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If the chinese stratospheric balloon spotted floating above a dozen miles above the northern united states is a spy craft as the pentagon claims, it's hard to believe that it was meant to chart its course in secrecy. after all, it's a giant balloon. if anything, it was more likely dispatched precisely for the purpose of being seen. you're agreeing with that. >> i think that's a real possibility. as we have seen from what the chinese have been saying, they try to tell the world that we're not able to defend ourselves. we can't defend them. and especially in regard to taiwan, but they say it in ...

Taiwan or other, again, other efforts of china to dislodge the united states from being the sole u.s. superpower is going to be significant. we're going to have to -- they want to see the demise of the united states, they being russia, they being china. certainly, the north koreans and iran and so forth. but we have to, you know, the fact that we are the sole superpower, a superpower, you know, comes with consequences, you know? freedom's not free. and we have to demonstrate this peace and resolve through strength. so that that's what we need to show. and the fact i i think my colleague, gener...

I think, and i'm sure that obviously the administration has thought of this, how do we exploit this incident to further improve relations with china, and i think this does give us some leverage toward that end. >> here's another perspective, just earlier today, gordon chang, who is a senior fellow at the gatestone institute, had this to say on cnn. >> the chinese are being very blatant about this. they were over at the air force base in montana where we have intercontinental ballistic missiles, they went near the air force base where we have the b-2s which are strategic bombers, and this track...

They don't have the capacity to produce this stuff themselves. this will cut into their war machine. >> russian military already struggling, now may be less well supplied than they are at the moment. lastly, tell us about snake island. >> oh, man. in the course of four days, the russians lost -- i'll try to do this from memory -- four -- they're using the tb-2s. they can post a video of the surveillance, tracking their prey as it were, while slurping soup and eating their lunch and just, boom, taking out tens of millions in russian hardware. they used their own air force to bomb snake island. ...

Something we need to push forward on very, very rapidly in our councils of government. >> yeah, you could definitely get in. i want to let you respond, respectfully, admiral, you may be using the word maximal with some room or diplomatically because there's something less than maximal that the ukrainians and others say the u.s. is doing at this moment. >> frankly, i don't think a lot of these conversations are occurring. in my temperature check, in my engagement with government, it's how do we get back to normal, and my concern, and i call this, frankly, that we were all but certain to enter t...