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The coast of myrtle beach, South Carolina. Tonight, military crews are jam bling to recover the wreckage, and china is responding angrily. Meanwhile, President Biden says he and u. S. Military leaders decided to wait until the balloon completed its crosscountry journey and was safely overwater before shooting it down. Listen to this. On wednesday when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. Cnn has Team Coverage of this extraordinar...

shot down. the u.s. destroys the suspected chinese spy balloon that triggered a diplomatic crisis. >> the presence of this surveillance balloon is a clear violation of u.s. sovereignty and international law. >> whats the fallout for the critical u.s. relationship with china? plus, the president gears up for re-election. >> four more years. four more years. >> and trumpets a blockbuster jobs report. >> the biden economic plan is working. >> can biden convince voters that the economy i...

national security interests and threats as best we can. >> thanks, admiral. >> real quick, is there a timeline for recovery of this object? >> youd have to talk to the pentagon, i dont know. guys, again, this just happened in the last hour and a half and theyre still assessing where this thing landed and the degree to which they can get to it. >> on the poland visit, i know in the statement that you put out, it says that the president is going to meet with leaders of the eastern flank ...

We cant rule that out completely. the key thing that i focused on was that apparently this object did not have the kind of connective capability that the balloon did. so that becomes a very different issue. and to what major lyons was saying, there is a big difference from an intelligence collection perspective. it actually is okay in some cases to collect the information, see how it actually talks to other entities. in this particular case you have a bit of a different situation where it didnt ...

S assessed as having limited value from an intelligence collection perspective, colonel. so what are your guesses as to what its actual purpose was? why did china launch this huge balloon across the continental united states? >> so theres several possibilities. i used to work collection management operations, and what that means is you pick what the type of collection asset that you need in order to go after a particular intelligence target. so what may have happened is that the chinese may have...

Revolutionary? >> one of the words i heard earlier in the week was clumsy, it just felt clumsy. the brazen nature of things given the cost-benefit from the collection perspective and the u.s. to mitigate any real threat in terms of intelligence collection has really raised not just alarms but real questions inside the administration. you cant view this in a vacuum. secretary anthony blin en was supposed to go to china this weekend. to have that happen, obviously the cancellation of the summit. i...

Load underneath it that could cause real damage both to property and the people. the situation was made, given the fact they believed there was no national security risk and that collection perspective, they already moved quickly to address that from the u.s. side, that they would let this go, shoot it down when it came over water and be able to collect a more fulsome intelligence when they pick up the payload from the water which is the recovery process theyre engaged in. >> im told general mar...

The biden administration before they take place how did the us intelligence get the information? mike baker former covert operations officer. great to have you. >> thanks for having me. mike: your thoughts on how the united states was aware some of this before it happened? >> i dont want to oversimplify it but thats the job of the cia to focus on russia. obviously over the years going back to the soviet union it was our primary concern and our primary target with intel collection perspective so ...

Participation may have been? >> well, from an intelligence collection perspective, the russian -- its consistent with the russians modus operandi, they would cast a wide net looking at people inside of the trump campaign and frankly the other target they might be interested in, but they would be looking at guys like page, flynn, the rest of them. at the end of the day they might sit back and survey their catch and say, okay, who do we have contact with and what role are they going to play and i ...

Also want to be able to track people who are potential terrorists. they want to be able to track people who are potential adversaries of the united states. >> yeah. >> thats basically why theyre doing this. >> this is a very controversial topic. i think people kind of understand this sort of vacuum-like approach to corralling in all this information, but for goodness sake, once they see the picture of my kid at the beach, obviously they discard it, but theyre not. >> they should be discarding it...