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GILCHRIST: “So Steven, as we understand it, this assessment that was done by the U.S. intelligence community says that this balloon connected to a U.S.-based internet service provider as it was moving across the continental United States, and the purpose was to be able to send and receive information from China, communications information, primarily navigational information as we understand it, from this assessment, in these really short transmission bursts as it was moving from west to east here across the United States. The administration, according to this reporting and sources, tried to get a court order from this highly secret FISA court, as it’s called, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court, and the point there was to be able to collect electronic information from the balloon, intelligence information, while it was over the United States. We don’t know at this point whether the administration was actually able to get that court order. The company that was — the internet service provider that we’re not naming in order to protect some of our sources here, denied that the balloon was able to connect to its network, and that was based on its own investigation.”