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youre live in the "cnn newsroom." im jim acosta. we are following breaking news at this hour. the president declaring moments ago that he ordered the pentagon to shoot down the chinese spy balloon as soon as possible. the u.s. is in a recovery effort after a u.s. fighter jet launched a precision strike on the chinese spy balloon. it came after days of watching it float from montana, to missouri to the carolinas. here is another video of that strike. this is a tense moment in u.s./china...

A pretty interesting choice and it actually, you know, is kind of unchartered waters in the sort of theory of escalation between powers, right? because this hasnt really happened before and its a really interesting experiment of sort of how far you can push the envelope and kind of ruffling feathers without putting yourself, airmen at immediate risk. >> all right. arthur holland michelle, thank you very much for your time. were all going to be keeping our eyes on this. thanks for your insights. ...