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shoot down that chinese flight as soon as possible. the pentagon waited until safely over the atlantic. now there are more questions about why the white house did not brief the public about the situation with the present did not act sooner senator marco rubio believes try to use the aircraft to send a larger message. >> is not a coincidence this happens leading up to state of the union address. leading up to blinken's visit to china. chinese do this to be spotted they knew we would have to react to it as just a bullet it's a message to try to sum the world that we can do whatever we ...

Floating over u.s. airspace. enforcement tells us that china does not have a lot of respect for secretary blinken. also we know china does not have respect for america as they sensed this balloon over. he's wary rivals. we are in an escalating tent company have a factory in china enough to think about moving there. this is how quickly it can shift. because it's already been called as a >> moment. or gu think here on out americans are now viewing china as a threat they are seeing it clear right? >> it's a little like >>. after this balloon america spoken. do not want any anymore chinese balloon...

Why do you think it is and that they waited so long? boxer was a question about the so-called collateral damage. this has been overstated. think there was a real uncertainty. they had wanted to shoot it down they would've done so over alaska. i think that many other opportunities. i will say that white house had a number of other opportunities to shoot this balloon down before made all the way to south carolina and the atlantic coast. there's no question to my mind there's a lot of indecision at the high level. i'm sorry to see them trying to say that military told us to wait. i don't think th...

Are learning from this? what is their take away? >> that we are slow and joe biden is weak. think they have known that for a long time. look, i've got to tell you this sort of thing has been going on for a very long time. there is a reason why the trump administration put in place was called the space force. i know a lot of people in the hollywood mocked at this sort of laughed at it. those of us who've actually seen some things i have seen very little but i have seen something to general public can't. there is a very aggressive program going on in space. particularly by the chinese. we have t...

Decade. do you believe this is simply spying or was the spy balloon part of the larger mission to test the united states? >> who knows why china did this. but i can tell you for a fact that china learned a lot from this balloon transiting over the united states for several days. not only did they haul in the tactical intelligence everyone has been talking about, they learned although the u.s. military was very well prepared they monitored the balloon. they had options ready to go. china learned the white house was very slow to make a decision but they were unsure what to do, wanting to preserv...