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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...

Is focused singularly on trying to improve relations with china, when, in fact, the chinese government actions and chinese government policies really do not set a foundation for an improvement of such relations. >> griff: that is a fascinating observation. so you are sagging that this was china testing the administration head of this important meeting to see what they shoot down, a spy balloon with the entire continental u.s. with six bases, what they shoot it down or acknowledge publicly even i...

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...

Surveillance information they have on the ground and in the air. americans, certainly iowans are september cal that it was able to hover over air force bases and not gather any information and beam it back to communist china to be used against us. i think those are the questions we want serious answers to, but we have to make sure that there is a plan from the biden administration and our military to make sure this isnt allowed to happen again. >> what about the counterargument that during this ...

David preparing for the state of the union but getting updates on this. the administration has not said a lot, this is from a defense department official, immediate steps to protect against the balloons sensitive information mitigating its intelligence value. the team has not talked about this publicly. if they were jamming it preventing it from sending intelligence back to china no harm leaving it in the sky. if it is capturing air force bases missile silos, then republicans might have a point....

0 >> i mean she left behind her three beautiful children that are going to grow up without having a mother. to teach them. >> well but i see her in so many things. i am just constantly reminded of. her we i feel like she is still there, she still here with us. . this sunday up in the air. u.s. fighter jets shoot down a chinese spy balloon flying in u.s. air space >> i told them to shoot it down. >> reporter: the incident forced the secretary of state to postpone a high stakes trip to beijing a...

Operate armed drones from secret bases on pakistans soil. in a memoir he wrote back in 2006 he made a famous statement that carg to musharraf hed been told by u.s. officials that pakistan should be prepared to be bombed back to the stone age if they did not ally itself with washington. theres also an increased amount of militancy in pakistan and then became the president of the country. he was in power during the time of what have said it was a time of enlightened moderation. but his distracters...

How are they collecting information? what kinds of things are they looking for? this balloon evidently potentially had some type of guidance system, probably propellers on a balloon, that took it across this approach across the country that over flew several military bases. not just the ones in the northwest, but also in the central part of the country and even in the south. some of the error ins * * -- air force bases and even some of the army bases. so i think, you know, the u.s. government is...

Huge self-defense capability. south korea, australia, taiwan as a quarter million people on the active reserve military. so we should assume with wise policy that we will deter chinese aggression. it will be trouble, but tracy as you pointed out earlier, he -- to add potentially nine more intermittent u.s. bases to complete the island chain deterrents of china. so we are not going to go to war with china unless there is a terrible miscalculation by the pla. >> tracey walter and general barry mcc...

Have with this spy balloon. perhaps in the area of signal intelligence and that sort of thing. what do you think they might have been doing other than taking pictures? they can take pictures with satellite. >> yeah, they can. the resolution is very good and the pictures are good. low-power manipulations you cant pick up from a satellite. the lower altitude. also, if theyre making any changes in those bases, theyre done when the chinese satellites are not overhead. we do that all the time. if wer...