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First, the background with david spunt. >> we know secretary lloyd austin was in the country of georgia and he was asked about this reporting. he declined to get into any details about the reporting. chinese officials are declining to talk about it. theyre denying most of the reporting. that gives you an idea where things are on a global front. when it comes to this specific report from the financial times. came out late saturday. it talks about what happened in august. china tested a nuclear ca...

Officials in georgia, was asked a few hours ago about the alleged missile. listen. >> what i can tell you is that we watch closely chinas development of armament and advanced capabilities and systems that will only increase tensions in the region. >> mike gallagher, congressman from wisconsin says this test should serve as call to action, if we stick to our current course or place our hopes in deterrence, we will lose the new cold war with communist china within a decade. china announced earlier...

Candidate. gentlemen, thank you so much for being with me. congressman, let me start with you. how did we miss this? >> well, i was just out at the space command and at norad which defends north america last week and let me just tell you why this is so dangerous, a normal ballistic missile launches on trajectory and with that geometry our missile defenses can pick it up and shoot it down. its hard. its like shooting a bullet with a bullet. but these hypersonic will missiles imagine maneuverable ...

Capable next generation hypersonic missile. its a move that seems to have caught u.s. intelligence by surprise. correspondent david spunt has details from the white house. >> china is making its mark. the financial times reports the communist country in august tested a hyperson nic missile capable of caring a nuclear war head. launching it into low orbit space. >> there is no system out there that can defeat it as of yet. the chinese are in advance of this compared to where we are which is frust...

But analysts say if the report is correct, chinas not only got a missile that can fly at five times the speed of sound, and is more maneuverable than a standard ballistic missile. >> because theyre fast and they can avoid detection, they can decrease the amount of warning time we have and the amount of decision time that leaders have to respond in a crisis if hypersonic weapons are used. >> reporter: the idea that china might have fired a rocket into full orbit with this missile on it is disturb...

>> we watch closely chinas development of armament and advance capabilities and systems that will only increase tensions in the region. >> reporter: china often boasts about its space program. this past weekend it sent three astronauts to its new space station. showing off its rapidly advancing civilian space program. but it never said a word about a launch in august, until now. calling it a routine test of a spacecraft. >> translator: what has separated from the spacecraft before it returns is ...

A nuclear tipped missile that u.s. defenses would find much harder to detect. >> reporter: u.s. officials tonight closely monitoring chinas missile program. following a report of a possibly ominous missile test. "the financial times" citing unnamed sources briefed on the intelligence, reports china tested a nuclear capable hypersonic missile in august. the report says the missile circled the earth before speeding toward its target, demonstrating an advanced capability in space that, quote, caugh...

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