over to the university. also tonight, big breaking newsn from jim jordan surrounding bigt tech in the federal government. hevernment will join us and tell about it. and nikki haley, she will joins only hours after now announcing her run for the presidencyhourse we ll talk to her. and the great one , mark levin,l will weigh in on joe biden.n jo china, a combination that is now more dangerous than ever. at idangerouthanbut tonight, mot threats from the communist party of chinat threat. ul you would think that they they ate the ones that shot down our spy balloon at thi ts point, the way they re acting on top of more promises ofagains surveillance against us , more spying against us ,t or more hostility in the pacific and more pollution and more debt and more suffering. was don t forget, it was china that created covid-19. they unleashed it on the world knowingly over a million americans died, in part becauseu of china. if your parents, your grandparents died, your friends, fami
u.s. military sites. i told them to shoot it down. what specifically was the chinese government looking for? how might the incident affect the u.s.-china relationship. marco rubio joins me ahead. making his case. president biden gears up to address a divided congress. the state of the union and the state of our economy is strong. ahead of the suspected 2024 bid, how will he make his pitch? i ll speak to cabinet secretary pete buttigieg next. debt dilemma. biden and speaker mccarthy plan another meeting as democrats wait for the gop to put their cards on the table. are these the numbers that could come to a deal and avert financial catastrophe. baip chair of the house problem solvers caucus will join me in moments. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our kbrun june 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 rap
down to earth. the u.s. shoots down a suspected chinese spy balloon monitoring u.s. military sites. i told them to shoot it down. what specifically was the chinese government looking for? how might the incident affect the u.s.-china relationship? vice chair on the senate intelligence committee marco rubio joins me ahead. making his case. president biden gears up to address a divided congress. the state of the union and the state of our economy is strong. ahead of the suspected 2024 bid, how will he make his pitch? i ll speak to cabinet secretary pete buttigieg next. debt dilemma. biden and speaker mccarthy plan another meeting as democrats wait for the gop to put their cards on the table. are these the members that could come to a deal and avert financial catastrophe. bipartisan chair of the house problem solvers caucus will join me in moments. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is deflated. the u.s. military is recovering the remnan
that would come. and it was handled appropriately. and we are now getting a clearer picture of exactly how the u.s. response played out, at last saturday the balloon was first detected in alaska. on tuesday, it relented continental u.s. airspace, which is when the president asked for military options on wednesday, the president ordered the military to take out the balloon as soon as practicable. on friday, the president was briefed on an execution plan, and on saturday the balloon was shot down. now, the balloons eight-day track is sparking debate and political finger-pointing on capitol hill over the administration s approach. listen here. clearly this was an attempt by china to gather information to defeat our command and control, are sensitive mission weapon sites, and that certainly is an urgency that this administration does not recognize. the president and united states military did what they did, that is my opinion, very just and very defensible. so the president
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with breaking news. yet another shootdown of a high altitude object. this one in the skies over northern canada. the canadian prime minister justin trudeau this afternoon gave norad the order to shoot it down and a u.s. fighter jet successfully just did that. it is not clear if it is related to yesterday s incident off the northeastern coast of alaska. that was near the canadian border. nor is it clear if it is related to the chinese spy balloon that was shot down last saturday. natasha joins us now along with paula newton. what do we know about this latest shootdown? obviously significant enough for the canadian prime minister to tweet about this in the last hour or so. and given the week we ve had with these objects, it is pretty predictable that he would want to be fully transparent about it. we were talking about norad, the north american aerospace command observed this high altitude object, confirm