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Some type of a collection platform. we don't know that yet, but they decided they didn't want to take this chance again. as a result, we have what we have at the moment. >> kylie atwood to you. the question of who's responsible. the words that still stick with me are from john kirby and he said i have no idea who owns this. what do you know about the efforts happening right now potentially to find that out? of course the first country that most people think of is china, considering that blalloon that just passed over the u.s. a couple of days ago. >> yeah, that's right. i think there is a wide...

One, it's a threat because it's gathering intelligence. but nobody disagrees it didn't see anything they can see from the satellite. it can last longer and look closer. and the key is, what is the advantage of letting it go? if you're thinking of it as anan intelligence officer, it's their collection platform. can we get its telemetry. >> can we still do that? >> we can pick up the pieces. it's going to otd, operation technology division. they will put the preisses together and see what they recognize because this is the time stuff they build there. the key is, will they be able to find someth...

But the key is what is the advantage of letting it go. and if you're thinking of it as an intelligence officer you're saying it's their collection platform. let's make it our collection platform. can you get it telemetry can be seen what it's sending? >> and then it's scattered into 1 million pieces. can we still do that? >> you can pick up the pieces, it's going to ltd. and the fbi in washington operation technology division. they're gonna put the pieces together and see what they recognize because of the same stuff they built their. with a lot of partners from other agencies, but the key is,...

Not to go to beijing, i view this differently. i think he probably should have gone to beijing to keep those lines of communications open. that's exactly what you have to have in circumstances like this. you cannot shut down when the narrative is this is ratcheting up. we can't allow that to happen. look, i would say that when you look at this balloon technology, look, i've launched balloons with different sensors on the bottom of them when i've in different places around the globe. it's an effective collection platform. so for the united states to look at this and say it's a balloon, it's no ...

Department and counter intelligence authorities. cnn's josh campbell is a former fbi supervisory special agent. first of all, what will investigators be looking for specifically? >> wolf, this is what's called the damage assessment phase, basically trying to determine was there a threat to u.s. national security that was posed by this intelligence collection platform. and the fbi, you know, there's no better agency out there that can look at and re-create a device assuming that it actually survived that shoot down. so they'll be looking at that. when a lot of people think about the fbi they th...