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china says that contraption over the united states is just researching weather. yeah, okay, sure. the lead starts right now. china is calling it a civilian airship. the u.s. calls it a spy balloon. whatever you call it, it s causing a huge diplomatic riff between two global superpowers as the pentagon contemplates shooting it down. and hate in home schooling. the discovery of disturbing pro-nazi and disturbing teachings to kids in ohio sparking a debate over what parents can teach their children at home under the auspices of education. chatgpt growing faster than tiktok or instagram, bound to revolutionize how we operate, maybe even about to take your day job. welcome to the lead. secretary of state blinken is talking about his canceled trip to china. let s listen in. in our skies is a clear violation of our sovereignty, a clear violation of international law, and clearly unacceptable. and we ve made that clear to china. any country that has its air space vi ....
right, exactly! all these commonsense questions are being asked. you know, i heard different congressmen or senators bring up the idea that, hey, it s crossing montana. it s crossing wyoming, kansas, all of these areas where you couldn t find a couple of square miles where you could put it down in where it s not dangerous. what did you know beforehand? did it even cross the allusions? more balloons came across during the trump administration but they didn t know about it. there are so many unanswered commonsense questions they should just address openly instead of trying to hide this veil of competence that s not there. trace: open is not a word i would use with this administration in recent months. dave sears, thank you for coming on. in the meantime, all the balloon intrigue this weekend led to an american-owned research balloon soaring over the southeast being mistaken for the chinese spy ....
sure, maybe you wait for it to go over alaska. you have an intelligence gain/loss factor. hey, can i gather intelligence on this as it s airborne, pull signals off of it? see where it flies? and then shoot it down? should i wait for it to transit that and enter just the end of the aletiuan islands or see where it s headed after itcrosses the aletians and shoot it down there. a difficult cold-water recovery. could i shoot it down the beginning of montana or anywhere along the states to make a land recovery? all of that is possible. the administration is really running into commonsense questions it s having a hard time answering. my question would be the very same which is did you know all of this before it came across alaska and came down through montana? did you know that, oh, this wasn t going to gather intelligence about military sites? or were you just hoping for the best? your thoughts. ....
The claim the balloon was for civilian purposes floating off course did not change their mind. i can only imagine what the reaction would be in china if they were on the other end. and what this has done is created the conditions that undermine the you were of the trip. reporter: the balloon is flying at 60,000 feet equipped with solar panels for power and a surveillance payload. the pentagon says steps have been taken to protect sensitive intelligence targets beneath it, which may include silos of missiles the scattered across montana. u.s. defense officials have been tracking the balloon closely for several days debating whether to shoot it down. advising president biden it would be too dangerous. we assessed it. it does not propose a risk to people on the ground. out of caution, cognizant of the ....
Potential debris field, right now, we re going to continue to monitor ask review options. reporter: satellite and other data caught the balloon may have originated in central china with weather patterns pushing it out into canada and down into the united states. it has been crossing montana and into missouri. with current conditions, it could continue east and enter the atlantic ocean from north carolina. it can maneuver itself and has changed course. currently floating over the central u.s., officials say, while offers more on its precise location. and they have. curiously training eyes and c cameras towards the skies. pilots reported seeing the balloon flying by reporting sightings to air traffic control. unless this balloon is shot down or somehow brought down, the pentagon does believe it will ....