loitering in montana w, whichme is home to our nuclear silos and intercontinental ballistic missiles. beijing claims that it is a i civilian aircraft used foraircra meteorological research thatft got knocked off course by bad weather. but the pentagon says that sat a bunch of b.s. we know this is a chinese balloon and thatbao it has the ability to maneuvern . the balloon ha s changethd itss course, which is , again, whchy sp re monitoring. ea the balloon continues to move eastward and it s currently overnues the center of the continental united states. again, we currently assess that the balloon does not present a a military or physical threatr s to people on the grounicd this time. and we ll continue to reviewti excuse me, continue to monitor id review options. we assess that it ll probably be over the united states forteo a few few daysr . so why the hasn t joe biden shot this thing down yet? thi defense officials have advised t the president not to take it out, fearingd
hello. we ll have much more on our breaking news here in just a moment. a russian jet striking a u.s. drone over international waters in the black sea. first, though, today, a collective sigh of relief after the latest inflation numbers and a market rally have the u.s. stepping back from the brink of economic disaster. inflation has cooled for the eighth straight month with the consumer price index at a level we haven t seen since september of 2021. that doesn t mean the prices are back to normal. any trip to the grocery store makes that very clear. but overall they are trending in the right direction. right now regional banks are rebounding. there you see some of the surging stocks and paired with that deposit outflows are apparently slowing, meaning the collapse of two banks in recent days has not as of now sparked a domino effect. but moodies has just down graded its outlook for the entire u.s. banking sector. matt, what a difference a day makes here, right? first republic
you can see the piece on the bottom of it. that is the piece that gathers the intelligence for this what loan. we ve known about this being in the skies over our country illegally for several days at least. some say going back months. so far, we have not done anything to impede this balloon from collecting surveillance over the country even though it s of clear violation of u.s. airspace. no word from the president of the united states at 3:00 eastern time. we ve known about this since last night really. twice now he has avoided shouted questions. watch this. mr. president, when will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? [question inaudible] are you worried about the balloon? martha: apparently not worried about the balloon as he walks across the lawn there. we know that it launched this instrument from china. you can see on that quick animation. maybe we can play it again from mainland china. now it has hovered over montana, h
recent case of the balloon, another kind of surveillance vehicle over u.s. territory and china complained when the u.s. took it down but of course in that case it was clearly over u.s. territory. the key part here is this was in international waters. one of the big questions mark raises here and you do as well is what, did putin himself order this, did the russian military order this? was this a russian pilot who saw an opportunity and was sort of acting on his own? we may not know that or we may take us a while to go figure that out. my guess is right now the administration will denounce it but you won t see them take a similar action. the reason is pretty clear. putin has until now been pretty cautious about keeping the war
chinese spy balloon because the pentagon, from their own lips, said this is ar is surveillance vehicle, a surveillance balloon. and we took it down. we took it down safely. we have the technology to dotlyt exactly that. we re examining it. we re taking a loo.k atwe are ws on i on here. and if it s innocuous, we can return it.t. and the equipmenulust to the sur chinese government and make sure that this never happens again, because if it ever doesn, we will be doing the same thing again because we hear it also this afternoon. e from i was watching general stavridis and he said expect more of these, expect more balloons to cross over the country, gathering information about our silos that keep our intercontinental ballisti c missiles. inter so, i mean, it s a you know, the message i think that a lot. wi americans are going to take right now is that the southern e border is open and the skies b above america are open. so i m not quite sure where. people feel like we have real sovereignty