coming to you live from studio 4 at the cnn center in atlanta, miami michael holmes. coming up, the suspected chinese spy balloon s journey ended by a single missile by a u.s. fighter jet. they just shot it. see the smoke coming from it? recovery efforts under way at this hour. the incident heightening already tense relations between washington and beijing. and we have all of the angles covered right here. oren lieberman has the view from pentagon. we have reports from the white house and our ivan watson is live in hong kong with china s angry response. we are about to show you the dramatic moment a u.s. side winder missile took out that suspected chinese spy balloon that caused such havoc this week. the balloon was so high up, nearly 12 miles or 20 kilometers that it took a few seconds for the shock wave the reach the ground. have a listen. [ explosion ] the shootdown happened saturday off the coast of south carolina near myrtle beach. it was a sensational ending t
hello and welcome. coming to you live from studio 4 at the cnn center in atlanta, i m michael holmes. appreciate your company. coming up on cnn newsroom i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. the u.s. has shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon after it traveled across america for days. recovery efforts now under way. china says the balloon entered u.s. air space by accident, heightening already tense relations between washington and beijing. live in hong kong with the latest from there. it s not the only one. the pentagon says a second balloon is flying over latin america. a report ahead. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. we br to show you the dramatic moment a u.s. sidewinder missile took out the suspected chinese spy balloon that has caused so much havoc this week. the balloon was so high up, nearly 12 miles or 20 kilometers, that it took a few seconds for the shockwave to reach the grou
pages that they usually have in the southern district of florida tell us the justice department believes they need to talk, they need to say some more about what the former president was alleging in his lawsuit against the government asking for the special master. there are a lot of things that the former president said in that filing, obviously a lot of it are his grievances about how the fbi in the justice department are biased against him. but some of it was about how cooperative he has been with this effort to get these documents back. so, i think you re gonna hear a little bit more about that in this filing. there is a lot of narrative that we still do not know about, beginning obviously in 2021 when the national archives first approached the trump team and ask them to please return these documents that belong to you and me and all americans. when you re looking for, george? well, i m going to be interested to see if they do contain more of a factual narrative that w
a preliminary intent to allow a neutral third party, typically a retired judge, to review the documents. the former presidents attorney claims a special master is necessary to ensure the justice department returns any of trump s private belongings and documents covered by attorney client privilege. but, the justice department has indicated it is already using an internal filter team to review everything which was seized by the fbi. for now, cnn s political correspondent sara murray live now, sara, and broad brushstrokes, when we look at in terms of the spots from the doj? we are looking overall, in terms of the legal argument, the justice department opposing with donald trump is looking for, which is a special master, an independent third party to overview these documents. the justice department is saying look, after the search they did on the presidents residence in mar-a-lago at august, they ve already gone through those materials. they ve already had a filter team set up
hello and welcome. coming to you live from studio 4 at the cnn center in atlanta, i m michael holmes. appreciate your company. coming up on cnn newsroom i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. the u.s. has shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon after it traveled across america for days. recovery efforts now under way. china says the balloon entered u.s. air space by accident, heightening already tense relations between washington and beijing. live in hong kong with the latest from there. it s not the only one. the pentagon says a second balloon is flying over latin america. a report ahead. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael