the hour. growing pressure on president biden to finally speak out about the chinese spy flight and three other objects shot down from the skies over north america. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pushing for the president to be more transparent about the decision to shoot down the objects and the growing threat from china. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: good morning. how are we doing? dana: fast hour. bill: i m bill hemmer. president biden so far keeping silent about the airborne objects shot down over the weekend. that was last weekend as lawmakers demand answers. the white house now considering plans for biden to give a speech on the topic before heading to poland on monday. secretary of state antony blinken will have a possible opportunity to meet with china s top diplomat later this week in germany. his first chance to de-escalate the tension face-to-face. mike pompeo saying it is time for the biden administration to
good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we go directly to the pentagon and the briefing on the china spy balloon. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call-in options will not be available. for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio up as quickly as possible. we will aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward, we will look at ways to improve our briefing operations and the facilitation and expect that our regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. again, we appreciate your patience and flexibility and extend our thanks to the department of the air force for allowing us to use airman s hall as our temporary briefing home. secretary austin returned yesterday from a very productive series of meetings in
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