national security interests and threats as best we can. thanks, admiral. real quick, is there a timeline for recovery of this object? you d have to talk to the pentagon, i don t know. guys, again, this just happened in the last hour and a half and they re still assessing where this thing landed and the degree to which they can get to it. on the poland visit, i know in the statement that you put out, it says that the president is going to meet with leaders of the eastern flank countries. are any other european leaders, nato leaders expected to join the president on this trip? we re still putting the agenda together. the predominant reason is to talk to those nations who are literally on the eastern flank of the nato alliance. but i can t rule in or rule out there may be additional attendees that the president may have. thanks very much. back to lula, is there going to be any commitment to the amazon fund by the united states during this visit? let s have the visi
ukraine. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start with breaking news, the united states military has taken down another high-altitude object flying over the united states this afternoon. the white house announced the object was shot down at 1:45 p.m. eastern time at the direction of president biden. u.s. officials say it was flying off alaska s northern coast at an altitude of 40,000 feet and was approximately the size of a small car. as of now, the administration is not offering many more details than that. we re calling this an object because that s the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it, whether it s it s state owned or corporate owned or privately owned. we just don t know. the context, of course, is crucial. last saturday, less than a week ago, the u.s. military shot down what the biden administration says was a chinese surveillance balloon. they did this off the coast of the united
additional classified material, is there going to be a criminal investigation here just as there is now with donald trump and as there is with joe biden, with special counsels looking at both of those situations. today we did get a statement from deaf ino malley, spokesperson for mike pence, they ve directed the legal team to continue with authorities and be fully transparent through the conclusion of this matter. they are putting out that information, and we are learning this has been a really big week for mike pence. he had some grandchildren born, and he also has been subpoenaed in a january 6th criminal investigation. a lot going on, victor. a lot, yes, there is. thank you so much for the reporting. president biden just weighed in on the unidentified object shot down over alaska. he says it was a success. earlier this afternoon the white house announced that the president will be going to poland ahead of the one-year anniversary of the war with ukraine, between russia and