that damage. reporter: the newly declassified footage appears to directly concept rah dictate russia s claim that the aircraft did not make physical contact. there was no collision. the problem is that we didn t contact to this drone. the russians have been just flat out lying. flat out lying about their account. reporter: the u.s. has not yet determined whether the pilots intended to directly hit the drone, forcing the u.s. military to crash the drone into the black sea some 80 nautical miles from land. we know that the intercept was intentional. we know that the aggressive behavior was intentional. we also know it was very unprofessional and very unsafe. the actual contact of the fixed wing russian fighter with our uav, the physical contact of those two, not sure yet. reporter: but cnn is learning that the russian pilots did not go rogue. u.s. officials familiar with the intelligence say the pilots were ordered to harass the drone by senior officials in russia s
ordered the pentagon to shoot it down as soon as possible. they decided without doing any damage to anyone on the ground, they decided that the best time to do that was out over the water within our, within a 12-mile limit. they successfully took it down. maria: but at what cost? coming up, the new chairman of the house select committee on china, wisconsin congressman, former marine mike gallagher, also a member of the house armed services and intelligence committees on how much damage has been done in one week after the secretary of state anthony blinken initially suggests just canceling his trip was enough of a response from america. it s a violation of our sovereignty, it s a violation of international law. and it was very important that we, of course, take the actions we did to protect any sensitive information, to protect our people and to make clear to china that, again, this is an unacceptable as well as irresponsible action. maria: then the surveillance balloon s
ocean currents, a gyre that keeps it in place as it deco decomposes. this one has broken off and has doubled in size in a month. and scientists think maybe it has to do with warmer waters due to climate change, nutrient pollution, phosphorus, nitrogen. we ve seen that sort of trigger the red tide and the toxic algae blooms around florida as well. it s hitting the yucatan peninsula now, the beaches there. it probably wouldn t hit florida until july or so. and what can be done to prevent this from hitting the beaches? i was talking to some experts actually up in maine who work with seaweed as a carbon capture tool and they say there are plenty of guys with, you know, trawler rigs, two boats pulling a net, that could get in front of it, sort of corral it, and then they would chop it up and sink it in deep ocean, which actually would be a net benefit for the planet because it captures carbon and sends it, locks it away deep on the ocean bed there as well. but right now there s no incen
it down without fear of debris or harm to civilians on the ground. and if we don t have the capability to neutralize it, corral it, collect it, look under the hood and exploit it, well, that s a capability we need to develop with a $850 billion defense budget because i suspect this isn t the last time we re going to the see a chinese probe. we need to kick pla-affiliated researchers off more than universities, we need to make sure that ccp affiliates can t buy land next to sensitive military bases in america, and we need to shut down what are effectively ccp police stations here on american soil. this is unacceptable. we need to defend american sovereignty. maria: and i know these are things that the you have been working on as chairman of the newly-formed china select committee. i want to talk about that, because it seems that you are on an uphill battle here with regard to corporate america. i mean, you have investment funds right now, as we speak, you ve got the thrift fund which is
then you could have huge problems. the problem with the tea party is not that they re misidentifying, it s that they found out their wife has cancer and they want to grab a kitchen knife and cut it out. they don t want to understand it. why are you coming at me with a knife when i found out i had cancer? go ahead, mark. that s at least a better analogy than calling them terrorists. they re not terrorists. they accurately observed the problem and they re so freaked out, they grab a knife and try and stab you. henry, i m curious, you haven t said anything in this discussion about the role, if any of the european entitlement state. what about that? well, again, it s a question of whether it s pan-european or each particular country. obviously the attempts do corral it in greece and so forth are simply not working. you can t austerity doesn t