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>> further detail as what exactly a domain awareness gap. maybe it came to a fubar gap. thats just a guess. john miller joins us now with more of what the fbi analysts could learn. can you walk us through what the fbi is doing right now at quantico? >> so when they bring these pieces and parts from 47 feet beneath the ocean surface, it goes to the marine base at quantico, where the fbi has its academy and its lab. but off in the corner, away from all the other buildings is a very short complex c...

And then we have good coverage. we can detect aircraft and other vehicles in that regime 40,000 feet and below. with respect to spacecraft, we do a great job of tracking them, and there not a color, but there is an area where we dont apparently have a good technical capability of tracking objects in that zone of altitude if you will, and so that is what is afoot here. i am sure that we can bring to bear the resources to overtime correct this deficiency, this domain awareness gap to use the phr p...

From canada, i told the defense department i wanted to shoot it down as soon as it was appropriate. they concluded, they concluded we should not shoot it down over land, it was not a serious threat and we should wait until it got across the water. >> laura: what seems obvious is that the biden people had wanted to keep the entire thing secret and hoped that the balloon fiasco would literally blow over. they wanted nothing to interfere with secretary blinkens plan to beg president xi for more eng...

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Its territory. >> we actually just got a piece of video in from new years eve was a video hovering over taijuan we didnt know about it at the time. the government didnt release it. the tie jaawanese experts are grateful because they had a lot of questions about where these balloons were coming from and suspected china but dont have the intelligence capability that the united states have and certainly a lot of countries might feel emboldened to shoot them down given they have three coach buses wo...

The u2s tailed the balloon, photographing it up close. until it was shot down off the south carolina coast. the massive recovery effort now under way. unmanned underwater vehicles seeking out wreckage from the balloons huge technology bay, the size of three buses. those vehicles also searching for possible explosives. a senior u.s. official tells me the balloon had a self-destruct capability. as the u.s. collects debris, and with it information, china today declaring the air ship does not belong...

Until afterwards, and so this was not in real time. the u.s. utilized the opportunity to close intel gaps. what does it say about our lack of overall capacity and security capability to spot these things? i am told they are now looking back to see if the aerial events reported by pilots across the country in recent years have been balloons. >> yeah, well, i mean, if you consider it, andrea, its a vast airspace that norad is responsible for, and if some of the previous incidents were not as braze...

The pentagon. >> i think theres two problems here. one, if this happened and is civilians were not aware of it or it happened and we were not told. we need a real sophisticated strategy for countering this. >> martha: they wendt over our icbm fields. they have more icbms than we do. is that a problem? >> its a huge problem. theres a video that has since been deleted where they were using a balloon identical to this. this could be weaponized in the future. >> martha: general keane mentioned that....

Might have the capability of launching its own drones, sort of miniature drones to do extra surveillance. do you know anything about that? or is there any report to confirm any of that? >> no. and ive not been briefed on that but i can tell you and we are supposed to be briefed this week as to what we know. >> okay. >> what we can believe is this administration says we dont really know. and if we dont really know how they keep telling the american public this is not a threat, that there was no n...

7.8 magnitude shaking, that is extremely violent shaking will take down good buildings, you her scott saying theyre trying to take them down and build earthquake proof, we talk about that a lot with the idea of weather primarily hurricanes, making something hurricane, proof, you can do that to a point after awhile its a category 3, 4, 5, hurricane, you cant do much to prepare for that, a 7.8 earthquake if you were truly near the epicenter where the fault is striking at its worst, theyre not much...