Up in the Air with Senators Ted Cruz and Cory Booker
Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan
CBS News
3.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week, Margaret Brennan sits down with Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) to discuss the Chinese spy balloon that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina, and the potential national security implications of this week's events. Plus: a conversation with Vice Chairman of IBM Gary Cohn and a panel with the newest members of the House of Representatives.
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| 0:54.4 | I'm Margaret Brennan in Washington and this week on Face the Nation. |
| 0:58.0 | The high stakes diplomatic drama over the Chinese spy balloon is intensifying as we learn more about what the Chinese may have discovered from their soaring surveillance. |
| 1:09.0 | In the end, it took a missile fired from an F-22 fighter jet flying over the South Carolina |
| 1:14.8 | coast to shoot down the gigantic surveillance balloon that had floated across |
| 1:19.4 | the US 60,000 feet above ground. |
| 1:21.9 | Boom! Recovery efforts are 60,000 feet above ground. |
| 1:29.6 | Recovery efforts are underway to determine just what the Chinese had attached to that balloon. The Saturday shoot down marked the end of a tense week for the Biden administration. |
| 1:33.6 | You were saying the recommendation was from your national security? |
| 1:37.0 | I told them to shoot it down. |
| 1:38.0 | On Wednesday. |
| 1:39.0 | I'm Wednesday. |
| 1:40.0 | They said to me, let's wait until the safest place to do it. |
| 1:44.0 | We'll ask Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz how the incident will impact our already strained relationship |
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