would ex ptend political capita to a very capable recognizance satellite program that gives them all the intelligence they need. reporter: but we ve heard the science excuse before from beijing when china tested a missile that went around the world in 2021 they claimed it was a routine spacecraft ex expe experiment. this is like tiktok. does anybody trust china? of course not. for good reason. reporter: china has spy satellites but they can t loitder over a big area like a balloon. the government will track the balloon as it makes its way across america. the u.s. response so far on the diplomatic front with antony blinken delaying the high stakes visit to beijing. conditions are not conducive for a constructive visit at this time. the decision to take this action, my planned visit is detrimental to the discussions we were planned to have. reporter: for where this goes from here. the pentagon says for now they re continuously tracking this balloon and determined it s
tonight they re multiple sources telling cnn that there could be even more searches and even more locations after classified documents were found at the presidents one-time private office. more, of course, and in his home in wilmington. the white house counsel office calling this week in and saying that additional five pages of classified material has also been found in wilmington. so just how is the white house reacting to all of this. when you talk to republican strategist guys back. senior political commentator at that incident yet mitchell is also here. often correspondent for the atlanta journal-constitution. let me begin with you, actually, cause you have the recording that biden is growing, quote, frustrated is the word but how this is being handled internally. some would say about time, because it is not a good look. what is your take? i think with biden was trying to do is distance himself from this issue because if they re classified documents and one of them was
found earlier this week safe, but going back three weeks to various animal enclosures, including a monkey enclosure and also a leopard enclosure that had been cut, the casings of those enclosures had been cut, and one animal was able to escape, the leopard on the grounds, safely. and then there was another monkey exhibit also cut. none of those animals escaped but it s been a very mysterious situation. what authorities still don t have an answer to is what is the motivation behind all of this. you were inside the zoo. you saw the cages cut. what are officials saying about these incidents? reporter: they re really overwhelmed and rather troubled by exactly what s going on here because there s just a lack of answers as to exactly what has happened. and, you know, there was also
result of a crime. and was either done for two reasons. it wasn t done for theft, potential theft, or it was done for vandalism. you have worked for these leopards. not this particular one in the dallas, but the species. tell me a little bit about what these leopards are like? anyone, we think they can walk up to a cloud of leopard enclosure, cut that fence, and think that little critter is just going to walk into a korean cage. has a horrible surprise coming their way. i think you guys may have a photo of me working with the clouded leopard. this was had a reserve in southeast asia that needed medical treatment. we had to sedate this animal. they are that powerful. i know people keep saying that it has a way to 40 pounds, so that is a small dog. this is a creature that can climb up 200 foot tall tree, jumped down 100 feet. and dispatch there. they are incredibly powerful