oren liebermann at the pentagon. let s go arlette at the white house. reporter: president biden offered his first comments on the situation regarding that chinese spy balloon just moments ago, saying they are prepared to take care of it. president biden has been receiving briefings since tuesday, including potential options relating to how they could address this. here is how he answered reporters questions moments ago. you heard president biden say we are going to take care of it. officials here at the white house say the president is consistently being briefed on the various options they have been presented. one option was the possibility of shooting down this plane. that s something they have not ruled out. previously as he was presented that option, he was warned about the potential impact it could have o and impact it could have here on the ground and affecting people. we will see what else the white house and pentagon has to say later today regarding this balloon. it
counterintuitive but the u.s. and israel are probably closer together in how to approach the iranian issue than at any point since the iranian nuclear agreement was signed in 2015. secretary of state antony blinken visited both prime minister netanyahu and the palestinian lead er mahmoud abbas. did anything come out of that meeting? the secretary of state laid down some important markers pushing back on punitive democratic backsliding again on plans to eviscerate the israeli supreme court and on the sorts of steps israelis should take in order to diffuse the situation in the west bank. this is way too heavy a lift. governing is about choosing. this administration has a variety of different priorities, foreign policy priorities. frankly, joe biden is not
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