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Geo-located to costa ricas capital but we cannot independently confirm that this is indeed a chinese spy balloon. the pentagon alerted friday evening about a second suspected spy balloon flying over latin america, in a statement to cnn, pentagon press secretary brigadier general pat ryder said the following, and i quote, we are seeing reports of a balloon trans itting latin america, we now assess it is another chinese surveillance balloon. ryder did not make it clear, fred, where exactly the bal...

As it becomes much more muscular in their policy towards china.— their policy towards china. that is really interesting, _ their policy towards china. that is really interesting, jack, _ their policy towards china. that is really interesting, jack, and - their policy towards china. that is really interesting, jack, and as i their policy towards china. that is | really interesting, jack, and as you were talking there, something related to that, something came through from reuters, chinese ballo...

Paid a lot of surveillance. tha. what do you think is going on h? >> you see effectively the bigga where they first of all got a hn pictures of those sites, right?e balloon is 60,000 feet so they r pictures, higher definition picn is much slower than low orbit sy you have seen the ability for cw quickly we are able to detect to it. also take some insight whenc warfare capabilities. finally, n china getting some insight wheno understand how the leadership oe

And i am of the opinion that theres a case to be made this is a chinese military operation that may not have been very well coordinated with civilian leadership. >> is that possible? i know there have been cases in the past of the peoples liberation army doing something that wasnt necessarily sanctioned higher. do you think thats whats happened? >> i think there is. you know, ive been watching the pla for 36 years, and ive seen this happen before where they want to do something, theres a very st...

What do you think of this one? the growing rage and anger in china may be the way we are handling it now. giving the americans any real details at least from the white house. >> moments like this help add to or create impressions that may last. the withdrawal from kabul, marked the united states as a week on the international stage. i think this reinforces that. think of that its loitering over alaska making its way down over canada nothing to announce or to cancel the trip to secretary states t...

Cloud to be seen so i was able to spot the balloon, i sawjets circling in different areas around it and i went back inside, put the male end, checked on my kids, i go back out after a few minutes, and thatis back out after a few minutes, and that is when i sell one of the jet start to take a straight shot at the balloon so i started filming it, i thought maybe something would happen, and my husband was aside and was unable to witness it so i kept filming until i saw the balloon started to kind o...

Have they even reacted in this way and shut down the balloon at all? it bakes a lot of questions. i was with a group of military veterans in my district earlier today and they are surprised, shocked the president has not come out and address the american people regarding what has occurred here because it is a scary thing for the americans watching. they dont know the intentions of the chinese or what information was being gathered but we know its a continuous threat, geopolitical threat we are f...

Balloon slowly drifted down into the atlantic off south carolina after a u.s. military jet took it out with a single shot. what will this mean for already tense relations with beijing? ryan chilcote has more on that. hello, ryan. >> reporter: yeah, hi, mike. well, no reaction yet from china on the downing of their balloon. its 5 a.m., gone 5 a.m. in beijing. what they have been talking about, and this was several hours before the downing of that balloon, was that the u.s. couldnt cancel secretar...

Good. president biden was given options on tuesday, when he was first briefed about, it from defense officials and others, he decided to not shoot it down while it was over the continental united states. theyre thinking there is that if it were to get shot down it is the size of two school buses were talking about a massive balloon here. the debris could hit people, it couldnt houses, it could hit infrastructure, power lines. that is something that they are really concerned. about no word from o...

Overshadow the good news you were just discussing a moment ago. and looking to next week, i think that the task in front of the white house currently is how is the president going to make the case during the state of the union that the state of the union is not only strong but secure? >> trace: its interesting because you played or at least anita vogel played a little earlier the president ignoring the questions about the balloon. here he is yesterday. same response. watch. >> folks were going t...