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Balloon launched by and belonging to the people's republic of china over the water off the coast of south carolina in u.s. air space. the balloon, which was being used by the prc in an attempt to survey strategic sites in the continental united states, was brought down above u.s. territorial waters. this, the statement goes on to say on wednesday president biden gave his authorization to take down the surveillance balloon as soon as the mission could be accomplished without undue risk to american lives under the balloon's path. after careful analysis, this is according to lloyd austin's statem...

Two hours now they've been in this meeting together. if president trump does not raise the issue of russian hacking, russian meddling in our election, what's the impact? >> well, i think one thing is that putin will be even more emboldened to continue their activities. looking ahead to 2018 elections they'll be more aggressive about it. reports that came out yesterday about increased soviet -- russian collection activity in this country, which i think is probably part of this. and simply -- >> they're sending more spies here. >> exactly. and i would expect them to, having lost 35 of their more...

In response to and in order to impose consequences for the russian government's increasing harassment and aggression toward our personnel in moscow and, of course, their malicious cyber activities, interfering and an effort to interfere in our election process, we are imposing consequences. we are expelling the 35 intelligence officers and their families from this country. they've got 72 hours to leave the country. we're also closing those compounds and not allowing access anymore to those compounds and shutting down that intelligence collection activity. >> lisa, were these individuals allege...

In any event, somebody at a high responsible political level, to determine whether the risk of revelation of that collection activity may outweigh any potential benefit from such collection. i think that's a critical issue. >> would the u.s. be upset, let's say, if they found out that germany was trying to eavesdrop on joe biden's cell phone conversations? >> well, if you look at past practice, you know, over the past years, i don't know about germany but there are other -- >> just giving that as an example. >> there are other countries that have engaged in that kind of activity. i have been t...

Differently? >> there are certain collection activity that is have been suspended. as a matter of fact, one particular one that was suspended right after that, the ft. hood shooting happened, the christmas day many boer happened, now this happens. we've had no discussion about how we reengage those collection activities so we don't have gaps in our system. you want to catch them over there. you don't want to catch them after something has gone off. luck is not a national security policy. >> let's look at what the administration is doing. this is an american citizen. this is a different zircon ...