first is they didn t have a lot of information, they still don t have a lot of information in terms of what those three objects that were shot down over the course of three days actually were. they re waiting to get a better sense of things. yesterday they announced the intelligence community had a theory, a leading theory, that they were benign. i think that gave them comfort in terms of the ability to speak with some authority about what had been shot down. i think they also wanted to let kind of the fury and the spiral of events ease up a little bit so the president could deliver a sober, steadfast message about where things stood, what was going to happen next, and what the process had been in the lead up to the shoot-downs and what the process will be in the wake of that. you heard that today. that is what aides pretty much wanted him to communicate. i would say the other critical element and probably the most critical was what the president was saying in relation to china, in rel
coast of south carolina. so, today we re expecting to hear president biden explain to americans what the united states actually knows about these unidentified objects and also to lay out some of the steps that he s taking. we know he s tasked jake sullivan with leading an inner agency group that will involve officials from various federal departments and agencies to look at how the united states handles these situations. we know the white house is developing protocols going forward for how these types of objects are treated. whether or not they re shot down and what would merit these objects being shot down. one of the key factors here is looking at the height at which these objects were flying. that was part of what prompted the shoot downs over the weekend because they were flying in that range of commercial airspace, that chinese spy balloon was flying at 60,000 feet, that s why they allowed that one to float into the ocean before ultimately shooting it down. do we know if the pre
potential breakthrough in the search in the atlantic from the debris from the chinese spy balloon. crews have recovered what north com calls significant debris including all the priority sensors and electronics as well as large sections of the structure. but big questions tonight about the shoot-downs of three smaller objects last week. the white house said today those unidentified ones which told congress are likely balloons could be for benign commercial use or academic research. the joint chiefs chairman acknowledging it took two missiles to bring down one of them. on the fourth one over lake huron, the first shot miss, the second hit. the missile landed harmlessly in the water of lake huron. reporter: that lake is several hundred feet deep. the debris search will take time. they may never find the wreckage from two others. in the yukon, where a c-17 unloaded equipment saturday night, and alaska. that s up in some really difficult terrain, the arctic circle with very, very low
after days of uncertainty about the flying objects in north american airspace, the white house put forward its leading theory, balloons for benign purposes. following a classified briefing on capitol hill, senators from both parties feel at ease, but blasted the biden administration for not being transparent about the objects. the briefing was helpful today. i m not unnerved by anything. i m confident this wasn t an take on the country. i think it probably served the country well to have the president explain what s going on. there is a lot of information presented to us this morning that could be told to the american people without any harm to sources or methods or national security. reporter: the state of shoot-downs revealing new compuc compl complications, like what happens with f a fighter jet misses its target. the first missile, a side winder missed over lake huron. the missile landed harmlessly in the water of lake huron. we tracked it all the way down,
are about what they re doing in our airspace and the president hasn t said anything. the fact that members of congress can t gather information about what s actually taking place and the american people no nothing even though we are taking three shoot downs over american-canadian territory sun assemble. the classified briefing they walked out and they were like we learned nothing. jamill lauder thank you. good to see you. whoopy goldberg has offered advice after the former ambassador launched heard 2024. watch. so you re not saying anything new. [applause] and you of all people should know better because you used to actually have some sanity and knew right from wrong. yes. and then you lost your mind and went in some new direction. so don t do that. hmm.