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to mandatory evacuations. the president was paralyzed for an entire week by a balloon. >> the president made a very clear and decisive decision. >> domestic, political, and international blowback as chinas spy balloon has upended president bidens state of the union address this week. and the u.s. is on alert for possible retaliation from beijing. another close call on the runway as a fedex cargo plane nearly collides with a southwest flight in texas. >> breaking the record for the ...

The first week of public hearings into foreign interference, which will span a total of nine days, heard testimonies from Canadian diaspora groups, election officials and politicians targeted by China

Senior bureaucrats on election security task force failed to disclose threats to Canada

A public inquiry into China’s foreign interference is our best and only shot at answering questions that cannot be left hanging

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For being here. i think the first question is, do you believe that they should have shot down this balloon sooner? >> yes, absolutely. you know, when it was first sighted near alaska on the 28th of january, according to press reports norad, the north american space command, decided it was not threatening. i would like to know how they know. the payload for this balloon was apparently the size of three buses. thats pretty big. were we confident there was not a nuclear weapon in that payload? were...

Personnel in kabul as the taliban is literally taking over. how -- just help us understand how that cannot be viewed as an intelligence threat. do you think its a failure of planning or logistics? what went wrong here? >> i would characterize it as government failure to see this. i dont think this is exclusively an intelligence failure. the big message here, pamela, to me is something, you know, were relearning after my war on southeast asia and that is we cant buy will to fight and the issue he...

Understating here -- problematic. here he goes. >> problematic is an understatement in terms of displays, in terms of giving some i dont know, hope or some boost to what is and should be illegal activity. >> well, here is what the president said in response to that just minutes later. >> and do you regret talking so much about wikileaks given robert mueller called that problematic? >> so wikileaks is a hoax just like everything else. >> its not a hoax. >> its not a hoax. look, wikileaks is a ver...

Intelligence threat. they were happy to take meetings. >> thats right. >> yeah. its a very interesting point. josh, thank you for the expertise. lis, so nice to have you. we do want to jump to the pentagon now with breaking news on the rising tension with iran. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr breaking this with her new reporting. what can you tell us this morning? >> reporter: good morning, poppy. cnn has learned that now president trump has given his thumbs up, his approval, to a pen...

An uptick in suspected russian intelligence officers entering the united states under the guise of other business. officials say they believe russia is trying to replenish their ranks since the u.s. expelled spies last december. some cases russian spies have tried to gain employment at places with sensitive information as part of their intelligence gathering efforts. the fbi, which is responsible for counterintelligence efforts in the u.s. would not comment for this story, and the russian embass...