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Below that balloon, could be salvaged and could be used for counterintelligence reasons. that balloon, of course, shot down yesterday off the coast of south carolina. a lot of questions remain, jim, and the administration is going to have to answer a lot of them to lawmakers as early as tuesday, when we understand there will be a briefing to the so-called gang of eight. those are the leaders of both parties in both houses as well as chairman and ranking members of the senate and house intelligence committees. you can imagine that during that briefing, the administration will be asked why they ...

They've dismissed the head of china's national weather service. analysts see this as a move from beijing to try and shore up its argument that it's a weather balloon. that, of course, is something the pentagon strongly rejects, saying they are confident it is a spy balloon and that this balloon and the one spotted over latin america are part of a fleet of chinese spy balloons that have been spotted around the world in the last few years. jim. >> all right. selina wang, thank you very much. staying overseas, ukraine's government is readying for a reshuffle near the top with the current defens...

Incredibly interesting and incredibly telling. a sign, i thought, of chinese aggression and a little bit akin to what the russians did in 2016, where they essentially were part of an operation to dump all this information from the dnc and weaponize information. this, of course, was different. but in a similar vein, it was the chinese being more aggressive and not keeping quiet about intelligence. >> and if i could just sneak in one quick question about the state of the union speech, the president has the state of the union speech coming up on tuesday. what in particular would you like to hear ...

Ukraine. what does the timing signal to you about how ukraine is faring in this war, though? does it say anything about what russia may be preparing for in the months ahead because they've been stating very confidently on the russian side that they're going to step things up and turn the tide of this. >> yeah, that's -- you know, that's a real danger for the ukrainians right now because the russians are amassing troops. we've reported that there are -- there's an increased presence in the south, about 30,000 more troops in one particular area. we know of course about the battle around bakhmut ...

This sort of thing cannot be engaged with, and china... this was simply blown off course. itjust doesn't blown off course. it 'ust doesn't wash. . ., , ., . wash. the context is that in recent months it appeared _ wash. the context is that in recent months it appeared there - wash. the context is that in recent months it appeared there was - wash. the context is that in recent. months it appeared there was some hope for a better cause for us—china relations, the wider context is very fraught. it relations, the wider context is very frau . ht. , ., relations, the wider context is very frau:ht...