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Telescope up more a balloon pointing down for this could be very high-res. these are simple images prep the u.s. monthly doesnt try to have theres a reason why cant you force airbases with his nuclear missiles present. >> lucas, lisa booth here. i cemented this hovering over nuclear missiles and military bases for an entire week. you talk about the images will what kind of intelligence would try to be able to capture from that? how would that be is in the future? what specifically are they looki...

Surveillance balloon, whatever you want to call it was no doubt looking at the silos trying to take what it can. messages that are transmitted via satellite, satellite transmission that are not supposed to be operated, of course, over the united states and the fact that the chinese sent a balloon crossed u.s. air space many wonder why wasnt it shot down over alaska when it cross islands in sovereign u.s. territory. no doubt that the pentagon doing all it can to make jamming signals, of course, m...

Is going to allow the u.s. access to more bases on the philippines because the philippines is concerned about china. we had the semiconductor export ban to china that was done last year. so theres clearly a plan to pull that together, but to answer your specific question. i think thats a mistake. i think secretary blinken should have gone to china because part of our approach here is to show that we are willing to engage with china. we dont want a direct conflict with china. we dont want a war. ...

Bases, they can right now with satellite technology. a balloon is meant to send a signal. will: our pentagon is spending $27 million on balloons -- plans to spend. the point of that, by the way, i think we spent $3 million end recently. the plan is to go to 27 amidst a massive defense budget. so, again, not something were investing in heavily in terms -- i mean, $27 million compared to what were spending on anything else for surveillance purposes -- pete: its true, but balloons can give you a mu...

>> as i said in the very beginning, it will surprise nobody to know that both china and the united states and russia and north korea and great britain and france and pretty much every other country on the planet works hard to figure out ways to collect intelligence on their potential enemies. and so, without going too far down the path i cant go down exactly what we are researching and looking into -- of course, of course. we are exploring whatever technologies that might give us an. it thats a ...

Inspecting. >> well go to carriers if we have to. >> concern also rose in swan teen over cellular towers with chinese made hardware atop them near military bases in the midwest, and in the same area of montana where the balloon was spotted, over a military base that houses intercontinental ballistic missiles. this is a company thats drawn intense scrutiny, but the company has strongly denied any efforts on spy on the u.s. and said in a statement to cnn that its equipment is not capable of operat...

The fact over the east coast charlotte, north carolina. we do not want to bring down a spy balloon that weighs as much as three school buses over a major american city. the faa closed the airspace. when in the systemic by the closing of the airspace. they wanted to make sure there were no commercial airliners in the area. the refueling plans tankers to refill the fighter jets pretty have a number of bases i just listed on the east coast of the u.s. you also have speaking of the navy, naval stati...

First secretary of state to make that trip since mike pompeo did in 2018. it also all comes as the u.s. has reached a new agreement with the philippines to expand americas access to military bases in the philippines, a move that is meant to counter chinese regional influence and ambitions specifically in the south china sea. as it relates to taiwan, as well. joining me now in beijing as my longtime colleague, friends, and fellow canadian, nbc news correspondent, janis mackey frayer. janice, good...

But not only will they be asked by congress, they will also be asked by our allies wanting to know why the u.s. was slow to respond. >> reporter: thats right. of course, you know, response time is a big, one of the reasons that the russians deployed bombers at times in the united states, another run officials say likely the chinese dethe ployed this spy balloon. in terms of what kinds of imagery it was sending back, some officials question chinese spy satellites, how crystal clear they are, cert...

Use carriers with locked briefcases if we have to. we wont let the chinese have unfettered access to our state secrets. >> concern also rose in 2019 over cellular towers with chinese-made hardware atop them near military bases in the u.s. in the same area in montana where the surveillance balloon was spotted, over a military base that houses intercontinental ballistic missiles. the company has strongly deniedfully efforts to spy on the u.s. said in a statement to cnn that its equipment is not ca...