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I think we have to play this offense as well as defense by the republican party hopefully can see that campbell as itself. >> dividend alencia, thank you. next, a case against president former president donald trump. just as that case might be going to a jury. our legal analysts on the bizarre situation. plus, the u.s. military is working to recover the chinese balloon shot down off the coast of south carolina. we are going to continue to follow that story. follow that story. mouth to mission co...

This is bbc news, im tanya bekett with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. shot out of the sky — the us military gets the chinese balloon that had been floating in american air—space. they successfully took it down, and i want to complement our aviators who did it. three airports were shut and the airspace was closed — it came down off the us east coast. suddenly we saw something take off from the jet, knew it was a missile. and you could see the explosion — ...

Wrong, theyve lost control of it — and i think that in beijing, the left hand doesnt know what the right hand is doing, and they suddenly realise they have this military challenge going on at a time when blinken was due to go to china and the make democrat americans are making it clear, "if you play these games, there will be costs." nobody expects that meeting not to take place, its just delayed, which that meeting not to take place, itsjust delayed, which means the chinese will have to take ...

Capacity that the balloon had. taking it down at this point was purely symbolic. >> yeah. the first thing we did was start to jam it because the decision was made early on to let across the united states. i know there is a lot of concern that it should have been shot down earlier and in fact, it couldve been shot down when it crossed into american airspace up near alaska and before it went into canada. but the concern -- we were able to jam all that stuff, in any case. and now that the debris ha...

Miles off the coast near myrtle beach, south carolina. president biden said this right after the balloon was shot down. >> i told them to shoot it down. >> a recommendation? >> they said lets wait until the safest place to do it. >> biden was not immediately clear how long recovery of the balloon will take -- joining me now are returned u.s. army colonel and msnbc military analyst jack jacobs and -- colonel, i would like to start with you. talk to us about how this kind of operation may have bee...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken postponed his visit to China after the scandal involving the Chinese balloon that flew over the country's

Earlier on Saturday, fighter jets shot down the balloon - which China claims was a civilian unmanned airship - that had been adrift across US airspace for days now.

Cia director that taiwan is almost about to be under attack we know china is going to attack them so knowing what we know about the -- about the attack taiwan, knowing that we just been having these balloon just floating all over the united states. are we prepared from a military perspective, sir? >> well, obviously, lawrence if we let the thing fly across our country were probably not prepared. they do this for three reasons one is to gather intel, of course. other is to gauge our reaction to i...

Is pretty deep in terms of recovering relatively small objects from the water. and if it goes over the over the continental shelf, which is what he was talking about, down to 6,000 metres, that would be a big job and it may not be worth it, for the sort of surveillance material that was on this balloon. there wouldnt have been anything very amazing, i think, in the electronics or the surveillance material on this balloon, but its worth recovering in itself. and whats interesting is that balloons...

Secondly, as you say, china claims this is a normal meteorological balloon. but there are a number of these balloons, all not over chinese airspace, and the american military seems quite certain this is in fact an intelligence balloon, and now america is in a position to discover that. the debris only came down in 47 feet of water. we will be able to get it pretty quickly. and of china, as seems likely, is mischaracterising this, we are going to know that shortly. how damaging is all of this? ev...