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Of the wreckage. my hunch is these are not chinese surveillance balloons. the axis came from the north as compared from the west with the initial balloon. i guess are these are probably weather balloons or scientific balloons or something like. but boy, if these are chinese balloons it says a lot what is going on in china and what were up against if indeed that is the case. >> how would you rule that out? >> again, we have to do the forensics. im glad to see that the administration is taking a m...

Mr. secretary, thank you for joining us. given what we know to date about these objects at least two of them had payloads and obviously, the lower altitude at which they were flying, do you think it was the right call to shoot them down? >> i think it was. i think whenever you have unidentified aircraft entering your airspace, you have to put your sovereignty, your security first. and you also had the safety of civilian air flight that the white house has talked about. for those reasons, i think...

Do you expect more antics like this in this trial? >> well, i probably would take issue with antickings because i think any criminal defense lawyer who has -- who is seasoned will tell you that you have to move from mistrial in certain instances otherwise you dont preserve for appellate review thats something they had have to do and i want amplify what mark said it is kind of a strange presentation by the prosecution. you know, motive is not an element of the crime. and i think one of the reason...

Do you expect more antics like this in this trial? >> well, i probably would take issue with antickings because i think any criminal defense lawyer who has -- who is seasoned will tell you that you have to move from mistrial in certain instances otherwise you dont preserve for appellate review thats something they had have to do and i want amplify what mark said it is kind of a strange presentation by the prosecution. you know, motive is not an element of the crime. and i think one of the reason...

With more on that. >> good evening, u.s. officials tells jennifer griffin that forensics rather on the 200-foot tall china spy airship that traversed the u.s. for over a week allowed u.s. officials to adjust radar parameters to look for flying objects at higher altitudes. norad essentially turned up the frequency and as a result has started seeing blips on the radar over north america. for example given is equivalent to the movie hunt for red october. once the u.s. knew the frequency to look for...

Friday. interfered with their sensors. not all of the pilots reported that, but some did. some pilots also claim to have seen no identifiable propulsion on the object, and could not explain how it was even staying in the air. what do you make of those reports? >> well, you know, at this point, they are just reports. well have to wait until we get the final information. but because this thing was shot down, we have an ability to do the forensics and the exploitation of it when its found. and that...

The balloon, watching it, reading signals off it or something? >> well, yes, and if you can observe it up close and personal, you can learn a lot about, for example, if it had antennas on it, you can do forensics on the antennas and figure out, you know, the nature of whether that might have been a transmitter or a receiver, which is very useful to know if youre going to continue to glean intelligence on just what one of these things is doing. so there are -- and the other part of this is there ...

Its not like we can fly over china and observe one of their balloons. so this was an opportunity to gain intelligence. so i think that may have been a valid argument. all to say i think it would be a good thing if we had a protocol that could be explained both to the public and especially the congress about the ground rules. >> director clapper, one can gather -- like in the balloon incident, you can gather intelligence just by following the balloon, watching it, reading signals off it or someth...

What could this thing be? >> a lot of unknowns as was just reported. the government has indicated that they have called it an object, that it doesnt resemble the balloon that the chinese launched and trans itted the united states and they called it and said it is not a balloon so it falls into the ufo category for lack of a better term, it is aun unidentified flying object of some sort and it is really speculation what it could be, and katie went over the possibilities, it could be a drone, it c...

Relationship. he couldnt have possibly done that. the judge says you opened the door to talking about that, so now evidence can come in on the prosecutors side that could tend to refute it. >> what kind of potential holes do you see in the defense? >> right now the timeline. timeline is likely the defenses biggest hurdle. we know we have six witnesses who are close to the family who have said the voice on paul murdaughs recording of that dog in the kennel right before these murders were allegedl...