we ve got some closure here but a lot more questions now to jacqui heinrich at the white house with more. hi, jacqui. we learned the three objects shot down since friday were most likely linked to commercial research projects, private companies and not to china s spy balloon program. despite that, the president says he makes no apologies for shooting down that spy balloon even after china has called it an overreaction. all week though the white house has been saying we re going to soon learn more about these new policy recommendations and national security advisers putting together for how we will better deal with future potential airborne threats given that we re now detecting more objects in our airspace since we ve dialled up the radar and we learned today that we re actually not going to hear the details. i ll be sharing with congress these classified policy parameters when they re completed and remain classified so we don t give our road map to our enemies to try to
these classified policy parameters when they re completed and remain classified so we don t give our road map to our enemies to try to evade our defenses. going forward, this will handle unidentified objects. we also did not learn a lot about the scope of the chinese spy program beyond what we know, which is just that the u.s. has been tracking it for some time. they have seen about 40 countries over five continents. they had these balloons over them. mike pence, who was watching president biden s remarks said that biden fumbled and opportunity to deliver a strong message to china early on and then again today. this was also a moment to explain to the american people what the chinese are up to with a massive balloon program. this is not a one off.