david is with us. the highlight of the president s announcement, three objects shot down since friday not tied to any enemy nations but private companies, bringing up the possibility that the administration may have over reacted after the chinese spy balloon in february. i gave the order to take down these three objects due to commercial air traffic and because we could not rule out the surveillance risk of sensitive facilities. white house officials and all the way to the president insist there will be changes in the works. whatever you want to call them, he said he ll share with congress the policy parameters when they re done but that ll remain classified so we don t give a quote, road map to our enemies to evade our defenses going forward. i expect to be speaking with president xi and i hope we ll get to the bottom of them. i make no apologies for taking down that balloon. you can see right here this exchange when a reporter asked him about chinese business
trace: we are back with the night cap crew, jonathan hunt, lauren blanchard. tonight we are talking about don lemon s comments that nikki haley is past her prime. and it really is jonathan hunt ridiculous, i went and looked, there are women i mean there are historical women in all kinds of different martha stewart didn t do anything until she was 50 and i can go down the list. i would like to see don lemon say that to my 82 year old mother and see what happens. he apologized and said it was in artful and irrelevant. it was offensive and it was plain stupid. don lemon thought he could get away with it, only six people watching the show. seriously, why. trace: the whole thing, you look at this and think, okay, if somebody else said this, i know i hate the if somebody said this or even he said this about hillary clinton back in 2016, the reaction might have been a little bit different, your
heir lives are never the same didn t lemon let me black on black don t do you that now don lemon don t start. no. i want to tell. you i m not blaming the media. but the way you guys treat us, you guys i told you i stopped calling we have how many phones. can you let me get a word in please listen i have to manage the time here so that we can get something out of this interview because a lot of people are watching. and you re you re threw the media were you like it or not your brother s story will be told. the media is giving you a platform. we love stauv. i am don lemon say his name. tell me about your brother, please. don lemon say his name. steft aif listen you re in grief i m sorry for that. he is not going to say his name. you messed up on our name. thank you so much for joining us and my heart goes out for you. thank you. we love cnn thank you guys. love you, berry. we ll be right back.
right. the media waits until the loved ones dies swarm that person. put them in grief. they ruin their lives forever. heir lives are never the same didn t lemon let me black on black don t do you that now don lemon don t start. no. i want to tell. you i m not blaming the media. but the way you guys treat us, you guys i told you i stopped calling we have how many phones. can you let me get a word in please listen i have to manage the time here so that we can get something out of this interview because a lot of people are watching. and you re you re threw the media were you like it or not your brother s story will be told. the media is giving you a platform. we love stephon. i am don lemon say his name. tell me about your brother, please. don lemon say his name. stevante listen you re in grief i m sorry for that. he is not going to say his name. you messed up on our name.
arrested. the narrative that emerges is as you heard don lemon say, he s been in a position where just because of the color of his skin he feels like the cops look at him differently. is he wrong? sure he s wrong. the only thing we haven t accused the american police officer of in this whole thing since ferguson is breathing while black because i suppose that could come up too. look just because the officer makes a determination no crime was committed doesn t mean he shouldn t ask somebody for information. when i send officers to an assignment i expect them to document something. they got called for service and i expect them to say i talked to person a, person b, resolved it. the opposite is true if they take down nothing and walk away and the woman and go to my officer and say let me see your memo book and there s nothing there. now, i think maybe they re hiding something so it s one of those adam filthauted eddamne dd if