may wish to send spy balloons. we will shoot it down as soon as it s safe for us to do so and we won t hesitate, and we will in fact also retaliate against your country and other ways in which we will determine for ourselves. you will not enter our airspace. there will be punishment. this is. and that s the sort of messaging i hope the biden administration will engage in. and viscera string. we mentioned biden there. we could listen again now for him. just to recap. breaking news over the last few minutes. phone but wasn t big enough just to see with your eyes? a chinese spy balloon has been shut down by the us, they waited for it to get over the sea, they didn t want to wait while it was overland but it cleared south carolina, got over us waters, they took it down with a jet and a missile and they are now recovering that balloon from the sea. once we had confirmation that that had all happened, president biden gave a short interview to reporters, let s take a listen. i i
shocked at the fact that i could see it all happening- it all happening. thanks again to ashl n, it all happening. thanks again to ashlyn, bringing it all happening. thanks again to ashlyn, bringing to it all happening. thanks again to ashlyn, bringing to talk- it all happening. thanks again to ashlyn, bringing to talk us - it all happening. thanks again to i ashlyn, bringing to talk us through the actual moment from someone who wasn t following events particularly closely but when heard a bit of a commotion went outside in her back yard and started filming, and i am very pleased that she did, we got a real sense of the operation itself. a bit of context, how did we get to that moment? a couple hours ago, three hours ago, we got a notification that a bit of air on the east coast of the us was going to be shut down, faa, the organisation in charge of airspace across the us sent out that message, sent to three airports, no flights in, no flight out, we need this airspace shutdown, a