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I don t think it will win the many points out of their country. there are so many questions but the use of this balloon, tracey. some experts suggest the china satellites in the sky than collect intelligence far better than any type of balloon. what is your take on this? what a use is a balloon like this? and is it your thought or expertise on if china was able to remotely control it until the very end? so, given my background, i do not believe that this balloon was taking pictures. i think a lot of times, we think anything that s up in the sky is taking pictures. and yes, we have capabilities up in the sky to take pictures of things as small as a license plate. and i m certain china has his capabilities, as well. what i do think this balloon was doing was collecting something called measurement and signals intelligence, or what we call massing for short. this would be things like nuclear radiation, sonar, radar. because if you remember, what is hovering over that montana area wher ....
Down, the military made a thoughtful decision, and i trust the united states military. now we have several reporters in place from washington to beijing to go over all of these new developments in this story. let s go first to deangelis, nbc news investigative reporter. dan, was the balloon able to keep scooping up information as it drifted across the u.s.? that is a really key question, and it looks like the answer is no. u.s. officials are telling nbc and other news organizations that, while the balloon was drifting across the u.s., they were taking what they call a u.s. counter intelligence measures. i.e., they were jamming it, preventing it from scooping up information or eavesdropping. so the argument that it was doing damage that is really an open question. if they were jamming it, then it really wasn t able to do much aside from cause a bit of concern, it was drifting across the u.s., it was not posing some kind of imminent physical threat. so the view from the administratio ....
All of this sort of acts that they are doing is in response to taiwan. in response, china has said that it reserves the right to respond. do you have any concerns over what possible retaliation could look like? do you believe it is all hot air, no pun intended. i think that we should be concerned moving forward with all of our relations with china. i don t think that this specific incident of us shooting down this balloon is going to warrant any sort of action from china, but i do think they clearly want us away from taiwan. they would like to see us completely out of asia, at least the parts of asia that are close to china. and we are going to continue to see them play these kind of games from here on out, because china sees themselves as a rise in power, and they want to show the u.s. and the world who they are. and so we have to think about ....
That would come. and it was handled appropriately. and we are now getting a clearer picture of exactly how the u.s. response played out, at last saturday the balloon was first detected in alaska. on tuesday, it relented continental u.s. airspace, which is when the president asked for military options on wednesday, the president ordered the military to take out the balloon as soon as practicable. on friday, the president was briefed on an execution plan, and on saturday the balloon was shot down. now, the balloons eight-day track is sparking debate and political finger-pointing on capitol hill over the administration s approach. listen here. clearly this was an attempt by china to gather information to defeat our command and control, are sensitive mission weapon sites, and that certainly is an urgency that this administration does not recognize. the president and united states military did what they did, that is my opinion, very just and very defensible. so the president himself s ....
Social media mocking. overall, china s view is that the u.s. overreacted by shooting down the balloon, and it has triggered threats of repercussions from the chinese side. in a statement today, the foreign ministry expressed strong dissatisfaction, and said that using force was a serious violation of international customary practice. note that they did not say it was a violation of international law. but, interesting lee, the chinese statement also says that china will safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the companies concerned. and said that they reserve the right to further necessary responses. and there has been top on social media that maybe the u.s. should be sued for compensation. now, whether the chinese side wants to escalate a situation they described as accidental, is in clear. a a lot of the commentary hee is describing what the u.s. did as an attack, as provocation, but several days and now a downed balloon into this, at no ....