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hello, everyone. at this hour more objects shot out of the sky, but answers, they are still hard to come by. why lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want to hear more. why people are clinging to hope as the death toll is rising in turkey and syria, and the truly incredible storiesen even and what president trump s lawyer is tell us about a classified folder found in his bedroom. hello, everyone. i m kate bolduan, and now it is a story that keeps taking more turns. over the weekend, another object shot down. the biden administration is not offering an explanation yet. and this is after the u.s. military shot down a spy balloon off of the coast of south carolina, and now after four shoot downs in a week, there are lawmakers on both sides of the aisle asking for answers. one lawmaker who did not want to be named said biden s silence is odd. we go to natasha bertrand who has more. yes, we are told that two objects shot down over alaska and northern canada friday and satu
hello, and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. a midair mystery. the united states shoots down more unidentified objects flying over north america. right now, washington knows about as much as you do. not much. what s gone on the last two weeks or so, ten days, has been nothing short of craziness. and the military needs to have a plan to not only determine what s out there but determine the dangers that go with it. plus, the republican house speaker convenes what he calls the heads of the five families of the republican caucus. he wants to forge a consensus and to prove wrong democrats who predict that house republicans in the end will blink and vote to raise the debt limit. and alive under the debris. sniffer dogs, thermal cameras find signs of life in both turkey and syria, but for every miracle, there is mourning. tens of thousands pinned beneath twisted metal destined for mass graves. up first for us, tr
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,
he s in brussels at the nato defense minister s meeting. we ll get that on air momentarily. the white house saying there s no u.s. surveillance aircraft in chinese airspace. some careful wording perhaps in that statement from john kirby at the white house despite china s insistence that we have been doing surveillance in their airspace. they said there s been ten balloons in their airspace. that idea was vehemently denied by admiral kirby just moments ago from the white house. despite the fact, remember this navy video. there s this discussion about extra terrestrials, what are these things. i ll take you back to this video that was released in april of 2020. what is that little white floating thing that they called a tic tac at that time. now we go back to these videos. raises a lot of questions about what is up there, what is out there. they see no evidence that these aerial objects are alien or extra terrestrial bodies. meanwhile, communications with china have gone cold f