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By Clare Duffy, CNNVideo by John General, Deborah Brunswick and FJ Feng, CNN

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Civilian on the ground in montana, it would have been tight lips from the intelligence community that they never would have said boo about this thing. >> i completely agree in the sense that they would have never said anything else about it. if it wasn't a civilian that saw it, put it in the local press and then national press picked it up. the big issue on the high altitude balloon, they were keenly aware it was a chinese spy balloon in particular, carrying a heavy spy payload. the president in alaska hesitated and did not take it down, and over alaska, into the united states and apparently a...

Than those in transportation, i have no idea on this. the first accountability is the rail line, notification for the process, the second one is the regulator that handles that, which is the transportation group to be able to engage, did they follow the rules, doing it the right way, do full notifications, what was actually travelling through the state, local fire departments, were they made aware, all those questions are reasonable questions being made but they are made by department of transportation. that's who actually makes that decision on that. so, clearly pete buttigieg should be out t...

Altitude, close to 100 a day, what is our policy as we struggle to identify it, take kinetic action against them. a lot of the objects are out there right now and we are not taking kinetic action, even though we did on three successive days over the last weekend. a lot of explanation has to be provided here to get the trust of the american people back. >> john: general, john here. i don't know that we know at this point what the objects were. here is a question that seems to me the president has to answer. he has to answer criticism he allowed this chinese spy flight to transit the entire cont...