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The Pentagon Friday evening (local time) said that another Chinese spy balloon was spotted flying over Latin America, a day after US officials said that they tr

And said it is 60,000. does it surprise you to hear that there is now a second balloon that has been seen over latin america? actually, what surprises me is that theyre paying attention to it. at any given time, there are literally thousands of these balloons flying over the world. literally thousands are launched every day, theyre flying over the us, theyre flying over europe, they�* re flying over japan. weather balloons will sometimes circle the globe a couple of times before landing. there...

>> that is it for us this week! now it is time for the last word with ali velshi, in for lawrence. good evening ali! >> i have listened to every word of your show tonight, and i have to tell you, semi dump some really weird rabbit holes on the phone, about balloons, and when they were first invented. i mean have you spoken as much about balloons in your entire life? >> no >> yeah. >> im a big balloon in those, yes i will frequently send people bouquets a balloons, because a leveller, but i do no...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken was due to visit Beijing on Sunday for talks aimed at reducing U.S.-China tensions. He said he had told senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi in a phone call that sending the balloon over the U.S. was “an irresponsible act."

Its going to end. i think it might depend to some extent on the level of cooperation between the chinese and the americans to either bring this balloon safely down or at least get it out of us airspace. earlier we spoke tojohn powell who is the president and founder ofjp aerospace. his company has launched 200 balloons into the upper atmosphere for research students and media companies. i asked him why the chinese are using a balloon rather than a satellite. well, balloons give you several advan...

Theyre going to use the excuse we do not to harm anybody or hurt anybody. look, actually the horses left the barn. all the information is scooped up by china its a lot of information because that is a very slow loitering device. both are very, very good for that. but they get if you think about it is much much better than the satellite that is orbiting, a lot better. mike: how critical will be for the data collection equipment to the bottom of the equipment to be preserved so american officials ...

>> i want to know what went into the process of whether they were going to shoot it down or any other procedure that might be out there to be able to capture that balloon. i want to know how many times this has happened in the past, how many times its flown over montana because we are an icbm site, and there are a lot more questions that need to be answered as far as what happened. im not making any assertions at what the military decisions theyve made are the wrong ones. i just want to know the...

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The balloon out of their airspace, but say they will try to reschedule blinken�*s beijing trip. mike pompeo was secretary of state under donald trump and also served as director of the cia. he told the bbc the balloon was an intentional incursion into american airspace. im very confident that the chinese communist party is more capable than that. i think i saw one of their statements that said it is mainly civilian. lets translate mainly civilian as into this is a spying effort on the united s...

Going to do about this balloon right now. jacqui: you know, the president said his first comments on this balloon this morning, effectively saying were going to take care of it. actually it wasnt in response to a question about the balloon specifically, it was a question about china, we assume he was saying we are going to take care of the balloon, but you know, yesterday he gave remarks at dnc event and he brought up his relationship with chinese president xi jinping and didnt mention the ballo...