washington correspondent mikaela. christina followed joe biden speech for us. so finally a word from the president on those balloons. the 1st one, the united states says that big balloon that could be seen from the ground here in the united states. u. s. s. was a chinese spy balloon. china still protest that the other 3 now heard from the mouth of the president himself, unlikely to be part of any kind of spying program, more likely something malign, something that belongs to a private company or an institution. the real new announcement from the president today is that there's an intention here to speak to the tiniest president she directly about this very issue. but the united states and china would never only speak about one balloon. they have a lot to talk about to responsibly manage that competition, that why would be that is official u. s. policy. and that's crumbled visit by the us secretary state was canceled when that balloon was detected in the sky. so relations have been in the downward spiral, and this can safely be seen as an offer for talks from th

washington correspondent mikaela christina joined me now. what else do we know we care about this 2nd balloon? very little. we only know what we've learned from the pentagon, that the pentagon says that it is in latin america won't go into the specifics of where exactly it is hovering above latin american. i think it's rather remarkable that we're learning this today. because along with that, citing here in the united states and actually officials here now pointing towards this balloon above us territory, which apparently joe biden, the u. s. president learned already on tuesday. we also learned at least one previous such incident was reported during the trumpet, ministration. so these balloons seem to be something that has been present, that has been an issue much longer than it's publicly known. tell us more about the, the political brow that has blown up now in the us, particularly about the possibility of shooting down the 1st bullet. or we know that s 20 twos were scrambled initially, and that to bind was leaning towards actually shooti

well, 43 percent support trump, m t w's washington correspondent, mikaela. christina is following the story for us and sent us this assessment of his chances. well, the announcement by nikki haley wasn't surprising and yes at around 4 percent. she doesn't really sound like a big threat for donald trump himself, who is still way ahead in the polling. but she does have a unique quality. she would be the 1st woman she has a migratory background. and whoever you ask you in washington will tell you that she has navigating. trump isn't down to a fine art. after all, she went from someone who opposed trump in 2016 warning of a siren. trump one shouldn't follow to becoming her. you an ambassador. and to vowing this, let's take a lie with and i will talk to him about it. that's something that we'll have a conversation about at some point yet. that decision is something that has to be made. but yeah, i would actually, i had a great working relationship with him. i appreciate it the way he let me job. i thought we did some fantastic lee. great. so she was one of tramps closest o