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Committees, the china committee on which i sit and the armed services committee. we need to understand whether this balloon is giving increased capability than the satellites that china has in space. what those capabilities are. what are they learning about sensitive american technology? did they find out any information in montana or other places about our icbms? what are we going to do to make sure its clear to the chinese that this is unacceptable, they cant be inviting american sovereignty t...

The american people are questioning why arent we? dont we have a capability to do that? and look, the real reality here and we need to get this explanation. the balloon left mainland china on january 21st. for seven days it was en route to the united states off the coast of the aleutian islands. norad, responsible for tracking nuclear ballistic missiles and nuclear bombers, certainly had the capability to track this every single minute leading to the united states for seven days. what were we th...

Last few days is they were able to collect intelligence about the way the balloon was transmitting information, for example, and other ways about how it maneuvered. ultimately were told that the administration doesnt believe it was able to gather that much intelligence at all because the specifications were not all that sophisticated, no more sophisticated than the satellites the chinese have hovering in orbit as we speak. the issue with the satellites is they do not stay in one place for as lon...

Does it have some kind of steering mechanism? >> we can speculate at this point. well know a lot more about that as the pieces of this thing get put together. dont forget, nasa, for example, was able to exhaustively reconstruct challenger which blew up at a much higher altitude and was scattered over thousands and thousands of miles. well learn, i think, some answers to those questions. my guess would be this had limited capability to maneuver because its just a hard problem set to have an enorm...

2027. my intelligence tells me it is soon, during president bidens presidency. it is part of the plan, lets not be fooled by china. nobody is a fool in america. >> ashley: right, like china was taunting us, almost wanting us to shoot this down so they could say we are going to retaliate. talk about russia and north korea, as well, do you think this will bolster their relationship and make it worse for the whole world? >> rebekah: absolutely, what is happening right now, every possible dictatorsh...

If our adversaries think this is important, we need to thwart it and we need to respond. with respect to this balloon obviously, you know, the administration has indicated theyll try to collect whatever is left of having this strewn across the ocean to see what we can learn there. were going to find what signals intelligence that the administration might have been able to capture from that to understand what this was doing, but they need to make clear to all our adversaries you are not going to ...

Arriving at quantico according to a law enforcement source. the debris could help provide key answers about the balloons capability. the faa is restricting air space off the south carolina coast, that is where cnns dianne gallagher is tracking the recovery efforts in the waters off the carolina coast. tell us what youre seeing? >> reporter: yeah, john. i can tell you that we are much further closer to the coastline than we were earlier this morning, and thats because essentially we went out on t...

Of the surveillance. we dont know whether it was data linked with satellites and other things that we just dont have the capability to jam. so it was very clear it was an isr threat, and in my opinion, we should have taken action before rather than let it loiter over our mainland and sensitive military sites for three or four days. >> a u.s. general says publicly that the delay in shooting down the balloon will be, and im quoting now, well worth its value in intelligence collected against china....

Intelligence sources what the host government was thinking about our administrations policy, and in this case im sure well get reflection froms xi jinping and others to the extent it was not just a public relations victory but more of a message. china mounts incursions of other nations air space, look what they do to taiwan, and they are trying to normalize this, and its a probe of our air defenses and they succeeded. >> gillian: this interested me, some experts have told fox that worrying about...

Alaska including missiles because of the threat of russia and the potential of a missile coming from north korea. we have plenty of capability to deal with this threat in alaska very early on. there is a lot of unanswered questions here and also the mentioning of this has occurred before. thats a wake-up call in itself. supposedly four times. once a few months ago off the coast of hawaii and also three times supposedly during the trump administration but none of the government officials recall e...