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Air to try to gather intelligence. and by the way, a lot of countries do the same thing. its not unusual. the russians often but aircraft up for surveillance capabilities coming near the u.s. the russians and chinese both have ships that will often come close to the continental united states. thats not different, but again, the thing that makes this stand out is the fact that its been over the continental u.s. for so long. thats whats a little different here in this circumstance. again, thats wh...

Everyones attention, imagination and raced a lot of worries. we have watched it drifts across the united states, for a spotted in montana and the u.s. from the start, the pentagon said we will not shoot it down when its overland, they were concerned about the danger that it posed to civilians on the ground in a case of debris might injure someone or cause damage. they wait until it shifted over the water off of the carolina coast, as you said and they have now shut it down and are trying to gath...

I wonder how you explain this particular move by the chinese. if it in fact was intentional and not some inadvertent floating balloon that got off course, why now? this was a critical time when you have secretary of state antony blinken go. why now? >> this may not have been their intent. its something they have done before, to have spy balloons up in the air and they can fly 30,000 feet higher than most of our capabilities to intercept them, like the different aircraft that we have. so there is...

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

Is this a new technique to be 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 in all practical purposes in terms of trying to hide things from them. the real question as congressman kinzinger said is what kind of capabilities does it have th...

Airspace we couldve shot it down over open water. we couldve shot it down over very dense sparse parts of alaska permission to shut it down then. it leads me too believe possibly political decision was made by the white house not to do so for fear of interrupting their relationship with china. that is troubling if that is indeed the case. spinning we do not know much other than its over north carolina skies right now. which i would assume the eastward path continues its not that far from open wa...

Radio signals, you might be able to collect those a little bit better from space, but you certainly can collect them from space. in a very sensitive radio signals from u.s. military installations will be heavily encrypted. now china has been working far away from this traumatic event, quietly and with great success on new quantum encryption technologies and things like that. but that is actually kind of like a data point to this. and so again, even though this is at the pentagon has said, likely...

If it was intentional, why now? this was a critical time when you were going to have secretary of state blinken go. why now? >> this may not have been their intent, and this is something they have done before to have spy balloons up in the air. they can actually fly 30,000 feet higher than most of our capabilities to intercept them, like the different aircraft that we have. so there is an advantage that they have by having these balloons up there, but youre not supposed to have them be visible t...

Paid a lot of surveillance. tha. what do you think is going on h? >> you see effectively the bigga where they first of all got a hn pictures of those sites, right?e balloon is 60,000 feet so they r pictures, higher definition picn is much slower than low orbit sy you have seen the ability for cw quickly we are able to detect to it. also take some insight whenc warfare capabilities. finally, n china getting some insight wheno understand how the leadership oe

To understand how the leadership at the pentagon and the white houso his.e are able to responde to this. well, thats, i thinrek your las hepoint particularly interesting one . so you havbae to know whenllth s launch a spy balloon the sizeee of several school buses, that someones going to see it and then youre going to find out if the country has the will to resist your incursion into their airspace. >> is that what youre saying?ty absolutely. but itsour air so interesting,t because i dont think ...