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national security interests and threats as best we can. >> thanks, admiral. >> real quick, is there a timeline for recovery of this object? >> youd have to talk to the pentagon, i dont know. guys, again, this just happened in the last hour and a half and theyre still assessing where this thing landed and the degree to which they can get to it. >> on the poland visit, i know in the statement that you put out, it says that the president is going to meet with leaders of the eastern flank ...

High-altitude surveillance balloon taken down off the coast of south carolina on february 4. separately, u.s. northern command continues their recovery operations in support of the recent takedown of the chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon. recovery teams have mapped the debris field and are in the process of searching for and identifying debris on the ocean floor. debris thats been recovered so far is being loaded onto vessels, taken ashore, cataloged and moved onwards to labs for subseq...

The surveillance balloon. recovery teams have mapped the debris field and are in the process of searching for and identifying debris on the ocean floor. debris thats been recovered so far is being loaded on to vessels, taken ashore, cataloged and then moved on wards to labs for subsequent analysis. and why i wont go into specifics due to classification reasons, i can say that we have located a significant amount of debris so far that will improve helpful to our further understanding of this ball...

0 a little further detail on that, the decision was made this morning he just revealed, asked when did the president give the order to shoot it down? this morning. >> john: talk about burying the lede, talks about all of this other stuff, and then a reporter says, oh, by the way, did you shoot something down? oh, yes. here are the details. my gosh. >> martha: grade to be with you come have a great weekend. im sandra smith. >> martha: elsey and monday, thank you for joining us, "the story" with m...

0 president lula has to make. >> reporter: i wanted to follow up on a question i asked in september. in light of the chinese spy balloon incident does this administration consider chinese land purchases near u.s. military bases a national security threat? >> we are always concerned about potential foreign collection near or around our military sites, and youre right, last week is a good example of that. we take that seriously, whether thats terrestrial related or whether its from the air. and i ...

Indeed processed and handled in this way, but as we and others reported, there were several officials listening to the call who immediately were concerned. not necessarily for classification reasons or national security issues. concerned about what the president said on the call. so inside the white house there was a worry that this was a problem. so the fact that this transcript was handled this way does raise concerns, as you said, that this was done for political reasons, besides any kind of ...

Where we were asking bill clinton what is is. he asked jim comey what is a leak and jim comey said i didnt leak information, i gave information out that i wrote as a director of the f.b.i. to a person to give it to the media. every other person in america will call that a leak but jim comey says its not a leak. i gave it to a friend, a person who we now understand had a special government access pass to get into the f.b.i. a person who now we understand got information which was classified that ...

>> well this classification reasons. there are concerns, legitimate concerns by the president and intelligence agencies that intelligence information has to be carefully controlled, transport has to be controlled. who it is shown to on the hill has to be controlled. i think those can be addressed. the major reason deals with the separation of powers. the president controls intelligence and he decides what intelligence will be shared with congress. congress says its a coequal branch of government...

Possible violence, even a call last friday from secretary john kerry, diane feinstein insists that the report will be released at this point. any idea when it could happen? >> last we heard most likely on tuesday tomorrow. she is supported byron wyden and senator udall and others the majority democrats who feel this is long overdue. its been five and a half years in writing, and that it was clearly warned to the intelligence agencies. it was vetted by dennis mcdonough and the white house chief o...