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Today president biden returns to the white house from camp david as he prepares to deliver the state of the union address tomorrow night to a divided congress. his administration has already been out there previewing the presidents message of building a stronger u.s. economy. in d.c. us capitol police ramping up security, adding a nonscaleable fence around the capitol grounds. joining me to discuss laura lopez white house correspondent for pbs news hour. good to see you this hour. look, the admi...

Theyre the aggressor. they flew a military asset over our sovereign territory. >> are you concerned about retaliation or at the very least escalation in this relationship? >> what i think u.s. military planners will have to think about is, what kind of aircraft they now fly into contested territories say in the south china sea, areas that the u.s. says are international waters that china claims as its own. what china could use this incident for now, no matter who intended it or if it was uninten...

Deviated off its intended course due to weather. here in the u.s. senior administration official tells cnn that chinese spy balloon the one shot down off the coast of south carolina this weekend was not the first to come this way. in fact, three others flew across the continent or parts of it during the trump administration, however, those were only discovered, those flight paths, after joe biden took office. cnn is off the coast in south carolina where u.s. teams are now looking for remnants of...

China accused the United States of 'indiscriminate use of force' after officials shot down a suspected spy balloon.

Which the u.s. said they did use while the balloon was over the u.s. natasha bertrand from the pentagon, thank you. and now, there are allegations of what the u.s. could do to china for taking down the balloon, and the right for china to act similarly, and the u.s. flies crude and uncrude surveillance around the chinese air space which is the global hawk aircraft which can fly on high altitude, and also, the poe sigh -- poseidon which is capable to fire missiles, and i had a chance to be there...

If this was a test, we failed miserably.

Lower to the ground? >> right. one of the things a balloon can do is loiter, can stay over a target. were going to have to see what signals were on there, telemetry, other types of equipment. in my old world this is not particularly the most sophisticated type of platform. this is going to go back to twhat intelligence community really is going to have to assess is why did the chinese do this. why did they choose a platform that in essence was clumsy. the chinese got caught with their hand in th...

Has become more and more abrasive. early on they were almost apologetic. that is not the case right now. what are they saying? >> reporter: so to understand chinas response, lets just look at the current landscape. we have two balloons, one was discovered flying over latin america over colombia, costa rica. and then we have another balloon that was flying over north america, over the united states. this both of these cases, a very similar explanation based off of whether or control issues. china...

A political partisan divide quickly emerged Sunday over the U.S. shoot-down of a Chinese spy balloon, with the Biden administration defending its safe ta

Flew up and shot it down. the administration will now face fierce questioning as early as tuesday from members of congress, from the so-called gang of eight. thats the leaders of both houses of congress from both parties as well as the chairman and ranking members of the house and senate intelligence committees. they may ask about past instances of chinese balloons over the u.s. were told there were at least four others that flew over the continental united states in the past few years. includin...