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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...

administration acted indecisively and waited too long, letting the balloon float across the continental u.s. for days. president biden says the military advised him there would be less danger to the public in shooting down the balloon once it got over the ocean. lawmakers are reacting sharply and along party lines. >> i want to start by doing something that i don't do very often, which is commending joe biden for actually having the guts to shoot this down. that was the right thing to do. that is absolutely what the president should have done. unfortunately he didn't do that until a ...

pete: will almost took out the entire fence line and the guy waving the checkered flag. will: you got me at that turn. pete: he got better as the whole thing went on, and i blocked hi- rachel: i feel like blocking interfered with -- [laughter] pete: that was after i said it was over. rachel: wow. will: was it over? rachel: it looked like you were going to win, will, for quite a while. and then, pete, you pulled it out. you said that this is go-kart season. for me, it's the summertime. my kids love to go go-karting in wisconsin, especially on those evenings after spending time on the ...

shoot down that chinese flight as soon as possible. the pentagon waited until safely over the atlantic. now there are more questions about why the white house did not brief the public about the situation with the present did not act sooner senator marco rubio believes try to use the aircraft to send a larger message. >> is not a coincidence this happens leading up to state of the union address. leading up to blinken's visit to china. chinese do this to be spotted they knew we would have to react to it as just a bullet it's a message to try to sum the world that we can do whatever we ...

what was going on, what the response was going to be. and, look, china's one of our biggest adversaries, so to see this, you know, when people look up in the sky and i was driving around earlier, people were pulled over on the side of the road, they were pulling out their camera phones. a lot of intrigue about this. you know, this is an interesting, you know, interesting time, but a lot of people have questions about this. and for me, i'm incredibly concerned about where, you know, where this was headed and why it took so long to address. mike: a sense of relief as a south carolina c...