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The coast of myrtle beach, South Carolina. Tonight, military crews are jam bling to recover the wreckage, and china is responding angrily. Meanwhile, President Biden says he and u. S. Military leaders decided to wait until the balloon completed its crosscountry journey and was safely overwater before shooting it down. Listen to this. On wednesday when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. Cnn has Team Coverage of this extraordinary moment in u. S. China relations. I want to start with cnns Orin Lieberman over at the palm. Walk us through what happened earlier today. This was days of planning to get to this point, to figure out how best to shoot this balloon down and where best to shoot this balloon do ....
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welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a remarkable news day with us. we begin with a brazen spy drama. straight to the pentagon, the briefing on a chinese balloon over montana. conducting press briefings in our temporary press briefing room while other primary location undergoes technical renovations and upgrades. we greatly appreciate your patience and flexibility as we work to install some long, overdue upgrades to the pentagon press briefing room. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call in options will not be available so for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and we ll aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward we ll look at ways to improve our ....
staff. he quit his job and couldn t control himself when he said goodbye. i cannot promise there will not be some tears. this is the best job i have ever had. [crying] and most of all this team every single day. for a president and a team that was written off for dead in the winter of 2019 and for dead again in the winter of 2020, and for dead again in the winter of 2021, it is never a good bet to bet against joe biden and this team, never ever a good bet. [applause] i learned everything i know about how to be a good father from joe biden. he is the best father i know and the best role model i know. jesse: women have been telling men we have to show our emotions so there you go, ladies. that s what you wanted, right? well, today, tears flowing through the capitol, everybody is screaming, everyone is crying. what s the occasion? well, congresswoman omar got voted off the foreign affairs committee. the question is on adoption of the resolution. those in favor say ay ....
hovering over montana. there is a mystery out there. i m bill hemmer. i love your red. you got to pin on. dana: way to represent. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. the communist eye in the sky. the ball on does not pose a threat moving well above air traffic commercial air traffic. officials are advising the president not to shoot it down over concerns that falling debris from this balloon could hurt people on the ground. bill: the balloon entered u.s. airspace a couple of days ago and flew east into montana. not clear what it was doing there. the state is home to 1 of 3 u.s. air force bases with intercontinental ballistic missiles. dana: discovery days before blinken is set to visit beijing. china said it is looking into the balloon but general jack keane says he is not buying that. what we do know is they ve done this before. we know it s a spy balloon. it is going to depart at some time. we don t want this to happen again. shoot it down on the wa ....