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>> you did a good job at hissing on the key ones. what sort of information were they collecting? were they able to transmit it in realtime? what actual capabilities does this balloon have? what communications networks were they using to get the information off the balloon? those are obviously technical questions that we want to answer, but there are also strategic questions. what do they intend to do with these balloons? whats the broader snurps did they think they could get away with them being...

The most important thing that this demonstrates, it should be no shocker to anyone that the balloons are part of a larger chinese surveillance program. i think that is the most important thing. >> what does that speak to? in term of chinas capabilities? >> the first thing that it speaks to is that this incident , on the eve of the secretary of states visit to beijing, it is chinas continuing bad behavior. at this point, they continued to play the line that the balloon was innocuous, and somehow ...

Ability to track these kinds of objects. >> reporter: ryder did say they are hoping to learn more about so that the payload or equipment it was carrying could be left intact and examined by the fbi lab in quantico, but he didnt go into a lot of detail what the u.s. is hoping to learn from it. were told from sources that among the details that the u.s. wants to learn about chinas -- about these balloons is, of course, its technical capabilities, what satellites it was linked to and importantly wh...

The rest of it with the currents. >> dana: joining us now is former c.i.a. officer and f.b.i. special agent tracer walder. >> i think the biggest thing they will hopefully be able to glean is what it was collecting. what are the chinese capabilities in terms of measurement and signals intelligence and what was the purpose of this balloons sworn journey across the united states >> dana: you dont believe it was just for collecting information about the with like the chinese said. >> i absolutely d...

Better understand what capabilities the chinese actually had and as you said, tomorrow is also a notable hearing in which the senate will be holding a public hearing that is going to be led by democratic senator jon tester of montana. >> incredible live shot. thank you so much for bringing that to us. appreciate it. for more on this delicate diplomatic situation with china, i want to bring in congressman adam smith, top democrat on the house armed forces committee. thank you for being with us....

Bringing in all the ambassadors. they have delayed a plan to declassify this information. they are working on that. i think they want to go public in the next couple of days to let people around the world know -- they are putting china on its back foot. >> this is a very important initiative by our state department and our intelligence community to conduct what we call terror line briefings. you preserve the source and method how you collected the information. you give our allies and partners ad...

>> i will be thanking you all in advance for the powerful english planes. some laughter and applause. >> they said that they would offer ukraine longer-range capabilities, they did not say exactly what that means. >> thank you, scott. u.s. intelligence sources tell cnn that the spy balloon that was shot down as part of a more extensive surveillance program. beijing has denied that they were doing any spying at all. lauren, one of you learned about this? >> according to multiple american official...

Which explains why trump administration officials say they did not know about these prior incidents. general van herk, who has served as the top general for north com and toread for both president trump and president biden, admitted us forces failed to detect previous incursions from chinese spy craft into the united states . >> its my responsibility to detect threats to north america. i will tell you that we did not detect those threats. >> and thats a domain awareness gap that we have to figur...

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Russian-held territory. the uk has said theyre going to offer ukraine long-range capabilities but prime minister sunak was vague in the press conference today on what precisely that would entail. abby. >> scott mclean, thank you for that report. coming up for us today, a new controversy on one of the police officers charged with murdering tyre nichols. the alleged photo he reportedly takes and sends to other people, thats next. s in the market with powerful, easy-to-use tools power e*trade mak...