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General vanherck said there were efforts and steps take ton minimize the ability of the chinese surveillance balloon to detect and gather intelligence and surveil key sites. the pentagon said it passed other a number of sensitive sites but now saying there were steps taken to make sure it wasn't able to gather intel on sensitive sites as it made its way across the united states. in addition, the pentagon able to observe the balloon itself, how it worked, what it was doing, and learned more about the chinese intelligence gathering efforts. meanwhile, china saying it reserves the right to do esp...

We don't really know what the americans, if anything, were able to jam or block as it flew along. but what sorts of things might the payload reveal once the americans get it off the ocean floor? >> well, that largely depends on just what the shape of the payload is. i mean, it's fallen from 60,000 feet, as you saw in the shoot-down video. the payload, the instrumentation package, and the solar paneled separated from the balloon itself, which was ruptured by the sidewinder shot. so it would have been falling at a terminal velocity, about 225 feet per second. so it would have hit the water fairl...

When they do come into my ear and tell me what those images exactly show and where they're from, we'll show and where they're from, we'll show them to you again. if we've got pictures of the balloon itself, i just want to reference some of the things about the significance of this whole event. when we get those pictures from the last couple of days, of the white balloon in the sky, this is the balloon we've been seeing. the point of controversy is this — is this a sophisticated surveillance operation that was deliberate by the chinese? or was this a neurological balloon collecting data about...

Saw building up to it. as well as the ground stop on airports along the post there. working in coordination with the faa and be other agencies to make this happen. the culmination of the chinese balloon that was a spy balloon that tracked across the country until it was shot down. worth noting according to a senior defense official, they effectively mitigated the ability of the balloon to gather intel. crucially, that same official said the u.s. was able to do the reverse, to gather intel about the balloon itself, the technologies it has, surveillance capabilities, what intel it can pick up as...

That's heavy mylar fabric that's around the balloon. that could cause damage wherever it lands. so the best way to deal with this is just to monitor it, watch it, and it will eventually lose the helium inside and land somewhere. that's what happened to our balloons in northern iraq. >> lieutenant general mark hertling. we talk wars. we talk conflicts. and today, my friend, we talk blimps on the loose. i really do appreciate your expertise. >> we talk balloons, brooke. every day is a holiday and every meal is a feast. >> there you go. appreciate it so much. this is serious, though, because what...