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derek van dam, thank you for e plaining all of that. very interesting. kate? >> reporting that u.s. officials were caught off guard by comments by president biden about china's leader. at a political fund-raiser last night biden called xi jinping a dictator setting off a furious response from china's foreign ministry saying biden's comments are, quote, absurd. let's get to priscilla alvarez t. u.s. officials were surprised this came up? >> they were surprised and it came at a fragile time for u.s. and china relations and these remarks from president biden was at a fund-raiser that was held yesterday evening and during those remarks he said, quote, the reason why xi jinping was upset when i shot the balloons down with spy equipment, he didn't know it was there. no, i'm serious. that's what a great embarrassment for dictators when they didn't know what happened.