bret: but, first, breaking tonight, increasing concern over aerial objects that were spotted and then shot down over the u.s. and saturday over canada. the total right now is for china blamed for at least one of these so far says the u.s. has sent multiple balloons over its territory in the past year. the biden administration denies this. more of the chinese spy craft has been recovered and is being analyzed from off the coast of south carolina. but, as for the other objects, there is still very little information about what they are, what they were doing and who is behind them. as the search for those remnants continues tonight. we have fox team coverage, brit hume has analysis of the whole affair. jacqui heinrich is at the white house with the increasing pressure for president biden to address the issue personally. but we begin with chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin at the pentagon with what the defense department is doing and saying tonight. good eve
of us have been saying for years. don t lose sight of the first episode which was a dedicated spy mission that was successful for china and the national security failure for the united states. bret: as we look at all these objects, there is now four of them. the first one though, his point was he believes an intelligence incursion. bret: right. and i don t think the chinese have disputed it was their balloon. of course they haven t. they are attacking us, accusing us of doing the same thing. apparently we don t have such balloons. i would quibble with former congressman former dni chief ratcliffe on this point it. may turn out to be the case that we were able to block the balloon the chinese balloon from gathering much in the way of intelligence we may get intelligence from the wreckage that remains to be seen. turn out in the long run waiting for it, it works out all right. it wasn t it s not something that is automatic particularly true and certainly a huge