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Classified. im not able to provide it, other than i can confirm that there have been over ins -- incidents where balloons did come close to or cross over u.s. territory. >> something that phil said earlier, given its not classified and the public can see it, i just ask that you take the questions that we have more specifics on where it is, given that theres no clear security reason by your own estimation in terms of keeping that information. >> sure. absolutely. and again, you know, were just no...

Discussions to shoot down the balloon? were there any discussions about shooting down the balloon when it was not over the united states potentially over international waters or were the discussions only when it entered u.s. air space. >> thanks. on your first question, were tracking one balloon. so in regards to statements by canada, i would refer you back to them on that. in terms of the discussions about whether or not to shoot down this balloon, that was an option, right, and so that was som...

Saying that they did want to now talk with u.s. officials about resolving this unexpected situation but at no point has there been any details or allusion to when the chinese side could have alerted the u.s. to this balloon straying into their territory. so certainly there will be a lot to discuss in the days to come, but its very unclear at this point when those discussions may restart. >> yeah. doesnt seem at this moment imminent, ambassador loch, to say the least. >> yeah, theres absolutely n...

Surveillance of our cities. the chinese used the drones to collect information on our infrastructure. we tried to get the drones out of our system and havent been effective with that. this is an all society effort by china to pressure the united states. and as bob said, this balloon needs to come down. it needs to be analyzed. not just destroyed but analyzed. take it apart and what we can learn from it. the sooner the better. >> i certainly would be fascinated to know what we could learn from th...

Which it says is being used for surveillance. its led to the secretary of state antony blinken cancelling a planned trip to china tomorrow. the chinese have apologised and declared the balloon is used for scientific research, and that it could have blown off—course. but that hasnt stopped the row from escalating. heres our security correspondent gordon corera. i...have no idea what this thing is. a strange object in the sky, filmed by a member of the public in rural montana. and for those of y...

Tweeted about this, it was a mistake to not shoot down that chinese spy balloon when it was over a grossly populated area, this is not a hot air balloon, it has at able to maneuver independently now its over -- some think its flying over kansas nobody can quite identifys and so david, why didnt the pentagon shoot it down? >> because when you shoot something down, you never really know where it will land be while it probably would have worked out fine if it did land in a residential area, school,...

We could surmise the reasons why the trip would be off, but talk about how this is playing from your neck of the woods. >> i was struck by the fact he was so open about the fact the surveillance balloon being over the u.s. was a direct contributor to this. generally in the diplomatic world they will dance around -- so i was surprised on his candor on the issue. from here we know more about the balloon than we did yesterday. number one its still over the continental u.s. thats one of it reasons i...

Chinese surveillance balloon. once we detected the balloon, the u.s. government acted immediately to protect against the collection of sensitive investigation. we communicated with the prc government directly through multiple channels about this issue. members of my team consulted with our partners and other agencies, and in congress. we also engaged our close allies and partners to inform them of the presence of the surveillance balloon in our airspace. we concluded that conditions were not con...

Clearly its violated u.s. airspace, and again, weve communicated that fact to the prc. the fact is we know that its a surveillance balloon. and im not going to be able to be more specific than that. and we do know that the balloon has violated international airspace and international law which is unacceptable. we have conveyed this directly to the prc at multiple levels. >> violated u.s. airspace and international law. the u.s. see. flies in the face of what china is claiming that its a weather ...

Go to her and come back to nancy. >> i was wondering, is there any way that the pentagon is able to gauge how long it could potentially loiter comparing to balloons that have been in the past? how long do you anticipate that it could loiter? >> as i mentioned, we will continue to monitor it. we assess that it will probably be over the united states for a few days. we will continue to monitor, review our options and keep you updated as we can. nancy here. >> i want to go back to a couple things y...