united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria. today on the program, an exclusive interview with the chancellor of germany, olaf scholz. on putin s war in ukraine, on whether ukraine and russia should start talking about a peace deal, and about the future of europe itself. and, chevron ceo mike wirth on the present and future of oil. which still powers our world. and also just where did covid come from? the so-called lab leak theory just got new life this week. we ll follow the facts with dr. leana wen. but first, here is my take. we re often told that america is deeply divided, that polarization makes it impossible for us to make any progress in policy. that our country is so internally con flicked it cannot project unity and strength to the world. but on the most important foreign policy issue confronting policymakers, the problem is closer to the opposite. washington has embraced a wide-ranging consensus on china that has turned into a classic example of g
downing of another object off the northeastern coast of alaska. that was near the canadian border. nor is it clear if it is related to the chinese spy balloon shot down last saturday. any chance, any indication that we might hear from the president on this? what can you tell us? reporter: well, we are expected to see president biden in just a short while. he s hosting an event with the nation s governors. it is unclear whether he might address this issue at the top. the white house is saying that president biden and canadian prime minister justin trudeau jointly authorized this operation to shoot down what they described as an unidentified and unmanned aircraft in north american air space. i want to read you this readout from the white house which said that the two leaders spoke in, quote, an bundance of caution. that ll the recommendation of the militaries that they authorized it to be taken down. president biden authorized u.s. fighter aircraft assigned to norad to conduc
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with breaking news. yet another shootdown of a high altitude object. this one in the skies over northern canada. the canadian prime minister justin trudeau this afternoon gave norad the order to shoot it down and a u.s. fighter jet successfully just did that. it is not clear if it is related to yesterday s incident off the northeastern coast of alaska. that was near the canadian border. nor is it clear if it is related to the chinese spy balloon that was shot down last saturday. natasha joins us now along with paula newton. what do we know about this latest shootdown? obviously significant enough for the canadian prime minister to tweet about this in the last hour or so. and given the week we ve had with these objects, it is pretty predictable that he would want to be fully transparent about it. we were talking about norad, the north american aerospace command observed this high altitude object, confirm
welcome back to cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. new this hour. dramatic new details about the unidentified object shot down by fighter jets just miles off the coast of alaska yesterday. unlike the chinese spy balloon last saturday, this demanded more immediate action yesterday. officials say it was flying much lower at 40,000 feet making it a dangerous potential threat to civilian aircraft. now we are learning u.s. military pilots who approached the craft have given conflicting accounts of what they saw. this new report coming in from cnn national security reporter natasha bertrand. this is interesting. this is kind of unusual that these pilots saw different things and that is sort of, i guess, adding to the mystery of all of this. not even the pilots were able to identify what they saw. just to take you back for a sec. on thursday the u.s. defense officials sent f-35 fighter jets to try to figure out what this object was flying around near alaska. those pilot
the suspected chinese spy craft brought down a week ago. according to the white house this is about the size of a small sedan, a lot smaller than the balloon. it was not equipped with a significant payload, in fact, who or what yesterday s object belonged to is still up for question. 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 a whether it s state-owned or corporate-owned or privately owned. we just don t know. well, the object s flight path over alaska was north easterly. it s unclear where it was first detected. the pentagon says it was spotted using ground radar, and again, altitude, 40,000 was determined safety threat to civilian airplanes so president biden ordered it shot down yesterday and summed up his feelings with one word. do you have anything to say about the object shot down over alaska, mr. president? and it was taken down 1 p.m. yesterday off the cost of alaska near the p