i don t remember, recollect this. i ve had some personal experience with using balloons as intelligence collector, particularly for imagery, and they re not very efficient for that purpose. that s why i m a little skeptical of that imagery. they re so subject to the vagaries of weather. you know, mist, fog, rain, and especially as we ve seen in this case, wind. they re hard to control. so i m very interested to learn if we can publicly just what sort of sensor suite was in the payload of the balloon. and do we have the technical capabilities do you think to, to already know, what the surveillance equipment was doing. could they have gotten a close look at it before it was shot down to know what this thing is? i ll just say that s possible. i don t know. either through direct
pentagon involving u.s. intelligence agencies as well, and the white house? well, i think for sure, the discussion, one item of interest to me, which i m sure is under discussion, is exactly what is the sensor suite on this balloon? i am kind of inclined to believe the chinese that this thing, this is errant, it wandered off course, i think they haven t been entirely forthcoming with what is on it in the way of a sensor suite. the chinese, as others have pointed out, have a very capable overhead reconnaissance satellite system that can give all of the intelligence they need, and having had some personal experience with using balloons for intelligence collection, they re not real efficient, and we re kind of seeing an example of that, because they are subject to the vagaries of weather, mist, fog, and especially wind.
technology that they might be more inclined to shoot it down, if they could do it in such a way that would not cause harm on the ground, so this is an interesting point to speculate, and as i said, i don t have any inside baseball on the sensor suite on that, on that balloon. i assume the intelligence community and the administration does, and that is accordingly influencing their decision making. therein lies the many curiosities we all. have we re all riveted for a variety of reasons. james clapper, appreciate you. thank you so much. thanks. all right, and still ahead, a brutal arctic blast, making its way across parts of the country right now, more than 15 million northeasterners are facing life-threatening conditions. and temperatures dipping well below zero. the forecast straight ahead. plus, an update on the investigation into the horrific beating death of tyre nichols, a
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