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s cyber inclusion in our databases. putting all that aside, this is a new collection system, we want to know what they re doing, we have to be able to communicate directly to them, to knock it off. apparently, the department of defense tracked this balloon from its lift off in hainan island, all the way the that to the united states. in the future, will probably communicate clearly, aggressively to chinese, you cannot loiter over the united states. and 60,000 feet and under basically an international law is domestic sovereign airspace. they have to stop that. i have a feeling they will. the chinese right now or blundering a round, somewhat making everyone nervous in the long run. because president xi has control of the peoples liberation army? this was such a boneheaded move to send this gigantic, visible collection device through u.s. airspace, it s hard to imagine that it was actually coordinated with the foreign ministry, with president xi s ....
Research as the president said? sure. the chinese intelligence balloon, a gigantic structure, tremendous persistent eyes on targets solar panels, communication to satellites, propeller systems, smart a. i. to guide its movement through airspace. that was in one category. and then the next three were in the wrong place in the wrong direction, the f got to look at two of them in alaska in the yukon, they could see where they were unmanned and they said, it don t look like no intelligence collection device to me. same thing with the f-16, they got eyes on target over lake huron. i think, again, it was a policy decision the last few weeks, we have to do something to demonstrate our resolve, now they have to have new policy and think through what s a central way to deal with all this. let s talk about the initial incident, take a listen to what john kirby said about the chinese spy balloon today. we were able, and have been ....
For bringing it down which violated canadian air space. efforts are underway off the coast of south carolina to successfully recover and retrieve what s left of the payload that balloon was carrying. kerry, i know you worked as an attorney. your reaction to all of this. how this went down and how much of a security risk do you think this posed? or is this more of an intelligence risk i suppose. i think what we re seeing, what s so interesting about this particular story is that we re seeing intelligence activities spilled out into the open, presuming this balloon is not a meteorological piece of equipment and is an intelligence collection device by the chinese. assuming that, we re seeing an ....
100,000, 150,000 feet. it was seen by pilots, commercial pilots, photographed on the ground hovering over 150 icbm interballistic missile airspace. it s a brutal move on the part of the chinese, and their denial is expected but doesn t make any sense, so i think shooting it down opens us to the pla then one upping all this. we collect at sea and offshore in the air and possibly by other means against china. we don t want this to turn into a shooting war. this thing represents no kinetic threat for the united states. by the way it is a pretty good collection device for poorer countries, stays up slowly over a site and they can guide it somewhat by air currents. at 150,000 feet it s a lot lower than 300 mile suborbital ....
Civilian research and had gone off course. general mccaffrey, a former member of the national security counsel. and while on the house she served as vice chair of the armed services committee. general mccaffrey, this has already i think seeped into our culture, everyone everywhere is asking why don t we just shoot it down including all of the republican primary candidates people like mike pompeo and nikki haley. why don t we just shoot it down? there s a lot of theatrical bravado going on in washington. what a thoughtful, measured, sober-minded experienced diplomat he is. this is a provocation. looks like it s an uncoordinated action by the chinese military. it s hardly a covert collection device. these balloons are up at ....