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shoot down that chinese flight as soon as possible. the pentagon waited until safely over the atlantic. now there are more questions about why the white house did not brief the public about the situation with the present did not act sooner senator marco rubio believes try to use the aircraft to send a larger message. >> is not a coincidence this happens leading up to state of the union address. leading up to blinkens visit to china. chinese do this to be spotted they knew we would have...

Floating over u.s. airspace. enforcement tells us that china does not have a lot of respect for secretary blinken. also we know china does not have respect for america as they sensed this balloon over. hes wary rivals. we are in an escalating tent company have a factory in china enough to think about moving there. this is how quickly it can shift. because its already been called as a >> moment. or gu think here on out americans are now viewing china as a threat they are seeing it clear right? >>...

Why do you think it is and that they waited so long? boxer was a question about the so-called collateral damage. this has been overstated. think there was a real uncertainty. they had wanted to shoot it down they wouldve done so over alaska. i think that many other opportunities. i will say that white house had a number of other opportunities to shoot this balloon down before made all the way to south carolina and the atlantic coast. theres no question to my mind theres a lot of indecision at th...

Are learning from this? what is their take away? >> that we are slow and joe biden is weak. think they have known that for a long time. look, ive got to tell you this sort of thing has been going on for a very long time. there is a reason why the trump administration put in place was called the space force. i know a lot of people in the hollywood mocked at this sort of laughed at it. those of us whove actually seen some things i have seen very little but i have seen something to general public c...

Decade. do you believe this is simply spying or was the spy balloon part of the larger mission to test the united states? >> who knows why china did this. but i can tell you for a fact that china learned a lot from this balloon transiting over the united states for several days. not only did they haul in the tactical intelligence everyone has been talking about, they learned although the u.s. military was very well prepared they monitored the balloon. they had options ready to go. china learned ...

Here were understandably stunned by what they were seeing. but you never expected to come to your backyard. and so when it does, you kind of follow it and watch whats going on. it has been something that is drawn the attention of all of the people in the community. everywhere you go people are talking about it. tracksuit mentioned it, arthel for this is the first time the u.s. is shot down a foreign aircraft on our soil is world war ii. officials said they wanted to make sure the suspected spy b...