balloon should have gotten as far inland had got. sean: what would you have done. i think that probably should have been shot down over the water. i don t know why it was able to get as close at it got into u.s. territory. sean: director i agree with you. thank you. sean: once it was coming through alaska air space i would have shot that sucker out of the sky. yeah, yeah. but let s be very clear. sean: what about russia what would you have done with the drone incident? are you talking about syria? sean: talking about the russians taking down one of our drones. oh, russians taking down one of our drones. where? you mean one of our drones what country are you talking about? sean: it was a high profile incident that a russian fighter jet purposely hit and took down an american drone out of the sky and joe biden did nothing. what would you have done? it would depend on where the drone was. you know, we take down drones, they take down drones. this is not the big p
intelligence committee they re set to get a briefing on the drone incident. maybe we ll learn more after that. thank you so much. thanks. talk now about the u.s. economy and the balancing act that keeps getting toughercoming sboob today s new jobs report economists expecting 180,000 jobs added in april. em mothers added a surprising 253,000, obviously much more than expected pushing back against other gloomy indicators. stubborn inflation, fears of government default and failing banks. president biden took a victory lap on the positives of the news. unemployment rate at 3.4%. which is lowest in 50 years. black employment hit a record low, and the really good news is working-age americans are participating in the labor force at the highest rate in 15 years. not just since the pandemic.
to get to when he spoke in helsinki where he was meeting with nordic partners just hours after the drone incident became widely known. he dismissed it. ukrainian officials say it was tricky of enemies. and president zelenskyy said we do not attack putin, do not attack moscow. we don t attack putin or moscow. we defend our citizens. we at the present time have enough weapon for these. that is why we don t use it anywhere. for us that is a deficit. we can t spend it. we didn t attack putin.
today say they had done the same privately to the white house, explicitly, according to one of those officials. in the meantime, cnn s matthew chance has new reporting on another theory of who may be behind it. he joins us now from london. what did you learn, matthew? yeah, anderson, i it s astonishing pictures those are, aren t they? tonight, a former russian lawmaker is telling me that he has direct information that this drone incident was not the work of ukraine. it was not even a false flag operation, but instead, it was the work of partisan russian groups fighting against the russian state. take a listen. is this the moment russia s war in ukraine finally struck home? two drone attacks on the kremlin minutes apart, leaving smoke, billowing from the historic buildings, and an extraordinary scene of vulnerability. at the heart of the russian state. it was hours before kremlin controlled tv announced the
a mysterious drone talk in moscow, moscow uses it to unleash carnage inside ukraine today. the kremlin claiming without showing evidence that the u.s. orchestrated the drone incident that left moscow s senate palace damaged. the white house calls that ridiculous and a lie, but russia is vowing revenge. as we ve seen so often in this war, it s ukrainian civilians who are the ones to pay. overnight vladimir putin released some of the worst strikes ukraine has seen in months. cnn s natasha bertrand is live for us at the pentagon. it s interesting talking to officials, they do not know who is responsible, but what is clear is that they are saying that vladimir putin is very wrong about who he is claiming is responsible for this drone