he s in brussels at the nato defense minister s meeting. we ll get that on air momentarily. the white house saying there s no u.s. surveillance aircraft in chinese airspace. some careful wording perhaps in that statement from john kirby at the white house despite china s insistence that we have been doing surveillance in their airspace. they said there s been ten balloons in their airspace. that idea was vehemently denied by admiral kirby just moments ago from the white house. despite the fact, remember this navy video. there s this discussion about extra terrestrials, what are these things. i ll take you back to this video that was released in april of 2020. what is that little white floating thing that they called a tic tac at that time. now we go back to these videos. raises a lot of questions about what is up there, what is out there. they see no evidence that these aerial objects are alien or extra terrestrial bodies. meanwhile, communications with china have gone cold f
newsroom. we begin this hour with more breaking news. yet another shoot-down of a high-altitude object, this one confirmed a short time ago in the skies over the yukon in northern canada. president biden and canadian prime minister justin trudeau gave norad the order to shoot down the object early in the day. a u.s. fighter jet successfully brought it down. it s not clear if this latest shoot-down is related to yesterday s downing of another object off the northeastern coast of alaska. that was near the canadian border, nor is it clear if it s related to the chinese spy balloon that was shot down last saturday. arlette saenz is at the white house. the president was just making some remarks to some governors there in the white house a few moments ago. doesn t sound like he took any questions or made any remarks there. but obviously this is top of mind for the administration after what you and i were reporting on last saturday which was the shoot-down of that chinese spy ballo
there was a time, before the war in ukraine, when europe thought about its place in the world, and how it could become less dependent on the united states. as washington turned inwards, and administrations refocused us foreign policy towards asia, france and germany talked about the need for strategic autonomy . but today in warsaw, at a meeting of the bucharest 9, it was the american president sat at the head of the table. all nine members of this group were part of the former soviet union or the defunct warsaw pact. the commitment of the united states to nato, i ve said it too many times, i ll say it again, is absolutely clear. article five is a sacred commitment the united states has made. we will defend literally every inch of nato, every inch of nato. and this is an important moment. i look forward to the discussion, the next steps we can take together and to keep our alliance strong and to further deter aggression. because what literally is at stake is notjust ukraine,
last week s scoot shooting. school shooting. i didn t hear you. they re coming, they re coming. cbs s mark strassmann is there. so much indiscriminate carnage in a country polarized by what to do about it. plus, pope francis returns to the vatican, just in time for holy week. i m chris livesay in st. peter s square where pope francis is celebrating palm sunday mass after making a swift recovery. and later, triumph and heartbreak. there s no stopping march madness, even though the calendar says it s april. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news with jericka duncan. good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. tonight new york city is bracing for what could be two tumultuous days. on monday, former president donald trump is expected to fly from florida to new york. then on tuesday he will be formally arraigned on criminal charges in an historic indictment that remains under seal. today, in west palm beach, ved to supporters from inside his suv as he
air space of nations in a way that is inappropriate and unacceptable. maria: coming up, wisconsin senator ron johnson on the ccp s attacks and joe biden s response. then the chinese communist party was able to record images and audio from major nuclear installations in america for a week. the chairman of the u.s. foreign affairs committee, texas congressman michael mccaul, on the impact and on the u.s. components used to build that spy flight. plus, indiana congressman jim banks, member of the house armed services and the select committee on china with the changes to america s trade with china to come. plus, covering up for the biden family influence peddling. where are the democrats on these dangerous provocations from communist china? the house kicks off its hearing on the weaponization of government, and democrats mock it this week, refusing to investigate biden s influence peddling with america s number one adversary. it s just an abuse of public resources, an abuse of