general glen van hurk explained why he did not order the balloon to be shot down after it entered alaska. >> it was my assessment that this balloon did not present a physical military threat to north america. i could not take immediate action because it was not demonstrating hostile act or hostile intent. >> on tuesday, january 31, the balloon crossed into idaho. the next day president biden gave the order to shoot it down when safe to do so after being briefed by his national security team. general van hurk said the balloon was 200 feet tall, carrying 1,000 to 2,000 pounds of equipment including photographic sensors able possible explosives that were as big as a regional jet. the u.s. flew u-2 spy plane against long side the balloon as it crossed the balloon and collected intelligence on the be a line's capability and ability to transmit signals. >> day to day, we do not have the authority to collect intelligence within the united states of america. in this case, specific authorities were granted to collect intelligence against the balloon specifically. we utilized specific capabilities

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general glen fun. hurk said he could not rule out, but it may have been carrying explosives. beijing says it was a civilian craft that accidentally drifted astray and accused washington of indiscriminate use of force. 40 percent of animals in the u. s. and more than a 3rd of plants are at risk of extinction. that's the start warning from north american. scientists who say the biodiversity that remains must be protected now before it's lost forever. and fisher reports that are changes to the face of america, small slow, but potentially hugely damaging nature. it's also incredibly complex and we don't always know what the sort of the keystone species is that sometimes people call them. so when you have a habitat and species start going extinct or becoming smaller in number, eventually that can cause the collapse of that habitat type. new report from nature surf pills, 5 decades of data from more than 1000 scientists in the us and canada. and it pinpoints areas where land is unprotected and animals and plants are at risk of extinction. part of what so important there is you have data th

gen van hurk that was under president trump and became the top general for norad for the trump and biden administrations admitted u.s. forces failed to defect previous incursions from chinese spy craft in to the united states. >> it's my responsibility to detect threats to north america. i will tell you that we did not detect those threats and that's a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out. >> the fbi is analyzing the debris from the chinese spy ship at their labs in quantico and learneded what they contained. the u.s. flew u-2 spyships collecting information on their transmitting signals. the u-2 planes scrambled messages to the chinese airship to negate its intelligence gathering ability as it crossed the u.s. >> neil: thanks, jennifer. let's go to jacqui heinrich at the white house. are are you hear something. >> we know he will reference it but the president may not focus on it which means we could hear the same things that we often hear about china being a competitor but not an adversary. >> the president has obviously worked to continue to manage our relationship with chi

this whole episode also highlights the need to address that particular issue, and i think general van hurk called them domain awareness challenges which obviously have to be address instead short order. >> congressman, thank you very much for joining me. >>> and coming up, buckle up, we're going to find out a lot more about the grand jury findings regarding donald trump's effort to overturn the election. what those jurors said about key testimony, and why they thought some of the witnesses were lying to them. >>> plus, with one month until march madness kicks off, new mexico state university's men's basketballed. what the school is alleging some players did. >>> but first, it has been eight days since the earthquakes in turkey and syria. incredibly, people are still being rescued alive. but for how much longer. d alive. but for how much longer. ♪ ♪ [ cat purrs ] [ phone vibrates ] introducing astepro allergy. steroid-free allergy relief that starts working in 30 minutes, while other allergy sprays take hours. now with astepro fast allergy relief, [ spray, spray ] you can astepro and go. (v