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you're live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm 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 relations. the world will be watching in the hours and days ahead. let's get straight to cnn's or...

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just revealed to give the military the order to shoot down that balloon three days ago. lucas tomlinson live at the white house, lucas. >> that afternoon guys u.s. air force f-22 that locked from langley air force base in virginia fired a single sidewinder missile to destroy the spy blimp six off the coast of south carolina took late at 3:30 9:00 p.m. in the afternoon. the debris field is stretching . the u.s. navy is sending a salvage crew. president biden spoke moments ago. >> on wednesday when i was briefed on the bloom i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon ...

announced. and it's basing agreements with the philippines. upping our game against china, and in fact the biden administration is continuing the trump administration policies on this. there actually is some bipartisan consensus on what to do about china in the future. >> all right mark polymeropoulos, you will stick with me hopefully. general steph twitty, you are sticking with me as well. so thank you for that. we are following this breaking news everybody, top of the hour. 3 pm here on the east coast. i am yasmin vossoughian, you are watching msnbc. we are taking a look at images ...

>> greg: you know, dagan speaking of the balloon being shot down this is probably the biggest thing to ever happen to a hobbyest. ever since bobby smith had that little civil war toy soldier removed from his, you know, thing >> kat: welcome to the show shannon. >> dagen: exactly shannon. so i thought a lot about these two stories, combine the two. like i'm thinking of kids. why haven't the kids in the school figured out a way to deflate? >> greg: well, if you pop them. here's the question if you pop the balloon, would the teacher go like this? that would be interesting. >> dagen: exactly. or m...