The White House's Decision to Shoot a Spy Balloon Over America

The Chinese Communist Party flew a device over our military bases, over the heartland of America right to the from the West Coast to the East Coast. The White House after a citizen reporter spotted this thing up in the air and says, hey, what is this doing out here? And then it goes viral. Then finally, they have to admit that it's there. So were they in on? What did they know? Why did they allow this? What was there any type of agreement?