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Sovereignty, international law, and i told them quite simply that was unacceptable and never happen again. will: one of the things i find fascinating about listening to any continuing commentary the about the chinese balloon is it's always in the singular. they, of course, have never confirmed for us where the subsequent balloons that we shot down came from or even what they wereful but they have continued to address the chinese balloon as the chinese balloon, not balloons concern the. pete: or balloon program -- rachel: right. will: correct. so at a minimum what i am learning is we shot down ...

Administration, we've seen competition, not conflict with china. so i make no apologies for taking down that balloon. >> that was on thursday, you think the president was pressured to address americans about this before knowing precisely what those last targets are, or were? did you clear up confusion, or two serious questions still remain? >> after what, two and a half weeks of this balloon, ufo business, i think it's time to step back and take stock a little bit. what we know is that what's new here is we learned that the public learned for the first time, that china has this aerial surveill...

Were. the president saying the objects are not believed to be foreign spy balloons or to have had nefarious intent. instead, offering official speculation that they were more likely private research, or even recreational balloons. pointedly, the president said they were not related to china's balloon program, which gained attention after an alleged chinese spy balloon transited u.s. airspace earlier this month before being shot down by u.s. fighters. the president saying he makes no apologies for taking down that balloon. later, the president in an exclusive interview with peter alexander, sug...

Correspondent mike emanuel is here with more and that story. >> sources and says the united states has been aware of the chinese balloon program four months. debriefed congress about it and august and officials telling ou colleague, jennifer griffin, they saw this blue take off on january 21. they thought it would travel east. the us was not tracking at the whole way, noting the pacific ocean is a big place. now they want answers about the balloon and the other objects that have been shot down by american pilots over the last ten days. >> in terms of whether or not the degree is important, it'...

Administration. there's a bit of a different die tactic, a bit of a differentan approach.d and that's probably why president biden and not his predecessor was able to ralls ay the world and the globalakin community and taking steps against against russia'sssion. aggression. >>e toe able to determine that china has a high altitude balloon program for intelligence collection that's connected to the people's liberation army. reviou it was operating during the previous administration, but they did not detected. we detected it.cted it, we tracked it. the president inherited a messee because of what...