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Because of the balloon controversy. the big question -- how will this affect the already tense u.s. china relationship going forward? we begin today's coverage with gary bra mick at the white house, and janis mackey frayer in beijing. janice, please, let's start with you this morning. let's look at the big picture first. with secretary antony blinken postponing his plan trip to china what does this mean for the overall relationship between the countries going forward. >> katie, the timing of it couldn't have been worse, this is supposed to be the highest level u.s. visit to china in five years...

The general made it clear that the duration of this balloon hovering over the u.s. is why they made it public. why do you -- what do you think is the intelligence significance of this? do you accept their argument that they believe, without having hands on, that this is not a military or intelligence threat more so than the average chinese satellite? >> i think there's been an intensive intelligence collection. i think that the intelligence community is trying to assess what the capabilities are. what the general said is significant. first of all, he refuted the chinese allegation it's a civil...

This has quite a bit of defense component in it. can you give us details and how it's going to strengthen buildup relationship with india? >> on the second question, i will take that. i don't have that information on me. the first question, i appreciate it. as i mentioned, we have contacted the prc. i'm not going to get into their reaction. i would refer you to them for that. we have clearly communicated that this balloon is violating u.s. airspace and international law and that this is unacceptable. thank you. over here and over here. >> thank you, sir. is the pentagon looking at any possibil...

Address to hit some unifying themes as well. >> of course regarding new hampshire, he left new hampshire after he clearly was going to lose new hampshire in that primary and was in south carolina of course already on election night when we were all up in new hampshire. jonathan capehart, the president is expected to address policing, police policy, police abuses in the state of the union speech. a new "washington post" abc news poll showing that american confidence in police officers not using excessive force has dropped after the death of tyre nichols. in memphis, another man monetary yus har...

Intelligence target for the chinese if they wanted to get a sense of what was going on there. we're told now from the pentagon that it is actually started to move eastward. they won't say exactly where it's going, but they say look, just look up in the sky because you can see pretty clearly if you are in the right place where this thing is going. now i do want to get to china's claims because they actually, as you said, have acknowledged that this is a chinese balloon, but what they say is that it is not for intelligence purposes. it's for meteorological research and basically a weather balloo...