CNN visits possible former site of Chinese balloon factory

CNN's Selina Wang visits a possible former site of one of the six Chinese entities the Biden administration has blacklisted in response to the suspected Chinese spy balloon that traveled across the US. Then, CNN's Erin Burnett is joined by former Trump national security adviser John Bolton, who will be briefed on suspected spy balloons during the Trump administration, to discuss. #CNN #News

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  1. What’s hilarious about this is their own in facing media brags about this kind of stuff all the time, they’re not shy about it, while their outfacing media is all sunshine and puppies. It’s like they think no one else can speak or understand chinese, you you know, has access to google translate.

    1. @Ole Fella Been wondering when the Xinese would get around to that angle, hey what’s 20,000 years when you’re the Middle Kingdom šŸ¦‡šŸ’©šŸ‡ØšŸ‡³

    2. @Ole Fella Chinese do not decolonize lands, they take your land and slave you to communist ideologist where God does not exist, where the tyrants like Xi or kim jong un are gods like and the supreme leaders, then you may ended up with a country like of Cuba.

  2. Great piece, Bolton should know better, he’s citing information that has been publicly shared, comes off as political on team Trump.. Saddens me. Shouldn’t we be team US. Multiple occasions the WH also said theres a great deal of classified information that cant be shared to not give intel to our adversaries. Makes sense to me..

    1. I’m no fan of Trump, I supported Bernie, but Team USA went out the window when Biden became President. To be a liberal now? You have to hate Trump above all else, so I left and became independent. I hate Biden which makes me, believe it or not, a “maga” supporter by default. The lines have been drawn and the tether uniting us has been cut and I can’t blame Trump for that.

    2. “From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 4:17

      “Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.” Matthew 5:38-39

      “And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.” Matthew 6:5-6

    3. Publicly shared means the information has been declassfied or someone broke the law to share the information. In either case the individuals with access to classified information is a small group of people.
      There is a politcal component to anything said by anyone about any person involved in politics. The higher a individual is in the political spectrum, the greater the impact of that individualss’ statements. ie If the US President, or a former US President says it, it carries more weight than if you, or I say it.

    4. ā€œcomes off as political on team Trump..ā€ ā€¦..
      What exactly did he say that has you feeling that he is team trump? Trump aside, I donā€™t know how any American can honestly not be extremely concerned about this administration.
      Or that I am the only one that feels that pretty much everything that comes out their mouth is a lieā€¦
      Itā€™s like they think if they say it enough that it will make it true. It makes me sick every time I hear KJP say ā€œ this is something that the President takes VERY SERIOUSLY. ā€œ like she hasnā€™t totally ruined the true meaning of that phrase. Whatā€™s sad is that it seems to work for way more people than it should. He is truly an embarrassment for this country. Every American should be very concerned because he has completely compromised our country wether people want to believe it, or not. This Anchor sounds like an ignorant bi@%#. Did she even pay attention to the ā€œexcellent pieceā€ from her reporter? Sounds like sheā€™s on chinaā€™s payroll with biden from that interview. Please try to pretend there never was a trump & that he was a trump advisor & watch that interview again. (from 4:36 on) I believe he makes more sense & is more honest than anything that has come from the Biden Administration ever. And I think the fact that he never tried to bring any comparison to the Trump administration into it speaks volumes.

    5. Bolton is not really Team Trump in the traditional sense. Heā€™s basically just a war hawk who wants to drop bombs on any country that looks at us the wrong way. Thatā€™s the crux of his belief system. He was particularly testy here because admitting that the administration that he was a part of didnā€™t detect previous balloons would make him look bad.

  3. Thereā€™s only 1 answer to all these train wrecks(literally) in this administrationā€¦..
    ā€¦..thatā€™s rightā€¦..MOAAAAAR DIVERSITY !!!!!
    Thanks
    ~Jim Eagle

  4. Why arenā€™t you still talking about the mass shooting or the deadly chemicals in the air from the train derailment ? My bad doesnā€™t fit the agenda with either

  5. Bolton’s talkin’ out of his ‘stache. Why is there no trust in the US Intelligence and Military capabilities and recommendations to the White House. Bolton would’ve done the same, given the same recommendations by Sec. Austin, Gen. Mark Milley and others. Period. Oh, I have a period.

  6. That’s too naive to just block certain Chinese companies. If you knew how they do PLA business over decades, they’d created many shell companies setting up in HK.

  7. “The History Guy” did one of his 15 minute YouTube videos all about the history of balloons used by various countries over the years for military or spy or weather or sport. His video is worth a read to get a broader picture of balloons. (I am not suggesting this video to reduce our concern of these recent balloons, only to offer more balloon history.)

    1. You mean “balloon,” don’t you, Patricia? That dark cylindrical object briefly shown from Alaska clearly wasn’t a balloon of any kind.I suggest these so- called journalists take up a new profession if they are be fooled this easily by half-truths, and lies on our government’s part.

  8. China may be a threat, but the stark difference in address of the baloon vs the other 3 objects is a blatant insult to peopleā€™s intelligence. Transparency, please.

  9. 3:50

    ā€œThere is no US surveillance aircraft over Chineseā€¦. UHHHH, in Chinese airspace.ā€

    They choose their words very carefully to deceive the public, but this time he slipped up and made it more obvious.

    Only a fool would believe that the US isnā€™t also doing surveillance ā€œoverā€ Chinese airspace, just like China was doing surveillance ā€œoverā€ US airspace (~60,000 feet). Every country does surveillance on every other country.

    He corrected his wording to ā€œinā€ Chinese airspace, meaning that the US doesnā€™t have anything at lower altitudes which would be a flight risk. The Chinese could also say this exact wording, because their balloon also wasnā€™t ā€œinā€ US airspaceā€¦ it was ā€œoverā€ US airspace.

    This is all a distraction to brainwash Americans in to wanting a war with China.

    Also, they are over publishing this story to distract the public from whatā€™s going on in Ohio. Not many people know about the seriousness of that catastrophe.

  10. john bolton claiming that china would fly a nuke into the US for literally no reason is one of the stupidest things to ever come out of his mouth

  11. Bolton loses face. You can see it. He is big mad that balloons flew over and were documented in a dated chinese documentary.

  12. this ordeal is so funny to me because most of the younger generation uses tiktok, which is a literal chinese data collection app but nobody bats an eye.

    1. Tech friends also explain to me that tiktok also collects data differently than most other apps, and can more easily collect BEYOND the “purpose” of the app. I will never open it on my devices, because of possible contamination and easier hacking capabilities.

    2. @Jack Strubbe your friend know jack sh1t, if tik tok do such activity yet no expert able to document it? why is that?

    3. @Jet Li one of them is a chip designer with decades of experience, some of it in espionage in the military. He demonstrated one night how easy it is to hack into
      other devices which have the app on them from his own company device because of the expanded surveillance technology built into its programming. I most assuredly will trust his “jackshit” over some random guy pitching some unsupported b!tch on YouTube, thank you.

  13. The media is clowning you all so hard they literally have a 5 min story on a balloon factory šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

    1. Finally I found a real person. I’m looking at the comments and can’t believe these weirdos. They must be 50 plus

  14. I find it interesting in ALL of the news I have seen about this incident, no one has mentioned we (USA) developed the first high altitude communication balloons, the ECHO project, in 1960. Mylar was invented for the project because of its durability. And, yes, we DO already have detection equipment to ensure there were no standard nuclear bombs in that “three bus payload”. I am certain, having once been in ground communications in Southeast Asia, that we safely learned more about it by allowing it to travel until it was again over water. Why must we polarly politicize this event to further the split between democrats and repugs, and not accept that our military handled it capably and safely?

  15. Hahaha, I want to laugh when I see reports from CNN and BBC, but anyone who knows a little about balloons knows that. You guys should be reporting more on Ohio.

  16. Is she seriously mocking the ambassador while having obviously ZERO knowledge about nuclear weapons? My hats off to him for being as polite as he was with his response.
    Indeed, all the balloon would need to do is release the weapon. Thatā€™s like a simple 12-volt solenoid opening a latch. Itā€™s as easy as that.

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