jacqui heinrich. griff: it s great to be with you, i m griff jenkins. the balloon sighting dashing an attempt by the biden administration to ease u.s.-china tensions, with antony blinken calling off his trip to beijing. and we have coverage in london alexandria hoff in washington and let s start off. earlier some say the chinese balloon should have been shot down when this first crossed over alaska. we could have shot it down over open water, over dense, sparse parts of alaska and should it shot it down then. it leads me to believe that possibly a political decision was made by the white house not to do so for fear of interrupting the relationship with china. that s troubling if that it indeed the case. here at the white house, president biden only wanted to talk about the strong jobs report not that chinese sp, whe will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? the chinese spy balloon had been spotted over charlotte, north carol
jacqui heinrich. griff: it s great to be with you, i m griff jenkins. the balloon sighting dashing an attempt by the biden administration to ease u.s.-china tensions, with antony blinken calling off his trip to beijing. and we have coverage in london alexandria hoff in washington and let s start off. earlier some say the chinese balloon should have been shot down when this first crossed over alaska. we could have shot it down over open water, over dense, sparse parts of alaska and should it shot it down then. it leads me to believe that possibly a political decision was made by the white house not to do so for fear of interrupting the relationship with china. that s troubling if that it indeed the case. here at the white house, president biden only wanted to