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Acknowledged what they have called what he called a domain awareness gap that led to the united states not detecting three other balloons, and i asked the former national director of intelligence james clapper about this, and he said that the awareness gap is military jargon for that we all missed it. did you get any other intelligence about how that happened in this briefing? >> well, as i noted earlier the chinese balloon were originally undetected and classified as ufos, but the biden administration made a priority of enhancing the detection capabilities and as a result we were able to disc...

Intelligence officials analyze the downed surveillance balloon. and as andrea mitchell reports, there were apparently several other balloons before it. >> reporter: tonight, the challenge for the navy, fishing debris from the 200-foot-tall balloon out of choppy waters off the south carolina coast using robotic divers night and day. wreckage from the payload described as the size of a regional airliner already being examined by fbi counterintelligence at experts at the site and at the fbi lab in quantico. key congressional staff are being briefed today with more briefings later this week. a bin...

>> reporter: salvage teams have pulled the remnants of the chinese balloon out of atlantic ocean learning its secrets now just a matter of time. parts already at quantico. cnn has reviewed parts of an airport from last april that showed trajectory of one high altitude balloon that flew around the world during the trump administration. according to the report, the balloon was launched and rolled by china as it drifted near hawaii and over southern florida at 65,000 feet. but it is unclear when the u.s. first became aware of the 2019 balloon or its intent. a hearing on the threat china poses to ...

Which explains why trump administration officials say they did not know about these prior incidents. general van herk, who has served as the top general for north com and toread for both president trump and president biden, admitted us forces failed to detect previous incursions from chinese spy craft into the united states . >> it's my responsibility to detect threats to north america. i will tell you that we did not detect those threats. >> and that's a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out. the fbi is analyzing the debris from the chinese spy ship at their labs in quantico, virgin...

Continents southeast asia, east asia and europe. >> we already shared information with dozens of countries around the world. >> pentagon further clarifying they no longer have a domain awareness gap that led to norad missing multiple balloons during the trump administration. >> we have learned a lot how to track them. >> despite the urgency on the hill, president biden waiting an hour before addressing china during his state of the union spending just 90 seconds on the topic. >> if china threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country, and we did. [applause] >> largely republican...