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Australian deputy prime minister and minister of defense richard morals. looks forward to discussing bilateral defense cooperation and mutual security efforts within the indo-pacific and beyond. a full readout well post later today to defense.gov. well move to your questions and start with ap. >> hi, pat. thank you for doing this. china has said this is just a weather balloon that has veered off course. why is the pentagon convinced this is a surveillance balloon and then, can you give us a litt...

Of security assistance valued at $25 million and 1.75 billion in ukraine security assistance initiative funds. presidential drawdown is 31st drawdown of equipment for ukraine. in total, the u.s. committed $32 billion in security assi assistantance to ukraine and 29.3 billion since russia unprovoked and illegal invasion one year ago this month. today announcement includes air defense capabilities to help ukraine defend their people and armored vehicles and more equipment ukraine is using to effec...

"It's very difficult with what we have, because what we have was not meant to shoot down balloons," a former naval aviator told Insider.

Disrupted the relationship for many months to come. this is what you can possibly expect here. its going to be hard to have a sit down, any kind of constructive negotiations at this point. politically at home at the very least in the united states, while this balloon incident is obviously still on everybodys mind. >> peter and ryan, thank you very much. and joining me now is senior technical analyst, and former aviator, brynn tannehill. can you explain what the technology is? >> its a balloon th...

Why is the pentagon convince this is a surveillance balloon? can you give us more on the status of the balloon? you said in central u.s., what state? do you have guidance for people as they see this balloon or try to photograph it or interfere with it? >> sure. thanks, so we are aware of the prcs statement, however, the fact is we know that it is a surveillance balloon and i will not be able to be more specific than that. we know that the balloon violated u.s. air space and international which i...

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Or not. the safety and security of the american people is paramount, and so again, at this time we assess that it does not pose a physical threat to people on the ground. well continue to monitor it an continue to review options. thank you. let me go ahead and go to joe here and back to this side of the room. >> so, you said that this is the first time weve -- this isnt the first time weve seen a balloon fly over the continental u.s. in the past, has it flown over other sensitive areas, such as ...

U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall (R - Kansas) says he can confirm the Chinese spy balloon is over northeast Kansas.

Time on camera since he postponed his trip to beijing earlier today. the pentagon says they are still tracking this balloon. they also say it is not a threat right now to national security. china has acknowledged the balloon is theirs. they are saying this thing accidentally got off course. theyre saying, no, its not used for surveillance. its for weather monitoring. our nbc news meteorological team is tracking weather patterns, saying it probably passed over missouri and tennessee earlier today...

Further information to provide. >> secondly, how will this incident affect the secretarys future engagement with chinese counterpart to maintain the open lines of communication? >> i think weve been very clear that were always open to maintaining an open line of communication with the prc and in that regard nothing has changed. nothing. to phil and then come over. >> the position of the balloon classified? >> phil, right now what were not going to do is get to an hour by hour location of the bal...