impact on the ground. when the chinese foreign ministry indicated that they would respond in the way they were prepared to. and it turns out the other objects are chinese origin, is there a menu of options prepared for how we deal with that? terrific hypothetical. we re just not there yet. on to the relationship issue, the chinese spy balloon, you got china buying more oil from russia. you got china opening up cases in u.s. technology from u.s. universities. and president xi is going to be meeting with the president. and at what point does the president ask for a call from president xi? again, i don t have a call to talk about today. again, let me say here, i know i m running close on time, sorry no, it s not your fault. the president met with president xi at balanci. at the g20, the whole purpose was to move the relationship. the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world, the president knows that. and he wanted to move that forward. and secretary
the caucuses seven years ago plus, themarkets get a break as cooling inflation sparks a much needed rally on wall street. but what about main street what does the latest report tell us about the cost of food and clothes and electricity? we ll break it all down for you. and forecasters in california warning that a new round of rainstorms may bring large scale and long lasting flooding up to eight more inches of rain falling on areas yet to recover from last week s storm as the totals reached levels not seen in decades all this as the northeast sees its first real snow of the season, less than a week before the official start of spring we have a lot going on we ll have all of it for you in just a minute. but we start with donald trump unveiling his strategy for presidential run number three, fully embodying the combative, insulting and misleading campaign style that made him president. but that we had seen very little of in recent months. it started before he even got to io
thanks very much. to our viewers, thanks very much for watching. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, terror as air sirens blair. russian rockets raining down across ukraine. more than 100 in the past day. we re going to show you new video of the moment ukraine intercepts some of these lethal missiles that we ve obtained today. plus, president biden orders another high-altitude object flying over the united states at 40,000 feet about the size of a car making it a threat to commercial aircraft. what was it, and was it from china? as senator kyrsten sinema accuses george santos of another like, we re going to look at what work, if any, the congressman has been doing on capitol hill. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, under attack. putin tonight in the midst of an all-out air assault. officials warning that there is now a threat of drone strikes in and around the capital of kyiv. now explosions also right now a
and at the recommendation of the pentagon, president biden ordered the military to down the object and they did. and it came inside our territorial waters. will: so, what is this thing? is this another chinese balloon in the pentagon says they have no clue or they are just playing stupid. can you say definitively it was not a balloon? i don t at this point, considering the fact that we re still assessing the object. i don t want to get into characterizing it. will: so, they are calling it an object. we don t know what kind. an object could literally be anything. they say it was so lynn democratic call in shape. but, also, the size of a chevy malibu. apples and oranges here in terms of size. as i said, this was the size of a small car and it was over very sparsely populated area but also more critically over it was over water. but, it completely different size. the debris field much, much smaller. will: biden wasted no time in shooting down this so-called object.
joining us live. but first, this fox news alert. two interviews and a primetime speech, but a week of talk from president biden only serving to raise new questions. one was about the chinese surveillance craft. the president brushing off its significance and risk after it loitered across the nation just last week. john: president biden claiming the violation of u.s. air space was not a major breach of national security, yet it traveled thousands of miles over some military sites and collected information from the ground to above. and capable of collecting communications and sending them straight back to china. sandra: a far cry to portray it as no big deal, just a balloon. a lot to unpack as america reports rolls into a second hour here. another busy news afternoon on a friday. sandra smith in new york. great to be with you. john: john roberts in washington, good to be with you, sandra. the president getting attention for trying to downplay the classified document