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Some type of a collection platform. we dont know that yet, but they decided they didnt want to take this chance again. as a result, we have what we have at the moment. >> kylie atwood to you. the question of whos responsible. the words that still stick with me are from john kirby and he said i have no idea who owns this. what do you know about the efforts happening right now potentially to find that out? of course the first country that most people think of is china, considering that blalloon th...

One, its a threat because its gathering intelligence. but nobody disagrees it didnt see anything they can see from the satellite. it can last longer and look closer. and the key is, what is the advantage of letting it go? if youre thinking of it as anan intelligence officer, its their collection platform. can we get its telemetry. >> can we still do that? >> we can pick up the pieces. its going to otd, operation technology division. they will put the preisses together and see what they recognize...

But the key is what is the advantage of letting it go. and if youre thinking of it as an intelligence officer youre saying its their collection platform. lets make it our collection platform. can you get it telemetry can be seen what its sending? >> and then its scattered into 1 million pieces. can we still do that? >> you can pick up the pieces, its going to ltd. and the fbi in washington operation technology division. theyre gonna put the pieces together and see what they recognize because of ...

Not to go to beijing, i view this differently. i think he probably should have gone to beijing to keep those lines of communications open. thats exactly what you have to have in circumstances like this. you cannot shut down when the narrative is this is ratcheting up. we cant allow that to happen. look, i would say that when you look at this balloon technology, look, ive launched balloons with different sensors on the bottom of them when ive in different places around the globe. its an effective...

Department and counter intelligence authorities. cnns josh campbell is a former fbi supervisory special agent. first of all, what will investigators be looking for specifically? >> wolf, this is whats called the damage assessment phase, basically trying to determine was there a threat to u.s. national security that was posed by this intelligence collection platform. and the fbi, you know, theres no better agency out there that can look at and re-create a device assuming that it actually survived...

Basically trying to determine what threat to u.s. national security was there from this intelligence collection platform in and to the extent that the intelligence apparatus of this balloon actually survived, the fbi would be trying to look at that to determine what were its capabilities? was this the realtime collection that weve heard about is this was it stored collection? a lot of questions there, obviously. i can tell you, having worked in the fbi, a lot of people, when you think about the ...

Concerns. >> i had a brief conversation with the wing commander. we talked how interesting the timing was with what was going on with the corn mill here and that kind of coming to an end and two days later this balloon being spotted. >> now this balloon added to tense relations between the u.s. and china. >> just, again, speaks volumes to the situation with respect to china. they are our greatest geopolitical threat. they are a threat economically. they are a threat militarily, and we need to ta...

>> we talked how interesting the timing was with what was going on with the corn mill here and that coming to an end. >> and now the balloon, which is only adding to already-tense relations between the u.s. and china. >> just, again, speaks volumes to the situation with respect to china. they are our greatest geopolitical threat. they are a threat economically and militarily, and we need to take it serious. >> we want to get some perspective now from intelligence analyst, john miller. a balloon ...

To put it on the schedule. they arent saying that very clearly right now. thats all while this is still moving over the united states, this balloon headed east. reporters asked the pentagon if they would shoot it down if it was over a body of water or if they would shoot it down if it was headed towards the capitol in washington, d.c. they didnt answer that question. the president at this point has decided not to shoot this down because theyre worried about what could happen on the ground, civil...

These situations or about the american taxpayers which he seems to have no regard for. if it is a satellite image or some sort of technical collection platform, that may cost hundreds of millions, billion dollars that could be lost in an instant with some of the documents that could have been viewed. so it is broad recklessness and not thinking about what is go for the country, what is good for the safety of american sources, agents, that are out there trying to gather this information, what is ...