White House: 'Confident' Spy Balloon Didn't Get Anything Beyond What China Can Get Anyway 'Because We Knew Where It Was Going'

On Monday's broadcast of NewsNation's "Elizabeth Vargas Reports," White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby reacted to an NBC News report on the Chinese spy balloon gathering data from sensitive sites by stating that while we're still analyzing material from the balloon, "we're confident, because we knew where it was going, we were confident that it didn't discover anything really additive to what they could have gotten from other intelligence sources." And that the U.S. "exploited on" the balloon while it was over American airspace and "took really appropriate steps to make sure that it wasn't going to get anything of great value."