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To people and property on the ground. >> jim, now that we have -- the united states has shot the balloon down, theyre collecting it. what do you think they can get in terms of usable intelligence? >> im told by a senior u.s. military official this this balloon had surveillance capabilities, but limited, that the u.s. believes it was able to jam, in effect, while it was over u.s. soil. its not clear this is the be all and end all of chinese surveillance equipment. it did have surveillance capabil...

That will be a nice change of pace considering the breathlessness of all the commentary so far. >> yesterday, as we were breaking the story, there was a conversation as to whether or not the u.s. government needs to be more transparent with the public about intelligence gathering when it comes to our adversaries. g is this a conversation that is had behind closed doors? do you see any benefit to something like this? >> in this case, again, its an interesting question. we dont want to necessarily...

With the united states says with a chinese surveillance balloon, roughly six nautical miles off the coast of south carolina. well within u.s. territorial airspace. the balloon crashed into the atlantic ocean, creating a debris field at least seven mile spread out in relatively short shallow water. the recovery of that debris is ongoing, including navy divers, the coast guard, and other manned and unmanned salvage feedback vessels. the fbi counter intelligence agents are also on board the recover...

We can. >> were joined now by someone whos paid a lot of attention to surveillance. >> his name is nicholas challen. hes the former chief software officer of the u.s. air force. thank you so much for coming on . >> wha yr t what do you think is going on here? whats your best guess see? >> well, you see china the effectively the biggest experiment froere theym china we they , first of all, got probably a very high rate of high definition pictures of those sites. right. and keep in mind that the b...

The top US diplomat reiterated that there should be no doubt about such US commitment, Yonhap news agency reported.

The top US diplomat reiterated that there should be no doubt about such US commitment, Yonhap news agency reported.

Developed by the chinese, a low cost and low-risk as far as the capability is concerned? i think senator tester said something before about the people of montana worried about their privacy. the chinese have capability, the russians have capability, which certainly intrudes upon our privacy. thats gone for all practical purposes in terms of trying to hide things from them. the real question is what capabilities does this particular aircraft have that can loiter and linger for hours or days over ...

Social saying shoot down the balloon. theres -- by the way, you dont have to blow the thing to smith leans creating this debris field, and thats one of the things weve talked about, the rationale from the pentagon, oh, you cant have flying debris from the air feels totally disconnect from the capabilities of the u.s. military should we need to take down a balloon thats flying in plain sight over american cities right now. its over missouri right now. so if youre watching this show in missouri, g...

It could remain for several days. nbc news has learned tonight that the u.s. is taking precautionary measures to weaken the balloon surveillance capabilities, including these encounter intelligence measures to obscure its views and physically moving things out of its path. and we do not know exactly what it is doing out there but. we can guess. the pentagon would not get into specifics and said that it is manoeuvrable. and typically spy balloons flyover sensitive areas to collect information. to...

That seems to imply destroying it. but you are saying it would be more prudent from the intelligence standpoint to have it come down, to have it intact to study and know exactly what it is, what its been transmitting and the capabilities? >> exactly right. you want a controlled descent. if you are lucky you get into the data stream that controls the balloon and make it land on your command, not on the command of the controller in china. and when you do that, you bring it down easily. you can exa...