cnn s casey hunt above that discovery. because of the intelligence community made this a priority after the direction of president biden, we enhanced our surveillance of our territorial airspace. we enhanced our capacity to be able to detect things as the trump administration wasn t able to detect. we were also able to go back and look at the historical patterns. and that led us to come to understand that during the trump administration as you said, there were multiple instances where the surveillance balloons traversed american airspace, and american territory. okay, let me bring in our guest now. we have cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. political commentators era louis and scott jennings, and national security analyst john turner. sean, i wanna start with. you help us understand how the intel community can enhance their detection process and look into the past to see how many balloons floated over years ago. yeah, i ll say it s clear to
last few days is they were able to collect intelligence about the way the balloon was transmitting information, for example, and other ways about how it maneuvered. ultimately we re told that the administration doesn t believe it was able to gather that much intelligence at all because the specifications were not all that sophisticated, no more sophisticated than the satellites the chinese have hovering in orbit as we speak. the issue with the satellites is they do not stay in one place for as long as a balloon can. a balloon can loiter for a much longer period of time as it did over montana, for example. the officials we spoke to said there are with steps taken to cover up certain areas, to make sure no unencrypted communications were happening in the vicinity of the balloon and minimize the ability of the balloon to collect intel. one detail we learned today is that the u.s. military actually doesn t have the capability on a day-to-day basis to collect intelligence on thing
creating an underground road of exotic animals, as pets. it s a massive problem and globally, the illegal pet trade is, again, driving many animal towards extinction. and we think of it oftentimes, as kind of other world problems. this is an opportunity to let people know that animals need to be left alone in their homes. i don t sound so old when i say this, it doesn t help that social media influencers are saying to kids that it is cool to have this thing in your house. you think that that might be where the motivation? is that kind of influence? i do. i do. ed lavandera, cnn, dallas. okay, now, here in new york city, zookeepers at the central park zoo are desperate to recapture a eurasian eagle named follicle. authorities say the bird escape towards enclosure on thursday, after the exhibit was vandalized. the elephant spotted around central park and out on nearby fifth avenue, as well but i
the global lead, the illegal pet trade is, again, driving many animals toward extinction, and we think of it oftentimes as a kind of other world problem. this is an opportunity to let people know that, you know, animals need to be left alone in their homes. i m going to sound so old when i say this, it doesn t help that social media influencers are showing kids that it s cool to have this thing in the house. do you think that might be one of the motivations here? is that kind of influence? i do. i do. reporter: the suspect is being held on $25,000 bond. zoo keepers here say these incidents have been a profoundly disturbing gut punch, but what still looms over the zoo is why all of this happened. there s just no known motive yet, jake. ed lavandera, at the dallas zoo. thank you so much. tune into our special coverage of president biden s state of the union address tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. our coverage continues with wolf