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It would not represent a significant escalation and it's a kind of capability that they've got to have in order to conduct diefensive operations t win this war. >> that's your view. the risk calculation from the white house would be, what would that signal to putin in terms of escalation? >> well, if it's not risky enough for the president to go visit kyiv, i mean, come on. we had 120 contractors killed in iraq and afghanistan. and that's a terrible thing. but if we're willing to shed blood there, this is a far more existential threat to our nation. we simply must win this war. the ukrainians ...

Happening, i suppose, until something puts a stop to it. it is very strange. we were just talking about a chinese spy balloon a week ago and things have changed dramatically. what's going on? we don't even know what these objects are. isn't that puzzling? >> yes. it is. i want to pick up on what natasha was reporting. after the chinese incident balloon last week, our air surveillance has increased. that goes through norad. norad is a unique entity. its commander reports to both the united states president and the prime minister of canada. so when trudeau calls this, it is both the canada and t...

Valuable, you know, bringing it down in a capacity where you can really evaluate, meaning, u.s. intelligence scientists can really evaluate the components. you know, what does this consist of, what are the sensors all about, or is there greater value in simply destroying it. i mean, they are weighing those things. how does that evaluation take place and who would be involved in that? >> so the evaluation is going to be based on our capacity. do we actually have the capacity to bring this thing down safely? or is it such a menace, you're basically making a risk calculation at this stage. maybe ...

Rem we're not going to do the second it hits the shoreline. the options are much greater than they were three days ago. all of this shoot it down over the u.s. homeland was so absurd from any perspective of a risk calculation. one is shoot it down. two is do we have the capacity to bring it down? it's going to have a lot of intelligence in terms of what we could learn about china's capacity, what happened with the balloon. balloon is a misnomer. this thing is huge. its cargo is about three school buses, let alone the balloon. there is a third possibility that in my discussions with military fo...

Posted another video, a video the press did not have access to of mbs fist bumping the president's entire national security team. it wasn't just the president. it was his top advisers. this appears to be the cost of trying to do business once again with saudi arabia. a risk calculation the administration knew going in and clear in the wake of it. is it clear how the saudis thought this day went? >> reporter: you know what, i think the biggest way to kind of view it right now is based on two different things. one, the idea that the crown prince in their eyes was legitimized by the meeting. it...