“I told them to shoot it down,” President Biden says after Chinese spy balloon's journey comes to an abrupt end
. In the hours before the operation, the Federal Aviation Administration had issued a ground stop for airports in Wilmington, North Carolina, and Charleston and Myrtle Beach in South Carolina, citing the need “to support the Defense Department in a national security effort.”
Speaking to reporters hours earlier, President Biden said that his administration was “gonna take care” of the spy balloon, which the Chinese government has claimed is a civilian machine that entered U.S. airspace by accident. Following the military operation, Biden told reporters, ““I told them to shoot it down. They said to me let’s wait for the safest place to do it.”
The Pentagon had initially been reluctant to fire on the balloon, since it was floating above populated areas for fear that the falling debris could land on civilians. Still, those warnings didn’t stop conservatives from
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