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Focused on this balloon. >> make no mistake, that balloon was intentionally launched as a calculated show of force. we have to stop being naive about the threat we face from china. >> reporter: the commander of northern command and norad acknowledged that there was an awareness gap that allowed three balloons to overfly parts of the united states during the trump administration. china's initial apology for this latest incident they claim was a weather balloon has turned into indignation. china says the balloon debris doesn't belong to the u.s. and they want it back. >> what i can say is that t...

And that is a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out. >> so pretty remarkable admission there that the u.s. military had awareness gaps that allowed these chinese balloons to transit the united states basically completely un dedetec. and only after the intelligence community was able to do its own review after the fact were the patterns of the balloons able to be detected. so moving forward the military will have to do work to figure out how these balloons can be detected in realtime in the future because not only is it just important in terms of preventing the balloons being able to ...

U.s. airspace. a top u.s. general said today that the threats were not detected in realtime. >> we did not detect those threats. and that's a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out. >> which might explain why former trump officials said they were unaware of the incursions. the administration explained that biden had ordered additional assets to detect chinese spying efforts. >> we were also able to go back and look at the historical patterns, and that led us to come to understand that during the trump administration as you said, there were multiple instances where the surveillance bal...

Interesting points with that point. major, something that stood out to me was what we heard from the norad commander in terms of an answer to why the u.s. government was not able to detect in the biden administration those three balloons that had traveled across the united states at the time. we had the president didn't know this. the defense secretary he iesper didn't know this. and now they say there was an awareness gap. so it raises questions as to what other events we misses a well. >> 60,000 feet is where patriot missile stil missile are supposed to take out icbms. and if we don't see it...