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chinese spy balloon and when they realized they must tell the president about it. this comes as u.s. navy divers and other military personnel are scouring the ocean floor off the coast of myrtle beach, south carolina. and we're getting new video in to cnn. a resident in south carolina shot this and said he believes it could be debris from the balloon. to be clear, cnn cannot independently verify whether or not this is, in fact, debris from that chinese spy balloon. we're reaching out to the navy for comment. in the meantime, republicans are condemning president biden for failing to t...

as high as commercial aircraft but lower than surveillance satellites. the size of three buses. two flights were diverted for safety. military leaders considered but ultimately decided against wthe president's decision to shoot it down. but the idea that was under conversation shows how seriously u.s. officials and the president were taking the idea of a chinese spy balloon floating over the u.s. you mentioned what it was flying over. >> right. >> montana. the air base, has icbms there. something that china would naturally be interested in taking a closer look at. >> it happened befo...

It, i know there's been a lot of conversation and a lot of debate about when you should shoot down this balloon or take it out. remember, there's at least three different considerations that the military and the intel officials are going through. the first one, of course, is what the intelligence vulnerabilities are, what kind of information that balloon is collecting about nuclear sites, about defense sites, and so forth. the second one is what is the counterintelligence value of observing what that thing is doing? there is very likely a very important counterintelligence value to the united ...

Thing to do was to wait. and as i mentioned earlier, i also think that there was probably very likely a counterintelligence value to understanding how the chinese are collecting information against the united states. the value of that counterintelligence really can't be overstated. it's incredibly important. >> and what does this say about the u.s./china relationship and just the brazen nature of chinese's intelligence-gathering in the united states? it's more extensive, i think, than people realize. >> yeah. that's one of the most interesting parts of this whole thing is that usually nations ...

To me this is a brazen act. so at the political level we have to push back, defend american sovereignty and we have to make clear to the chinese that we are not going to tolerate this. >> is that your sense of why it would be flying over montana, because of that air base that maintains and operates these intercontinental ballistic missiles? >> that would be my guess. until we know what type of strumtation they have in the payload, we don't know. there are things we do in that part of the country. again, that's the intelligence level. at the political level we have to send a strong message back...