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welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing a remarkable news day with us. we begin with a brazen spy drama. straight to the pentagon, the briefing on a chinese balloon over montana. >> conducting press briefings in our temporary press briefing room while other primary location undergoes technical renovations and upgrades. we greatly appreciate your patience and flexibility as we work to install some long, overdue upgrades to the pentagon press briefing room. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a va...

thing. the pentagon briefing has begun, let's go there. >> the pentagon for a variety of reasons our normal call-in options will not be available, for those that have had to call in, we apologize. we will get it up as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and answer questions from the dod press desk. moving forward we'll look at ways to improve briefing operations and expect regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. we appreciate your patience and extend our thanks to department of air force for using airmen's hall for temporary briefi...

good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. we go directly to the pentagon and the briefing on the china spy balloon. >> because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call-in options will not be available. for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio up as quickly as possible. we will aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward, we will look at ways to improve our brie...

Moment but first of all, let me tell you where i am. This is the very landing area in order to get to Ketron Island where the 29yearold crashed that plane. Now, to give you an idea of how sparsely populated that is, the last census said theres only 17 residents living there. We now know theres dozens of investigators at that site. They would have left from here in order to get there. It is about a 10 minute ferry ride. The first as well as the data recorder. Ultimately, what evidence they could yield . We dont know. Of course, we do have a lot of conversation between air Traffic Control and th...

This has quite a bit of defense component in it. can you give us details and how it's going to strengthen buildup relationship with india? >> on the second question, i will take that. i don't have that information on me. the first question, i appreciate it. as i mentioned, we have contacted the prc. i'm not going to get into their reaction. i would refer you to them for that. we have clearly communicated that this balloon is violating u.s. airspace and international law and that this is unacceptable. thank you. over here and over here. >> thank you, sir. is the pentagon looking at any possibil...