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
you know, who knows. defense secretary austin though asked specifically about the policy. take a listen. is it american policy to now shoot down these unidentified objects on sight a has there ben a delegation of authority from president biden to yourself on making decisions on when to take down these objects? our policy hasn t changed. we will evaluate each and every event on its own merits. bret: i mean, if we just look at each event, it s clearly changed. right? i mean, they have a different status now. from the first one to the next three. they responded to the uproar over the failure to shoot down the first one. i think it was a strategicker are to rule out aliens though. we talked about our polarized nation what would unite us more than alien crafts coming down that we are shooting down but missing with our side winder missiles. actually, to be serious, isn t that the most alarming thick that we reported that the
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urge them to vote for the authorization to use force. i think he will say three things, chemical weapons are bad which we already know. and then he will say his strong and decisive action will encourage congress to support him. and then the final thing, the threat of military force, which i want you all to vote for, we have now in sight a solution with which syria will give up the chemical weapons without us having to go to war. charles. i think what obama needs to do is not a balancing act, but a coherence act. i have never seen a policy acted, where one part of the administration is contradicting each other within hours. on the one hand, you have kerry giving a passionate speech, saying the idea hinges on a small strike. you get a president who says this is really urgent, i want to get congress to approve.