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0 president lula has to make. >> reporter: i wanted to follow up on a question i asked in september. in light of the chinese spy balloon incident does this administration consider chinese land purchases near u.s. military bases a national security threat? >> we are always concerned about potential foreign collection near or around our military sites, and you're right, last week is a good example of that. we take that seriously, whether that's terrestrial related or whether it's from the air. and i think i'll just leave it at that. >> reporter: would you work with congress to put in place legis...

Talked quite frequently about needing to navigate to a place of competition. not a place of conflict. obviously, he has had open lines of communication. he spoke with president xi a number of times since he took office. so, of course. there was language in the speech about a relationship which ina. now, there's been a lot of, i would argue, breathless reporting over the last 24 to 48 hours about what the situation with the balloon has done to a speech. i would say, i would down over crank on changes made to the speech as a result. obviously, again, this is a, you're gonna hear from the stated ...

Should respond. general keane has been very right on that this is a test by the chinese i think on us. they so we did not respond with great speed or with great force. they're going to put that into their thought process. this is not a simple decision by some random general in china. this was something a senior level within the chinese hierarchy. within their government less just tested out and see was going to happen. people think this is an errant balloon and it was a random descending of a spy balloon across united states it is not. spirit calculated per his design to see what kind of were ...

And now 100,000 troops on the ukraine border. no serious sign of december escalation. but there are talks in geneva last week between the u.s. and russian counterparts involving nato. all of those entities will be participating in discussions. so it is possible that vladimir putin wants to explore a diplomatic off-ramp that president biden may be offering to de-escalate tensions, to provide some assurances to russia that nato is not seeking to encroach on russian sovereignty. but we simply don't know that that's the case. i think we'll find out more after this call and in those talks next week...

That turkey and russia now have work over a period of years and in key parts of syria will make networks that have been built up in syria by our special forces our ability to operate freely much more difficult. and by the syrians that we're on both collecting intelligence working with on ground. and operating militarily we're they provide the information, in a tougher position today than the intelligence, the access. much of that has now been lost. we were three weeks ago. >> jeremy, you were a staff so the follow-up from this member at house intelligence, i operation, i think, will be think c...