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Can tell that the turks and regular civilians are very grateful. theyre bringing dogs, which is important because in the week that ive been here in turkey reporting this story, i havent actually seen the dogs until the americans brought them. im told that the turks do have canine units for search and rescue, but they dont have as many. one of the things that i was talking to some of these usaid people about, what are you bringing to the table that the turks arent? they said nothing, the turks ha...

Object, but what they know about the balloon and the fact that its part of this massive fleet thats, you know, covered over 40 countries across five continents, they are confident this was used for surveillance and not for weather. >> picking that thing up off the ocean floor will be a big step for investigators. thanks so much. joining us now "washington post" columnist josh rogin, the author of "chaos under emp: trump, xi, and the battle for the 21st century." first, if i can, to the sits of...

Soil and they were able to jam some of these capabilities but still an open question. i want to ask you about this initial assessment as described of xis knowledge of this. xi has exercised more control over the peoples liberation army as he has consolidated power in china, extended his term, president for life, et cetera. is it plausible to you that the pla would in effect defy the chinese president and do this as something of a freelance operation? >> no, its much less likely that somebody wen...

>> thank you. you mentioned that there were fighter aircraft who were able to determine that it likely was not manned. were those fighter aircraft able to determine anything else about it from up close that they wouldnt be able to find out otherwise? >> they worked really hard to get as much information as they could about this object. given its size, which was much sma smaller, and the capabilities on the fighter aircraft themselves, the speed at which they were fl flying, it was difficult for ...

U.s. spy planes is revealing what chinas spy balloons are capable of. cnn has learned that images captured by altitude reconnaissance aircraft offer details about the balloon before it was shot down. jim sciutto joins us to explain. what did chinas spy balloon at least have the capability to do? >> the defense department said it had limited surveillance capability. we are learning more details now. it maybe had more capability than we realized. first of all, signals collection, in other words, i...

But below where the satellites go. thats a vulnerable space for us. we dont have a lot of good capabilities to deal with it. even if theyre doing the same thing as the satellites, theyre doing it at a different area. while we have a lot of stuff to deal with satellites, we dont have a lot of stuff to deal with balloons as we just found out and thats part of xis plan to expand chinese military capabilities and spy on us and prepare for an invasion of taiwan that we cant thwart because if we put d...

Flight and the scope of the beijing surveillance operation raising concerns about our national security. we are getting new images showing federal agents pouring over the remnants of the spy flight as the u.s. continues efforts to see just how extensive the surveillance capabilities were peer sources confirm to fox news at the craft had western made parts with english writing although its not clear if the writing was discovered before or after it was shot down or in the wreckage. now yesterday t...

Earthquake. rescue workers still finding survivors in the rubble including a 10 day old baby after being trapped for almost 100 hours. were live at the epicenter. well speak to chef jose andres who just arrived in turkey to provide some much needed relief to rescuers and survivors. back here at home, a twist in one of the investigations surrounding former president donald trump, a subpoena issued to his vice president mike pence. what this could say about the investigation. also, new, up clo...

They enter the u.s.? >> i think were going to continue to learn a lot about how these things are or can be detected in a better way. you heard the north com commander talk about certain gaps that he felt he had in his domain awareness. so from this incident last week, we will learn. we will certainly learn about the capabilities of that surveillance asset. we also expect to learn more about our own processes and own systems for detection and tracking. i dont want to get into exactly how this one...

Not telling us what we need to know in the phraseology of object it should be bothersome. only, john, my concern is we responded to this which is important. more importantly what are how ae we going to cant come into our territory. our national territory? what are going to about the chit take the call. we put that hotline in with the chinese and lloyd austin cant even get a call through. its kind of -- that does bother me. of what this object was. it was a little bit vague. talked to what he sai...