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To travel to beijing for rare talks about covid, trade disputes, and the security situation over taiwan, but mostly to calm sky—high tensions. this crisis shows just how fragile relations are. because of the fact that it stopped over the us air force base, it stopped over some of the strategic missile silos for icbm, intercontinental ballistic missiles, thats not a mistake, and i think they knew we would see that. the chinese have dismissed what they call "groundless conjecture" and accused am...

Stands by its assessment that the balloon is being used for surveillance. and defence officials now say there is a second balloon. we have seen reports of a balloon transiting latin america. we antony blinken was due in beijing this weekend to hold talks on a wide range of issues including security, taiwan, and covid—19. he said that was no longer possible because the purpose of the trip, to forge better relations between the two countries, had been undermined. the presence of this surveillanc...

Could it have contained something within the balloon other than helium that could have posed a threat to us. do we know if it has any kind of biological component to it. so you want to ask those questions, and i think they were completely correct about this in terms of what the chinese may or may not do in the future. we need to find out as much information about this balloon we can to make sure we put chinese on notice, come again another time, and we know what to do. right here i think was rea...

This chinese balloon? >> how dare we if we cant bring up the origins of covid because that was considered racist? how is that not racist? the origin of the balloon, you why should you be allowed to do that? why is it any different?e allowe and what about that point that t theyre chines te? keep saying about everything. everythings unintended. thisepg that is unintended. the fentanyl poisonings, unintended, obviously covid unintended. the spy balloon, unintended. bao im beginning to think theyren...

Changes on that. >> dine,ana, youre in north carolina. >> reporter: both me and the balloon in north carolina today. there have been sightings starting in asheville, north carolina, to the west of where we are in charlotte this morning. youve almost been able to chart the balloons track through the skies of the tar heel state with all of the photos flooding social media, some in really high resolution showing this surveillance balloon through the skies coming into the charlotte area through the ...

Technology spying notwithstanding goes way beyond ours, when you make of that? >> is clearly not a weather balloon. the pentagon said that definitively yesterday the size and everything of the balloon is probably do most of the fact it has to carry a large payload at heavy payload of the sensors and other cameras, you name it we need to know again what that is. but look, the nine states and militarys arrow stats in the past to local surveillance in afghanistan and whatnot. weve a lot of other ca...

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There? where are they going to make the decision? this is a very critical president joe biden is a very risk adverse president. this is same individual as vice president did not want to take out osama bin laden. the situation he recommend to obama to not do it. here we have something hes been very slow to react to something like a spy satellite, spite balloon coming over the united states. there is a concern were going to offend the chinese. they are offending us. we need to protect the american...

>> oh, certainly i would hope so, and i would hope prior to that that they address it truthfully to give the american people some understanding of what was going on. again, this is one of our biggest adversaries on the world stage and, you know, the administration was largely until a local press outlet picked it up. so i think a lot of people have questions, and i hope that they address it sooner rather than later. mike: congressman russell fry, were glad folks in your district safe, and we appr...

General keane, im not sure if you can see this, but we have a live shot now of this balloon going down. this balloon has been taken dow- >> oh, thats great. arthel: it is now i falling from the sky there over surfside beach, south carolina. so your reaction to this, sir. >> im watching it. well, first of all, well done. congrats to the military for being able to do that. arthel: very dramatic, indeed. lucas tomlinson is live at the white house with the very latest. lucas. >> reporter: weve just ...