The coast of myrtle beach, South Carolina. Tonight, military crews are jam bling to recover the wreckage, and china is responding angrily. Meanwhile, President Biden says he and u. S. Military leaders decided to wait until the balloon completed its crosscountry journey and was safely overwater before shooting it down. Listen to this. On wednesday when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. Cnn has Team Coverage of this extraordinary moment in u. S. China relations. I want to start with cnns Orin Lieberman over at the palm. Walk us through what happened earlier today. This was days of planning to get to this point, to figure out how best to shoot this balloon down and where best to shoot this balloon down. In the end, the Department Of Defense recommended waiting until it was out overwater and the prevailing winds over the United States, especially over the course of the past day, took it out over the waters of north and S
around the economy. the economy is objectively better than it was a year ago and two years ago yet, this poll blows him out of the water. laura: wow, did you ever think you would hear that from cnn. they can t even spin this anymore. now, at one point they even had a banner up that read bad news for biden. and it sure is. 67% of democrat leaning voters say they want a different candidate for 2024. we warned about this earlier this week that the democrat party leadership was tuning out what voters want in favor of what the donors want. and, remember, the establishment likes a figure head president who is not going to rock the boat. now, 82% of democrats now say that they just want someone else as their nominee and 62% say they are strenuously concerned about biden s ability to serve another full term as president if he is elected. joe biden is like that grandpa that you love, that you believe, in you owe a lot. but you start to wonder, you know, would you give this grandpa
around the economy. the economy is objectively better than it was a year ago and two years ago yet, this poll blows him out of the water. laura: wow, did you ever think you would hear that from cnn. they can t even spin this anymore. now, at one point they even had a banner up that read bad news for biden. and it sure is. 67% of democrat leaning voters say they want a different candidate for 2024. we warned about this earlier this week that the democrat party leadership was tuning out what voters want in favor of what the donors want. and, remember, the establishment likes a figure head president who is not going to rock the boat. now, 82% of democrats now say that they just want someone else as their nominee and 62% say they are strenuously concerned about biden s ability to serve another full term as president if he is elected. joe biden is like that grandpa that you love, that you believe, in you owe a lot. but you start to wonder, you know, would you give this grandpa
is a balloon flying in question, that would have provided perhaps some sketchy optics. so where this relationship goes, that s a big question i m sure the states department is going to be getting. yeah. and the states clearly are enormous in terms of u.s./china relationship. mark stuart in hong kong with us. thank you very, very much. i want to bring in cnn political analyst david sanger, white house and security correspondent for the new york times. david, thank you so much for joining us. china says they are, quote, reserving the right, and i m quoting now, to make further necessary reaction. relations between washington and beijing were already pretty much strained. so where do the two sides go from here? shoes the secretary of state, antony blinken, have gone ahead with this trip and meet with the chinese leadership? wolf, thanks for having me on. my own view is that secretary blinken couldn t make this trip until they really understood