and shot it off the coast of south carolina. welcome to a brand-new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. i think j.j. should have a shot. take your shot. he needs a party first. have all the kids over. dana: more to come on that as well. bill: once the snow melts. incident ramping up tension between china and the u.s. antony blinken postponing his trip to beijing scheduled for this past weekend. dana: president biden said he ordered the military on wednesday to shoot it down as soon as possible. the pentagon waited until it was safely over the atlanta after a week of entering u.s. airspace. some lawmakers say officials should have acted sooner. michael waltz last hour. from a propaganda standpoint a tremendous win for china. they can now message to taiwan, our allies and others that on top of afghanistan, america is a declining power and they can t even stop one of our most basic surveillance tools, a balloon. that they are either in
fox news captured the dramatic event as it happened live. the china spy craft fell into the ocean off south carolina. it had traveled across the entire continental united states by then. a closer look at its course. it was in american airspace for eight days hovering over montana, spending some time in a specific area there where most of our nuclear arsenal is stored. pentagon said it with as doing some kind of surveillance triggering questions of widespread national security concerns. new reports now another china spy craft like the one we saw recently crashed off the coast of hawaii. with all the facts stacked against the president s response to the dangers of an enemy craft in our skies for days, biden decided to take a victory lap. president biden: zbloo you were saying one step, the recommendation. president biden: they said to me let s wait until the safest place to do it. harris: china said when we shot it down it was an attack and overreaction. republican la