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In california. its capabilities at that that height would expand much more than you would think from a hot air balloon. rachel: although kirk lip old was saying theres no doubt this was a deliberate path that they wanted to see those bases -- pete: the closer you are to anything, the more detail you get. by the way, we knew about this well before wednesday, and the only reason it went public is because there was a photographer in montana who took photos, and so they were outed on it. this admini...

Going to keep fighting to get back crimea because they know they will never be safe or secure or rebuild their economy and they also know based on the history of the last 30 years, that russia will never live up to any agreement but the russians will wait for us to lose interest as we did after the invasion of georgia back in 2008. so i think that is why ukraine realizes this year this needs to happen now. and it is got to be very frustrating for them when they hear the joint staff or the pentag...

And space exploration. separately, they have expanded intelligence collection in many ways. remember how much open source of their, is by the way. you can go and look at things on a map quite frequently, which brings me to the question, was there something else in terms of when -- that they were seeking to learn from? we can call it measurements and signatures. and normally, it is an alternative means that they are trying to collect on. that is what i am most curious. about what were they trying...

Satellites that are orbiting in space from a greater distance, but this clearly was provocative. there is no way that this balloon was not going to be a textbook by the united states. china had to know that. they knew that it possibly was going to take some action to bring it down, are they going to risk it? maybe some advanced technology that they had on that balloon, if we ever are to retrieve it and understand what the capabilities are, but, again, there are a lot of questions, and from my ex...

So the military decided to brief the president about this on wednesday of last week. and the presidents initial instinct was to shoot it down. however the militarys advice was to not do so until it was over water. not only because of the risk the balloon could pose to civilians on the ground and over water would give the u.s. government higher chances of being able to recover that pay load completely in tack. and the u.s. wants to see what is inside in the balloon and what the chinese government...

Or device over the continentaldf mainland and have this slow week timid, frankly terrible response by the biden administration. has >> i want to ask you what kind of capability it has.re you are saying that there were not three spy balloons fromtes china that entered the united states airspace and traveled and was able to do what we have seem this week. >> i am telling you that. very clearly. listen, maria, every time something goes wrong in the biden administration, there is one of two response...

Protect our people. this is unacceptable action. >> large enough to hold three? massive buses.s did it drop and scatter devicesa for unlimitemed surveillance. john radcliffe on the potential capabilities of the a stratospheric balloon.lr was the damage already done, w what data did the balloonen collected were sensitivein military secrets already sent back during the week long journey from alaska to south carolina. how vulnerable is america now and how compromised is thisf president by china. me...

Mainland and have this kind of slow, weak, frankly, terrible response by the biden administration. maria: i want to ask you what kind of capability if it has. but just to be clear, youre saying there were not three spy balloons from china that entered the united states air space and traveled and was able to do what weve seen this week. >> im telling you that very clearly. listen, maria, its -- every time something goes wrong in the biden administration, theres one of two responses. they either f...

Yasmin. i think what people perhaps failed to appreciate is the counter intelligence value of recovering as much as this balloon and equipment as possible. just watching, because we live in a world where everything has to be a referendum on joe biden and donald trump, we are distracted from the fact that, first of all, nobody really knows whether what this thing was collected. im on the intelligence committee and i do not know. yet i expect to know what this week. we dont know what we are able t...

Now we are able to salvage the technology and learn even more about the prcs capabilities. >> congressman, to the point you just made, nbc news has also learned from folks at the defense department and national security council that the administration directed these sensitive sites to take precautions so no sensitive information would have been divulged. have you been briefed even just a little bit on any of that yet? any of that information? >> no, not yet, symone. that usually happens in a cla...