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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...

Command to be prepared for the prospect of war with china in the year 2025. that's not the consensus assessment from the u.s., but it's not far off from the urgency that u.s. officials feel about the prospect for escalation with china in the coming years, and now you have a tangible instance of that with missiles fired in anger or in response to a chinese provocation. it's a tense time. >> absolutely. we might see more provocations to come. jim sciutto, thanks for the expertise as always. we appreciate it. i want to go to cnn's tom foreman on the spy balloon. watching this all day, tom. very...

So, therefore, there was a unanimous consensus amongst the three agencies and dni about the judgments. there was one thing about the nsa's confidence level in terms of the russian advocacy for mr. trump, but with that lone exception, it was a consensus assessment. >> and the report also talked extensively about the role of wikileaks in working with russia on this covert action campaign. can you talk a bit more about how they fit in? >> well, i think as the assessment says, that the russians used cutout for the wikileaks exposure. and when you look at the wikileaks releases over time, you can s...

Assessments and so, therefore, there was a unanimous consensus among the three agencies and the odni about the judge its. there was one variation, as far as the nsa's confident level, in terms of the advocacy for mr. trump. but with that lone exception, it was a consensus assessment. >> and the report also talked extensively about the role of wikileaks in working with russia on this covert action campaign. can you talk a bit more about how they fit in? >> as the assessment says, the russians used a cutout for the wikileaks exposure. when you look at the wikileaks releases over time, you can se...

President said if north korea made any more threats the u.s. would respond in this way, fire and fury like the world has never seen before, and a few hours later, north korea makes a threat that it hasn't made before with a specificity it has not made before. >> and jim, the nuclear development or the possible nuclear development by north korea, if it's true, it is a big step forward for their nuclear program, right? >> reporter: that's right. multiple sources telling myself and my colleagues today that it's the u.s. intelligence community's assessment, not a consensus assessment but an assess...