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welcome to "inside politics." im john king in washington. thank you for sharing a remarkable news day with us. we begin with a brazen spy drama. straight to the pentagon, the briefing on a chinese balloon over montana. >> conducting press briefings in our temporary press briefing room while other primary location undergoes technical renovations and upgrades. we greatly appreciate your patience and flexibility as we work to install some long, overdue upgrades to the pentagon press brief...

thing. the pentagon briefing has begun, lets go there. >> the pentagon for a variety of reasons our normal call-in options will not be available, for those that have had to call in, we apologize. we will get it up as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and answer questions from the dod press desk. moving forward well look at ways to improve briefing operations and expect regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. we appreciate your pati...

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...

Moment but first of all, let me tell you where i am. This is the very landing area in order to get to Ketron Island where the 29yearold crashed that plane. Now, to give you an idea of how sparsely populated that is, the last census said theres only 17 residents living there. We now know theres dozens of investigators at that site. They would have left from here in order to get there. It is about a 10 minute ferry ride. The first as well as the data recorder. Ultimately, what evidence they could ...

This has quite a bit of defense component in it. can you give us details and how its going to strengthen buildup relationship with india? >> on the second question, i will take that. i dont have that information on me. the first question, i appreciate it. as i mentioned, we have contacted the prc. im not going to get into their reaction. i would refer you to them for that. we have clearly communicated that this balloon is violating u.s. airspace and international law and that this is unacceptabl...

Would be significant and potentially cause civilian injuries ore deaths or significant property damage. this is part of the calculus in terms of our overall assessment, we will monitor and keep you updated as available. here and here. >> thank you. following up on the balloon question. do you conversation with chinese have they indicated to you what is inside the balloon to prove the point it is a civilian balloon and does that assessment differ from your assessment what is inside the balloon an...

From u.s. assessment of what is inside the balloon and what its trying to do? secondly, this week india and u.s. launched an initiative on critical emerging technologies and this has quite a bit of defense component in it. can you give us more details about it and how its going to strengthen and build your relationship with india? >> sure. on your second question ill have to take that because i dont have that information in front of me. on the first question, i appreciate it. as i mentioned, we ...

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To help answer that question, i want to bring in high profile defense attorney mark geragos. always good to see you. extra treat to have you here in new york with me. >> long pants. >> shorts. you get that if you follow mark on twitter. what do you think giuliani is doing here? is he really trying to give a deadline to mueller? >> yes, he is. i think what hes trying to do is theres a lot of fencing going on. people have to understand, theres a political component but a criminal defense component...