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Capability, long-range fire capability that will enable them to conduct operations in defense of their country and take back their sovereign territory and russian occupied areas. when it comes to ukrainians plans on operations, clearly that is their decision, i will not talk about or speculate about future operations, weve been working with them to provide them with capabilities that will enable them to be effective on the battlefield. >> follow-up to that, can you talk specifically about this p...

Point, because the assessment from military officials to the reporting is that the assessm and the advice to biden is not to shoot it down, because of the danger that is posed to the ground, but you are thinking that they should bring it down? >> yeah, i do, kate. >> look, i come at this from the distinct look from the fbi, and that is the counter intelligence agency, and we are looking at what they are trying to steal or look at, and we have a unique step here, and the first step in understandi...

Monitor and review options. >> you mentioned weve seen this activity before, why are we sharing this one and why last night if you were following it a few days, is it a sign we should take ahead of china about lincolns visit? >> in terms of any hypothetical about messaging from prc, id refer you to them on that front. i think what makes this different is the duration and length of which it has been over u.s. territory. beyond that, ill not go into specifics. mike. >> thanks, pat. yesterday senio...

Learned about our capability, and so there is a precedent here, and there is a reason to take action, and be more aggressive than what we are, and di is right, we should be able to take this thing down without causing problems. and now, the block busting jobs report is out this morning, and we want to turn to this story. the u.s. economy is adding half a million jobs, and the unemployment level the low nest decades. the president holding a press conference to out the the gains. >> this is wher...

But beyond that, im not going to be able to go into more specifics. mike? >> thanks, pat. yesterday senior defense official said that the intelligence gathering capability of this balloon would be no better than any chinese satellite in low earth orbit. if thats the case why would beijing go through the trouble and expense to send this balloon on such a journey? >> i would have to refer you back to the prc on that. >> any opinion why? >> were monitoring this, as i mentioned. its violated u.s. ai...

And if the pentagon says this is a spy balloon, its a spy balloon. they know what a spy balloon looks like. you know, weve been monitoring these things for years. we know the chinese capability of using these spy balloon for low powered communications, for instance, for radiation signatures, on and on, is very good, and its getting better. so the spy balloon is both a provocation and an ability to monitor our military bases and if thats what the pentagon says, i believe it. >> yeah. >> general c...

>> ukraine question. the small diameter bomb in the latest ukraine package has the potential to target crimea. is that the intent behind providing it now? >> so thanks for the question, joe. yes, as part of the u.s. ai package, we will be providing ground launch small diameter bombs to ukraine. this gives them a longer range capability, long-range fire capability, that will enable them, again, to conduct operations in defense of their country and to take back theyve their sovereign territory in ...

>> shannon: all right, jonathan, thank you for your coverage. >> certainly. ♪ >> shannon: all right. were taking you back to what appear to be live pictures of that chinese balloon. got word of this last night, at least publicly, it is now believed to be over cape girardeau, missouri. >> this is a live look. i want to bring in jennifer griffin to talk about this. because the explanations from the two sides about what this is and what it can or cant do are very different. jep, do we know if we ...

Intelligence target for the chinese if they wanted to get a sense of what was going on there. were told now from the pentagon that it is actually started to move eastward. they wont say exactly where its going, but they say look, just look up in the sky because you can see pretty clearly if you are in the right place where this thing is going. now i do want to get to chinas claims because they actually, as you said, have acknowledged that this is a chinese balloon, but what they say is that it i...

Minute, what can they do if they see that it is potentially going to a location that the u.s. doesnt want it to be surveilling, and obviously they maintain the right to bring this balloon down, but in addition to that, they are taking some steps on the ground. some things as simple as just moving, moving things out of the sight of this surveillance drone. remember, chris, china has satellites that are already seeing a lot of these things. theres commercial satellites that can see some of these t...