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The airborne Chinese balloon high in the atmosphere over the continental United States that's grabbing a lot of late-week attention.

By the chinese. a great point, the united states was having robust position with a lot of positions of strength. so i think this was a move to say by the chinese to say we actually want to humiliate the united states a little bit and now we have word of a second balloon heading it to south america. i dont think its an accident. we heard from the former chief of staff of the nsc and trump-era we have the capability to bring it down and contain for intelligence purposes. i think thats what we shou...

Will you the balloon, mr. president? >> are you worried about the balloon? >> trace: as you see president biden had no comment on the chinese spy balloon and he tried to stay focused on the encouraging new job numbers from january. but critics say it follows an administrative pattern here of touting the good and ignoring the bad. anita vogel is live in new york tonight. anita a lot of no comments in recent weeks. >> yeah, a lot of those trace for sure. good evening, and youre right. no mention o...

>> unless this chinese balloon is shot down or somehow brought down, the pentagon does believe it will remain in u.s. airspace for the next few days. they will continue to watch it float across this country, and they say they will keep their options open. meanwhile, back here at the state department, the secretary of state, antony blinken, is saying he will reschedule his trip to beijing when conditions allow. what those conditions are precisely, they will not say. but it is clear, laura, that t...

U.s. military commanders, certainly his chiefs at the pentagon, general milley, secretary of defense lloyd austin, and its a presidential retreat that many a president has gone to to spend the weekend. mike: lucas tomlinson live on the north lawn, thanks very much. arthel? arthel: well, if youre just joining us, the chinese spy balloon that has been drifting over the country for several days has been shot down by u.s. fighter jets off the coast of south carolina. that happened live, exclusion ar...

Apparently china does have a fleet of these surveillance balloons. and this is not the first time the united states has experienced a balloon flying over or near a territory. that is several times in the trump administration. earlier in the biden administration. but never this close directly over our territory. but we are not alone. there are multiple countries that experienced this. and it appears that they are now reaching out to the united states through the biden team as well to say that the...

Fighter jet, fighter jets would fire missiles at the balloon. but again, i think theyre going after think about, can we take it down in a way where we dont destroy what is on board and the u.s. can then look at and examine the sensors, or whatever, -- the one thing a balloon can do that a satellite cant do as well is it could pick up on radio signals, basically ease drop in a certain area. i think that could be something theyre looking at if theyre able to examine and explore the equipment that ...

Something they have to be very careful about is with shot down a balloon -- we shot down a balloon over the united states. something china did that was a provocative act with another provocative act. does the united states respond militarily, moving a carrier group closer to china or something like that. these are the types of flashpoints that major military operations and, god forbid, wars start on. tensions are already high regarding taiwan. you know, you think back in american history here wi...

Arthel: and ive also been reading about how the chinese military has become more aggressive in recent times. so i wanted to ask though if, even though you said, gordon, that this balloon having been shot down is an embarrassment and not the way the chinese would have wanted it to go, still, did they feel that they got away with it because they have the information. the information was being sent back to beijing in realtime. if they feel like theyve gotten away with it, mission accomplished on a ...

Blown off course whilst it was gathering weather i spoke to earlier to dr michael clarke — a defence and security analyst — and asked whether the balloon presented any surveillance danger. i dont think it presented any any surveillance danger, given the areas that it went over. it wasnt going to pick up very much from montana or the mid—west states where the missile fields were, where the americans keep their intercontinental ballistic missiles. there was nothing to be gained from that tha...