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general keane i'm not sure if you can see this. we have a live shot now of this balloon going down. this balance has been taken down. >> that is great. >> it is falling from the sky. >> reporter: air force f-22 fighter jet shot down the fighter plane that floated down across the u.s. last week. shortly after president biden claimed he wanted to shoot down the balloon earlier was overruled. president biden: on wednesday i briefed on the balloon i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down as soon as possible without doing damage to anyone on the ground. they decided to do that when it got ...

We want to break down for you real quick on the board over here, some of the military sites over the path of this chinese spy balloon. will, i think you're right. first premise of this is a trial, right if we float a balloon, up through alaska, across the country what will the reaction of the united states government actually be? they effectively learned if there was order to shoot it down here, it didn't get shot down until it reached the east coast. if the second aspect was to truly gather intelligence about our nuclear capabilities, our nuclear response, for the chinese that was a success. ...

This. they've got the overwhelming force and if they are making some progress, there's no reason to do that. that said, the ukrainian military is really tough, and is going to defend kyiv down to the -- >> i suppose we have to go through the whole try add of horrible here after talking about chemical and biological weapons. the dni, avril haines held back part of her answer about how concerned we should be about the possibility russia could use tactical nuclear weapons in ukraine saying that is a conversation that should continue in closed session, but she did say generally speaking it's the k...

Test in april. why does the u.s. not have this technology down pat yet. we're sending people into space, on rockets every week now. >> it's about commitment and time and effort, and money. and, you know, we've spent a lot of time thinking about a variety of other sort of threats to the united states, terrorism. we've got to redouble efforts on our strategic defensive capabilities, that means nuclear weapons. now, president obama, and president bush before him, and president trump all supported this idea of nuclear modernization. we need to make sure the biden administration continues that poli...

>> sure. you know, american counterterrorism strategy was really based on i call it the try add. there's -- triadd. there's human intelligence, and that's why having a small residual force would help. then it's based on signal intelligence, is some of which also is based on having u.s. facilities there and the last is isr, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. and that's eyes in the eye. perhaps you can do that from afar, but we don't have many friends in the region. a lot of that is degraded now. now, it's not impossible. the intelligence community will put their nose to the grindsto...