conway. the silence continues after the u.s. military shot down those three mystery objects flying over north america. three since friday. however, americans still are waiting to hear directly from the president exactly what they were and why they needed to shoot them down. i m not talking about the china spy craft. i mean the three things floating about us since then. lawmakers are losing patience on both sides of the political aisle. i m harris faulkner. it has been several days since the united states fighter jets shot down those objects over alaska, canada and lake huron. while the white house says those objects have yet to be identified, they say there is forplan for the president to address the nation. the president clearly has been briefed on a regular basis on this, on a daily basis on what has occurred in the last ten days or so. but i just don t have anything to preview as to if the president is going to be speaking on this in the upcoming days. harris: i wonder
and that the russian pilots were just provocative and incompetent amateurs. make no mistake. this was no accident. i can guarantee you that vladamir putin personally signed off on this military aggression. here s our very own gennifer griffin. i d just like to get your reaction to what happened today in the black sea. pissed off. i mean, just be honest about this for a second. the report coming out of our government is that this was an unprofessional act and environmentally unsound. i m sorry, folks. they shot down a united states warplane. they took it out of action. that s the response we get back? not very happy about it. bottom line is we cannot allow that to happen. hannity: that s right. we can t allow this to happen. russia and putin s hostility and aggression against our country, the united states, has now reached a dangerous new height. now tonight the question is this. what will your president, joe biden, do? is he going to offer maybe another waiver for the n
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta. we are following breaking news at this hour. the president declaring moments ago that he ordered the pentagon to shoot down the chinese spy balloon as soon as possible. the u.s. is in a recovery effort after a u.s. fighter jet launched a precision strike on the chinese spy balloon. it came after days of watching it float from montana, to missouri to the carolinas. here is another video of that strike. this is a tense moment in u.s./china relations. the world will be watching in the hours and days ahead. let s get straight to cnn s oren liebermann at the pentagon. oren, what more are you learning? i understand you were listening to officials explain how all of this went down. what can you tell us? it started on wednesday when president joe biden gave the authorization to shoot down the chinese balloo n as soon as possible. there were tankers and others to shoot this down. it was an f-22 that fired an a 9 side wind er. the ai
security concerns for days. most of the wreckage is believes to be sitting in 47 feet of water at this hour. let s go now to oren at the pentagon. do we think we might have get an update this evening as to whether or not they have been able to secure that wreckage and retrieve it? they ll put a perimeter around it with navy and coast guard assets that were in the area. whether they can retrieve it tonight or tomorrow, that s a different question. 47 feet of water according to a senior defense official, so not that deep, but still it s a question of what s left, what s down there and what shape is it in and how do you bring it up without damaging it further. salvage vessel is on the way. it might not be there in time to do it tonight, but it will get there as quickly as possible to begin. why is that so important? because the pentagon has said repeatedly this was a chinese surveillance balloon that had the ability to maneuver, loiter. and because of that, there s information
bret: but, first, breaking tonight, increasing concern over aerial objects that were spotted and then shot down over the u.s. and saturday over canada. the total right now is for china blamed for at least one of these so far says the u.s. has sent multiple balloons over its territory in the past year. the biden administration denies this. more of the chinese spy craft has been recovered and is being analyzed from off the coast of south carolina. but, as for the other objects, there is still very little information about what they are, what they were doing and who is behind them. as the search for those remnants continues tonight. we have fox team coverage, brit hume has analysis of the whole affair. jacqui heinrich is at the white house with the increasing pressure for president biden to address the issue personally. but we begin with chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin at the pentagon with what the defense department is doing and saying tonight. good eve