the week started with republicans literally trying to shout the president down for his passion in defense of social security and medicare at the state of the union. but by the end, it was prominent members of the gop who are feeling the heat. former vice president mike pence has been formerly subpoenaed by jack smith. the justice department appointed special counsel, investigating the efforts of the presidents, pence s former boss, former president donald trump, to stay in power after losing the 2020 election. including, of course, his impact on the january 6th insurrection at the core of that investigation. and his scheme to submit fake electors to falsely declare trump the winner of the election in states that joe biden actually won. a scheme that hinged on pence not declaring biden the winner when he wanted to certify the results on january 6th, which pence ultimately rejected, even as his life was being threatened by insurrectionists en masse on the capitol that day. on
scrambled, and a u.s. f 22 successfully shut it down. it s unclear whether the latest object has anything to do with the chinese by balloon shutdown off the coast of carolina s just last week or the object that was down over alaska on friday. nbc is in washington with the latest. ben, tell us what we know about the jets taken down a short time ago in canada. we do not know really anything more than what you just pointed out, which is this tweet from the canadian prime minister saying that they took down this high altitude object so this is 24 hours since a another high altitude object was taken down off the coast of alaska by a another u.s. fighter jet, another of 22. we still don t have any answers on what that object was other than that it was roughly the size of a small car, and it was not manned. in this case, this was spotted over northern canada, there were u.s. and canadian aircraft tracking it, and the f 22 fighter jet shut it down. what altitude was a? what s beat
and a shelter in place order has been lifted. the mystery continues around the three objects shutdown in as many days by the u.s. air force. senators on capitol hill who received a classified briefing in a few hours, and u.s. authorities have been unwilling to say or speculate where all three objects came from. unlike the suspected china spy balloon shot down more than a week ago, this is what we know right now about the unidentified objects. the one shot down on friday, over alaska, has been described as a metallic objects that broke into several pieces. it s believed to be carry a payload, just like the one shot down over canada on saturday. all three objects apparently look similar but of different shapes. but none as large as the chinese spy balloon. and just off the coast of south carolina. the u.s. navy and coast guard had almost finished recovering debris from what is left of the china balloon. but their search will now move further from the coast for any parts which may have dr
hello, everyone, i m alicia menendez and we begin this hour with breaking news. a 3rd, unidentified objects shutdown overt northern america. this time over canada. a short time ago, canadian prime minister justin trudeau confirmed in a tweet that he ordered that takedown of an object that violated canadian airspace. canadian and u.s. aircraft for