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State, antony blinken is expected to visit china and after the u.s. announced a new military deal with the philippines to expand america s presence there. joining us now nbc s courtney kube who was the first to report this story, and general barry mccaffrey, retired four-star general and an nbc news military analyst. courtney, what are officials saying about this balloon? what really is it, and how did the u.s. learn about its presence? so the u.s. military first started tracking this several days ago. it moved down from the aleutian islands through canada into montana, and they were watching it during its entire track. they re characterizing it as a high altitude surveillance balloon, so something that is gathering, collecting information. they ve been really particular about not saying what kind of information it can gather with the exception of the fact a senior defense official told me they don t believe it has any kind of new or different intelligence capabilities beyond some of ....