china watcher gorden chang warning we must prepare for war because of it. he means what he says. it s all coming up. welcome, everybody. glad to have you. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it with jacqui at the white house. jacqui? the washington post has been reporting that the chinese spy balloon s path over the u.s. may have been driven by the wind and that analysts are examining the possibility that the chinese did not intend to penetrate the american heartland with their surveillance equipment. i m told that that is not the full story. we re learning a lot more right now. officials tell me that we don t know if the balloon s direction over the continental u.s. was intentional. because it s a balloon, its trajectory depends on a range of factors that includes the wind. the balloon also went over guam, we ve learned, which is u.s. territory. it also later loitered over several sensitive sites in the continue continental u.s. the chinese still had the ability to maneuver
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta. we are following breaking news at this hour. the president declaring moments ago that he ordered the pentagon to shoot down the chinese spy balloon as soon as possible. the u.s. is in a recovery effort after a u.s. fighter jet launched a precision strike on the chinese spy balloon. it came after days of watching it float from montana, to missouri to the carolinas. here is another video of that strike. this is a tense moment in u.s./china relations. the world will be watching in the hours and days ahead. let s get straight to cnn s oren liebermann at the pentagon. oren, what more are you learning? i understand you were listening to officials explain how all of this went down. what can you tell us? it started on wednesday when president joe biden gave the authorization to shoot down the chinese balloo n as soon as possible. there were tankers and others to shoot this down. it was an f-22 that fired an a 9 side wind er. the ai
he s in brussels at the nato defense minister s meeting. we ll get that on air momentarily. the white house saying there s no u.s. surveillance aircraft in chinese airspace. some careful wording perhaps in that statement from john kirby at the white house despite china s insistence that we have been doing surveillance in their airspace. they said there s been ten balloons in their airspace. that idea was vehemently denied by admiral kirby just moments ago from the white house. despite the fact, remember this navy video. there s this discussion about extra terrestrials, what are these things. i ll take you back to this video that was released in april of 2020. what is that little white floating thing that they called a tic tac at that time. now we go back to these videos. raises a lot of questions about what is up there, what is out there. they see no evidence that these aerial objects are alien or extra terrestrial bodies. meanwhile, communications with china have gone cold f
good morning, everyone. it is saturday, february 11th, we re live in the cnn newsroom, and you don t have to adjust your tv, we re actually in the same set in the same place. no split screen. right. great to be with you as well. up first this hour, president biden ordering an prague to shoot down an unidentified object over alaska, an operation that he is describing as a success, and right now, there are way more questions though about what that thing was that got shot down and actual details about it, and keep in mind, this is the second time in a week that a u.s. fighter jet has taken down an object after the chinese surveillance balloon was brought down last saturday. ten miles off the coast of alaska, the federal aviation administration issuing a temporary flight restriction in the area as the military took action. officials say they don t know what the object is or who it belongs to. the white house says president biden was first briefed on the situation thursday
addressing the series of crisis piling up for his administration. president shrugging off the chinese spy flight, low polls, investigations, classified document scandal. sandra: all of that as the nation waits to hear whether or not he will run for office again. how is all of this playing in new hampshire where a presidential challenger could soon emerge. we will be speaking to new hampshire governor about his possible 2024 white house run coming up. john: begin america reports waiting for a briefing from john kirby from the white house, and the pentagon, they have found the payload of the chinese spycraft shot down off the coast of south carolina. new department after state department officials revealed more about the scope and capabilities of the spycraft. i m john roberts in washington. let me say it again, sandra. happy friday. sandra: happy to make it to friday with you, john, details, the american public are going to want to hear. according to the state departme