hello everyone. i am alicia menendez. a new hour of american voices, and we begin with breaking news. just hours ago, a third on and fight object was shot down over north america. canadian prime minister justin trudeau tweeted that norad successfully downed the using a u.s. f-22 fighter jet. the prime minister also announced the canadian and u.s. forces will work together to recover and analyze the objects wreckage. short time ago, the pentagon issued a statement saying that president biden spoke with prime minister trudeau, authorizing u.s. fighter jets to work with canada to bring down the kroft. the statement also reveals that the u.s. detected the object over alaska late friday night, and continued to monitor it as it crossed canadian airspace. now, at any moment, we expect an update from canadian authorities about the situation. joining me until we get that visual out, nbc s dan de luce live in washington. dan, i ask you to flag us, as you had new reporting, rolling in
mendes, a new hour of american voices, and we begin with breaking news. just hours ago, a third unidentified objects was shot down over north america. canadian prime minister justin trudeau tweeted that they successfully downed the object using a u.s. f 22 a jet. it s unclear whether the latest object has anything to do with the chinese by balloon shutdown off the coast of carolina s just last week or the object that was down over alaska on friday. a short time ago, the pentagon issued a statement saying that president biden worked with trudeau to break down the crime. the statement also said that the u.s. to take to the object over alaska late friday night, and continuing to monitor as across into canadian and a minute, now we are waiting for an update. but for, now we have dan joining us for a new update. jeff, you asked me to tell you what it s coming in. so what did we learn from this incident? i think we ve got a few more details but hopefully we re gonna get a lot m
passed as it has been, now, there will be assessment as to what after action discussions about what the operational program was and whether they were out of time, whether the guidelines were followed back according to plan. and it shows this goes to collaboration between our defense establishments, between canada and the u.s., and perhaps there has been some in defending the homeland, bringing up a lot of interesting dynamics and questions about cooperation between the united states and canada going forward as well, and how integrated our two countries should be. but it really is a pivot point for our potential relationship with canada. yes, we didn t get a lot of information about the object itself. of course, we have a ton of questions. one piece of information we did get was that in addition to that f-22s from the u.s., there were also f-18s from canada
that? well, alicia, what this means is that norad has been tested for the first time in its 20-year history. and it has succeeded. but it is now a new moment. and once the test has been passed as it has been, now, there will be assessment as to what after action discussions about what the operational program was and whether they were out of time, whether the guidelines were followed back according to plan. and it shows this goes to collaboration between our defense establishments, between canada and the u.s., and perhaps there has been some whoever has been in defending the homeland, bringing up a lot of interesting dynamics and questions about cooperation between the united states and canada going forward as well, and how integrated our two countries should be. but it really is a pivot point for our potential relationship with canada.