floating above the continental united states, and we don t know what data it s collecting. you can see it right there on your screen and it s visable to people on the ground in montana. at least it has been since wednesday. today beijing confirmed it is theirs, claiming it is a, quote, unquote, civilian research air ship that went off course, but minutes ago, the pentagon flatly rejected that claim, calling it a surveillance balloon. secretary of state antony blinken s upcoming trip to china has now been postponed. the pro vocative move is inflaming a u.s.-china relationship already on the brink with tensions over everything from taiwan to tiktok. cnn s natasha bertrand is here to break it all down for us. natasha, there is so much to talk about here. so let s start at the beginning. what do we know about this balloon? yeah. so here, just to get a sense for the scale of this thing, this is the balloon, and what we know about it is that it is the size of about three busses.
floating above the continental united states, and we don t know what data it s collecting. you can see it right there on your screen and it s visable to people on the ground in montana. at least it has been since wednesday. today beijing confirmed it is theirs, claiming it is a, quote, unquote, civilian research air ship that went off course, but minutes ago, the pentagon flatly rejected that claim, calling it a surveillance balloon. secretary of state antony blinken s upcoming trip to china has now been postponed. the pro vocative move is inflaming a u.s.-china relationship already on the brink with tensions over everything from taiwan to tiktok. cnn s natasha bertrand is here to break it all down for us. natasha, there is so much to talk about here. so let s start at the beginning. what do we know about this balloon? yeah. so here, just to get a sense for the scale of this thing, this is the balloon, and what we know about it is that it is the size of about three busses. it is very
united nation s security council resolution. you know they passed since 2006 nine resolutions calling on him to stop and to try and curtail north korea s nuclear program. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley says the security council well it can t do much more. we basically taken and in the words of north korea strangled their economic situation at this point . that s going to take a little bit of time but it has already started to take effect. what we are seeing is they continue to be pro vocative, they continue to be wreckless and at that point, there s not a whole lot the security council is going to be able to do from here when you cut 90% of the trade and 30% of the oil. eric: president trump will address this during his un speech tuesday and with us now is jonathan watell, former spokesperson for ambassador nikki haley. he s also former fox news un bureau chief and my partner in reporting so many of