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Well you know, you know greg, in 2001 there was a problem between the united states and china. we had problem between a flightt they said in their airspace. we saihed it wasnt. were forced to land. and they took that plane and they studied that plane for the intelligence. they kept our people there for eleven days. and the turnabout on our side st is like, hey, no problem.ke, theyre collecting"hey stuff on the weather. >> hmm. i think the bright side in all of this is at least we know the balloo...

There since tuesday. and todays friday.friday >> why would they allow this thing to say there? i dont know the answere? to that. and there are more questions, judge. and i thin>> harolo that ak youo some of them and will raisnse some of them around the table.ar i think fooundr me and again, is good to be back around the table, but wait for a few days. the for me that i was curious. and secretary blinken, whom, cu i respect and like to know,n wed said that whenet we detectedrn a the balloon, we a...

What the chinese themselves they about the second balloon. antony blinken has now cancelled his trip to beijing. how have people reacted to that decision? i how have people reacted to that decision? ~ ., , decision? i think generally in terms of politics _ decision? i think generally in terms of politics it _ decision? i think generally in terms of politics it is - decision? i think generally in terms of politics it is seen i decision? i think generally in terms of politics it is seen as the rig...

Captain kirk. this causes other trigger-happy general feeling provoked to then order their own shows of force, and boom! as nena things, 99 years of war leaves no room for victors, and quote. several decades before that song, in 1947, rust belt, new mexico, a very real balloon said to be a weather balloon was mistaken for a ufo, leading to one of the more infamous and well-known americans conspiracy theories. this week, another balloon was spotted in america. its not fiction. its not a ufo, i,. ...

I think the decisions made by the president upon the advice of the pentagon to not shoot this down for various reasons, now, was the right one, not to do it now, its no threat to our security. i think wed want to retrieve this balloon as much intact as we can to find out exactly what it is. we dont know exactly what it is. we know its a spy balloon. we got all that. but what your reporter just said that now we may have some indication that its controlled and moveable and by the chinese, there ar...

Rem were not going to do the second it hits the shoreline. the options are much greater than they were three days ago. all of this shoot it down over the u.s. homeland was so absurd from any perspective of a risk calculation. one is shoot it down. two is do we have the capacity to bring it down? its going to have a lot of intelligence in terms of what we could learn about chinas capacity, what happened with the balloon. balloon is a misnomer. this thing is huge. its cargo is about three school b...

Again, we currently assess that the balloon does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground at this time. officials say the immediate objective is to get this balloon out of us airspace. peter bowes, bbc news. our china correspondent stephen mcdonell is in beijing. morning to you. hello. ok, these balloons, there is a second one now. does that sound odd, being concerned about a balloon? i think anybody exected about a balloon? i think anybody exnected that — about a ball...

Administration, from the houston consulate, we shut it down and we should shut down this spying as well. should shut down this spying as well. isabel hilton is the founder of china dialogue and visiting professor at the lau institute. she explained why this balloon was such a cause of concern for the americans. i think it raised the alarm when it was passing over montana which has 150 intercontinental ballistic missile sites. that, i think, 150 intercontinental ballistic missile sites. that, ith...

[inaudible] [inaudible conversations] when and how will you -- the balloon, mr. president? [inaudible conversations] >> are you worried about the balloon? >> reporter: worry might stem from the fact the balloon has maneuveredded over several military sites, one in montana where a large portion of the u.s. nuclear arsenal is kept. the pentagon has quickly dismissed the chinese claim that this is a civilian weather balloon blown off course. this morning chinas foreign ministry added, quote: we hav...

First secretary of state to make that trip since mike pompeo did in 2018. it also all comes as the u.s. has reached a new agreement with the philippines to expand americas access to military bases in the philippines, a move that is meant to counter chinese regional influence and ambitions specifically in the south china sea. as it relates to taiwan, as well. joining me now in beijing as my longtime colleague, friends, and fellow canadian, nbc news correspondent, janis mackey frayer. janice, good...