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Failures on the battlefield so far, and so a lot more questions than there are answers right now about why this blogger was killed and who might have been behind it. >> josh lederman, thank you so very much. next, new reporting, exclusive from our team about the chinese spy balloon and despite all efforts to block it from collecting intelligence, what it did manage to get after all. youre watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. for less than all this. i made a horrible mistake. ♪ go t...

Intercepting a drone? >> well, for intercepting a drone, the race track pattern picture that was showed, that drone was probably flying, clecl collecting intelligence either on russian ships or merchant ships coming out of odesa with grain as part of the embargo at this period of time. certainly the russians dont like that. they dont like people to know where their ships are. they dont like people to know whats going oin their area of operation. so this is not a killer drone. this is a drone tha...

Collection effort. >> lower altitude, lower flying surveillance craft of some sort -- >> exactly, exactly. so you know, if we take the designs of the 1960s and advance them, you know, what, six decades, you can see that there are some possible similarities there that they may want to use some kind of a -- an imagery collection system that goes in and takes pictures of things at a lower altitude than a satellite would. so its in many ways, this might be an ingenious way of collecting intelligence...

All has happened in the last 90 minutes or so. well see. >> general mccaffrey, can i ask you this, the white house is being careful not to call it a balloon. we know its the size of a small car, seen at 40,000 feet altitude. what could be it be? what are the possibilities that are out there based on your expertise here? >> i assume its a balloon. i assume it came out of either russia or china. the fact that it was smaller means it potentially could be just a metro device, not an intelligence dev...

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 ...

Talked quite frequently about needing to navigate to a place of competition. not a place of conflict. obviously, he has had open lines of communication. he spoke with president xi a number of times since he took office. so, of course. there was language in the speech about a relationship which ina. now, theres been a lot of, i would argue, breathless reporting over the last 24 to 48 hours about what the situation with the balloon has done to a speech. i would say, i would down over crank on chan...

Should respond. general keane has been very right on that this is a test by the chinese i think on us. they so we did not respond with great speed or with great force. theyre going to put that into their thought process. this is not a simple decision by some random general in china. this was something a senior level within the chinese hierarchy. within their government less just tested out and see was going to happen. people think this is an errant balloon and it was a random descending of a spy...

And now 100,000 troops on the ukraine border. no serious sign of december escalation. but there are talks in geneva last week between the u.s. and russian counterparts involving nato. all of those entities will be participating in discussions. so it is possible that vladimir putin wants to explore a diplomatic off-ramp that president biden may be offering to de-escalate tensions, to provide some assurances to russia that nato is not seeking to encroach on russian sovereignty. but we simply dont ...

That turkey and russia now have work over a period of years and in key parts of syria will make networks that have been built up in syria by our special forces our ability to operate freely much more difficult. and by the syrians that were on both collecting intelligence working with on ground. and operating militarily were they provide the information, in a tougher position today than the intelligence, the access. much of that has now been lost. we were three weeks ago. >> jeremy, you were a st...