hello, and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. a midair mystery. the united states shoots down more unidentified objects flying over north america. right now, washington knows about as much as you do. not much. what s gone on the last two weeks or so, ten days, has been nothing short of craziness. and the military needs to have a plan to not only determine what s out there but determine the dangers that go with it. plus, the republican house speaker convenes what he calls the heads of the five families of the republican caucus. he wants to forge a consensus and to prove wrong democrats who predict that house republicans in the end will blink and vote to raise the debt limit. and alive under the debris. sniffer dogs, thermal cameras find signs of life in both turkey and syria, but for every miracle, there is mourning. tens of thousands pinned beneath twisted metal destined for mass graves. up first for us, tr
states, iran has drone capabilities. i don t know if they have balloon capabilities. these things aren t that hard to do. this is low-tech technology. and it brings up our vulnerabilities really. it brings up the vulnerabilities. antiquated detection systems. radar, much beyond that now. should be well beyond that now. you even used the atari reference. is the equipment actually that antiquated? and then if so, why are we able to pick up now all of a sudden pick up these objects? let me start by saying while the defense of the continental united states has been neglected for decades, in terms of this kind of aerial threat, cruise missile threat, we have invested in ballistic missile defense but not in this. and so that might be a secret to all of us, but it s not to the u.s. military and the biden administration actually put money into the budget this year to start looking at this. but we have a big gap. we have a gap geographically,
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