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The Pentagon said it’s a spy balloon, but China said it was a weather balloon. Officials expect the debris collected offshore will reveal more information about it.
It down more slowly, if we could have proven this was chinese intelligence gathering, we should have taken a closer look at it. >> the other thing we heard from the pentagon is that this was actually happening before, when your bo boss, your former boss, former president trump was in office, we're now learning from a senior administration official who says those previous occurrences were discovered after the trump administration left office. i think you as national security adviser, how can a chinese spy balloon get into chinese air space and someone like was not told, someone like former pres...
What they can tell us about what that has taught the pentagon about chinese technologies when it comes to surveillance. >> and setting aside the extraordinary thing that happened today, which is that the u.s. military shot down a piece of aircraft from a foreign super power in china. that's remarkable in and of it itself. to have it splash down and have this retrieval and recovery effort underway. this is going to be highly critical as to what is salvaged, ultimately. as part of that end of the mission. >> absolutely. that's where the real value of this comes in. there's a whole other part to ...
Chinese craft raises fears of a ‘balloon gap’ in intelligence gathering
A Chinese high-altitude balloon violated U.S. airspace, a serious enough breach to nix a high-level diplomatic meeting in Beijing. The balloon itself, however, was not much of a threat.