lawn of the white house with more on this this incident was seems safe at the moment, but has certainly rattled otherwise quiet sunday afternoon. lucas question eric. it s not often hear sonic boom in the dc area, and that s exactly what people heard around 3 p.m. eastern time. the big boom is a sonic boom coming from an f 16 fighter jet as you mentioned launching the d, c national guard at andrews home, 100 and 13th win the reason they scrambled because there was an unknown cessna. we re told, flying a radically in the dc area ignore radio calls that have 16 was cleared for supersonic and but when the jets responded that cessna the faa says crashed outside of stanton, virginia, which is not too close to dc but certainly a strange twist, but certainly has a lot of people s attention here on a sunday afternoon in washington. there certainly is this especially at that says no 1, 72 or 1, 50, or skyline crashed. it s very odd. we don t know what may have brought that plane down.
nato. so what do you make of that? what i make of it is that that is an excuse the real reason for not letting ukraine into nato right now is that the president and other nato allies are in this very delicate balancing act. they don t want to get into a war with russia, which is a nato nuclear um, opponent. they don t want a nuclear war and so on the one hand, they re trying to provide ukraine with his many weapons as they need. they made significant progress. 11 nations are going to be training ukrainian pilots on f sixteen s. it looks like france is now going to give ukraine the long range weapons that they had been asking for. and usually that will likely pave the way for the us to give them attack them, which are the long range missiles they ve needed. so this is a balancing act. but it is also important to point out. remember in 2008. there was a very important meeting in bucharest in which the bush administration put out that
brought that plane down. we don t have a confirmed that it actually did crash. i ve been down to andrews air joint andrews base with those f sixteen s. i ve interviewed the pilots. they re on standby alert, basically what they call it, you know, hot, warm, hot, ready to take off. this is a stems from 9 11. the jets standing there ready to roll if there indeed, there is a threat to that capital white house triangle area, any other indication on the ground of any type of exercises or alert or anything at the white house that could have indicated there was a cause of concern there. which is not normally you hear a sonic boom, especially on a sunday afternoon in washington , eric and the right away knew that something was a little out of the ordinary and the fact that these f sixteens were launched. as you mentioned these are alert aircraft armed alert aircraft in the wake of 9 11. they ve been, you know, standing watch here at andrews ever since and the fact that