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And blew up far more than they expected. i think that theyre embarrassed by this. the chinese have dismissed what they call "groundless conjecture" and accused american politicians of hyping things up. but theyve also expressed regrets that the balloon flew over us territory. wind patterns took it on an epicjourney, from china across the pacific. then floating over alaska and canada, before arriving in the us. the balloon lingered over rural montana, and this could be why — youre looking at a ...

Can we -- do we have what it takes, can we get together to have a proper response? >> we have what it that takes, but we, again, i think what weve done with our u.s. military capabilities -- ill stay in that lane -- has been eroded over the last couple decades. of course weve had to fight in the war on terror and so forth. but we have to modernize our forces to be capable not only in traditional land and sea and air, but now in cyber and in space. thats where adversaries such as china can take t...

That have minuteman iii intercontinental ballistic missile silos. the u.s. has 400 of those missiles on alert here in the united states, and certainly china would want to look at them, get as close as they possibly could. theres no question they were also gauging alert posture just to see what response would be and, certainly, as this balloon slowly made its way across the country, thats all weve been talking about on the news of late, certainly was becoming very embarrassing for this white hous...

Down from her house. here is her recollection of the events. so i knew that the balloon would be heading towards south carolina, but i could have never imagined that it would be going over myrtle beach, where i live. i was driving in the car with my mother — we pulled over because id seen on twitter that it was in the area, and we located it. and thats where i have the video of the balloon being surrounded by three fighterjets, and theyjust kept circling and circling. so we came home — my st...

This has not happened. this balloon has a large payload, but the government says that there is no evidence of nuclear reactive material. they are saying its a civilian air ship used force re-search, mainly meteorological. the pentagon disagrees. >> the fact is, we know its a surveillance balloon and i will not be able to be more specific than that. >> the biden administration saying its a clear violation of law. but the chinese ministry of foreign affairs insists, quote, chinas responsible count...

As its over an area where theres not going to be likelikl los angeles oros new york city, a major catastrophe. they havent done that. so sures how are we so sure of what thise balloon is doing, especially since it isnt a seeincig areasn that are where our nuclear sites are? its been across>> mar a couple of areas that it should have been pretty easy to do that over alaska. apparently for quite a while, then over montana. and you saw i hadconver a conversation earlier with senator steve daines. h...

Beginning of the bush administration and we have had these confrontations in the south china sea where they capture us reconnaissance vehicle in the ocean and we have had bumping up against american ship, we have all sorts of things like this, it is a very dangerous situation and so we need to have guardrails to make sure that we dont go too far. {iii need to have guardrails to make sure that we dont go too far.— that we dont go too far. of china is ura in: that we dont go too far. of china is...

These are some of the questions that remain unanswered. china also isnt saying who the balloon belongs to. theyre saying it isnt military, but theyre not saying who launched it, why it was launched, why there were sightings in canada, in latin america. so, were lacking for details here. i spoke earlier today with retired pla senior officer, who claims this is not a military assets. he claims that china doesnt need to send big balloons up into the air to gather the intelligence. -- said, quote, t...

The chinese side regrets the entry of the ship. but it was a clear violation of our sovereignty as well as international law. the balloon does not pose a military or political threat and a senior defense official said military officials a advised president biden not to shoot the balloon down due to fear of the debris posing a safety threat. i said the violation of our sovereign air space should not be a partisan issue. many are question ing why we ar taking it out and they are coming from the ri...

Mode. mike: youve heard about the pivot to asia since, i think, the obama administration. christian whiton, thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. mick mike arthel? arthel: thank you, guys. former u.s. air force assistant vice chief of staff lieutenant general richard newton joins us now. and understand that were getting information from, through our lucas tomlinson from representative fry saying that it appears it was an f-22 out of langley. your response to that. >> well, that wouldn...