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>> reporter: immediately after the shootdown, defense secretary lloyd austin tried to call his chinese counterpart to explain. >> i put in a request for a call, and they did not accept that request. >> reporter: speaking publicly for the first time about the chinese balloon, austin told cbs news biggest worry was it would spy on u.s. nuclear forces located at bases across the country. >> all of our strategic assets, we made sure were buttoned down and movement was limited, so that we didnt expos...

What have you learned? >> reporter: david, for the first time, from the pentagon briefing room, we heard confirmation that a chinese spy balloon had flown over four sensitive sites within the u.s. territories in recent years. a senior u.s. official told me those sites were near naval bases in california, virginia, and hawaii. all of those spy missions were undetected at the time and only discovered later through intelligence analysis. the officials said the chinese have a fleet of these balloons...

Region and he is making very low progress at a very high cost. hes not going to get it. this is clear. i think throughout time as ukraine retrained its troops, and they are already in training in the uk, and the us bases in germany, it will be prepared to both inflict a heavier cost. lets remember what we are here out. we are trying to defeat the russian troops on ukrainian territory. nobody threatens the territory. nobody threatens the territory of the russian federation. i think the sooner the...

During the journey was worth it to them which means it was getting a whole hell of a lot more than we expectment and i also think that it provides this sort of visual representation of what chinas been doing to us for years which is infiltrating our sovereign nation at any point. from cybersecurity to physical bases, our education system. >> greg: tik tok. >> emily: everything. >> greg: everything emily. >> david: razors. >> emily: everything. razors. >> greg: lawn furniture tor. >> emily: there...

Military bases like lock land in texas or grand forks north dakota. can you imagine a chinese letting us fly a balloon over the country. >> laura: never. >> letting us put twitter in their country, letting us buy farm land around their air force bases? this is happening across the board, its abserd. maybe we get tik tok band and take a strong stand against the chinese now before its too late. >> laura: is it not time to start decoupling from china? every -- >> 100%. >> laura: long since time. >>...

Academy at the time. >> laura: to add insult to injury by the way, some are concerned that the technology that might be gleaned from this balloon might have an interesting origin. watch. >> it does worry me about the chinese, just how capable they are of collecting intelligence in this country. there are all sorts of things we dont know what that balloon was carrying, what kind of cameras, whether it had communications equipment or even sensors. we used to drop sensors on china to monitor their ...

President biden is ready to deal with the fall out. >> president biden: no, we made it clear to china what were going to do and they understand our position, they will not back off, we did the right thing. this is reality. >> ashley: the airship flew over several military bases, weighed nearly 2000 pounds and was 200 feet high. mike pompeo now criticizing the biden administration for allowing something so dangerous to stay in our skies for a week. >> the chinese may have been able to blow this t...

C4 exactly. us what you think ofthe new free twitter . and share this message when we post it as a defense of initial offer of the energy of dell covers your assessments of this incident and where it leads us china relations. >> i think it leaves us looking pretty embarrassed at sort of. i think the chinese is no way this could have been accidental and they probably did it to trouble but also embarrass us. ive been doing international media people across theworld are saying americans, why are yo...

For taking it down but criticized president biden for waiting too long the back and forth over the spy balloon is the latest escalation of u.s./china tensions as china has been trying to rehabilitate its global image post covid. just last week a prediction the u.s. will be at war with china in two years over taiwan and lloyd austin was in the philippines on tuesday to announce a new military build up and use of bases by our military balloon is the latest escalation of u.s./china tensions as chin...