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That the u. s. would continue to, quote, fly and operate wherever international law allows? >> no, i think in a different way, john. i think what we are assessing, what european command, uconn is assessing, is how to better safely fly the zone, knowing that you're going to get these kinds of intercepts by the russians. when you look at the map again to, i, mean that drone was down closer to romanian and bulgarian territory than it was to russian territory. so, it confirms what secretary -- just said, russia considers this, the black sea, a russian lake. and they can't have it that way. this is...

And that when they were attacked by those cartel gunmen. and frankly the people that i've been talking to inside law enforcement, that's exactly what they feared based on the video and you can see the people being dragged, lifeless bodies being dragged into that white pickup truck. what the governor of state of tamaulipas is saying is of the two alive, one is injured and so it really underscores the importance of the activities that are going on right now by the mexican authorities and by the fbi in trying to get these people back. those -- the two that are alive, in particular and save the li...

I think that, you know, overall with this issue, i think all of us can agree that chinese, you know, intelligence collection, chinese espionage is a really significant threat. i think that's a bipartisan piece that will be out there. you know, in terms of what's happening now, there's lots of questions again, as peter noted, something we're better able to collect on, it's been happening for a while, or is it something new? you throw all this on top of the very real fact that we have to talk to the chinese again. in, all of the intelligence -- nobody likes things like this to happen. then it in...

The Chinese spy balloon that was shot down had carried multiple devices to intercept sensitive communications, according to the State Department.

For them. >> clint, talk to us about the danger of politicizing national security at this moment. >> yeah. it's rather unfortunate, because we just don't know a whole lot about what the military -- i think any commander-in-chief is gonna take that recommendation. with david is talking about -- an item three busloads in size, i, mean just think about that. that is a massive destructive power when it's hitting the ground. separately, we don't know what kind of intelligence they might've been trying to collect while it was airborne. there's some reporting that suggests that maybe -- command and c...