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Administration has talked about it, you know, it's not a balloon. it's an object. it's an unidentified flying object. that's how we always characterize things from mars. >> katie: not an alien though. >> steve: this is why the "new york post" has this on their cover "take me to your leaders." white house bumbling to insist it's not aliens. apparently the "new york times" has got some great reporting on in this morning. this is something. a sign of how closely the united states was monitoring the balloon program and that's what the senators are going to find out about. we have been monitoring i...

Briefing. >> president biden came into office directed the u.s. intelligence community to do a broad assessment of chinese intelligence capability. china has a high altitude balloon program for intelligence collection connected to the people's liberation army operating during the previous administration but they did not detect it. we detected it. >> dana: how do you respond to that? >> look, in the trump administration we were constantly assessing chinese capabilities intelligence and military domes i can espionage all the time. i describe them as the greatest threat facing our country in this...

American people about the challenges we face and to protect citizens on the ground and the air. >> sandra: john kirby took time to answer questions but did not offer up a lot of new information other than confirming china has a balloon program and has for quite some time and they could develop it further and it could be, you know, a force to reckon with. i want to ask you about the economy. it seems this president and his team tout success on the economy, yet brand-new numbers in the inflation would indicate otherwise. inflation running much hotter than expected, up 6.4% year over year. senato...

Maybe criminal airlines could've flown into them. and if you're looking for a pretext to justify shooting them down, that seems as good as any? the three latest objects to be shot, down he was officials are not yet saying what they, are we don't even know with the right now on is to describe them, object seems a little vague. the call from yesterday, an octagonal structure. all these things are balloons? if they're not of balloons, are they all anyone thing? or they'll do from each other? i do have any idea where they're all coming from? the u.s. government has now confirmed, that china has be...

Balloon program for intelligence collection that's connected to the people's liberation army. it was operating during the previous administration, but they did not detect it. we detected it. we tracked it. and we have been carefully studying it to learn as much as we can. we know these surveillance balloons have crossed across multiple continents including some of our closest allies and partners. we assessed that at this time, these balloons have provided limited additive capabilities to the prc's other intelligence platforms used over the united states. but in the future, if the prc continues...