are looking for. you were talking about sensitive sites. its highly unlikely that there is something in montana that has not been photographed by chinese military satellites. there is some marginal increases you get because the balloon is l...

What was going on, what the response was going to be. and, look, chinas one of our biggest adversaries, so to see this, you know, when people look up in the sky and i was driving around earlier, people were pulled over on the side of the road, they were pulling out their camera phones. a lot of intrigue about this. you know, this is an interesting, you know, interesting time, but a lot of people have questions about this. and for me, im incredibly concerned about where, you know, where this was ...

Instead, weve ended up with a diplomatic crisis. the suspected chinese by balloon was floating in american skies as we speak, prompting secretary blinken to indefinitely postpone that trip. he said friday that the presence of that balloon amounts to a violation of american sovereignty and international law. that the u.s. government has made that very clear to china. >> any country that has its airspace violated in this way i think would respond similarly. and i can only imagine what the reaction...

Mainland china for three notable the track of the path the blue took to get to the united states it went around russia but did not fly over russian airspace it flew around russia. then of course trusted u.s. airspace in alaska. >> thank you. this is tammy here. its interesting a lot of this is guesswork but are you hearing anything about this and possibly being in addition to obviously this is technically low-tech it is a balloon really know is you have mentioned can be transmitted. they dont ha...

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All our neighbours were outside talking about it. and when the balloon got shot down, you could hear them screaming, "oh my god, its going down, they shot it" — so its definitely the talk of the town. im not sure how many people had on their radar before, but everyone in myrtle beach knows there was a chinese balloon overhead today. detectives searching for nicola bulley, who disappeared during a dog walk in lancashire more than a week ago, say they want to speak to a woman who was seen pushin...

Is not like top gun where it just explodes and doesnt go anywhere. its large and metal, it would put tons of americans at risks. so for now it floats on in the skies above the u.s. the pentagon saying it could stay up there for several more days. its subject to the winds, so that could change with high winds. we are watching very closely where this balloon is spotted. >> now the question is where next because it appears to be drifting with the high-altitude wind. where may this spy balloon go ne...

About the balloon itself? heres what scientific experts weve spoken to think — that its likely filled with helium, with solar panels to provide power, and it is manoeuvrable. there are instruments and sensors to collect data that could be used for science or surveillance. military specialists ive spoken to, though, say its not likely to offer anything more than existing spy satellites can do. this balloon may not represent any significant security threat, but the incident highlights that the g...