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cowardly feckless response to this crisis downs unfold in realtime. how dangerous is this for our national security? we'll have a deep dive into that. let us be clear this balloon wasn't out for a joy ride. chinas was collecting intelligence absolutely testing your president and the u.s.' response. day after day went by and any attempt to assure any of us that they didn't collect intel is not credible to me. is it not possible they had technology maybe we don't know about? we stopped them from collecting intelligence. do you know that for sure? i don't think anyone could answer that ...

next in this. >> china has decided to try to impose's will on the world. >> our economic security is connected to china whether we like it or not. >> imagine a missive flying so fast that you can't pick it up on radar. >> we've seen behavior by the ccp, purchase of agricultural lands, strategic lands around military bases. >> china is the most challenging national security threat that the u.s. has faced in 30 years. >> martha: with that, we bring in general jack keane, fox news strategic analyst. good to have you with us. some strong voices from capitol hill about the threat that we ...

>> bret: the death toll from a massive earthquake that shook turkey and syria today continues to climb. it stand injured. the world health organization estimates the death toll could climb exponentially. countlessbodies are believed to be under the rubble and some survivors have been texting or tweeting out calls for help from underneath the debris. today in southern turkey, a second earthquake or aftershock 7.6 within 12 hours of that first quake. correspondent alex hogan has the story. >> it's turkey's biggest earthquake in nearly 100 years as rescue teams there and in northern syr...

Policy have not been reworked because of this balloon. >> martha: okay. so here's a map that show that ten different balloon incursions that we're aware of over the past six years, this is extraordinary. this isn't one balloon that passed over the country. >> sandra: so how much attention does the president need to sort of head on this is what we're facing from china tonight? >> this should be a sputnik moment. not because of the capabilities were equatable to sputnik in the late 50s. this illustrates that the threat posed by the chinese communist party is not just an over there problem. it's ...

Criticisms. they are premature and they are political. >> if we can't deal with a balloon over the u.s., how are we going to deal with more significant issues like taiwan? >> bret: this has been something to watch. the chinese spy craft. the spy balloon was cited and you can see the flight path there as the u.s. tracked it. it did go over and near some u.s. military facilities in the upper midwest and out west. and then traveled all the way across the country before being shot down off the coast of south carolina. the "wall street journal" says prior chinese balloon incursions across the u.s. ...