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American defense command, of actually finding and targeting and tracking these objects that are penetrating american air space somehow. back to those three small object, i don't think we'll ever really know or find them. will: that might be a separate question of whether or not we find them from whether or not we know what they were. >> exactly. the attribution piece is critical, and that's what's happening now. they've cleaned up all the debris with off the of south carolina coast, that chinese spy balloon pieces are now at quantico, and the fbi laboratory's looking really hard to really pinp...

State actor behind these attacks. >> justifiably, president trump has hinted that he will respond with military action. how likely is it that that is the answer to this attack at this juncture or is it perhaps too premature? >> i would say it's a bit premature. the reason that i say that is we really need to make sure that we get the attribution piece correct and, you know, we've had the experience with iraq, we've had the experience with several other things that have gone on in our past, both in the middle east and other places around the world, where attribution becomes key. the iranians ha...

The images, you can see very pinpoint strikes that have gone into those oil tanks. there is no damage beyond where the missile actually penetrated the tank. and it shows that not only do they have fairly sophisticated explosive missiles, but with the attempted warheads. but they also have very precise intelligence. the fact that they have that precise intelligence indicates that there is some kind of a state actor behind these attacks. >> and just finally president trump has hinted that he will respond with military action. how likely is it that that is the answer to this attack at this junctu...

Last week really shows that there is real consensus out there that it is russia. so i think if you look at what the private sector has shown, and what is coming out of the intelligence community at this point, we have a pretty clear grasp that it is russia. >> he said in those remarks last night at his new year's party that hacking is hard to prove. you're an expert on this who works in the white house on it. is he right? >> as i said, doing the attribution piece of it, in other words, who actually is to blame and where they're coming from can be difficult. we've gotten better at it. but here,...