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Sputnik moment. that woke ups country to the cold war we were in, in 1950s, i hope that wakes us up to the cold war that we're in now, made in america is where we have to be for our own national security. i hope this is a wake-up call, this a service in-- very, visible s symbol of massive tidalwave of chinese espespionage. that officials have known has been happening for many years, hopefully this will galvanize the country. >> congressman mike walch on all of the committees that matter. thank you for joining us on a sunday night.

Addressed and they do feel more comfortable about the situation. chris, they couldn't reveal to us what that plan is, but that is clearly the overwhelming concern by members of congress what can be done to prevent this from happening again. >> so michael, florida republican congressman michael waltz said yesterday this china balloon might end up being a sputnik moment. he's suggesting that the balloon is waking the americans up to the reality of the chinese threat, kind of in the same way the soviets did by launching the sputnik satellite in 1957. do you see this as a kind of inflection point ...

Clips on social media over the coming days. >> and foreign policy is expected to come up as well. not just ukraine, but u.s./china relations and this was prior to the chinese surveillance balloon and the debacle that has fallen from that with democrats and republicans now having somewhat different approaches into response as to how the president should have approached it. you tweeted about this though in terms of what the president should say, specifically related to the balloon, and you said, beware of letting this balloon become your sputnik moment. what do you mean by that? >> i tweeted tha...

Policy have not been reworked because of this balloon. >> martha: okay. so here's a map that show that ten different balloon incursions that we're aware of over the past six years, this is extraordinary. this isn't one balloon that passed over the country. >> sandra: so how much attention does the president need to sort of head on this is what we're facing from china tonight? >> this should be a sputnik moment. not because of the capabilities were equatable to sputnik in the late 50s. this illustrates that the threat posed by the chinese communist party is not just an over there problem. it's ...

Obviously, we saw the launch of sputnik, the first artificial satellite into space, in 1957. so, only four years after, there was a tremendous quick development into launching a satellite to actually launching a human and returning him safely back down to earth. all eyes were now on a world that laid beyond earth. the soviet union and the united states each wanted to show that they could get to the moon first. it became known as the space race. russia had put the first person in space. american prestige was taking a beating. and on the ground, us presidentjohn f kennedy was losing the so—cal...