Obvious Balloon News Today

youre live in the cnn newsroom. im jim acosta in washington. spy balloon down. a single missile took out a chinese spy balloon that floated across americas skies this past week. that dramatic sound just off the coast of south carolina earlier today. recovery efforts offshore are now under way as u.s. intelligence officials want to gain insight what china was up to. president biden said the order to shoot down the balloon came directly from him. >> on wednesday, when i was briefed on th...

Million files of everybody who has a security clearance. or what they can glean from tiktok gets less publicity in ways than a big, obvious balloon. >> that leads to my question, why would they do something like this? what is your motivation? what is your thought on that? >> my guess, they didnt really intend for it to go over the continental united states. particularly not now. since ping was reaffirmed and given a new firm, he is trying to improve relations with the united states. that is what...