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Capabilities to help ukraine defend its people as well as armored infantry vehicles and more equipment that ukraine is using to so effectively including javelin anti-tank missiles, artillery ammunition and conventional and long-range rockets for u.s. provided. additional information on the security package can be found on defense.gov. in regards to our announcement last night regarding the high altitude surveillance balloon, im not going to have much new information to provide other than to say ...

Thinks things will shake out. we start with a dramatic move that could have huge implications for the fraught relationship between the u.s. and china. the biden administration pulling the plug on secretary of state blinkens planned chip to china, just hours after the pentagon revealed it had detected a chinese surveillance balloon over montana. so right now the video, this video was taken in billings, montana, on thursday, although its not clear if this is the balloon in question. obviously th...

According to a senior u.s. defense official the balloon over montana was launched from china. it doesnt believe it was a weather balloon that flew off course despite the chinese blaming a weather event. there was not one that caused the balloon to enter u.s. airspace im told. it was intentional a senior u.s. official told me. secretary of state antony blinken has postponed his upcoming trip to china. a state department official told reporters we have noted the prc statement of regret but the pre...

>> yeah. so on your latter question, im not going to get into intelligence. we do continue to monitor the balloon. we know that it is a surveillance balloon. in terms of the size, im not able to get into the specifics other than to say that it is big enough that, again, in reviewing our approach, we do recognize that any potential debris field would be significant and potentially cause civilian injuries or deaths or significant property damage. this is part of the calculus in terms of our overal...

Canada’s Department of National Defense stated, "A high-altitude surveillance balloon was detected and its movements are being actively tracked by NORAD. This, after the first Chinese Spy Balloon has been

US President Joe Biden on Friday postponed Secretary of State Antony Blinkens first official visit to China in response to the Pentagons discovery of an alleged Chinese spy balloon flying over the United States, a U.S

Monitor and review options. >> you mentioned weve seen this activity before, why are we sharing this one and why last night if you were following it a few days, is it a sign we should take ahead of china about lincolns visit? >> in terms of any hypothetical about messaging from prc, id refer you to them on that front. i think what makes this different is the duration and length of which it has been over u.s. territory. beyond that, ill not go into specifics. mike. >> thanks, pat. yesterday senio...

The systems, that is ongoing work, they have been doing remarkable job of intercepting russian missile and drones. time for a couple more. >> two questions on the balloon, maneuver ablts, can it maneuver up and down and laterally and change altitude? in terms of tracking, how are you tracking this? radar, aircraft? is it continuous tracking or intermittent than that? >> beyond saying we are continuously tracking the balloon im not going into the specifics in terms of how we track other than to s...

Strong move to the hoop. listen, im frustrated here. the issue, we were told, well, we have been able to mitigate its ability to continue to spy. but how do we know that, whose word is that based on and what world would you take chinas word on anything? for my money, it has to be stopped one way -- at this point say to china we are shooting it down, or we need some type of acertainable. >> why do we have to ask permission from anything from china? >> mike pompeo said when we realized ccp was spy...

The mysterious ballon was being monitored by the Pentagon.