down. it is now falling from the sky. bill: that was an incredible moment only seen live on this channel from over the weekend. american f22 shooting down the chinese spy craft off the carolina coast. the air ship dead in the water. political fallout has just begun. hope you had a great weekend. monday, bill hemmer. nice to see you. dana: a good catch-up already. we ll fill you in as we go along. i m dana perino and america s newsroom. remarkable over the weekend. president biden s decision to shoot down the spy flight drawing a heated response from china. beijing saying it is an overreaction and threatening to retaliation. they insist it was a machine used to track the wets. the pentagon says that s not true. the unmanned aircraft came from mainland china. first defected january 28th over alaska. made its way through canada crossing into northern idaho on the 31st when the white house says the president was first briefed on it and gave the order to shoot it down when
and shot it off the coast of south carolina. welcome to a brand-new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. i think j.j. should have a shot. take your shot. he needs a party first. have all the kids over. dana: more to come on that as well. bill: once the snow melts. incident ramping up tension between china and the u.s. antony blinken postponing his trip to beijing scheduled for this past weekend. dana: president biden said he ordered the military on wednesday to shoot it down as soon as possible. the pentagon waited until it was safely over the atlanta after a week of entering u.s. airspace. some lawmakers say officials should have acted sooner. michael waltz last hour. from a propaganda standpoint a tremendous win for china. they can now message to taiwan, our allies and others that on top of afghanistan, america is a declining power and they can t even stop one of our most basic surveillance tools, a balloon. that they are either in
And ice as you know. bill: hard to get j.j. to come in? he is pretty disciplined. he is a good kid so it is not too tough. he and his father play a lot of overthe door basketball in our home all year long and they have since he was little. bill: sounds like a good nerf game running into the door making sound throughout the house. you have raised a great son. congratulations. j.j., well done. you made a smart call on the college savings. thanks for bringing us a little joy today. j.j. franks and his mom marie in minot, north dakota. thank you for sharing your story, good luck. dana: we have a fox news alert now. recovery operations underway on the chinese spy flight which the u.s. took down this weekend. fox news was live with exclusive pictures as an f-22 fighter jet sent out of virginia went down