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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 ...

To alleys and partners about the fact this was not a civilian air ship. it was very clearly a spy balloon sent here to collect intelligence. >> trace: a spy balloon sent here to collect intelligence and that's not what we've been told, dave. what do you make of that statement? >> yeah, i think they're finally telling at least what seems blatantly obvious and the truth that this was a spy balloon sent here to collect intelligence on the united states, on the military facilities. if it was able to, it could collect intelligence. more importantly, it was there to test what our reactions would be....