united states and around the world. and just ahead on cnn newsroom make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the american people, i will take it down. to see that i couldn t stop it, it was the worst thing. they were like my kids. we will go through this process with the citizens of east palestine for as long as it takes. just happened to hit some good shots finally and made a couple putts. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, february 17th. in washington, d.c., u.s. president biden is finally speaking publicly about those unidentified objects shot out of the sky by the military. he says nothing suggests these objects are related to china s spy balloon program or that they were surveillance objects from any other country. it is important to note the u.s. has not been able to recover any of the debris because of the remote locations and severe weather. phil mattingly r
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all the people who have lost everything. reporter: yeah, absolutely. and in fact we re already beginning to see evacuations taking place from southeast turkey here in istanbul we have seen a number of families being evacuated, some are being housed in university dormitories, others are being housed at homes hosted by volunteers. we were able to visit one family, she was connected, a syrian woman, with another syrian family living here in istanbul. and they have described it as a lifeline, they simply had nowhere else to go. but these are temporary measures. they need homes, they need somewhere permanent to stay. and the uncertainty is exacerbating the trauma that these families have already been through. and we re also talking about syrian families who not only have been displaced because of the earthquake, but multiple times now because of the brutal war at the hands of assad.
the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty, for example, non pro liberation of nuclear weapons. these are issues, even though sometimes we feel a lot of tension between the two countries, we still need to agree as big players in the world, that we need to work together. so i applaud that putin was able to move forward and say, let s get this deal done. getting the deal done is difficult. even if assad has said yes, you know, the devil is in the details. can we get that done, can we get can we get the chemicals out, how do we protect the people in there trying to do that type of work. so we re a long way from getting this deal done. but certainly, when the president came to the american people, he said, these chemical weapons are the reason i want to go in. and if that s the reason, then getting these weapons under control, out of the hands of assad, serves the purpose the president wanted. so i applaud him in moving forward with it. okay. well, republicans, as you know, have opposed any gun safety
interest of the unit to sigh the syrian people have a chance to remove assad from power. as far as the proposal that secretary kerry mentioned today, it s the first we ve harold about it. there s a lot of questions i would want to ask about how that would work. but certainly anything to take chemical weapons out of the hands of assad is something we would consider. he said i could turn every bit of his chemical weapons over in the national community in the next week, but then i said he isn t about it do it and it can t be done obviously. so he basically said this is a ridiculous proi posal. but thin the president jumped onto it. is this a deal that you could see yourself supporting? i know you said it s complicated. there s a couple questions i would have. of course nobody s against a plan to would get chemical weapons out of the hands of assad. beyond that is correct there would be strong verification that it s happened.