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jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. hi, jacqui. >> hey, gillian, good evening to you. u.s. officials revealed today that the u.s. has not formally requested a phone call with chinese president xi jinping despite president biden saying yesterday that they expected to be talking soon. we're learning that they're hoping that secretary of state antony blinken will first be able to smooth things over and make contact with his chinese counterpart at the munich security conference next week. but, if no meeting ends up happening, it will be a telling sign of ...

Handle something like this. he didn't explain why he had waited so long to talk about this. he didn't say anything about the other shootdowns what they actually were. and he wouldn't take questions because he told reporters they weren't being polite enough. so, there's so much still to learn and you know what general keane was just saying is true we have not been in the habit of shooting down tiny commercial or recreational balloons. is that our new policy? the president wasn't clear about that either. >> gillian: julian, the chinese foreign ministry today took a dig at the biden administratio...

Down these commercial balloons around the united states. and i don't think we're going to do it again. >> let's bring in our political panel now. byron york chief political correspondent of "the washington examiner" jeff mason white house correspondent for rioters and jn manchester politics reporter for the hill. thank you for being here in person on this friday. jeff, we have heard now from the president and heard from john kirby about the balloon. still no answers about why three uavs were shot down over the past week but that balloon was allowed to remain airborne, floating over sensitive m...

Friday. recovery efforts hampered by weather fizzling out a hobby group called the northern illinois bottle cap balloon brigade says their party sty picco balloon went missing in alaska the same day a u.s. fighter shot down. the maker of the balloon told aviation week i tried contacting our military and the fbi and just got the run around. so the question now is if the u.s. military used a $400,000 missile to shoot down a balloon that costs about 12 bucks. u.s. officials say they haven't heard from any group yet that's missing their sky toy. >> how to deal with future potential threat will rem...

He didn't give a date on that. but we are expecting that to be soon. he said he didn't regret having giving the order to shoot it down. as far as the other ones, we don't have a lot of details about what they are. and other than what the white house said likely private related instead of a country or a nationality. >> gillian: run by a company or a group. byron, the vice president said tuesday to politico and she then reiterated it today at munich that all of this that the chinese balloon is not going to impact diplomatic relations between the u.s. and china. but, we also know that secretary b...