time on hbo max. join us here on cnn the week after the super bowl to find out who is talking next. welcome back to the 8:00 hour of the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with more breaking news. some of the first images we have seen of possible debris from that chinese spy balloon downed yesterday off the coast of south carolina. this video was shot by a south carolina resident just coming in this evening. this resident told cnn he saw a navy boat carrying what he believed to be debris from the balloon. cnn cannot independently confirm whether this is indeed debris from that balloon. we are reaching out to the u.s. navy for comment. in the meantime, this comes at the same time we are learning new details about when the pentagon learned about the balloon and when the president was informed about it. more on that in a moment. i want to begin in north myrtle beach, south carolina, and the focus of the recovery efforts. ca carlos, what can you tell us abou
They are criticizing not the president but the american military. the president followed the american military s recommendation. the president said, let s shoot it down. the military leaders said, we can t do that until it s safe because we don t want to put americans at risk. we want to do it where we can collect debris. what the house republicans are doing are not criticizing president biden. they re kritcriticizing our gre american mimilitary. it s sad. i hope they get over that and come together as americans. you mentioned just a few moenlts moments ago that you will serve on the committee that will look at what china is up to. i know one of the focuses of the committee has to be on the extensive surveillance activity espionage activity inside the united states on a regular basis, more extensively than a lot of americans understand. do you think that you need to