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They have additional informatiod here in the next hour. >> tucker: last question. the eu heard the administration, we dir montana because we feared the wn the ground in montana. as you sa you would have shot it down. thn preventing you from acting. >> tucker, you have been to mons to take it down. we could have t the mission truly was by recovee on this balloon. again, if the y balloon over china, do you thine air? of course not. we should . unfortunately weve em bowl en. >> tucker: i appreciate...

Last thing im very concerned about is that this isnt the fis first or this isnt the last time. if balloon is allowed to float fre fre free basically, when is the balloon that has the emp going to arrive? thats something we dont know. >> also, if china can do it, balloon technology is probably not that advanced, theres probably a lot of other countries that could do it as well. >> yeah, certainly there could be. we can do something like this as well, but the violation of the air space is a seriou...

On the eve of a hugely crucial did you wantic meeting they have been plan ning for months. it was back in november at the g-20 in bali when president biden met with chinas president for three hours. one thing they talked bt was the importance of maintaining contact and communication at all levels. ever since then, beijing has been gearing up for secretary of state antony blinkens vut and it seems improbable that they would deliberately provoke the united states and fly something like this that g...

Operation? and they were told we dont have one but we will be expecting an update on that soon, and we will of course bring any update on the rescue operation to as we get it. right, lets go back to the moment that it was actually shut down. travis hots zampa is a photographer and eyewitness of the balloon actually being shut down, travis it is livid here in the studio, can you hear me? yes, lois, how are you? im very well, thank you for coming on, talk us through what you sell. 50. you for comi...

I wonder how you explain this particular move by the chinese. if it in fact was intentional and not some inadvertent floating balloon that got off course, why now? this was a critical time when you have secretary of state antony blinken go. why now? >> this may not have been their intent. its something they have done before, to have spy balloons up in the air and they can fly 30,000 feet higher than most of our capabilities to intercept them, like the different aircraft that we have. so there is...

Know, that are k very significant. theyve got a front row viewro to those areas. china is buying land in some of these areas not far from these areas. chiname of s in the universities. you know, china is not cooperating with us about luhan and were just letting them fly. we are letting them fly a balloon over our nation. n i mean, is thiats a literaioln. trial? , isballoon to see what we would do? >> something real happened. >> jesse: poit, busted up. do whatever you need to dopp to it. imagin e...

Second chinese surveillance balloon. this one is transiting over latin america, pentagon press secretary pat ryder confirming on the record there is a second balloon over latin america. the canadian government was saying earlier today that they may have reports of a second one, but the pentagon wasnt seeing that until late this evening. so now what were going to be watching for is where does that one move, just as were watching the one transiting across the u.s., there were reports it may have b...

I think china knew exactly what they were doing, and we just have to make sure that they got no information from this balloon. >> so, i mean, at this point, do you know just on background, do you know details of when this thing entered u.s. air space, where it was launched from, anything like that? >> i dont know where it was launched from, but i do know the details of when it entered u.s. air space. but theres far more questions that need to be answered by the military, and were going to get th...

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, theyre flying overjapan. weather balloons will sometimes circle the globe a couple of times before landing. there are actually a lot of balloons up there in the sky. why these are notable in your opinion? i think because usually when you have a ...

Is going on in the skies tonight. here to help us figure all this out, cnns tom foreman and military analyst colonel cedric leighton. so glad to have you here. tom, at the magic wall, where has this balloon been and where is it going? >> well, if we trust what the military thinks where its been is china over the aleutian islands, coming over canada and drifting down to montana where we had these sightings that you mentioned. of course, sensitive area because there are missile facilities up there...