what is publicly available. thus far, apparently no wreckage has been recovered from any of these shoot downs, although there is apparently an effort for the one off of south carolina. it s striking that no specific country has been affiliated with the three smaller objects that have been shot down and that they do seem to be behaving differently. so i think there s a great deal of curiosity on everyone s part about exactly what are these objects, what is their payload, and why now all of a sudden are they emerging and being intercepted 7 now, briefly, nato, an official from nato, has accused russia and china of increasing their surveillance. what kind of impact do you think this will have on geopolitical relations? well, the larger balloon has already led to the delay of the visit of the us secretary of state to china.
but for now, we want to turn it over to the rich matter show, which starts now. which starts now thanks jonathan for joining us this, our as far as i know, the u.s. military has not shut down another ufo in the past hour. by this, point we ve basically gotten script ready, in the event that s a nice tonight that some u.s. fighter jet, somewhere, uses another side winder bissell to popular number five, or to hit you a phone number five or when irish or what now is to use. one of the top lawmakers on the intelligence community in the house. from what they called a gang of eight which gets briefed on all the most sensitive intelligence stuff. he s just gonna join us live here tonight to help us understand what exactly is going on with these now multiple shoot downs. i
excuse me. thank you. what is the president s standard going to be going forward about when he orders an unidentified object shot down? it comes down to one simple formulation. and that s if at the recommendation of his military leaders he believes that the safety and security of the united states, the safety and security of the american people, his prime responsibility, warrant that kind of a decision. it s possible we could see these shoot downs on a regular basis like over the weekend? i don t think it s useful to get ahead of where we are now. the president will always protect the safety and security of the american people. you said we re not flying any surveillance balloons over china. are we flying any other surveillant craft routinely over china? i m not aware of any other craft we re flying into chinese air space. can you tell us anything more about this octagonal object? how big was it? we re still trying to assess
about what it knows here in the biden administration, and do you believe they should share more? i believe they have been. we have just received a classified briefing about the ccp balloon before we left town. we are going to be receiving briefings about the latest shoot downs soon. i believe that the administration is taking the responsible position to examining the wreckage before they can give us answers to the question, and for that matter, the canadians are going to do the same thing, and so we will receive the answers to the questions in short order. you mentioned that you are going to be getting a briefing soon, and the senators will receive a briefing wednesday. have you all receive ad date? well, we have not received a date and time, but we are in constant communication with the