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Capture the equipment and understand what they are doing. are they taking pictures? are they intercepting signals? what are they doing and what is the level of technical capability? it will tell us about what they are trying to learn and what their capability is of doing that. failing that, i would definitely shoot it down provided there is no risk to people on the ground. >> so you are surprised that this is hovering over the continental u.s.? >> absolutely. not just the continental united stat...

Just shoot this balloon down first place, i imagine well hear more of that as the situation unfolds too. >> shooting this balloon down means potential damage to people below. is that cautious posture still the right move at this point? >> i think that the action that the u.s. and the biden administration has taken is not to shoot down the balloon, but then to postpone or cancel blinkens trip, which politically is a much more important message to send. this trip was coming at a time when they wer...

Their controls, and now it is under the controls of the winds, and now we are learning that blinken is not going, because of the tense time between the u.s. and the chinese governments. just this week, we have heard that the u.s. is going to be opening up new military bases in the philippines. we saw a u.s. air force general predict that there could be war with china in 2025. and so this is going to ratchet up the tensions between china and the u.s. we know that they have summoned the charge dea...

Nuclear weapon facility this thing has flown over in montana. there are maybe things china might want to take a look at. >> jimmy: absolutely, and so much we dont know in terms of the motivation, what we do know, this is so brazenly disrespectful to the people in charge of this government right now and we know it is disrespectful because not just fact they lied about it being here, they lied about it being a weather balloon that just happened to have blown here by going off course, that is disre...

The united states is moving to the philippines. they announced that yesterday, to be able to have access to four additional bases in the philippines. theyve expanded our presence in guam. the same thing is true for okinawa. and so we are, in fact, improving our position in the event that something should happen in taiwan. at the same time, the chinese are making their moves as well. obviously with this balloon taking place in the united st states. so, it is a tense relationship. my hope is that ...

Military or physical threat to people on the ground at this time and well continue to review -- excuse me, continue to monitor and review options. >> reporter: so why thats important is we know that it is still over the continental u.s., and in fact, it seems as if its moved south and its moving east, so it may actually be more in the center of the u.s. than it was when it was up in montana, so one of the questions answered, the big question, though, that that opens up is where is it headed, and...

Substantive discussions we were prepared to have. >> part terrifying mystery, part "snl" skit, that was secretary of state antony blinken in just the last hour on what is now a postponed trip to beijing in which he was expected to meet with president xi jinping after the u.s. announce yesterday that chinese high altitude balloon was spotted hovering over the northwest part of the country. i think it was in montana at the time, saying it is an unacceptable violation of our sovereigty and must be ...

The china challenge has been a dilemma for u.s. officials, including all of your time in government, it is front and center now for president biden, whether its about technology, whether its about the expansion of u.s. military capabilities now with bases in the philippines. it is economic, it is geopolitical, it is military. at a moment when the chinese say we would like things to be normal, thats what they keep saying publicly, we would like things to be more normal again, xi jinping decided t...

Officials to local media, i think confirming what everybody has been reporting over the last few days, the us and the philippines are now in agreement that there will be access to at least four more philippine basis, and these bases will be in tullah one and in the northern ireland of luzon, and the bases will be facing the south china sea, and facing the south china sea, and facing north towards taiwan. so i think the location, the bases they are talking about, is very significant, because it s...

A long—running privacy battle, between the tate modern in london and the owners of four nearby flats, by ruling in favour of the homeowners. theyd complained that visitors to the art gallery could see into their properties from a viewing gallery that opened in 2016. to the philippines now, where the us defense secretary, lloyd austin, is visiting today, and a deal could be announced about us troops getting more access to bases in the country. for more on this, i am joined now by our correspond...