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
Time. you know, look. a lot of things can go wrong between now and 2024 for president biden, but the idea that there s a meaningful number of voters who would otherwise really be open to vote for him are going to conclude he doesn t deserve a second term because he waited too long to shoot down a chinese balloon seems to me kind of a small number there. what it will do, of course, is think you were suggesting, is provide today s fodder for the kind of outrage machine that republicans will have going full-time, 24/7, between now and november 2024. yeah, yeah. even though we now know that these balloons were out there under trump as well. yeah. and were not shot down. does that blunt their argument? yes. clearly. i mean, like i said, i mean there is a demand side. i kind of look at this as an example of the dynamic we re in is that there is more of a demand side than a supply side pull for the kind of outrage du