shootdown saying that the u.s. was overreacting and seriously violating international practice when it s the one that first, you know, violated u.s. sovereignty and u.s. airspace. but it also said, china saying, it reserves the right to use necessary means to deal with similar situations as will ripley was reporting. what do you think that means? a lot like russia. china continues to bluster and threaten when they know they are doing things that are against international standards. they will repeatedly say, hey, we reserve the right to do more things when they know they have been caught red-handed. i will go back to another thing in terms of the testing of intelligence sources. i would bet as we get more and more information from the u.s. government, from the administration, we will learn that there were multiple demashes towards the chinese government in the week ahead of the shootdown. we knew this balloon was going across the bering sea as early
i m sure, as you know, republicans have been claiming that this was a national security failure. it was definitely not a national security failure. good morning to you. i said before some of this events happened yesterday that they need to leave it to the professionals, it that there was probably a lot more behind what was going on from both an intelligence perspective and a search perspective and an overwatch perspective that some of the republicans who were tweeting just shoot it down, just shoot it down for the last day that they knew about it, just didn t understand. now, that s not a bias on my part. i know the fact that when you are talking about tracking a satellite or something that s coming into your airspace you not only wouldn t to see what it s going to do, you want to collect intelligence on what the other side is doing, and that s what the biden administration did. as that balloon went across the bering sea into the aleutian
beijing and deep understanding on the u.s. side that they screwed up here because both sides have an interest in wanting smooth u.s./china relations, but we don t want it so bad that we are going to accept this kind of provocation and just go on like business as usual. biden can t do that. politics in the united states won t allow for that. the chinese don t understand that. they get it now. now they started something they can t finish. w what that tells us is that this trip was not really something that was going to change u.s./china relationes in the first place. it s not as if we were about to enter a kumbaya moment and everything would be fine. it s deeper than a trip or a balloon, and that s why i think u.s./china relationships are destined to go down. your read this was not intentional perhaps by someone been the ccp that may have been trying to sabotage antony blinken s trip? i have heard that theory. we can t be sure. my best sources tell me, again,
the american people and other members of congress as well as our military actions to what we were going to do. but in watching it for such a long time, we gained an awful lot of intelligence about what the chinese were doing. remember, this is not the only balloon they have launched. they have launched balloons inside of taiwan. there is currently another one in latin america as the administration says and they have a fleet of close to 50 of these electronic surveillance balloons like we to, by the way. so, yeah, i think there was a lot of intelligence gathering on both sides. i think the americans got the upper hands on what we were able to gather. you re right to mention, there is a second balloon spotted with similar characteristics, over south america and i think there were several spy balloons spotted during the trump administration as well, the continental u.s. you talk about, which is fascinating to me, general, a study of reactions. and it s quite rich to hear china s reactio
there have been multiple sightings of this white balloon from eyewitnesses in both costa rica and colombia. stefano is in boeing da, colombia because, this morning. what have authorities said about this? reporter: both the colombians and costa ricans have confirmed to cnn these sightings occurred. the military air force released a statement saying that they first sighted a second balloon over the colombian airspace on saturday. it was cruising 50,000 feet above sea level at around 30 miles per hour and most importantly, and i quote, the colombians assess this did not represent a threat to security and national defense. they said that the balloon left airspace friday and saturday and now, as you said, the big question is where it is now.