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Basically trying to determine what threat to u.s. national security was there from this intelligence collection platform in and to the extent that the intelligence apparatus of this balloon actually survived, the fbi would be trying to look at that to determine what were its capabilities? was this the realtime collection that we've heard about is this was it stored collection? a lot of questions there, obviously. i can tell you, having worked in the fbi, a lot of people, when you think about the fbi laboratory, you think about dna analysis, firearms analysis. there's actually an entire divisio...

Concerns. >> i had a brief conversation with the wing commander. we talked how interesting the timing was with what was going on with the corn mill here and that kind of coming to an end and two days later this balloon being spotted. >> now this balloon added to tense relations between the u.s. and china. >> just, again, speaks volumes to the situation with respect to china. they are our greatest geopolitical threat. they are a threat economically. they are a threat militarily, and we need to take it serious. >> that was jim sciutto reporting. we want to get some perspective from intelligence ...

>> we talked how interesting the timing was with what was going on with the corn mill here and that coming to an end. >> and now the balloon, which is only adding to already-tense relations between the u.s. and china. >> just, again, speaks volumes to the situation with respect to china. they are our greatest geopolitical threat. they are a threat economically and militarily, and we need to take it serious. >> we want to get some perspective now from intelligence analyst, john miller. a balloon is not the most high-tech thing. where does this balloon rank in terms of the range of ways that chi...

To put it on the schedule. they aren't saying that very clearly right now. that's all while this is still moving over the united states, this balloon headed east. reporters asked the pentagon if they would shoot it down if it was over a body of water or if they would shoot it down if it was headed towards the capitol in washington, d.c. they didn't answer that question. the president at this point has decided not to shoot this down because they're worried about what could happen on the ground, civilians being hurt or infrastructure being hurt. >> john, the decision not to bring it down when it...

These situations or about the american taxpayers which he seems to have no regard for. if it is a satellite image or some sort of technical collection platform, that may cost hundreds of millions, billion dollars that could be lost in an instant with some of the documents that could have been viewed. so it is broad recklessness and not thinking about what is go for the country, what is good for the safety of american sources, agents, that are out there trying to gather this information, what is good in terms of our technical ability to prevent other attacks and know what our adversaries are do...