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You know that ukrainian soldiers, they are dying every— you know that ukrainian soldiers, they are dying every day. - you know that ukrainian soldiers, they are dying every day. dont i you know that ukrainian soldiers, i they are dying every day. dont you think— they are dying every day. dont you think that _ they are dying every day. dont you think that that _ they are dying every day. dont you think that that decision _ they are dying every day. dont you think that that decision about - th...

Jonathan about the capability of ukraine. what about the russians? i was they are about six months ago. talking to analysts saying the way that russians fight wars as they just chuck another log on the fire, another log on the fire. its a grinding machine of men. you just pummel, and primal, and pummel. are they running out of men? are they getting anywhere near that because did they have weapon? they continue to make weapons in a way that ukrainians cannot. thats why president zelenskyy is here...

>> reporter: immediately after the shootdown, defense secretary lloyd austin tried to call his chinese counterpart to explain. >> i put in a request for a call, and they did not accept that request. >> reporter: speaking publicly for the first time about the chinese balloon, austin told cbs news biggest worry was it would spy on u.s. nuclear forces located at bases across the country. >> all of our strategic assets, we made sure were buttoned down and movement was limited, so that we didnt expos...

It was fabulously incompetent. so as there was an interesting line from general petraeus today, that this incident illustrated a somewhat dangerous combination of capability but also combined with incompetence. thats something you have to be pretty careful about. >> congressman himes, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. coming up, the dramatic testimony on capitol hill where house republicans scrutinized twitter executives for their handling of a story on hunter bidens laptop. ♪ ♪...

After it invaded our borders. it comes one day after republicans held hearings, two of them, on how the best -- how to best counter beijing. >> china is the most challenging national security tlet america has faced in 30 years. >> china remains a global threat. we saw the im ens of that adregs last week. >> the challenge for us is what do we do in a timely way that matches the capability and capacity that china is building right now? >> harris: brian mast, member of the house foreign affairs, gr...

Region and he is making very low progress at a very high cost. hes not going to get it. this is clear. i think throughout time as ukraine retrained its troops, and they are already in training in the uk, and the us bases in germany, it will be prepared to both inflict a heavier cost. lets remember what we are here out. we are trying to defeat the russian troops on ukrainian territory. nobody threatens the territory. nobody threatens the territory of the russian federation. i think the sooner the...

An aircraft or some kind of longer range artillery, but they want the cover, the protection of all nato allies for at least other nato allies and most significantly the united states also providing that capability. they dont want to take the brunt of any russian response alone. even though, of course, we are in an alliance and we take the brunt together, they want that added reassurance. >> yesterday ukraines national security chief told reuters they expect russia to target kharkiv and zaporizhz...

Administration officials tell nbc news, u2 spy planes were circling the balloons taking pictures about the chinese capability. >> theres immense intelligence value in watching an asset like this actually behave, its maneuverability, its emission characteristics. >> reporter: but the white house is facing questions on capitol hill. >> members of congress on both sides of the aisle have some serious questions about how long they knew about this, why they didnt shoot it down sooner, what informatio...

Look at these parts and say, this is a piece of something that we recognize, this part fits with that part, this comes from something whos capability is x. what theyre trying to do is, forensically put together what was on that balloon as the payload and what was it designed to do? >> the fbi has said, it is the size of regional jet. this is a huge thing. plummeting through the sky into the ocean, the damage has to be pretty extreme. >> pretty extreme, but not as extreme necessarily as it wouldv...

With american weapons. i understand it. i disagree with it. but we should also be giving them the ability to hit targets inside crimea. this is ukrainian territory, but in effect, we have created sanctuary for russia by limiting the range of the weapons that we provide them. >> but youre saying inside crimea, and i know you believe ukraine can take crimea, but how do you feel about inside russia? >> absolutely we should be given that capability. but at least within our policy, crimea is inside u...