shot down. the u.s. destroys the suspected chinese spy balloon that triggered a diplomatic crisis. the presence of this surveillance balloon is a clear violation of u.s. sovereignty and international law. what s the fallout for the critical u.s. relationship with china? plus, the president gears up for re-election. four more years. four more years. and trumpets a blockbuster jobs report. the biden economic plan is working. can biden convince voters that the economy is back on track? donald trump unloads on his would-be primary rivals. ron desantis got elected because of me. nikki suffers from something that s a very tough thing. she s overly ambitious. as the 2024 field takes shape, are they ready for the attacks coming their way? welcome to in inside polit sun sunday , i m abby phillip. at 2:39 yesterday afternoon a tense and dramatic diplomatic crisis ended with one shot from an f-22 fighter jet. oh [ bleep ]. those a missiles. they shot it down. they
administration acted indecisively and waited too long, letting the balloon float across the continental u.s. for days. president biden says the military advised him there would be less danger to the public in shooting down the balloon once it got over the ocean. lawmakers are reacting sharply and along party lines. i want to start by doing something that i don t do very often, which is commending joe biden for actually having the guts to shoot this down. that was the right thing to do. that is absolutely what the president should have done. unfortunately he didn t do that until a week after it entered u.s. airspace. they re saying we should have shot down the balloon the minute we saw it. i would use two words in answering these gop criticisms. they are premature, and they are political. presidents have the ability to go before a camera, go before the nation and basically explain these things early on, and his failure to do so, i don t understand that. i don t understan
expressing its strong dissatisfaction and protest and stating that it reserves, quote, the right to make further necessary reaction. those three words, further necessary reaction beg the question, is this standoff really over, and if not what happens next? let s discuss all of this and more with two of our very own best reporters, chief national security correspondent jim sciutto and phil mattingly, chief white house correspondent. thanks both of you for being here this morning. jim, this is an area you study quite a lot. a clear escalation in u.s.-china relations at a very tense time. you re also learning new things this morning. let s first talk about the chance of escalation, this is always a concert when one nation fires another another. what is china s response. i was reading the global times this morning, a chinese
weather balloon that drifted off course. beijing is condemning the u.s. decision to shoot it down. cnn s selina wang joins us from beijing. what s the latest from your end? reporter: well, jim, beijing has been saying the u.s. is overreacting by shooting down its balloon, and china s defense ministry gave this vague warning that it reserves, quote, the right to use necessary means to deal with similar situations. but it s clear that china doesn t want to escalate things further. beijing has been trying to repair the relationship with the u.s., and secretary of state antony blinken s now postponed trip to china was supposed to be a big political win. both the u.s. and china use surveillance satellites to spy on each other from the air. so if china already has these more sophisticated satellites, we re still left with this question of why it would use a balloon for spying and why at such a critical moment right before blinken s trip. we still don t know if it was an accident, if it was
years does not mean that we shall do so tomorrow. we must reject violence, we must embrace our constitution with the re-wrens it reserves, take our oath of office and duties as citizens seriously informed by the knowledge of right and wrong and armed with no more than the power of our ideas and the truth carry on this venerable experiment of self-governance. thank you. i yield back. mrs. cheney is recognized for a closing statement. lady ruby and shea, thanks for your strength and for being here today. it means so much to hear you story. thank you for that. we have had tremendous testimony today. we ve been reminded that we re a nation of laws and we ve been