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Failures on the battlefield so far, and so a lot more questions than there are answers right now about why this blogger was killed and who might have been behind it. >> josh lederman, thank you so very much. next, new reporting, exclusive from our team about the chinese spy balloon and despite all efforts to block it from collecting intelligence, what it did manage to get after all. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. for less than all this. i made a horrible mistake. ♪ go to your happy price ♪ ♪ priceline ♪ there's a different way to treat hiv. it's every-other-mon...

Intercepting a drone? >> well, for intercepting a drone, the race track pattern picture that was showed, that drone was probably flying, clecl collecting intelligence either on russian ships or merchant ships coming out of odesa with grain as part of the embargo at this period of time. certainly the russians don't like that. they don't like people to know where their ships are. they don't like people to know what's going oin their area of operation. so this is not a killer drone. this is a drone that collects intelligence and communications. so they want it out of the area even though it's in ...

Collection effort. >> lower altitude, lower flying surveillance craft of some sort -- >> exactly, exactly. so you know, if we take the designs of the 1960s and advance them, you know, what, six decades, you can see that there are some possible similarities there that they may want to use some kind of a -- an imagery collection system that goes in and takes pictures of things at a lower altitude than a satellite would. so it's in many ways, this might be an ingenious way of collecting intelligence. might be an ingenious way of collecting signals data. we don't know that to be the case. it doesn...

All has happened in the last 90 minutes or so. we'll see. >> general mccaffrey, can i ask you this, the white house is being careful not to call it a balloon. we know it's the size of a small car, seen at 40,000 feet altitude. what could be it be? what are the possibilities that are out there based on your expertise here? >> i assume it's a balloon. i assume it came out of either russia or china. the fact that it was smaller means it potentially could be just a metro device, not an intelligence device. it was easily shot down. i think the key question for us to find out is was it chinese? was ...