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0 >> i mean she left behind her three beautiful children that are going to grow up without having a mother. to teach them. >> well but i see her in so many things. i am just constantly reminded of. her we i feel like she is still there, she still here with us. . this sunday up in the air. u.s. fighter jets shoot down a chinese spy balloon flying in u.s. air space >> i told them to shoot it down. >> reporter: the incident forced the secretary of state to postpone a high stakes trip to beijing a...

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The united states. why send a balloon? >> thats an excellent question, thank you for having me. i think this balloon, again, this is just my hypothesis. was most likely not taking pictures. as you correctly mentioned, we have spy satellites, they have spy subtle, as many countries. do they do take very excellent high resolution pictures. that is something that a lot of countries have the capability to do. what i think this one was probably doing was taking measurement and signals intelligence or...

Interrupt communications and to what end in and secondly, we could take advantage of our own capability as theyre flying over. so i think the questions will have to be when did we know that this did not pose a significant or any military or national security threat? when did we cover that and decide for ourselves we could wait until it got to a safer place to take it out? i think those are the kinds of questions we have to ask and then have answered. >> im sure the u.s. military and intelligence...

Pick north korea, pick, you know, any country in asia, any country in europe if they had the capability to shoot it down, they would shoot it down. and we have to keep in mind that there are countries, however, that do not have the capability to shoot these platforms down, the countries in latin america may find it difficult to take down the balloon that is over their airspace right now. so that is something that well have to keep in mind as this develops and the chinese perhaps use this one -- ...

This point of the chinese and what they were thinking, they have spy satellites and they have other ways to surveil the united states why send a balloon? >> that is an excellent question, thank you for having me, i think that this balloon, most likely was, again this is just my hypothesis. was most likely not taking pictures and as you mentioned the spy satellites, they have spy satellites many do and those do take really excellent, high resolution pictures, that is something that a lot of count...

Important installations is of great significance buecause satellites are always moving and even when we use unmanned aircraft, they have to circle. heres something thats pretty much on station, and its a significant accomplishment to that which theyre -- >> the u.s. did know this was coming. what would be the u.s. capability to block it from what it was doing in. >> there is some capability if you think about the. j jamming ability we have. so without getting into details, theres some capacity t...

Chinese spy on us on a 24 and seven basis, every day, every year. theyre monitoring everything. as other nations are doing and as we are doing. so it doesnt make sense for them to have done this. it may turn out, although im skeptical, that it was not an intelligence gathering system, because it seems unnecessary they would do that. but in the meantime, we have to remain skeptical. i think a message has been sent to the chinese of the message came in the form of a sidewinder missile taking the b...

General of the u.s. army europe and 7th army. thank you for joining us. earlier today you said thanks to electronic jamming, you dont think the chinese got much intelligence from u.s. military bases that this balloon was flying over, but you think they did gather valuable information on how the united states responds to a threat like this. elaborate a little bit, if you dont mind. talk to me a little bit about that. >> yeah. certainly, wolf. in these kind of things, what youre talking about is a...

It down without fear of debris or harm to civilians on the ground. and if we dont have the capability to neutralize it, corral it, collect it, look under the hood and exploit it, well, thats a capability we need to develop with a $850 billion defense budget because i suspect this isnt the last time were going to the see a chinese probe. we need to kick pla-affiliated researchers off more than universities, we need to make sure that ccp affiliates cant buy land next to sensitive military bases in...