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during the visit assuring that u.s. and china don't veer into conflict. lucas tomlinson is ticking things off for us, hey, lucas. >> ahead of the trip to china, proib president biden appearing to downplay the chinese balloon on the week long odyssey across the country. including flying over american nuclear missile bases. >> i don't think the leadership knew where it was and knew what was in it and knew what was going on. i think it was more embarrassing than it was intentional. >> and as aishah mentioned, antony blinken departing last night for beijing months after canceled abruptly...

the white house from camp david today saying he wanted to shoot down the balloon at the first available opportunity and that, in his view, is exactly what the pentagon did. >> watch it come over into the united states from canada. i told them to shoot it down as soon as it was appropriate. they concluded we should not shoot it down over land, was not a serious threat and we should wait until it got across the water. >> that's, of course, what happened saturday afternoon. a usf-22 fighter firing a single sidewinder missile at the chinese balloon bringing it down just off the coast of ...

"We did what we needed to do to protect our interests, we said what we needed to say and made clear what needed to make clear in terms of this not happening again. So as long as it doesn't, that chapter should be closed," said Antony Blinken

It's no secret the biden administration didn't no. the department of defense didn't know this happened when it happened. they called an awareness effect. it's shocking and deeply troubling they didn't know about these balloons flying over american territory over the last four or five years. >> trace: pete, your final us? >> -- your final thoughts? >> it appears to be common for this administration to blame the previous administration. in the last chinese spy balloon case, we're hearing from officials from the trump era they had never heard about this. >> trace: seems like a lot of transparency...