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hello, everyone. im bianna golodryga. welcome to cnn "newsroom." im victor blackwell. good to be with you. president biden is taking his state of the union pitch on the road. right now hes speaking in the battleground state of wisconsin focusing on his administrations effort to boost manufacturing in america. this is part of a two-day swing. >> biden is also going to tampa, florida, to reinforce last nights message which is seen as a preview of his expected 2024 re-election campaign. c...

Ability to track these kinds of objects. >> reporter: ryder did say they are hoping to learn more about so that the payload or equipment it was carrying could be left intact and examined by the fbi lab in quantico, but he didnt go into a lot of detail what the u.s. is hoping to learn from it. were told from sources that among the details that the u.s. wants to learn about chinas -- about these balloons is, of course, its technical capabilities, what satellites it was linked to and importantly wh...

Since acknowledged, is that they believe that this balloon was part of a broader chinese surveillance program that has conducted about two dozen missions over at least five continents in recent years, and roughly half of those flights have actually been within u.s. airspace, so pentagon press secretary brigadier general patrick ryder he actually did just address this with reporters earlier confirming that the u.s. has been tracking this surveillance program for quite some time now and does belie...