tried to be very responsive. i'm very impressed by him. the only important question we don't have an answer to, was this a chinese attempt to collect intelligence? for a variety reasons, it sound less likely by far than we may have assumed. maybe it's a meteorological balloon. maybe it came from russia. who knows. when they get the debris field off the ice, i assume within a few days, they'll know who manufactured it and what kind of information it was collecting. more to follow. >> you believe it's less, and let's be very clear, we done know. you have watched the same briefings we have watched. behind the scenes, courtney, and allie, and everybody else are working their sources. at this point, we know what the facts are as they have been laid out to us from the white house and pentagon. you have suggested that you think based on what you have heard, it is less likely that