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possible explosives to deflate the balloon. >> gillian: in a moment, karine jean-pierre will be asked questions why the president waited nearly a week to shoot it down. >> john: we will bring you the white house briefing when it begins. john roberts in washington, good to kick the week off with you. >> gillian: you, too, john. i'm gillian turner in for sandra smith. the president said ordered the military to take out the balloon after it had been drifting for days. they say the military should have listened. >> he projected weakness at this moment. >> i think the administration lacks...

good to be with you, i'm kay katy tur, the chinese spy balloon is still hanging over the white house. why they didn't know about it sooner and what the u.s. was able to gather about the balloon while it was still in the air. the gang of eight is waiting for a full briefing. the white house has offered one and it's expected to get on the schedule next week. house intel chair republican mike turner said the balloon exposed a weakness at the top. >> clearly this was an attempt by china to gather information to defeat our command and control of our sensitive missile defense and nuclear w...

you don't want to miss that. first the bad news. the world has completely turned upside down under our pathetic excuse for a president who doesn't know what day of the week it is. none other than america's hostile enemies now. they have no fear or respect for joe biden. not china, not iran and definitely not russia. putin's thugs, as we talked about last night, took down a u.s. reaper drone over international waters which, in most case, most presidents would view as an act of war. it would be some military response. what did biden do in response? pretty much nothing. actually worse t...

the community in smoke and forced families to evacuate. >> bill: fears of an explosion had crews conducting a controlled burn of toxic chemicals. officials gave folks the okay to return home. >> dana: the governor insists it is safe to breathe the air and drink the water but people who live there say it feels anything but safe and voiced their concerns last night. [inaudible]. >> i don't know what to do other than to provide you assurance for -- >> don't lie. >> i understand. we're doing all that can be done to look for the source of potential -- >> bill: representatives from norfolk...

long journey ends after the u.s. military shoots it down. . we'll look at the job lies ahead as crews work to recover the instruments carried by the balloon, china reacts with china adding an already strained relationship between washington and beijing. live in hong kong and the political fall-out democrats defend the president against republicans who argued biden waited too long. ♪. ♪. ♪. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with leila hurruck. >> u.s. military is savage operations are underway right now in shallow waters off the coast of south carolina, where a suspe...