impact on the ground. when the chinese foreign ministry indicated that they would respond in the way they were prepared to. and it turns out the other objects are chinese origin, is there a menu of options prepared for how we deal with that? terrific hypothetical. we re just not there yet. on to the relationship issue, the chinese spy balloon, you got china buying more oil from russia. you got china opening up cases in u.s. technology from u.s. universities. and president xi is going to be meeting with the president. and at what point does the president ask for a call from president xi? again, i don t have a call to talk about today. again, let me say here, i know i m running close on time, sorry no, it s not your fault. the president met with president xi at balanci. at the g20, the whole purpose was to move the relationship. the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world, the president knows that. and he wanted to move that forward. and secretary
type of significant intelligence collecting capability or what they might have been intended for. at this white house briefing, what you did hear from national security spokesman john kirby is there is clearly a shift into a robust, all-of-government approach to get more answers, not just to the three objects shot down over the course after a three-day period but what they re seeing in the skies. the widening of the apertures, it s at least one element of why we ve seen this more over the course of the past couple days. as you noted, victor, this is unprecedented in terms of u.s. fighters taking out things from over u.s. skies. this is john kirby s response. where we go from here, i think we just don t know right now in terms of whether they needs to be threshold changes as you put it. i think it s important to take a step back here. what the president did was ordered these actions with the safety and security of the american people foremost in his mind. there were very goo
we re looking for more. their altitude z were considerably lower than the chinese high-altitude balloon and did pose a threat to civilian commercial air traffic. while we have no specific reason to suspect they were conducting surveillance of any kind, we couldn t rule that out. the chinese balloon flew at 60,000 feet while the three unidentified objects had the altitude of 40,000 feet or lower. just into the newsroom, sources say the objects brought down over alaska and canada friday and saturday both carried pay loads or receptacles. we ll start with cnn s phil mattingly at the white house. tell us more about what came out of that briefing, phil. there are still unanswered questions. we don t know what they were, what their actual construct was. u.s. officials have been clear they don t believe it had any