the ground and into the water, josh shapiro, the governor of pennsylvania, held a press conferences about it. shapiro announced that authorities had decided to set thoso announ e chemicals on fire. goo and that was a very good thing.e no one should be unduly alarmed . the burning ohemicaf theslse chemicals, shapiro said, had gone, quote,e, as planned. whil, officials on the scene, meanwhile, declared the burn dquote, perfect.ohio a gr mike dewine, the governor f ohio, agreed with all of this. the people in charge, the railroads, engineers and the state official engineesd overseeing them had everythinger under control. so two days later,tw evacuation orders for residents were officially lifted, both in east palestine over the border in pennsylvania. iorders were link subsequent days, a lot of people have wondered out loud, was it really a wisewondered den to light thousands of gallons of vinyl chloride on fire, releasing a world war one era bioweapon into the air over
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
kind of considered taking a question. this were a number of shouted questions. then decided he said something about you can come see me in my office or something like that. departed. so here s a bit of the new details about the objects that were shot down over canada, alaska and lake huron. the intelligence committee s current assessment is these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private company that studied weather or other scientific research. martha: he spoke about the chinese spy flight, the balloon, whatever you want to call it. he said he expects to speak with president xi. watch this. we seek competition, not conflict with china. we re not looking for a new cold war. i make no apologies and we will compete. we ll responsibly manage that competition so it doesn t veer into conflict. martha: that s something that the president says a lot. he wants competition with china, not conflict. he said he expects to speak with president xi about this. it s
the economy and vowing to finish the job, with the debt limit battles loom looming, what are republicans going to do? then, mystery in the sky the white house says no aliens, but questions remain after the u.s. shot down three unknown objects. defense secretary lloyd austin is speaking to nbc about it. and in what is being called one of the most disturbing docuseries of the year, victims of the sarah lawrence cut cult tell their stories. there is the director joins me live, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we begin this evening s broadcast with breaking news we re reporting from cnn says special counsel jack smith has subpoenaed donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows. the subpoena is part of smith s investigation into trump and his role in the january 6th insurrection. cnn s report is according to a single source familiar with the matter. nbc has not independently confirmed any of it. it comes
champions league this week and the pivotal game for chelsea tomorrow night against dortmund. the blues are 1 0 down from the first leg, and struggling domestically despite being europe s highest spenders in the january transfer window, and their manager knows they re under the microscope. the position we are and should always welcome the pressure because it means you are in a fantastic situation which is to compete for the last eight of the championship. it s a wonderful competition. it s going to be a special night. it was a special occasion in dortmund and i m sure you will receive see the same the bridge tomorrow. there s nothing else to say apart from that s what we re looking forward to employing the game and looking forward to competing to go through because it is a fantastic competition and we want to progress. some more from that huge win for liverpool yesterday. the club say there is no excuse for unacceptable and dangerous behaviour after a supporter ran onto