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Transcripts for MSNBC Katy Tur Reports 20240604 19:58:00

Why they did another flight earlier this morning to see if we could get more, the speed, the conditions up there, made it a little bit more difficult. there were at least two i know of. at least two. last night, tried to glean as much information as they could about what it was. and then another flight today, and that flight ended up in a shoot down. one more question. i think we re running out of time. reporter: from the white house podium, do you have a message for whoever is responsible for this aircraft or anyone who may have similar aircraft about what the white house was doing. rather than sending some sort of message this that way, i ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Katy Tur Reports 20240604 19:33:00

Or privately owned, we just don t know. that s why i said, state owned, we don t know if it s state owned, and we don t understand the full purpose. we don t have any we don t have any information that would confirm a stated purpose for this object. we do expect to be able to recover the debris since it fell not only within our territorial space but on what we believe is frozen water, so a recovery effort will be made. and we re hopeful that it will be successful, and we can learn a little bit more about it. was its appearance like the chinese aircraft? it was much much smaller than the spy balloon we took down last saturday. the way it was described to me, it was roughly the size of a small car as opposed to a ....

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom 20240604 19:33:00

Because that s the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it. whether it is a whether it is state-owned or corporate-owned or privately-owned. we don t know. we don t know. we don t know if it is state-owned. and we don t understand the full purpose. we don t have any we don t have any information that would confirm a stated purpose for this object. we do expect to be able to recover the debris since it fell not only within our territorial space, but on what we believe is frozen water. so recovery effort will be made and we re hopeful it will be successful and we can learn a little bit more about it. was its appearance like the chinese aircraft? no, it was it was much, much smaller than the spy balloon that we took down last ....

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom 20240604 19:57:00

thank you. you mentioned that there were fighter aircraft who were able to determine that it likely was not manned. were those fighter aircraft able to determine anything else about it from up close that they wouldn t be able to find out otherwise? they worked really hard to get as much information as they could about this object. given its size, which was much sma smaller, and the capabilities on the fighter aircraft themselves, the speed at which they were fl flying, it was difficult for the pilots to glean a whole lot of information. not like we were able to glean off the balloon not the other balloon, the balloon, thank you, michael, and we also had several days to track that. so there was a limit to how much they could divine. also it was detected at night, and so the first engagement by fighter aircraft late last night ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Katy Tur Reports 20240604 19:57:00

Were those fighter aircraft able to determine anything else about it up close that they wouldn t be able to find out otherwise? they worked hard to get as much information as they could about this object. given its size, the speed at which they were flying, it was difficult for the pilots to glean a whole lot of information, not like we were able to glean off the balloon, and not the other balloon, the balloon. thank you, michael. and we also have, you know, several days to track that. so there was a limit to how much they could also it was detected at night, and so the first engagement by fighter aircraft late last night was, again, difficult for them, you know, it was a small object, and these are fighter aircraft flying at pretty high speed, and the ability to glean a lot of information was limited which is ....

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