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Republican lawmakers on Sunday criticized US President Joe Biden for waiting days to shoot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon as it hovered over the United States.

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>> they said it is deliberate action and that the pentagon had briefed the president about this balloon over montana which is unusual about past balloons like this, and when the president said, okay, shoot it down right now, but the military advised him not to do that because of the risk of the debris could pose to civilians on the ground as well as infrastructure, and not only that, we are told that the officials told the president that the best way to preserve the payload of this balloon, esse...

U.s. military, we have to wonder how much more of that is going to wash up on shore. that is what the department of defense are working right here along the carolina coast. they are making sure if some of that debris washes onshore. it does not fall into the hands of locals and tourists out hear. this is not a memento. this is not something you want to take home. doing so could interfere with a federal investigation. there is a big presence out here making sure if some of this debris comes onsho...

Spy balloon after it was shot down over the weekend. earlier, cnn spotted naval authorities unloading objects from boats close to the site where the balloon went down. and nearby, a resident filmed uniformed men inspecting white material on a boat. cnn cant confirm if it was debris. u.s. officials believe the chinese balloon was used for surveillance, and they grew concern when it moved toward the mainland u.s. and hovered over missile sites. beijing insists it was a civilian research vessel tha...

Commentary Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas, who is delivering the Republican response to President Joe Biden after ...

China confirmed Monday that a balloon identified by Washington and Bogota flying over Latin America is Chinese, after a similar device was shot down by the

His trip to china or whether a new change of action there and also watching to see if the president makes any mention not only of this incident but what is going on with china in his state of the union address tomorrow night. >> dana: mark meredith. thank you. lets bring in general jack keane and your take. i would love to know what you think this morning. a couple of days since it was shot down to think about it all. we got some reaction from republicans. what do you think? >> well, clearly thi...

States where it is clearly going to be discoverable by us. they clearly had some information they were trying to garner that they cant garner from space. >> what could that be? i mean, youre pretty familiar with this. what is it that they think they could have gotten from a balloon or what can be done with a balloon that cant be done with a satellite? >> well, the key obviously is not just the balloon. the key is the payload attached to it, which you have reported as being the size of three buse...

Giving about this other balloon, we know that this is just a case of china spying. i do think, to elaborate on the question, i do think its significant with regard to the diplomatic relationship. we were at a point where antony blinken, secretary of state, was about to head back to china for sensitive diplomatic discussions. and what china wants more than anything right now is to be able to move forward with those discussions. so this is the worst possible thing that could happen for china at a ...