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Can we expect hearings? what do you want to know? it underscores the dysfunctionality of the relationship between the two largest, most powerful nations in the world and we need to carve out a sophisticated sound strategy going forward. there are areas we are going to have to manage conflict, the south china seas and the taiwan straits with the intrusion of air space, areas we ll want to compete, investments in latin america and southeast asia and where we may need to cooperate with climate action and global health. and a nation 1.4 billion people, it s going to require nuance and thoughtfulness. i m optimistic that this committee is up to the task. griff: and as we are showing our viewers pictures, this is from earlier, you re seeing on your screen next to congressman auchincloss, but the picture now that s up is our live camera in myrtle beach. the balloon has not entered there, according to our team on
And balloon that would use spy technology. at biden administration admits that s what this is, a spy balloon, but i don t believe the biden administration when they put out this defense that they didn t intercept the balloon, they didn t shoot it down when they could over the elution islands over the open water when it initially violated alaskan air space. they say that their intelligence collection capability is not any better than a low orbit satellite. that s just not credible. 12 kilometers versus 1,200 kilometers is a big difference in terms of that kind of a platform being able to collect better, higher resolution intelligence, especially when you consider that this balloon and the flight path was over very sensitive, fixed national security sites like a nuclear weapons facility in montana.
So, to allow this spy satellite to continue its path across the continental united states is unacceptable. china s whole song and dance about this being a weather balloon is about as believable as their claim that there was never a blinken trip scheduled. we know that that s not true either. but you know, let s accept for a moment the premise that it would have been too dangerous to shoot it down while it s over land. there s still an opportunity, i suppose, for the biden administration to shoot it down after it s over open water, but can you think of any reason that we would choose not to do that, perhaps that it would allow us to send sort of a mission over china without retaliation from that side? you know, the chinese intercepted u.s. aircraft and took that aircraft apart and gained intelligence when they captured our aircraft. we need to do the same. if we don t have the capability of intercepting it and looking at the instrumentation and technology on this balloon, i
The ground there, but we believe there is a chance we could do it. congressman, i want to ask you a little bit as we wait to see if it s going to go over there, it s been, as i mentioned 24 hours since the pentagon gave us an update. do the american people deserve a little more transparency in knowing where in balloon is? yeah, i think when a foreign actor has aircraft over the united states air space, the american people always deserve transparency and accountability and the biden administration to date has delivered a proportionate response and i expect them to continue to communicate with the american people. i d point out here that the actor that looks weak and incompetent is actually the chinese communist party. the first rule of covert surveillance is don t get caught and secondly can t control this thing and looking like they ve got their hands up in the air, we don t know what to do next.