dialed in they were listening in and american officials believe the spy balloon was tuned into u.s. conversations. president biden is down playing the entire episode. president biden: it is not a measurable breach. it is a violation of national law. or airspace. we can do what we want with it once it s there. the balloon had multiple antenna to eavesdrop and soak up information. the government wants to know exactly what the chinese heard. until we actually have the hardware that was on that balloon we can t say for sure. we can take educated guesses of it. we can t know for sure. that s why we should have shot it down as soon as it was approaching alaska, china should not be able to send air ships into our airspace. upset lawmakers pressed officials about what the balloon was doing and why the u.s. held off for so long before shooting down the balloon. you can just say yes or no. you don t need to get into specifics. did we know what they were trying to collect, yes
according to a report in the wall street journal. iran has already given the russian military hundreds of drones that have destroyed targets, military and civilian, across ukraine. there is no such thing as just the iranian threat or just the russian threat. they are more connected and more problematic. as exhibited by the proliferation problem they ll cause more chaos, mayhem and death. the weapons group conflict armament research just released a report analyzing an unexploded iranian drone found in ukraine. the war head was designed to insure maximum damage to critical infrastructure while making it difficult to repair quickly. earlier this month c.i.a. director bill burns said when he was recently in ukraine for 30 hours, he spent six of them in a bombshell tear because of russian strikes with iranian drones, the kind the russians use to kill civilians there. yesterday russian president