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possible explosives to deflate the balloon. gillian: in a moment, karine jean-pierre will be asked questions why the president waited nearly a week to shoot it down. john: we will bring you the white house briefing when it begins. john roberts in washington, good to kick the week off with you. gillian: you, too, john. i m gillian turner in for sandra smith. the president said ordered the military to take out the balloon after it had been drifting for days. they say the military should have listened. he projected weakness at this moment. i think the administration lacks urgency. became a situation of argument and everybody wondering what is the administration doing. this is a wake-up call for the country. gillian: john kirby pushed back, said it gave the u.s. time to study the balloon, as well as chinese s motives. john: seems clear china s motive is to replace the united states as the leading superpower. a list of how china has provoked and escalated t ....
so now here s what we know. the balloon is about 200 feet high, the pay load, which you saw suspended beneath it to gather intelligence was about the size of a jetliner. that debris, which is expected to include glass solar panels was spread out over the size of 15 football fields. may have included battery material, explosives that would detonate that vehicle. the pieces now on their way, some of them, to the fbi lab at quantico for analysis. so there s a lot of discussion about how this thing was brought down and whether or not it maximized our ability to understand what it was and what was in it. as i mentioned, we re watching the white house. the press briefing is john going. we re waiting for fresh answers about what happened up there, new reaction. china says there might be a further response merited for the united states from our taking this out of the sky over the weekend. today fox news spoke with the gentleman who disclosed that this was up there in the sky wi ....
Jean-pierre s appearance at the podium to take questions about the balloon. one of brian deese s last jobs at the podium. he will be leaving the white house. he will be departing. reporters are all geared up to talk about the balloon. that s the most highly anticipated topic. john: they want to talk about the state of the union that will do it for us. the story with martha starts right now. martha: thanks. we re covering what is happening at the white house. we ll take you there live as soon as karine jean-pierre gets questions on that. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. breaking right now on the story, we re learning new details about what was in this chinese spy flight vehicle that was sent crashing to the ocean by after the its run-in with an f-22. ....