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underway to gather debris of the balloon. and that debris is estimated to roughly the size of two school buses. here's what president biden told reporters about the operation last hour. >> on wednesday, when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down. on wednesday, as soon as possible. they decided it might do damage on the ground. they decided that the best time was when it was over water. so that has been our limit. they successfully took it down. and i want to compliment our aviators who did it. and we will have more to report on this a little later. tha...

Just your thoughts on how the conversation needs to maybe shift to make it pavlopil to all of the american people, especially folks that don't do foreign policy every day. >> sure, simone we have to remember that what we are doing with china is one of the most bipartisan issues that congress and administration have in common right now. you saw 365 votes from the china committee in the house of representatives. it is given the president an opportunity to talk about what we are doing and a very bipartisan way. this is fortuitous and the sense that it is right before the state of the union. he is...

And then explodes. the trouble we are trying to hit the balloon is that it doesn't have the kind of radar signature as you would expect from a really solid object. it doesn't have any infrared source where the of noting. it is difficult to follow infrared being, it was clearly a missile that took an otherwise the f 22 and have to get all the way up to its service ceiling of about 60,000 feet. get really close to the balloon at some speed and then unleash a 20 millimeter cannon. the a missile probably where the proximity fuse and if it got close to, it even without exploding would go right thro...