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that's the same type of aircraft and missile that shot down the chinese balloon off the coast of south carolina. one of the questions we asked at the pentagon briefing was if there was so much intelligence to gain by letting the previous balloon fly across the united states and being able to observe it, why was this one shot down so quickly especially when the senators were furious it wasn't shot down earlier. was the pentagon wbowing to political pressure. >> the decision to shoot it down before it entered into u.s. airspace, the pentagon bowing to pressure from the hill? >> we're g...

Essentially fall on ice. there was no serious threat of collateral damage because of how small this was according to officials we've spoken with. >> oren, has the military collected any debris from this object yet? and what happens next? >> not yet as far as we know. they have deployed helicopters as well as a c-130 hercules. this is a few miles off the coast so it may be difficult to find and it's also worth remembering that up at these latitudes, there is much less sunlight. there isn't a full day to go searching for this. it was shot down at roughly the crack of dawn but we haven't gotten c...