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From man with an unrivaled resume, former defense secretary, former cia director, former white house chief of staff, leon panetta. grateful for your time. i want to start with the capability questions and pull out and get to the big picture of why or what this is about. in terms of capability, based on your experience at the cia and at the pentagon, does the united states, first and foremost, have any military capability to get up to 60,000 feet and capture this balloon? i assume that would be t...

Line of no go zone with the chinese government at this point? >> well, kate, it is a possibility that blinken is not going to go, and we might down it, but it is demonstrating that they dont approve of it. the two make a difference, and getting in closer for the ground and you will be signaling capabilities for the chinese get this that they are caught, and they they are going to be coming and the collecting capability that they have, and by the way, a precedence of this, as the chinese force do...

>> and those talks were going to be tense with the bolster of defense in taiwan for example. and we are joined by dr. james clapper this morning. welcome. >> nice. >> and so, the satellites that fly over the u.s. every 90 minutes have capabilities at least at par with something like this, and they describe it at least in less significance of spig than just the audacity of the move, and now we have open discussions of shooting it down. i wonder how tense you describe this moment between the u.s. ...

State, antony blinken is expected to visit china and after the u.s. announced a new military deal with the philippines to expand americas presence there. joining us now nbcs courtney kube who was the first to report this story, and general barry mccaffrey, retired four-star general and an nbc news military analyst. courtney, what are officials saying about this balloon? what really is it, and how did the u.s. learn about its presence? >> so the u.s. military first started tracking this several d...

Mr. secretary, that this balloon has, indeed, some surveillance capabilities that the united states is not aware of? >> well, thats the other thing. you know, as former director of the cia, i think its important for us to find out exactly what kind of surveillance technology was aboard this balloon. they were using it to gather intelligence. they were able to ba nooufr this over some fairly sensitive sites in this country. i think we have every right to know what exactly was on that balloon and ...

Can you talk specifically about this particular group of capabilities? how are they tailored to whats happening in ukraine now? for instance, theres equipment that connects the various air defense systems. can you speak to why this specific package now? >> sure. its important to look at this from an evolution standpoint in terms of adapting to the conditions on the ground, and so weve been focused on several key areas in the last few months to support ukraine, specifically air defense capabiliti...

The balloon and the technology that is being used as part of it, certainly that is something that would, im sure, be of great interest to the pentagon. >> former republican congressman adam kinzinger suggested that maybe the chinese government is trying to make the u.s. shoot down the balloon so the chinese can get a better idea of the u.s. air capabilities. can planes get up that high and function in that way. do you think thats possible? >> look, i think we could play a lot of hypotheticals an...

Time, so in the middle of the night, he brought together the chairman of the joint chiefs, the head of north common norad, he called them all together and said lets figure out what this thing is doing and where it could be heading and whether action needs to be taken. when they discussed the possible courses of action to take, one of those included taking it out. and it got to the point where on wednesday norad actually brought in aircraft, including an awacs to try to surveil this craft, this b...

Capabilities to help ukraine defend its people as well as armored infantry vehicles and more equipment that ukraine is using to so effectively including javelin anti-tank missiles, artillery ammunition and conventional and long-range rockets for u.s. provided. additional information on the security package can be found on defense.gov. in regards to our announcement last night regarding the high altitude surveillance balloon, im not going to have much new information to provide other than to say ...

Weve been focused on several key areas in the last few months to support ukraine, air defense capabilitieses, armor capabilities, long-range fires capabilities and then combined with training in order to enable them to have the ability to conduct combined arms. looking at things like further enhancing integrated air defense, which i think everyone continues to watch with horror as russia conducts aerial bombardment on civilian targets throughout actor, working in those areas. also through the co...