national security interests and threats as best we can. thanks, admiral. real quick, is there a timeline for recovery of this object? you d have to talk to the pentagon, i don t know. guys, again, this just happened in the last hour and a half and they re still assessing where this thing landed and the degree to which they can get to it. on the poland visit, i know in the statement that you put out, it says that the president is going to meet with leaders of the eastern flank countries. are any other european leaders, nato leaders expected to join the president on this trip? we re still putting the agenda together. the predominant reason is to talk to those nations who are literally on the eastern flank of the nato alliance. but i can t rule in or rule out there may be additional attendees that the president may have. thanks very much. back to lula, is there going to be any commitment to the amazon fund by the united states during this visit? let s have the visi
far as how it was moving, did it have any propulsion or moveability. frankly what it looked like despite the fact u.s. fighter jets and fighter pilots had eyes on this and then what it was doing. right at the end of the press conference, the pentagon said it was moving in a northeasterly direction. it had been spotted yesterday and they kept an eye on it since then. eventually the decision was made to shoot it down. it had been roughly at the same altitude throughout the time the u.s. had eyes on it, so with 40,000 feet, which is the upper edge of commercial air traffic. and that brigadier general pat ryder said is why the decision was ultimately made to shoot this down. one of the key questions we asked, the pentagon made a big point of this, ryder himself and others as well, that there was a benefit to having the other balloon fly across much of the continental united states in terms of intelligence dpgatheri. if that s the case, why was this one shot down so quickly because