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jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. hi, jacqui. hey, gillian, good evening to you. u.s. officials revealed today that the u.s. has not formally requested a phone call with chinese president xi jinping despite president biden saying yesterday that they expected to be talking soon. we re learning that they re hoping that secretary of state antony blinken will first be able to smooth things over and make contact with his chinese counterpart at the munich security conference next week. but, if no meeting ends up happening, it will be a telling sign of where u.s.-china relations stand. chinese spy balloon lifted from the ocean store from south carolina. quantico. we learned a lot already from the balloon by surveilling it while it was flying over the country. we re going to learn even more, we believe, by getting a look at the guts inside it. but u.s. officials are warning we may not learn much more about the three likely harmless objec ....
Handle something like this. he didn t explain why he had waited so long to talk about this. he didn t say anything about the other shootdowns what they actually were. and he wouldn t take questions because he told reporters they weren t being polite enough. so, there s so much still to learn and you know what general keane was just saying is true we have not been in the habit of shooting down tiny commercial or recreational balloons. is that our new policy? the president wasn t clear about that either. gillian: julian, the chinese foreign ministry today took a dig at the biden administration over the balloons and then tied it to the train derailment in ohio. take a look at what they said. speaking of deflecting can the u.s. tell us why it s able to see the balloon 18,000 meters above the ground but seems to have been blind to the toxic mushroom cloud of vinyl chloride over ohio? ....
Down these commercial balloons around the united states. and i don t think we re going to do it again. let s bring in our political panel now. byron york chief political correspondent of the washington examiner jeff mason white house correspondent for rioters and jn manchester politics reporter for the hill. thank you for being here in person on this friday. jeff, we have heard now from the president and heard from john kirby about the balloon. still no answers about why three uavs were shot down over the past week but that balloon was allowed to remain airborne, floating over sensitive military bases. what s the administration plan going forward to avert this kind of chaos in the future? well, it certainly brought a lot more attention to what these balloons in general and they are suggesting that these types of things have been in the air more often than we know. as far as the china balloon, particularly, president biden has said he intends to speak with the president of china, ....
Friday. recovery efforts hampered by weather fizzling out a hobby group called the northern illinois bottle cap balloon brigade says their party sty picco balloon went missing in alaska the same day a u.s. fighter shot down. the maker of the balloon told aviation week i tried contacting our military and the fbi and just got the run around. so the question now is if the u.s. military used a $400,000 missile to shoot down a balloon that costs about 12 bucks. u.s. officials say they haven t heard from any group yet that s missing their sky toy. how to deal with future potential threat will remain classified so they don t take note. americans won t get the full picture either. if they see something in the air, should there be any concern that a missile is going to follow it? again, we re not going it rule anything out, in or out in terms of how we are going to ....
He didn t give a date on that. but we are expecting that to be soon. he said he didn t regret having giving the order to shoot it down. as far as the other ones, we don t have a lot of details about what they are. and other than what the white house said likely private related instead of a country or a nationality. gillian: run by a company or a group. byron, the vice president said tuesday to politico and she then reiterated it today at munich that all of this that the chinese balloon is not going to impact diplomatic relations between the u.s. and china. but, we also know that secretary blinken canceled his trip to meet with the chinese. and yesterday president biden in his remarks seemed to say that he is going to raise it directly with president xi. can you square that circle? not entirely. and a lot of people would say well, why wouldn t it affect our diplomatic relations given what they did? but, you know, the president s news conference was kind of a master class in how not ....