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Leaving this in the sky in his view, president biden is weak. >> never should have been allowed to complete its mission. they need to make clear to our adver sair are yous, youre not going to come to the united states and take a tour of our military sites and have a free shot >> we dont know that part. we dont know that part. again, maybe the chairman knows more than we do. he has not received a sensitive briefing, maybe working the phones, maybe knows more. well give him due diligence on that. ...

Criticisms. they are premature and they are political. >> if we cant deal with a balloon over the u.s., how are we going to deal with more significant issues like taiwan? >> bret: this has been something to watch. the chinese spy craft. the spy balloon was cited and you can see the flight path there as the u.s. tracked it. it did go over and near some u.s. military facilities in the upper midwest and out west. and then traveled all the way across the country before being shot down off the coast ...

Service ceiling at about 60,000 feet was about as high as the balloon had gone in any case. they could have used a 20 millimeter cannon, but the planes would need to get fairly close to the balloon. instead, they used a muscle, which actually did not have to explode. it had a proximity fuse, which could have exploded right outside the balloon. but in any case, even if it did not explode, it whipped right through the balloon. they practice this several times elsewhere. dont forget they were think...

U.s. recovered any parts of the chinese spy balloon? did the monitoring of the balloon during its journey as far as you know yield any worthwhile information for the u.s.? >> well, we wont know that until we get to a secure setting this week in washington, and probably most of that is something we wont be able to disclose in any great detail other than to say this, that is theyre going to try to recover this. apparently its in shallow waters. well see what they recover from it. i dont think the ...

At some point if it continues on this path it will no longer be above our airspace and in the control and domain of the united states. is there a point in time where they are going to have to make a decision to destroy it or wait for it to land controlled? >> if they want to look at it from a legalistic standpoint, its better if you bring it down if your territorial waters. thats what you want to do. you want to bring it down in a way that you can control every single last aspect of it. certainl...

And they want to see what value they derive from it. and again, theyre probably inexpensive relative to other aircraft. or other satellites. they may find that its necessary for them. they want to feel them in the dozens or maybe in the hundreds. >> what should we be doing? sort of the pros and cons of shooting it down. is there a way to limit the intelligence it collects while its up there? >> first of all, theres some basic things like you can put airplanes in hangers and cover sensitive facil...

Obvious. but there are other things to surveilled mapping operation gathered especially from a cia perspective. learn about infrastructure and even roadways, bridges, targets of opportunity. waterways. address that issue this balloon had a long flight path over much of the united states. hugs those are all the key questions you are asking. what i am hoping is a biden administration is going to be asking our intelligence community for a damage assessment. this was a massive chinese intelligence o...

And balloon that would use spy technology. at biden administration admits thats what this is, a spy balloon, but i dont believe the biden administration when they put out this defense that they didnt intercept the balloon, they didnt shoot it down when they could over the elution islands over the open water when it initially violated alaskan air space. they say that their intelligence collection capability is not any better than a low orbit satellite. thats just not credible. 12 kilometers versu...

Flight path that may have come i know you dont know what technology would been on board that belinda talked about the airbase in montana. what could possibly have discovered over your state? >> well, and montana bevan air force base a third of our strategic missile defense, silos scattered across the landscape. that is not something we want our foes taking pictures of. it is incomprehensible to me they could track this and try and keep it quiet when in fact national interest would be to expose t...

This is bbc news. the headlines: the us department of defence says its tracking whats believed to be a chinese surveillance balloon, flying over the country. these are believed to be the first images, but theyve not been independently verified. a pentagon official said the balloon entered us airspace two days ago, with its flight path, carrying it over a number of sensitive sites. a former russian army officer has told the bbc that he witnessed russian soldiers committing crimes in ukraine, incl...