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The pentagon, however, claims it is another surveillance balloon. >> the pentagon not buying chinese explanations. just two days ago you will probably remember the u.s. military fighter jet an f-22 with a single missile shot down a suspected chinese surveillance balloon six miles off the coast of north carolina. the navy is now searching for what remains of that balloon on the surface and below the waves. cnns dianne gallagher joins us live from a boat near that search. i know theyre keeping you...

What are you hearing on the him? >> hawkishness on china is probably the single most animating principle among house republicans and theres no exception to that here. they believe to marks point that this wasnt an accident by china. this was a message that china was sending that they could do what they wanted by floating this balloon over the entire continental united states. house republicans argue the biden administrations failings ended basically when this was allowed to cross into american t...

Down the predecessor, the p 3 and it had to emergency land on an island. that, again, was an incursion, aggressive act on the part of the chinese. so for the united states to be concerned about retaliation, i think thats -- frankly the entire incident for the most part being flipped is a little bit of a nothing burger. this was an opportunity for the united states to declare our priority when they first detected the balloon to say were going to do something with it. if this thing enters into the...

Good to be with you, im kay katy tur, the chinese spy balloon is still hanging over the white house. why they didnt know about it sooner and what the u.s. was able to gather about the balloon while it was still in the air. the gang of eight is waiting for a full briefing. the white house has offered one and its expected to get on the schedule next week. house intel chair republican mike turner said the balloon exposed a weakness at the top. >> clearly this was an attempt by china to gather infor...

Weighing thousands of pounds roughly the size of a regional jet. >> oh, my god, they shot it down. >> reporter: shot down by a u.s. missile on saturday afternoon. >> they just shot it. >> reporter: a blue bird day on the coast of south carolina, after taking a four to five-day journey across the u.s. first catching the attention of everyday americans in montana. >> what the heck is that? >> reporter: but the agency tracking americas air space new the minute it entered alaskan skies. biden first ...

Here at home this evening, the warnings of a possible imminent explosion sending families fleeing in ohio. a train carrying dangerous chemicals derailing, forcing evacuations. several of the cars carrying vinyl chloride. and tonight, the careful operation under way at this hour at the site. trying to assert a potential explosion. tonight, news on that chinese spy balloon shot down by the u.s. by an f-22. the teams moving quickly to recover key pieces. the debris field more than 15 football fie...

Themes on the economy, very clear progress, acknowledging work to do. foreign policy as well. not a central focus on the chinese balloon that we have watched over the course of the last weeks, but a broader point about the inflection point he views between the u.s. and china in terms of competition. as for what the president wanted to telegraph, this is what he said. >> yeah, i want to talk to the american people and let them know the state of affairs, whats going on, what im looking forward to ...

Arriving at quantico according to a law enforcement source. the debris could help provide key answers about the balloons capability. the faa is restricting air space off the south carolina coast, that is where cnns dianne gallagher is tracking the recovery efforts in the waters off the carolina coast. tell us what youre seeing? >> reporter: yeah, john. i can tell you that we are much further closer to the coastline than we were earlier this morning, and thats because essentially we went out on t...

Since previous balloon flights had been not really reacted to, not noticed publicly, that maybe china was pushing the boundaries. theres even analysis out there that the diplomatic side versus the military side within the chinese government are at odds and while the diplomats wanted to smooth things over, the military remains more hawkish and so they sent this balloon out to jettison any warming of relations. in either case, theyre definitely going to be taking advantage of it, at least the hard...

Debris in the atlantic ocean. cnns natasha bertrand you here for us. natasha, were learning a little bit more about just how valuable that debris could be. what are you hearing? >> thats exactly right. so the commander of northcom briefed reporters and saying the delay in shooting down the balloon allowed the u.s. to collect very significant intelligence about what was actually inside of it, and the reason they were able to do that, actually, is because they were granted -- the military was gran...