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Off the us east coast, having already travelled over large parts of the country. the biden administration believes beijing is behind a huge aerial spy programme, using a fleet of balloons to gather intelligence from more than forty countries. at a hearing in washington today, senators pressed defense officials for more information on just what the balloon was doing. william cohen is the former us. secretary of defence. earlier i asked him how concerning the current situation is for us—china re...

What happens now? as you point out, this is a very tense situation. if you were giving advice to the administration at this point, what would you say? i would say collect all the information we can about what this device was, was it collecting intelligence, communications etc for that i would continue to try to meet with the chinese. china is not going away, were not going away, were both nuclear armed countries. what we have to do is make sure that someone doesnt make a mistake or miscalculatio...

Hopefully, were able to intercept what they are trying to collect. but thats clearly what their objective was in this particular case. in the interest of fairness, beijing insists the device was a civilian airship. and it was monitoring the weather and it says the us have overreacted with all of this. im sure a lot of our viewers are wondering, this isnt the first time this is happened. why did it take so long to detect this and what kind of information is us able to glean from this? apparently,...

The united states or through the intelligence command structure to say that were only finding out now that the chinese have put balloons up on some of our territory in the past? in this particular case i think that they were right to say, lets wait and see what intelligence we can collect on this particular instrument. whether you call it an airship or a spy craft, what were they trying to collect? i have guesses on this, im not part of the intelligence community. but i suspect they were hoverin...