kind of considered taking a question. this were a number of shouted questions. then decided he said something about you can come see me in my office or something like that. departed. so here s a bit of the new details about the objects that were shot down over canada, alaska and lake huron. the intelligence committee s current assessment is these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private company that studied weather or other scientific research. martha: he spoke about the chinese spy flight, the balloon, whatever you want to call it. he said he expects to speak with president xi. watch this. we seek competition, not conflict with china. we re not looking for a new cold war. i make no apologies and we will compete. we ll responsibly manage that competition so it doesn t veer into conflict. martha: that s something that the president says a lot. he wants competition with china, not conflict. he said he expects to speak with president xi about this. it s
we ve got some closure here but a lot more questions now to jacqui heinrich at the white house with more. hi, jacqui. we learned the three objects shot down since friday were most likely linked to commercial research projects, private companies and not to china s spy balloon program. despite that, the president says he makes no apologies for shooting down that spy balloon even after china has called it an overreaction. all week though the white house has been saying we re going to soon learn more about these new policy recommendations and national security advisers putting together for how we will better deal with future potential airborne threats given that we re now detecting more objects in our airspace since we ve dialled up the radar and we learned today that we re actually not going to hear the details. i ll be sharing with congress these classified policy parameters when they re completed and remain classified so we don t give our road map to our enemies to try to
an author and now trying to make her voice be heard. howie, thank you. good to see you. so that s the story for this thursday, february 16. as always, the story goes on. we look forward to being back with you for more of the story tomorrow. stick around. we have a great show at 4:00. make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety, security of the american people, i will take it down. neil: finally he speaks, breaking his silence. the president says he makes no apology for shooting down the last three aerial objects saying they couldn t rule out surveillance capabilities. this as the administration continues to take aim at china over the spy balloon calling its actions irresponsible and leaving the door open to possible talks with president xi jinping. welcome. i m neil cavuto.
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