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Who in the media other than here will report on it? >> here is the thing. many of those officials now work in the media, right? you look at john brennan, the former head of the c.i.a. who signed off on this letter is now a national security analyst for msnbc and we've seen at cnn they hired many of the folks that signed off on that letter. the media isn't going to hold anybody accountable because many of their employees signed off on that letter to jason's point. how did journalists just buy the fact when the folks said it was russia disinformation. could one person have asked the question hav...

China has been using spy balloons for longer than at least the public right now currently knows? do we have a sense of how long they've been engaged in this practice? >> sure, i am not surprised at all. chinese espionage activities is massive. anything we can learn this whole affair is the degree to which chinese spies on the u.s. -- by the way, we spy on china as well. it's also surveillance and reconnaissance, a surveillance balloon program. they also have satellites and extensive human intelligence programming. china is the long term great this threat to the u.s. in terms of the intelligenc...

They also have spy satellites and extensive human intelligence programming. china is the long term greatest threat to the u.s. in terms of the intelligence business, so it's certainly no surprise that this happened in the past. whether or not it was brief to the president, that is something that the secretary of defense or cia director of national intelligence decides to do or not in the presidents daily brief. i'm not particularly concerned about the. i don't know, frankly, if president trump prepared one way or the other in terms of the degree of interest in the intelligence product. but, ul...

That clearly we're going to find things if we recover the wreckage of with, three and four, we're going to be able to exploit that. the other part of this, this is why i get a sense the administration is still -- this is a still a bit of a mystery, we have intelligence collection against china. we have signals intelligence, human intelligence. and that would be telling us if these were actually of chinese origin. and so i think that briefing today, you know, with senators, is going to be pretty telling. at the end of the day, you know, in the intelligence business, sometimes we have to say we ...

The military have all pivoted towards asia. so, no surprise and what the chinese were trying to do. i think, you know, that said, i do think there is enough time for us to have defensive countermeasures. obviously there were spy planes up, there is talk that there was things that were jammed, the u.s. military facility, you can certainly go dark. there is no emissions coming. out, so while we know the chinese are looking at, i'm fairly confident the intelligence on our side was not that great. that said, he was a very provocative mood. ultimately, the administration took the right move to shoo...