america this weekend. kasie hunt picks up our coverage right now. good afternoon. i m kasie hunt here in washington. we re going to begin with the scramble for answers after a u.s. fighter jet were scrambled three days in a row this weekend, shooting down three separate aerial objects that were flying over north america. in just moments, the white house is going to take questions on this deepening national security mystery, as president biden faces increasing pressure to address the nation to explain what exactly is going on and who is behind these incursions. we re going to bring you that white house briefing as soon as it gets under way. but we want to get started right now with cnn s kylie atwood and phil mattingly, who are tracking all of this. kylie, let me start with you at the state department. so much of this is going to depend on what the government recovers from what is shot down. what is the status of this? if they haven t determined the origins of these objects,
with china and what point does the president ask for a call from president xi? i don t have a call to talk about today. let me again, level set here, and i know i m running close on time, sorry, but the president met with president xi at bali at g20, and most consequential bilateral relationship in the world, the president knows that and wanted to move that relationship forward in a better way and secretary blinken was dang near wheels up trying to head to beijing to have those kinds of conversations to get some of these communication vehicles and venues back on track, whether it s climate change or military to military. we were looking forward to doing that, and then the chinese decided to fly a surveillance balloon over the continental united states and would not be appropriate to have that meeting. when are those discussions going to get back on the calendar, i couldn t tell you. as secretary blinken has said, it will happen at the appropriate time. now is not that ti
the sky, but they ve now had to do it four times in less than two weeks. what the heck is going on? is today the day the white house gives the public some answers. dramatic video out of turkey where this woman was pulled from the rubble after spending 175 hours buried alive. she s not the only one. the stories that are providing flickers of joy in the midst of an escalating catastrophe coming up. nikki haley is poised to become the first republican to take on donald trump and she won t be the last. it s one thing to run. who is ready to actually go after the former president who is already in attack mode. lots to get to. we start with the extraordinary developments in the sky above the u.s. pentagon and military officials are scrambling to answer the question the entire country is asking. what are those unidentified objects we keep shooting down including three in the last three days. we re hoping to get more answers from the white house briefing set to get under way an
can happen. jackie ibanez will have response. good morning. jackie: all eyes on this story, house speaker nancy pelosi is expected to arrive in taiwan today. pelosi made no mention of the stop in taiwan, but opened our meetings commitment to inddo-pacific. the biden administration danced around the pelosi itinerary. listen. given as you pointed out no change in policy and president for pelosi to go on. so what is the drama? have you watched last couple ofeck wooes? i haven t seen any drama, i think you are manufacturing it with your question. carley: he wasn t happy about that question. chinese media personality warning the speaker in a tweet saying let her go to taiwan, wish herself not be defined as center who starts a spiral of escalation. senator tom cotton not condemning president biden for not defending pelosi. i thought it was essential nancy pelosi go and show united states will not be pushed around by the chinese. carley: she is traveling delegation t
this administration on t whether or not america s borders are secure. here is the exchange. when it comes to these higher altitudes, are america s borders secure? the president takes, as i said earlier, he takes our national security extremely seriously. he has no higher responsibility than the safety and security of the american people and i don t think you need to look any further, frankly, than the decisions he s made in the last week to ten days to evidence that. feels like he s plugging holes, vulnerabilities we are discovering in realtime. you are making sandra: hesitancy. the question was accurate, we don t have a good handle on not only ground border, but air