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Saying, and we dont know if theyve determined, if the latest three things got shot, down also belong to china, whether or not they were balloons. two other countries have ballooned surveillance programs. what could these things we are not balloons. do we have balloons her valence programs? and, are the rules for tunisia things down? are we effectively setting the international rules for set shooting these things down by setting and now for object president for shooting them down over or near the...

Clark. good to have you on this morning. first i wonder if i could get your view. nato secretary general stoltenberg said that china and russia have been increasing use of balloons and other intel gathering aircraft in this space here, near space or somewhere between 30,000, 60,000 feet. in your view is that a new and major threat in terms of intelligence gathering? >> well, i think it may fill in some gaps that the chinese and russians dont have covered in their own satellites surveillance prog...

The chinese surveillance programs in some 40 countries with a lot of these balloons and crafts. lets bring in kimberly strasel and our olivia beavers congressional reporter for "politico," kimberly, your take on this and the presidents nonchalantly in that interview saying it is not a big deal. >> you have to wonder what exactly does china have to do before we have a conflict with them. this is a country sending a spy balloon across the country from all indication, thats what we know what happen...

Coast? do you think that was part of the strategy? >> i do. i do. we can surveil surveillance programs, and we do it. we do it all the time in many, many different ways. yes, im absolutely certain we were surveilling it. im absolutely certain that we were listening, observing very carefully how the balloon was communicating back to china, and we probably know as much about -- probably more about this than the chinese do. and theyre not happy. we have in our hands or will shortly have in our hand...

Keep operating here in the u.s. gillian turner has more on that in d.c. whats the latest? >> good morning. what house republicans are accusing tiktok lying about is the surveillance of american. its a hefty charge. could eventually carry legal consequences. new letters sent by two congressional committees tiktok told the panel the following. tiktok does not track users internet data while not using the app and two, china-based employees do not have access to u.s. users locations data. both claim...

Phone. tiktok says this in a company statement: we store the all tiktok u.s. user or data in the united states with backup redundancy in singapore. our data centers are located entirely outside of china, and none of our data is subject to chinese law. number one, is that a lie? is that -- are you calling them a liar? and if so, what can we do about it? >> yeah, those are false statements, shannon. there have been reports indicating that that data is accessible in mainland china. that tiktok, a c...

The Department of Justice recently charged Harlem Suarez with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction as he sought to use a bomb against beachgoers in the Florida Keys. Suarez was inspired by the Islamic State (IS) and considered himself a member of the terrorist organization. Though the FBI intervened before the public was in any danger, Suarez’s plot demonstrates that the IS is extending its reach across the U.S. This is the 73rd Islamist terrorist plot or attack since 9/11 and the 11...

Argument that trumps team made that classified documents are essentially like a, quote, overdue library book. >> its a startling suggestion. its very cavalier when we are talking about the nations most heavily guarded secrets, the most highly classified information, higher than top secret. they are being placed in an environment thats very insecure, a resort, subject to public coming in and out, where it also means that the intelligent community is engaged in a damage assessment to see whether o...

Extremely sensitive nsa surveillance programs. all this is precisely why the u.s. intelligence community is now doing the damage assessment. marshall cohen, cnn, washington. >> marshall, thank you so much. lets discuss this damage assessment for the mar-a-lago documents now with cnn national security analyst juliette kayyem. always great to have you on, especially bright and early. we know its tough. appreciate you, good morning. talk to us about the work being conducted by the odni. how does ...

Documents that were labelled as top secret sci and that is always the concern for the government for these documents which should never leave the premises of the secure place of the united states government ending up at his home in palm beach. >> and as it pertains to the sci documents, top secret, could those things be declassified by a president and taken like he has? >> well that is what hes saying. he says that i de classified them. it is a little more complicated than that. we have to focus...