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In california. its capabilities at that that height would expand much more than you would think from a hot air balloon. rachel: although kirk lip old was saying theres no doubt this was a deliberate path that they wanted to see those bases -- pete: the closer you are to anything, the more detail you get. by the way, we knew about this well before wednesday, and the only reason it went public is because there was a photographer in montana who took photos, and so they were outed on it. this admini...

Aerospace defense. that is a joint command. it is canada and the united states and they coordinate all, it essentially, air defense of the u.s.. they put this package together. they rehearsed it. it worked, not surprising. >> when you think about how it came down and also now how we are learning that it stayed fairly intact, it landed in 49 feet of water six nautical miles off the coast, it seems as if while the retrieval process will take a couple of days, they are able to glean information fro...

The fact that the president gave the orders on wednesday, they wanted to wait until he was in a safe area to take it down. that was when it was over water. four days later, what do you make of? >> quite the entertainment value. the most obvious thing that worked was the u.s. air force had 22, one of them fired. i had a tory hill in the cockpit of an f 20 to a few years back. its probably the preeminent aircraft in the world today even though its an old one. it has the capability of 1500 mile an ...

Chi chinese in particular but russia, north korea and iran from buying farmland in this country. look, thats something that people know about, that farmers know about that are on the ground in montana. and we need to stop that from happening because it puts our national security and our food security at risk. theyre both very much connected. >> yeah, senator tester, i appreciate your time tonight. thank you. >> you bet, thank you, anderson. >> joining us now cnn political commentator adam kinzin...

That seems to imply destroying it. but you are saying it would be more prudent from the intelligence standpoint to have it come down, to have it intact to study and know exactly what it is, what its been transmitting and the capabilities? >> exactly right. you want a controlled descent. if you are lucky you get into the data stream that controls the balloon and make it land on your command, not on the command of the controller in china. and when you do that, you bring it down easily. you can exa...

Farmland. its almost like china has biden by the balloons. if biden pops the chinese balloon it will do to unite the country than any of his stupid policies. everybody wants that thing lit up. give us a moment of unity, joe. we are begging you. look alive. >> mr. president. >> when and how will you [inaudible] [shouting questions] >> are you worried about the balloon? >> jesse: i mean, what are we talking about here? its a balloon, biden, pop it. watch it burn like the hindenburg, call a press c...

Command to be prepared for the prospect of war with china in the year 2025. thats not the consensus assessment from the u.s., but its not far off from the urgency that u.s. officials feel about the prospect for escalation with china in the coming years, and now you have a tangible instance of that with missiles fired in anger or in response to a chinese provocation. its a tense time. >> absolutely. we might see more provocations to come. jim sciutto, thanks for the expertise as always. we apprec...

Committee that was just kind of starting with a new hundred and 18 congress that is looking at the china threat, and then they will tackle this issue quite seriously. >> i believe were gonna convert mission from the department of defense the u.s. fighter jet shot down that chinese surveillance balloon. we also are getting a statement in from the pentagon and i want to read this for folks. . a little bit long so bear with me as i go through it. this afternoon at the direction of president biden, ...

Option off the table then we can continue to seek peace and stability in the taiwan strait. he will, of course, have been watching the developments in europe and the war in ukraine. what do you think he has witnessed from that and how do you think that might change his strategy, vis—a—vis, support and the speed of attack? i think the war in ukraine only solidified what the chinese already knew. when they were doing their training, preparations, military modernisation, they understood that �...

Bianna, as you mentioned most notably taiwan, and i would hope that the secretary wouldnt cancel the trip, because of the balloon, and because there are big issues at stake here that need face-to-face discussion. >> yeah. there is a u.s. air force general who cause d a stir a wek ago to release really an exhortation under his command under the prospect of war in two years in year 2025 and that is not the pentagons assessment, but he is a high ranking general in the indo pacific command, and is t...