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Changed, and we will see what will have to happen to make it change. we will find out more about this in the pentagon briefing next hour, because officials say they have been tracking this for the last few days. and alex marquardt, the president advised military not to shoot down this balloon. why? >> yes, that is right, kate. president biden was briefed on this and told by the senior most officials not worth taking it down, because of the potential damage it could do with the falling debris to ...

He made a phone call to his chinese counterpart this morning saying that the u.s. had assessed that conditions werent really in a good spot right now for him to be making that trip, calling it unacceptable that this balloon is over u.s. air space saying it violates u.s. sovereignty. now the question is, when will they be able to reschedule this trip? theyre saying its being, you know, delayed right now, but they arent giving us a date for when theyre going to have this visit back on the board. i...

Hello, everybody. i am sitting in my driveway here in billings, montana. and at first i thought it was a star, but i thought that was kind of crazy because it was broad daylight. id seen some news reports of some airspace restrictions here in billings, and so i thought that was a little suspicious reports that it might be a chinese balloon. it seems so brazen and just so insane to me that anyone would even attempt to just push a balloon over the sky, because to me, it was just like, this thing i...

Implications tied to the suspected chinese spy balloon hovering in u.s. air space. nbcs courtney kube first broke this story. kristen welker is at the white house. ali vitali is on capitol hill and with me is victor cha at the national security council, the senior vice president for asia at the center for strategic and international studies. courtney, china says the suspected spy balloon over the u.s. is a civilian airship used for weather research. just as canada says it is monitoring a potenti...

State, antony blinken is expected to visit china and after the u.s. announced a new military deal with the philippines to expand americas presence there. joining us now nbcs courtney kube who was the first to report this story, and general barry mccaffrey, retired four-star general and an nbc news military analyst. courtney, what are officials saying about this balloon? what really is it, and how did the u.s. learn about its presence? >> so the u.s. military first started tracking this several d...

Securities administration. >> thank you, alex marquardt. and one of the parts of this is that china has apologize and saying that the balloon is not spying on anything, but rather doing research. mark joins us now. what is he saying? >> you brought up this important part that china is bringing up the verbiage here that is so rare and for the chinese to express remorse and attrition and that they are pointing to this as an accidental flaw. we received a statement about two hours ago here in asia ...

WASHINGTON—Bowing down before the floating intruder mere hours after it entered American airspace, the entire U.S. nation reportedly surrendered Friday to the Chinese balloon spotted hovering over Montana. “Today, I speak to the Great Balloon to say unequivocally: the country is yours,” said President Joe Biden in a…

The pentagon said it traveled over a number of sensitive sites, and they would not say what it was, but we know what is in montana, there is an air force base there which is home to the ballistic field, and that is the reason that the u.s. is concerned about it, and tracking it closely, but the u.s. has made a decision not to shoot it down partially because of a risk to people and facilities on the ground. this is what we know so far, the military options were on the table, and president joe bid...

>> why not? >> president biden: it was already here. remember what the economy was like when i got here? jobs hemorrhaging, we werent manufacturing a damn thing here and thats why. >> mr. president -- [reporters shouting] >> dana: the president there not letting any reporters ask questions outside from the economy. he was asked does he take any blame for inflation, no, if you looked at the economy when he got there it was already -- >> bill: they got something to brag about and they will talk it...

The mysterious ballon was being monitored by the Pentagon.