ira allegedly after the government knew about the leaks and were desperately trying to find out who was behind it. we learned all that and more after 21 year old tixeira made his appearance in court today. jonathan shunt live in or wes coast news room with all the details. it was a brief court appearance for the accused leaker today in federal court in boston beginning a likely lengthy legal process and potentially a very long prison sentence. if 21 year old jack tixeira if he is found guilty under the espionage act. there are very serious penalties with that. sign there s if you try toep does he need its thisg mants goo astounding torting this ist forw look are. serious consequences that this country faces. we live in an extremely dangerous world and we are probably the most attractive jewel on the planet, and it s essential that we have intelligence agencies operating to make sure that we americans are what i have thought about sharing whether it was on a game site
been for more. yeah kaylie, it just gets worse and worse. you know, it turns out there wasn t just one, uh, chinese by balloon, but a whole series of chinese bible and floating around the world over sensitive places and look, let s not call them spy balloon because that makes it sound like were the kids birthday party? the chinese call them espionage, spy airships, airships, the very sophisticated airships. they carry enough solar power panels to generate 10,000. watts of electricity. they carry sophisticated radar they carry sophisticated. cameras they can gather information as they weren t undoubtedly doing. over malmstrom air force base up in up in montana as it surveilled the air force base and made figure h around the air force. they used to make sure that it located all the planes and missiles and so forth that it was interested in finding and you know, and we still don t know all of the capabilities of this air shared because instead of doing the sensible thing and bringing it d