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welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing a remarkable news day with us. we begin with a brazen spy drama. straight to the pentagon, the briefing on a chinese balloon over montana. >> conducting press briefings in our temporary press briefing room while other primary location undergoes technical renovations and upgrades. we greatly appreciate your patience and flexibility as we work to install some long, overdue upgrades to the pentagon press briefing room. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a va...

thing. the pentagon briefing has begun, let's go there. >> the pentagon for a variety of reasons our normal call-in options will not be available, for those that have had to call in, we apologize. we will get it up as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and answer questions from the dod press desk. moving forward we'll look at ways to improve briefing operations and expect regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. we appreciate your patience and extend our thanks to department of air force for using airmen's hall for temporary briefi...

Can you talk specifically about this particular group of capabilities? how are they tailored to what's happening in ukraine now? for instance, there's equipment that connects the various air defense systems. can you speak to why this specific package now? >> sure. it's important to look at this from an evolution standpoint in terms of adapting to the conditions on the ground, and so we've been focused on several key areas in the last few months to support ukraine, specifically air defense capabilities, armor capabilities, long-range fires capabilities, and then combined with training in order ...

Began tracking this balloon and been tracking it several days now, i'm told they began to mitigate ability of that craft to be able to gather information, surveill the sites in montana where the nuclear silos are and so they feel pretty confident that this spycraft is not necessarily able to continue gathering information and so they won't say how they know that or how they are managing to control that. i think what was interesting, i asked who is controlling this balloon at this point and there was no clear answer. it is quite clear the fact they said maneuverable, there is still some chinese...

Capability, long-range fire capability that will enable them to conduct operations in defense of their country and take back their sovereign territory and russian occupied areas. when it comes to ukrainians plans on operations, clearly that is their decision, i will not talk about or speculate about future operations, we've been working with them to provide them with capabilities that will enable them to be effective on the battlefield. >> follow-up to that, can you talk specifically about this particular group of capabilities, how are they tailored to what is happening in ukraine now? for ins...