China sent a spy balloon over the U.S., but Joe Biden didn't shoot it down. The White House says they were able to collect intelligence while in the air. CNN's John Sutter: This feels like somehow China has pulled over this major intelligence coup on us. Is there a chance that this could have been deliberate on China's part? Do they know that this could blow up the way it did?
The balloon crisis is blown up. Politico’s Alex Ward deflates it for us.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Miles Bryan, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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