the white house from camp david today saying he wanted to shoot down the balloon at the first available opportunity and that, in his view, is exactly what the pentagon did. watch it come over into the united states from canada. i told them to shoot it down as soon as it was appropriate. they concluded we should not shoot it down over land, was not a serious threat and we should wait until it got across the water. that s, of course, what happened saturday afternoon. a usf-22 fighter firing a single sidewinder missile at the chinese balloon bringing it down just off the coast of south carolina, and the president said the chinese were well aware of what was coming. we made it clear to china what we were going to do. reporter: but critics, many of them republican, question the wisdom of waiting to shoot down the balloon until after it had flown right across the united states and over several sensitive u.s. military sites. look, i m not saying detonate this thing over a
generations. there a real romance to the moment, no doubt. and to end the beatles, if you could say this, to sort of end on this note as opposed to the note in 1970 when they broke up, and there was everybody fighting with each other, here they are all together with that classic beatles harmony and nobody had harm onies like those guys, and there is a romance to the moment no question. is there any hesitation, and have you heard of any hesitation about how this has come together from mccartney or any of them? well, famously george harrison called it rubbish in the 1990s, but the question that i am asking is was he referring to the demo, the quality of the demo or was he referring to the song? i choose to believe that he was referring to the technology. me, too. i am going with that option. okay. we will go with that one. mark, thank you for being with us, and appreciate your time, and let s all go listen to it again as soon as the show is over. thank you, john an
the white house from camp david today saying he wanted to shoot down the balloon at the first available opportunity and that, in his view, is exactly what the pentagon did. watch it come over into the united states from canada. i told them to shoot it down as soon as it was appropriate. they concluded we should not shoot it down over land, was not a serious threat and we should wait until it got across the water. that s, of course, what happened saturday afternoon. a usf-22 fighter firing a single sidewinder missile at the chinese balloon bringing it down just off the coast of south carolina, and the president said the chinese were well aware of what was coming. we made it clear to china what we were going to do. reporter: but critics, many of them republican, question the wisdom of waiting to shoot down the balloon until after it had flown right across the united states and over several sensitive u.s. military sites.