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>> in the absence of information, people will fill that gap. >> but a new cabinet level task force, underscoring a rapid evolution in the u.s. approach. >> we are actually looking for these with extra vigilance. were starting to see them in different ways, and president biden has now made the decision that we are going to not allow those over u.s. territory. >> with u.s. fighters on three separate locations using a single missile to take down objects over alaskan airspace, over canadas yukon on ...

I do not. >> reporter: or any other state actor. but acknowledging there has been a shift in radar parameters, even as the white house dismissed the idea of political pressure has contributed to the rapid escalation in the use of u.s. force. >> this isnt reactive to the chinese spy balloon that there was political pressure and were going to act quickly to take down any objects over our air space because of the pressure that came from -- >> these were decisions based purely and simply on what was...

Whether this is a situation where we are finding more of these things right now because more searches that are taking place, or is this something that has been happening for and has gone undetected? that could very well be true. as has been reported, senior officials in the previous administration, including myself, have said on the record that we were unaware of any such air incursions. now that it is occurring almost on a daily basis, or at least being reported on a daily basis, i cannot imagi...

Gap on what the pentagon is calling domain awareness, were identifying what is commercial, what is potentially foreign state actor. >> that is the purpose of the office that i set up. the whole point is we werent focusing on it and we saw at love objects around military bases without knowing is it drone technology, is it an adversary, who is sending this, what can they do with it. and when service numbers came forward the last decade with these sightings, they were not treated well. they were of...

Now that it is occurring almost on a daily basis or at least being reported on a daily basis, i cannot imagine i cannot imagine that all of a sudden, a state actor have decided from one day to the next to launch these aircraft on north america. what we now know is that china has in fact had a very robust aerial surveillance programme based on balloons that, as have been reported publicly, have spied on over a0 different countries. i think again the timing of these latest balloons or even just if...

Task force underscoring the approach. >> were starting to see them in different ways. president biden has now made the decision that we are going to not allow those over u.s. territory. >> reporter: with u.s. fighters on three separate occasions using a single missile to take down objects over alaskan airspace, over canadas yukon on saturday and lake huron on sunday, all in the wake of a shootdown of a chinese spy balloon earlier this month. officials making it clear that they are dmon straybly ...

Civilian aircraft obviously in the vicinity before they take a shot. mike: the house intelligence chairman republican mike turner of ohio offering this take today. >> i would prefer them to be trigger happy than than permise and the administration needs to declare that they will defend air space. mike: is he right in terms of being defensive in air space? >> we have to become more aggressive. we have learned this lesson time and time again that we cannot take for granted, mike, in the united sta...

Support congress investigating the presidents son. do you think that american are paying attention to the details of this hearings? >> most certainly. and im going to have to respectfully disagree with the gentle woman from michigan with her opinion how we conducted last weeks oversight. i went after and exposed roth as well as twitters joint state actor and coordination with a division of homeland security as well as left leaning organizations also potentially being connected to the dnc. you kn...

Chinese spy balloon and this object, also a significant number of questions, is where it was flying. it was flying at 40,000 feet. the spy balloon was 60, 65, 70,000 feet. the 40,000 foot mark according to john kirby posed a threat to air traffic in the area. once that was determined, and as you noted they determined it was an unmanned flight, the pentagon recommended and president biden gave the order this morning to down the object. it was downed about an hour, maybe 90 minutes ago. they do no...

On them, an email about, quote, keep producing material for them. ultimately twitter ended up caving. by the end of the year, they said publicly we will only remove content at our sole discretion. privately we will remove content identified by the united states intelligence committee as a foreign state actor. if the intel community says take it down, well take it down. >> tucker: and a lot of people censored were not foreign state actors. in one case you documented this was a journalist. a lot o...