katy tur, welcome to katy tur reports at 3:00 p.m. eastern. we know that three more objects were shot down over american and canadian airspace over the weekend. what we do know not know is what exactly all of those objects were, what they were doing, and who sent them. we also don t know if we re just seeing more of them because we re looking more closely. these are answerable questions and the white house just tried to fill in some of those blanks, speaking from the podium and the white house briefing room a moment ago, national security council spokesperson john kirby told reporters the intel community is assessing. as of now, it does not look like these additional objects were conducting surveillance. they weren t maneuverable. there was no propulsion, and they were not manned. as to who sent them, that is still unclear. but kirby did begin the briefing by calling out china. china has a high altitude balloon program for intelligence collection that s connected to the peo
katy tur, welcome to katy tur reports at 3:00 p.m. eastern. we know that three more objects were shot down over american and canadian airspace over the weekend. what we do know not know is what exactly all of those objects were, what they were doing, and who sent them. we also don t know if we re just seeing more of them because we re looking more closely. these are answerable questions and the white house just tried to fill in some of those blanks, speaking from the podium and the white house briefing room a moment ago, national security council spokesperson john kirby told reporters the intel community is assessing. as of now, it does not look like these additional objects were conducting surveillance. they weren t maneuverable. there was no propulsion, and they were not manned. as to who sent them, that is still unclear. but kirby did begin the briefing by calling out china. china has a high altitude
speaking if we get a sense that maybe this was china again, what sort of footing does this put us on with our relationship with china which has already been quite stressed and not just us, andrea, but other nations around the world, including some of our biggest allies also experiencing these same flyovers. does this cut into the charm offensive china has been on diplomatically around the world? it certainly would be a major escalation of this, and make it much more difficult to reestablish relations. there is one report at least from bloomberg news that we have not confirmed but has not been ruled out by the state department maybe at this hour as the briefing is progressing while we re speaking here today, katy, that secretary blinken in munich where he s going to the security conference this week, where i will be traveling to cover all of that, might be meeting with his chinese counter part, that would be a very big deal, reestablishing relations at a very high level. if that were