a special interest or reacting in an unusual way? no. in the back. john, who questions. one, you mentioned early on that the china balloon might have been giving limited capabilities, i assume you mean on to their satellite surveillance. can you specify what exactly it s getting from a blon that they re not getting from satellites the caveat that we haven t fully recovered everything, that we have recovered some things from the bottom of the atlantic and we re analyzing that. with that caveat, that we don t know exactly what this balloon was surveilling or what its capabilities were. so just in general, an important caveat that i d like you to remember. when you are at a lower altitude
in concert with u.s. coast guard but they re also involved in trying to locate the degree. there was good communication with our canadian allies. a foreign government taking a special interest in this object from yesterday? reacting in an unusual way? no. thanks, john. two questions. one, you mentioned early on that the the china balloon might have been giving limited additive capabilities. i assume you re meaning onto their satellite surveillance. can you specify what exactly it s getting from a balloon that they re not getting from orbiting satellites that go over us? with the caveat we haven t fully recovered everything, although we have recovered some things from the bottom of the atlantic, and we re analyzing that, but with that caveat that we don t know exactly what this balloon was surveilling or what its capabilities were, so just
civilian craft story. you know, that might be true. it doesn t look like it, according to the experts. but regardless, how important is it for the biden administration politically and otherwise to prove the chinese story wrong, to get that stuff out of the water and to an fbi lab and say, see, we were right about this? that s a really good point. again, i think the implications are more significant for international relations than for domestic politics. and i think that will be a very important point that they will want to underscore. there are obviously issues, i m daughter sure you ve talked to other experts who have said exactly why did they need a balloon traversing the u.s. when they have a satellite system that can satellite surveillance that can presumably achieve many of the same goal? this was a provocative act. it was not something that they had to do. they can argue that they were responding to our own spy planes and so forth, but the reality is, in a context in which we
to the experts. but regardless, how important is it for the biden administration politically and otherwise to prove the chinese story wrong to get that stuff out of the water and to a fbi lab and say, see, we were right about this. that s a really good point. look, again, i think the implications are more significant for international relations than for domestic politics, and i think that will be a very important point that they will want to underscore. there are obviously issues. and i m sure you ve talked to other experts who said, exactly why did they need a balloon traversing the u.s. when they have a satellite system that can satellite surveillance, they can presumably achooe many of the same goals. this was a provocative act. it was not something that they had to do. you know, they can argue they re responding to our own spy planes and so forth, but the reality is that in a context in which we have seen both parties move away from where they were under bill clinton and certai
as satellite surveillance. and maybe they also this is beside the point. might to s may be probing us to se be what our response is becauseur g they don t look atenit our magnanimity as kindness to be reciprocated kin lower. they look at that as weaknesse l to be exploited. and finally, this is a lonoig i chain. i mean, we ve got mark milley ya assuring us last year that kabul was defensible. it wouldn t fall. we were told ukraine would fall very quickly to the russians. we were told that mark milley contacted his chinese counterpart to warn him that adva milley would call him in advance if donald trump seemed unsteady. ma had in addition to that, mark milley gave this testimonyo before congress where without datao ro and no supporting evidence, he said he was going to root out white rage, white supremac, wey, white privilege.p and all thaten has done is offended a constituency. it s died at twic their numbers in iraq and afghanistan and their 50% ad