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seepage over nebraska. there goes the heartland. what is your greatest concern, as we track something that is the size of three buses, now, that china says was taken by wind, wind that we cannot substantiate? my concern is that the federal government obviously does not know what is in that balloon. is that bioweapons in that balloon? you ve got ballooned take off from wuhan? we don t know anything about that balloon. that was a republican chair of the house oversight committee. and he is right about one thing. he does not know anything about that balloon. he cannot say that. maybe it s a buy weapon. maybe it s from hahn. shoot it down. maybe blame biden. this balloon is tailor made for the modern gop. we will talk in just a minute with a top democrat on the house intelligence committee he is a member of the gang of eight his staff was actually briefed on this today. and we will get the lowdown on what is actually going on from him directly coming up next.
bees. how do we know what the chinese have in their balloon. during world war ii the chinese used balloons to drop bombs on us. they killed six americans in oregon. the only deaths in the cidges united states during the war. this could be a test run for the chinese. they float a balloon out here just to see how we react. if they know joe freezes at the first sight of a balloon, the next balloon might be filled with another virus. pop, droplets all over we are all on ventilators again. now, how do we know the next balloon isn t loaded one bioweapons? just a little seepage over nebraska. there goes the heartland. why are we letting them get away with this? the last time we flew a spy plane near china, they knocked it down, remember? the u.s. surveillance plane took off from air base in okinawa, japan after being intercepted by two chinese fighters the u.s. said one of them slammed into the slower moving american plane about 70 miles southeast of china s coast which is an international
this matter in a way that will not harm people unexpectedly. we have some republicans who have been spreading conspiracy theories about this balloon including the chair of the oversight committee that you serve, anna let s take a listen to what congressman james comer told fox. what is your greatest concern as we track something that is the size of three buses, now, that china says was taken by wind. when that week can t substantiate. my concern is that the federal government, obviously doesn t bioweapons in that bill, into that balloon take off from wuhan. we don t know anything about the balloon. what do you make of those comments? well i think those are the type of comments that could stoked fear and concerns as it relates to our asian american communities, which gives me great concern. but yes, we don t know what s in the balloons which is why we
the ocean. we just don t know. so underscore that point then, because of the unknown, of the payload, of how it is being fueled, what kind of assessments might have already taken place or what assessments might be absent because people don t really know, you know, what s in it, or do you believe intelligence, to some degree, does know what they re dealing with? i don t think we know for sure what s in that payload. and it s a big payload. look at the scale of the balloon, this is a payload that is several tons. it s big. and we don t know what s there, but it s hard to imagine that i hear these conspiracy theories, bioweapons and electromagnetic pulse and so forth. i think that s highly unlikely and i think it s likely that it s loaded with electronics and