my team was telling me i was like rihanna is floating above the field like 100 feet. that to me is cool. yeah. scary. speaking of flying objects. she looked great, though. all right, guys, we know you have a busy show ahead of you so we will let you take it from here. enjoy your day. have a good day, guys. very good morning to you this monday, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. so this morning president biden is facing pressure to respond after the u.s. military shot down three unidentified airborne objects in just three days. right now st officials are working to recover the remnants of those objects. so far no indication as to whether they have any connection to china s suspected surveillance balloon. a lot of open questions. while the pentagon says there was no military threat but security officials across north america are on alert. this morning the biden administration is firing back after china is now accusing the u.s. of illegally flying high-altitu
especially because these were objects shot down in u.s. air space and that s a key point here. now, also adding to the confusion broadening out the story is the accusation now coming from china that there were objects in chinese air space. that got a forceful reaction from the pentagon which said the u.s. doesn t have a surveillance balloon program, that s china that has that program. erica and jim? yes, the back and forth will continue. mj, as we look at all of this, president biden is facing intense pressure this morning because he has been so quiet about all of this over the weekend. what are you hearing from the administration? any plans for a more public discussion or statement from the president? reporter: not as of right now, erica, but you are absolutely right that it was pretty remarkable that over the weekend we didn t hear the president engage on this issue once. you know, the fact that there were three downed objects at his direction by the u.s. military in as many days
choices, one is they can say, fine, bring us to court and we will handle each question at the time in front of the judge, the other is to say come on in, we will ask you the questions and you can answer some and maybe not answer others. ultimately the specifics of the questions will have to land in front of the judge. so that s going to happen. timing would come into play here, which we ve been talking about from the moment we knew that there was a subpoena, right? in case executive privilege was brought into play here by the president, with i now we re learning about or of course if the vice president had said i m not going to comply. o which one of those two options makes more sense for investigators? if doj wants to move this quickly they would send out the list of questions. it may not be in their best interest strategically but if they want to move this along as quickly as possible they give the questions now and they can go into court and say we object to this question, this
donald trump s attorneys says the search for classified documents at the former president s properties is done and that his legal team has handed over additional records, including a laptop to the justice department. in other words, they found more. the trump lawyer confirmed his legal team found the additional classified material during a search in december. cnn legal affairs correspondent paula reid is with us. paula, you spoke to trump s attorney. what more did they find and where exactly? so he tried to dismiss this entire controversy as just the problems with how documents are packed up at the end of administrations. he said that s a problem for trump, a problem for biden, for pence but clearly it s more complicated for his client. he confirmed in fact they did find additional documents with classified markings in december, they handed those over to investigators, but, jim, they also had these same documents that had been scanned on to a laptop belong to go a staffer for a pac
secretary austin in this ramstein agreement to assist ukraine but we need more and everybody knows about that because we are fighting not only for ukraine, we are fighting for you. former ukrainian president petro poroshenko, thanks so much for joining us and please be safe. thanks a lot. just ahead, he warned officers he had a heart problem as they continued to tase him. now an investigation is under way after 32-year-old man died shortly after that encounter with north carolina police. what officials are now saying next.