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Chinese spy balloon last week. beijing calls it a civilian weather balloon. they gave the same explanation to cnn on monday for a second balloon over latin america. cnn obtained images of similar chinese balloons hovering over taiwan in recent months, including this one on new years eve, and this one a few months earlier. at least four balloon sightings in the last two years. the islands relatively small size about the same as the state of florida, gives taiwans military limited time to intercep...

Balloon. inflation is out of control. were struggling with buying groceries. gas is going up. it was just all lies. i stayed up to watch it but i wanted to be here early and hi, mom. [laughter] >> pete: hi mom. we love that donna and andy thank you very much. appreciate it. let me go to ken here real quick. ken served 40 years in the army. thank you for your service. appreciate it. you watched the address last night. you know, from your perspective, what with were your takeaways. >> i was disapp...

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During the trump administration. chinas initial apology for this latest incident that they claim was a weather balloon has turned in to indignation. china says they want it back. >> what i can say is that the airship belonged to china and not the united states. >> reporter: shortly after the u.s. downed the balloon saturday afternoon, the defense department reached out to china to see if it was possible to set up a call between defense secretary austin and his chinese counterpart. the pentagon s...

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The "Daily Show" correspondent pretended to have binge-watched the conservative network for hundreds of hours and, well, there were consequences.

Week. watch. >> president biden: make no mistake about it, we made clear last week, if china threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country and we did. >> steve: okay. >> not a huge reaction, democrats gave it c, independents, d, republicans d plus. it was strong language, people said it was strong language, his actions didnt deliver. he should have acted sooner. anybody who tries to say this is like any other balloon that happened before it is fooling themselves. >> steve: here i...

Japan’s defence minister made the comments as Tokyo probes if other balloons may have been used to obtain intelligence about Japan’s defences in the past or may be used in the future.

Ambassador to France says US had apparently offered assurances that it would not shoot down the balloon and seemed to have accepted Beijing’s explanation.

China has called the decision by the US military to ultimately shoot down the balloon an "overreaction."