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coast of myrtle beach, south carolina, collecting the wreckage of the downed balloon. republicans are condemning president biden for failing to take action on the balloon sooner. let's get the latest on the balloon and today's recovery efforts, zachary cohen is here. zachary, what more are we learning about this balloon and, i guess, at some point, they need to pull it up out of the ocean and start examining it. >> i think at this early stage, u.s. officials are not buying the chinese government's explanation that it was a civilian aircraft. they have strongly indicated, defense offi...

>> well, you know, there are going to be lessons from all of this with regards to this kind of spy balloon if, it is, in fact, a spy balloon. if it was that, and if we were aware of the balloon, i think we should have taken steps to prevent it from entering our air space and i'm not sure that we should have allowed it to simply crossover the country, crossover what were obviously sensitive military sites. i don't see the logic of that. so the question obviously is -- the pentagon said there were risks here. i understand that argument. there were debris risks. at the same time i think we should...