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The coast of myrtle beach, South Carolina. Tonight, military crews are jam bling to recover the wreckage, and china is responding angrily. Meanwhile, President Biden says he and u. S. Military leaders decided to wait until the balloon completed its crosscountry journey and was safely overwater before shooting it down. Listen to this. On wednesday when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. Cnn has Team Coverage of this extraordinar...

it was a good week. and thanks to you at home for joining us. as you are probably aware there is a balloon in the sky. it is a big balloon, about the size of two school buses according to the pentagon. it traveled from china, to the solution islands of alaska late last week, through the northwest canada, until finally being spotted somewhere over montana on wednesday. chinese officials said that the balloon was a civilian air ship used mainly for weather research and that it had just b...

it is a big balloon, about the size of two school buses according to the pentagon. it traveled from china, to the solution islands of alaska late last week, through the northwest canada, until finally being spotted somewhere over montana on wednesday. chinese officials said that the balloon was a civilian air ship used mainly for weather research and that it had just been instantly innocently been blown off course. the pentagon says that they are confident that it is a surveillance bal...

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good day. im andrea mitchell in washington. we go directly to the pentagon and the briefing on the china spy balloon. >> because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call-in options will not be available. for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio up as quickly as possible. we will aim to answer your questions through ou...

S assessed as having limited value from an intelligence collection perspective, colonel. so what are your guesses as to what its actual purpose was? why did china launch this huge balloon across the continental united states? >> so theres several possibilities. i used to work collection management operations, and what that means is you pick what the type of collection asset that you need in order to go after a particular intelligence target. so what may have happened is that the chinese may have...

Largest balloon. im not telling you anything i know about the balloon. theres a whole bunch of reasons why you might want to have a collection asset a little closer than something that is orbiting in outer space or that can fly at very high altitude, manned aircraft. so, i sort of get it. but boy, what an embarrassment. we go to great lengths to protect the sources and methods we use to collect intelligence. and boy, what a failure on the part of the chinese there. >> congressman jim himes, i wi...

Balloons is hovering over missouri. >> one last question for you. we have pretty groundbreaking unsophisticated technology. people look at drones, undetectable in airspace. why a balloon? i mean, they move slowly. they are the size of buses. people can see them. they are creating a bilateral crisis. what about this technology makes it so enviable that we are trying to compete with russia and china on it? >> well, again, i dont want to go too far down a path that would expose the way we think abo...

Want to place collection asset closer rather than something thousands of miles above the ground -- again, without the training and everything -- we are interested in radio waves, right? some radio waves are strong. summer week. in some cases, it might be better to be closer to a source of radio emissions. thats just one -- and i dont even know -- largest balloon. im not telling you anything i know about the balloon. theres a whole bunch of reasons why you might want to have a collection asset a ...

About people. the defense officials ive spoken with about this have reinforced its not a threat to commercial aviation at its altitude and doesnt pose a threat to people on the ground when its flying around. again, if that situation changes while theyre watching it, i think thats when we might see some sort of change in action here. >> general, whats your read on this? >> well, its a strange, uncoordinated action by the chinese. they have been getting increasingly aggressive, harassing our own i...