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But 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 surveillance balloon in us airspace is a clear violation of us sovereignty and international law and that it is an irresponsible act and that the prc�*s decision to take this action on the eve of my planned visit is detrimental to the subsequent discussions that we planned to have. beijing says in a phone call on friday ni...

Hang on because theres a fear of it being brought down over the us mainland. they decided to wait cautiously until it crossed the south carolina coast, whereupon it cleared the airspace. they fire that one shot from a us fighterjet that brought the balloon down. for one shot from a us fighter et that brought the balloon down._ one shot from a us fighter et that brought the balloon down. for all of the messages _ brought the balloon down. for all of the messages to _ brought the balloon down. for...

Obvious. but there are other things to surveilled mapping operation gathered especially from a cia perspective. learn about infrastructure and even roadways, bridges, targets of opportunity. waterways. address that issue this balloon had a long flight path over much of the united states. hugs those are all the key questions you are asking. what i am hoping is a biden administration is going to be asking our intelligence community for a damage assessment. this was a massive chinese intelligence o...

In diameter stretched out, but is made out of thin film poly. and this is what were seeing the pictures of this balloon from china. so it looks like it isnt being floated on a traditional weather balloon, but on a research or high altitude military balloon. so what would this balloon consist of, john? well, the balloon itself is just a polyethylene film. you know, if you have yourfood wrap film and you have something about ten times thinner, and that is holding your big ball of helium that is ho...

One shot was fired into the balloon. all that information coming from a senior u.s. defense official briefing reporters at the pentagon. lets bring in south carolina republican congressman russell fry. the balloon flew over his hometown, over his district. congressman, your reaction to the events weve seen over the last few minutes. >> just in awe. i think you had a commentator earlier that talked about how small the world has become and where we are. i mean, when you see people pull over on the...

Help because the 202 area code is what they call when the chinese come knocking on them. arthel: okay. theyre calling 202, but we want to make sure that 202 can call their country codes. gordon chang, we have to leave it there. thank you, always. appreciate your analysis. see you again very soon. thank you, gordon chang. mike? mike: fox news caught it live more than 90 minutes ago, 2:39 p.m. eastern time. the united states shooting down that chinese spy balloon, an f-22 from langley air force ba...

Sandwich bag. they are filled with helium typically. they can lift several thousand pounds if you are doing and controlling it for scientific purposes. eventually, you would release the balloon. it would let the helium out, separate from the payload, which drops by parachute back to earth. thats how you retrieve your equipment if you wanted to. its visible to the naked eye. its way up there. its high enough up around, you know, 11 miles up or so that you can see it if the lighting is just right ...

Shoot it down. >> if they knew we were going to catch them, why would they do it? >> they may still have obtained some intelligence value from it. i think theyre also testing this capability to see how they can direct the balloon, how they can direct the surveillance aircraft to what degree they can go undetected, whats the quickest route. they have a number of objectives in fielding any capability. but ultimately, its in a treatable asset, that sort of fancy way of saying they dont really care ...

Space violated in this way would respond similarly, and i can only imagine what the reaction would be in china if they were on the other end. >> in the meantime, the pentagon is not ruling anything out when it comes to shooting it down. >> at this stage, what i can tell you is again, were reviewing options. im not going to go into more specificing than that. >> a number of republican lawmakers weighed in today, so did the president and former vice-president demanding the balloon be shot down. in...

It down and to avoid exactly what were watching here. these are earlier pictures of this, as you call it, a deflated looking parachute going could be into the salt wart of the atlantic ocean which will make it very difficult to recover any intelligence from that now-deflated balloon. >> reporter: thats right. keep in mind, its been over u.s. air space for a week now, arthel. on january 28th this balloon first crossed the aleutian islands of alaska. so while it might not have come across the cont...