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what was going on, what the response was going to be. and, look, chinas one of our biggest adversaries, so to see this, you know, when people look up in the sky and i was driving around earlier, people were pulled over on the side of the road, they were pulling out their camera phones. a lot of intrigue about this. you know, this is an interesting, you know, interesting time, but a lot of people have questions about this. and for me, im incredibly concerned about where, you know, where...

hello, everyone. at this hour more objects shot out of the sky, but answers, they are still hard to come by. why lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want to hear more. why people are clinging to hope as the death toll is rising in turkey and syria, and the truly incredible storiesen even and what president trumps lawyer is tell us about a classified folder found in his bedroom. hello, everyone. im kate bolduan, and now it is a story that keeps taking more turns. over the weekend...

never ever been more stark than it is today. thats because of thousands of miles away from our shores, president biden today marking the 80th anniversary of the d-day invasion that pivotal turning point in the fight against the nazis in world war ii. he did so with more than two dozen heads of state and government leaders. president biden making the case that we must honor the legacy of those who laid down their lives in the fight against fascism by today supporting ukraine in its war ...

Know if these members say were nixing that program. what would that look like? we really dont want you working russia that strong her, you should ease back on china. whatever the issue is, dont tell me anymore about saudi arabia assassinating journalists, we dont want to hear it. all of that could be happening. i cant imagine a combative dynamic that would start between the briefers of the agency, and committee members if they just want to wreak half von with the intelligence community, its budg...

Narrative, a whole bunch of folks are going to make it up, and so this administration needs to get ahead of it. >> and he chinese foreign agency has come out to say that the united states has been flying balloons over their airspace for years. >> and it is a diplomatic what about it, you did it, too. so you have to expect that from the chinese, because they are embarrassed by the initial balloon that they admitted is theirs. but nevertheless, those of us in the intelligence game or those of us w...

Balloon launched by and belonging to the peoples republic of china over the water off the coast of south carolina in u.s. air space. the balloon, which was being used by the prc in an attempt to survey strategic sites in the continental united states, was brought down above u.s. territorial waters. this, the statement goes on to say on wednesday president biden gave his authorization to take down the surveillance balloon as soon as the mission could be accomplished without undue risk to american...

Two hours now theyve been in this meeting together. if president trump does not raise the issue of russian hacking, russian meddling in our election, whats the impact? >> well, i think one thing is that putin will be even more emboldened to continue their activities. looking ahead to 2018 elections theyll be more aggressive about it. reports that came out yesterday about increased soviet -- russian collection activity in this country, which i think is probably part of this. and simply -- >> they...

In response to and in order to impose consequences for the russian governments increasing harassment and aggression toward our personnel in moscow and, of course, their malicious cyber activities, interfering and an effort to interfere in our election process, we are imposing consequences. we are expelling the 35 intelligence officers and their families from this country. theyve got 72 hours to leave the country. were also closing those compounds and not allowing access anymore to those compound...

In any event, somebody at a high responsible political level, to determine whether the risk of revelation of that collection activity may outweigh any potential benefit from such collection. i think thats a critical issue. >> would the u.s. be upset, lets say, if they found out that germany was trying to eavesdrop on joe bidens cell phone conversations? >> well, if you look at past practice, you know, over the past years, i dont know about germany but there are other -- >> just giving that as an...

Differently? >> there are certain collection activity that is have been suspended. as a matter of fact, one particular one that was suspended right after that, the ft. hood shooting happened, the christmas day many boer happened, now this happens. weve had no discussion about how we reengage those collection activities so we dont have gaps in our system. you want to catch them over there. you dont want to catch them after something has gone off. luck is not a national security policy. >> lets lo...