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Satellites that are orbiting in space from a greater distance, but this clearly was provocative. there is no way that this balloon was not going to be a textbook by the united states. china had to know that. they knew that it possibly was going to take some action to bring it down, are they going to risk it? maybe some advanced technology that they had on that balloon, if we ever are to retrieve it and understand what the capabilities are, but, again, there are a lot of questions, and from my ex...

Injury from lower attitude than at satellite. a balloon can also behave like a trial balloon. it can test american radar, they can test our singling ability. it can test how quickly we can spot an intruder, like a balloon. that is not on important formation for a country like china. there are lots of things for the why of it. the wind now part of it is really quite mystifying. there have been some signs, over several weeks, that we put behind us the difficulty they came up last summer when speak...

Because that is certainly within our rights to shoot this down in our airspace, and it was a violation of our sovereignty in terms of what this balloon did. so, again, we will find out more in the coming days, weeks, as far as the impact that this is going to have on the u.s. china relationship going forward. >> and, obviously because it was a provocative move, america had to do something, in the cancellation of the trip was at least the initial part of the something. but, in your analysis, give...

A US jet destroyed a Chinese weather balloon off the coast of South Carolina Saturday, with US officials saying the balloon had engaged in espionage. Beijing insists the dirigible was just a meteorological research balloon that drifted off course.

Chinese spy balloon and when they realized they must tell the president about it. this comes as u.s. navy divers and other military personnel are scouring the ocean floor off the coast of myrtle beach, south carolina. and were getting new video in to cnn. a resident in south carolina shot this and said he believes it could be debris from the balloon. to be clear, cnn cannot independently verify whether or not this is, in fact, debris from that chinese spy balloon. were reaching out to the navy f...

We are going to allow the world to head in that direction or not. >> and rubio, senator rubio went on to say and criticized the biden administration for lack of transparency on the balloon, new hampshire republican governor chris sununu calling it too little, to late. and the congressman mike gallagher said the response, im quoting now, makes us look weak and flat footed. so a whole lot of criticism. but does this not end up also potentially playing into the hands of the chinese who perhaps want...

Hello. im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is deflated. the u.s. military is recovering the remnants of a 90-foot-long suspected chinese spy balloon shot down just off the south carolina coast on saturday after an f-22 raptors a9x missile popped the balloon, after a week long mission gathering intelligence. defense secretary austin said yesterday president biden on wednesday ordered the balloon be taken down as soon as safely possible and to avoid any risk to americans the ...

As a way of humiliating trump because he said we should shoot it down. urging people in montana to take their own muskets and shoot it down. but of course, it also points out that the administration, by that very fact, suggests the administration overreacted because if this has been happening in the past, why was this the one time had to be done. this seems the ultimate cnn effect, where it is the visual identification that was the controversy or the scandal, not the fact of the balloon. >> i ag...

Sun sunday", im abby phillip. at 2:39 yesterday afternoon a tense and dramatic diplomatic crisis ended with one shot from an f-22 fighter jet. >> oh [ bleep ]. those a missiles. they shot it down. they shot it down. no [ bleep ]. you hear it? >> just off the coast of south carolina the u.s. took down a suspected chinese spy balloon that has become a critical flashpoint in u.s.-china relations. president biden had this to say shortly after the mission was completed. >> on wednesday when i was bri...

Committee and were talking to the ranking member of the u.s. senate homeland security committee, rand paul. well also talk with jason smith because hes the chairman of house ways and means and right now unfortunately while china is planning what its going to do to taiwan and who knows what to america, we are talking about cutting defense spending. so we will talk to the chairman of house ways and means about that conversation and how this chinese balloon has changed things. weve got breaking new...