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The military's response. oren lieberman, cnn at the pentagon. >> cnn's ivan watson is standing by in hong kong with the latest from there. china saying u.s. is overreacting, violating international practice. a lot of people saying how so when it was flight over u.s. territory. you imagine china would have brought down a u.s. balloon flight over its territory. >> it's hard to see what kind of a leg the chinese government has to stand on here, michael. friday, the chinese foreign minute city surprise a lot of people when it announced that it regretted the fact that what it described as an air --...

Week. the balloon was so high up, nearly 12 miles or 20 kilometers that it took a few seconds for the shock wave the reach the ground. have a listen. [ explosion ] >> the shootdown happened saturday off the coast of south carolina near myrtle beach. it was a sensational ending to a saga that had been unfolding for days as the giant craft drifted silently above the american heartland. china loudly protesting the shootdown, accusing the u.s. of overreacting. beijing continues to insist it was merely a civilian scientific balloon that blew off course. after studying its movements and patterns for...

Barack obama toward believing that we could coax china into becoming more of a model -- or at least a kind of participant in the international system, or a responsible participant. both parties are extremely skeptical of china. we see it in all sorts of ways. even the inflation reduction act and efforts to move critical materials and production of ev batteries out of china back toward the u.s., and i just think this is something that is going to give more momentum to that cooling toward china, which really now has become almost a fully -- there's still a difference of dre. where republicans an...

A south carolina man witnessed the moment the balloon was shot down near myrtle beach on saturday afternoon. local photographer travis hoff stetler said he apsaw what appeared to have a missile strike from the 15th floor of his hotel. >> i came out to get photo and videos of it and didn't realize they were going to shoot it down until right before it happened. you can see the rocket or whatever it was they shot from the plane. you can see it start to separate from the plane, and it was like, man, this is happening right now. as soon as it hit the balloon, you could hear a pop. i couldn't get i...

>> douglas london is a former cia operations officer. he's also the author of "the recruit a, spying and the lost art of american intelligence", somebody well equipped to have this discussion. good to see you, doug. what are u.s. and military officials going to be looking for now that the balloon's payload is down? how valuable might that payload be in an intel sense. >> well, the equipment they discover is going to allow them to do the forensics and deconstruction what the chinese were collecting, what sort of equipment they had. it will be questionable in terms of what they get, but it will ...