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Garner anything of additive or especially useful content. >> pentagon officials tell fox news any centrals or electronic intelligence was of "limited intelligence value." the top republican on the senate intelligence committee this morning offered this assessment. >> theres a reason why these things fly. they fly over the country to collect signals, intelligence, part is a test to see whether they can penetrate our air space, and video, still pictures fed back in realtime, thats what this was. >...

Intelligence wasnt able able to gather the u. s does not yet know about now, the pentagon has faced a lot of questions about this, too. they and depending on press secretary or deputy press secretary, i should say, just took some questions on this, and she suggested. that the balloons path was, in fact deliberate. heres what you said. we do know that the balloon was able to be maneuvered and purposely driven along its track, but not going to get into specific sites. it was able to hover over but...

Ukrainian president zelenskyy which is something that the u.s. has been urging him to do. the chinese also introduced a 12 point peace plan for the war in ukraine that u.s. officials are extremely skeptical of. they believe that the chinese have already picked their side in this conflict. kaitlan? >> natasha, im going ask you a question. yesterday the big breaking news is drone interception and the drone going down into the black sea. what are the concerns of russia getting their hands on these ...

Flights have not been stopped, the u.s. is looking at the routes and the deconfliction with russia closely. >> natasha bertrand and jim have been following the developments closely, and what are the officials revealing, natasha? >> well, erica, what we are told is that the u.s. is conducting an assessment with the drone and the russian fighter jets to see how they can deconflict in the future, and looking at the routes and the cost/benefit analysis of these flights, and waking the intelligence v...

The possibility of causing both of those aircraft to crash, and that ultimately this is not obviously the kind of behavior they would expect even from the russian pilots with whom of course the united states currently has a very tense relationship with the russians right now. all of this to say this has been a pretty unprecedented moment over the course of the war in ukraine. the u.s. never before revealing anyway that such an incident where an usual collision has taken place between russian and...

Its also important to note here that we still do not know whether this item or device actually has any kind of intelligence value. it was unmanned, so it didnt pose any kind of risk to any human being inside the object to shoot is down, but also it didnt pose any threats to -- appear to pose any threat to anyone on the ground, and it was traveling at an altitude that could have posed a threat to civilian aircraft. there was not as much of a choice here in what they were going to do as they had w...

Administration officials tell nbc news, u2 spy planes were circling the balloons taking pictures about the chinese capability. >> theres immense intelligence value in watching an asset like this actually behave, its maneuverability, its emission characteristics. >> reporter: but the white house is facing questions on capitol hill. >> members of congress on both sides of the aisle have some serious questions about how long they knew about this, why they didnt shoot it down sooner, what informatio...

Is they really want to know everything the balloon was trying to detect. naturally, we always go to visual imagery, just like david said, things like satellites, though, cover most of the ground very well. but the question really will come down to, you either either census? other types of payload that might be loaded in the balloon, which we would calm and signature intelligence? or, maybe theyre trying to use some sort of sensing technology that were not familiar with. getting that technology a...

Of the surveillance. we dont know whether it was data linked with satellites and other things that we just dont have the capability to jam. so it was very clear it was an isr threat, and in my opinion, we should have taken action before rather than let it loiter over our mainland and sensitive military sites for three or four days. >> a u.s. general says publicly that the delay in shooting down the balloon will be, and im quoting now, well worth its value in intelligence collected against china....

Chinese officials knew about this and when, in terms of if president xi knew this balloon was going to be going over the u.s. while blinken was planning for this trip or if the ministry with foreign affairs knew as they were talking to the state department about the trip. national security adviser jake sullivan said the u.s. is assessing that, and trying to figure out what they knew when. >> kiley, thank you very much. at the state department for us, lets take a closer look at the intelligence v...