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Before this balloon was shot down the military and faa worked together to close the airspace over the coast. what do you make they were able to coordinate so much of this? >> yeah, well, wolf, this was absolutely critical in term of the coordination. as josh said in the last segment when the analysis was done as to the best time to shoot this balloon down, the fbi, the intelligence community, the department of defense would have looked at a number of key factors. those factors have everything to do with the threat to civilians on the ground, but they also would have taken a hard look at the de...

Washington, thanks very much. all eyes on surf side beach, south carolina with the suspected spy balloon push it is small coastal town into the national spotlight. charles watson live in the ground on myrtle beach. hello, charles. charles: hey, good afternoon, mike. myrtle beach, south carolina is a tourist town and when folks come they are expecting to have fun and expecting to have fun in many restaurants here. no one was expecting to have front row seats to a national defense operation playing out just a few miles off the carolina coast but that is what folks, this area beared witness to on...

A balloon provides better granularity and it's images. it is possible the attempt was and that temp to gather data on u.s. -- which would be valuable in a future conflict. such data information would be limited in potential -- let's talk about the political fallout from all this. republicans essentially ignoring this intelligence. that three of these balloons were over u.s. territory over the trump administration. 20 to 30 over the past decade, really. instead, pointing the finger directly at president biden because he did not act quickly enough. what do you make of that? >> it is a political ...

To people and property on the ground. >> jim, now that we have -- the united states has shot the balloon down, they're collecting it. what do you think they can get in terms of usable intelligence? >> i'm told by a senior u.s. military official this this balloon had surveillance capabilities, but limited, that the u.s. believes it was able to jam, in effect, while it was over u.s. soil. it's not clear this is the be all and end all of chinese surveillance equipment. it did have surveillance capability. any time you have an opportunity to collect that, you do. i'm thinking back 20-some-odd year...

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