The US President on Tuesday will talk of his plans to tackle inflation and climate change. But he will be delivering his speech in the shadow of a big, Chinese balloon that many say he took too long to shoot down, writes Annelise Nielsen.
It's one of the true moments of political fanfare the American public witnesses from their President, second only to Inauguration Day.
President Biden said he authorised to do it as early as last Wednesday. Pentagon officials have argued that it was better to wait for it to be over open water so as not to risk injuring anyone with falling debris. For the man who holds the nuclear codes, he had every power to demand it be shot down when it's drifting close to the sites of the actual nukes.
Former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo writes about the threat from the Southern Border.
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