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On this top particular is that as we engage and look for more data having an f 18 as a primary sensor or primary weapons platform, these aren't the right tools for the job so if we're going to get better information about this we need to use proper tools and investigate this scientifically. >> laura: ryan great to talk to you tonight. thank you so much. >> thank you, laura >> to read-out or to share about a statement or remarks from the president. again he takes this very seriously. he's being kept updated on a regular basis on this clearly. we just don't have anything to share. >> laura: noth...

Military doesn't have the capability to make those determinations. we could argue whether the balloon should have been shot down for the pacific or atlanta, and i want to clean that up. our military would never allow weapons platform they had been watching for days to penetrate u.s. air space. to your question, look, the chinese-- this balloon overflight was brazen. now, we don't really know at what levels of the china government this was approved. we don't have that information yet, but the very fact that they put a balloon in a position to go across the continental united states shows real d...

The latest situation we don't know one way or the other. but their behavior and even their response to us, they want it back, why did you shoot it down. hanging up on calls from the defense secretary. they don't seem like a recalcitrant country. >> before i answer your question, i need to clean up something that general boykin said. and it's important that people understand the capabilities and the competence of the military that they pay $800 billion a year for. our military watched this balloon and as you know, i'm a member of the gang of eight and i've been briefed as much as anybody on the...

For the biden administration log democrats are highlighting the differences between the chinese spy craft and necessary part unidentified flying objects things low enough to endanger civilian flight paths while the spy craft was not. democratic congressman jim hines said in terms of the balloon he wants to emphasize the military it was a monitoring and knew it was not any kind of a weapons platform. >> we can argue whether the balloon should've been shot down over the pacific, over the atlantic there's a whole conversation there for actually really want to clean that the military would never a...

>> one of the biggest drawbacks historically is they can just get carried away by the wind. we tried to use them to spy on the soviet union during the cold war and that was our big problem. >> reporter: if it's not shot down, how would a balloon like this come down? would it just be allowed to crash somewhere? >> if they steer it properly, they would bring it down in a very controlled descent. >> reporter: experts say the spy balloon could be used as a weapons platform, possibly to attack cities or static formations of troops. as one analyst said, there's no limit to the kind of technology you...