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David preparing for the state of the union but getting updates on this. the administration has not said a lot, this is from a defense department official, immediate steps to protect against the balloon's sensitive information mitigating its intelligence value. the team has not talked about this publicly. if they were jamming it preventing it from sending intelligence back to china no harm leaving it in the sky. if it is capturing air force bases missile silos, then republicans might have a point. they're not saying much. >> they're not. and they are giving us some details about the balloon its...

He ensured that the military take steps to protect against the balloon's collection of sensitive information mitigating any intelligence value to the prc, the people's republic of china. they said in that time they were able to study the payload and get information off of it. this will be the defense they use for the domestic problems over the course of the days as those on the hill ask for more questions from the white house and then diplomatly they are going to have really some issues to sort through as of course this white house has spent a last few months trying to iron through and warm re...

That now he is facing a lot of sharp criticism from republicans who question why the president waited so long and whether or not, you know, doing that delay allowed sensitive information to transmit over to china. but the white house has come out in big defense of the president here saying that it was the right thing to do. i want to read you this statement of white house official gave me last night coming in hard with the defense. the white house official said this is the responsible action for the commander-in-chief to take. he prioritized safety of the american people. he ensured that the m...

Being hit by the debris. there was danger to american citizens. what employee would have potentially lost the intelligence value of being able to capture the pod and electronics that chinese have broad a. part of this by mission -- that was much easier to do once it was over water. it's my understanding that that has been a priority for the pentagon over the last 24 hours. trying to get as much with electronics as they can if they do, this will end up being a net intelligence gain for the united states. that said, balloon -- and people have called is tailor made for political criticism. the fa...

Questions about exactly what it was doing here and where it's going to wind up. >> colonel leighton, we bring you in here. what we do know is it's in our airs space. there have been a lot of calls to make sure it's no longer in the airspace and bring it down. should that happen? >> what you want to do is you want to gain the intelligence value that you can from this particular balloon because you know that there are sensors on there. you want to prove your case if you are the united states government. you want to prove your case that this actually is a surveillance balloon. one thing to make t...