lawmakers. this growing call of complaints from both sides of the aisle that there isn t more transparency, more information coming from the administration. one of the challenges as you speak to white house officials, there is only so much they know. in fact, courtney kubie, you broke the story. it was not acknowledged by the administration until you were reporting it. you had all the information. there s a question about transparency, which is being raised by some of the senators coming out of that briefing. we should point out that as you were in brussels with general milley, he said balloons and then corrected himself and said objects. what we hear from the senators these were most likely balloons, most likely benign as peter was
pentagon is to get out as much information as quickly as possible, particularly stuff that doesn t seem harmful or even close to being classified. quite frankly, admitting there are questions and things to know. it s always a tough balance. as much as you can get out as quickly is important. i don t think, to my recollection you never had to say that you don t think the u.s. is being attacked by aliens. i had my worries about both peters in the briefing room, but no. no concern about extraterrestrial. i can vouch for both of the peters. they are good guys. thank you peter, courtney, peter and robert. nikki haley throwing her hat into the 2024 ring to take on donald trump. is she only going to be the first of many?
traveling in the philippines. today chinese foreign ministry officials say they regret it and it s civilian in nature and used for scientific research, something the u.s. does not accept. joining me now courtney kubie. we will jump into the pentagon. you have all the reporting. you broke the story. take us through the latest. reporter: as you said, they have been monitoring this balloon for several days. it hit a point where there was a high level of concern that led to this meeting. they went through the options. what s important to note here is that one of the options did include taking this balloon out. that was a very real
home. the caliphate has crumbled, and isis has been defeated. joining me now nbc s courtney kubie. i m glad to have you both here. courtney, bring us up to speed on anything else we ve learned about that attack, the situation on the ground in syria. we know very little more about the attack so far. we don t yet know the identities of the people kills, although we expect to get that later today or early tomorrow. we know it was two u.s. service members who were killed, three more service members injured in this attack. what we should know about it s been one of the success stories in syria in that isis was cleared out of it in about 2016 and there really hasn t been much of an isis presence there. they don t have the persistent attacks we see in other areas like the euphrates river valley where isis still has a little stronghold left. this is a place the u.s. and turks have been engaged in these
radar. so, they weren t intending to stop the syrian air force s capability throughout the country. frankly, they didn t even stop their capability at that base. they still have the ability to fly jets and to fly helicopters in and out of that base today. courtney, one other specific thing to ask you about is we got this dramatic photo released by the white house today showing the makeshift situation room they set up at the president s resort in south florida. it was a dramatic picture but an unusual cast of characters. the president s top economic adviser is there, the commerce secretary is there, the treasury secretary is there, not to mention the white house spokesman, the president s son-in-law. is it clear nermz of the white house decision-making part of this, all these people were involved in this process? do we know what the chain of of decision-making was here? it was a relatively quick decision-making process. so, earlier in the week on april 5th, president trump asked sec