that raises new questions whether the president was so right to wait so long before taking out the previous balloon. we have got fox team coverage for you tonight. lucas tomlinson in the bureau. additional details from today s pentagon briefing. we begin with white house correspondent jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, john. only hours ago the biggest news out of the white house today would have been the announcement that the president will visit poland later this month to reaffirm nato s strength ahead of the one year anniversary in war in ukraine. then the news of the object shot down over alaska broke. success. a single word from president biden on his decision to shoot down an unidentified up manned object over alaska. u.s. officials can t say right now whether it was another spy craft or whether it came from. but the president s biggest concern was its altitude and unpredictable path. and pose a reasonable threat to the sa
And at the recommendation of the pentagon, president biden ordered the military to down the object. the biden administration has defended allowing last week s chinese spy balloon to make its way across the u.s. before shooting it down off the coast of south carolina. that raises the question would they do this again? today s response indicates maybe not. i can tell you that the president doesn t regret the way that we handled the first balloon. that time first of all, apples and oranges here in terms of size. as i said, this was size of a small car and it was over very sparsely stop lated area. make this claim about a downed craft on saturday. it s not a major breach. we don t know what intelligence or communications could have been collected or what devices they were targeting as i understand it. so that being said, how can the president say it was not a major
Destroyed. nobody picked up the phone in that instance. john? lucas tom lion son. analysis retired general keith kellogg. former then will vice president mike pence. biden gave them the authorization to shoot it down. a lot different than they treated the first one that came by. significantly different. this is what is amazing to me when they talk about object. getting it shot down. the first report in war is always wrong. what s going to happen? where is this going in the fact that they used the term object. they didn t use weather balloon or something similar. and when you think about okay. were they a drone doesn t fly that high. can t get up to that altitude about 35 though. weather balloons generally travel 60,000 feet or higher. so you have got something in between. so what exactly do you have? do you have a weather balloon that didn t get to altitude or do you have a new drone out there gone to that altitude.
Literature that s there. mistakes were made, but i take full responsibility for it. john: that s a real difference. one takes responsibility. the other blames others. harold. harold: i don t know if i could characterize that way both president biden, again, i have said all along i think this is a serious matter and we ll find if the special counsel in charge will get to the bottom of it. i salute vice president pence for how he has handled it as well. and i hope that the questions that come even from this around president trump, president biden, and vice president pence that we look at how these boxes, how this stuff is packed up. maybe we need an office within government to help them do that to ensure that no president or vice president, doesn t matter, any government officials leaves his or her office with classified materials. john: in the box up question biden said to telemundo that some of this stuff was from 1974. wow. john: he shouldn t even have had it let alone box
Willing to defend our border, defend our skies and defend our people. if some amateur recover froms and pilots in montana had not spotted this balloon it would be on its merry way vacationing off the coast of the bahamas right now. bret: you mentioned spy craft how do you handle that. we all have a chinese spy balloon in our pocket when you deal with that app. dealing with the chinese. talking about hunter biden s half-fake laptop story. this is an embarrassment. we don t know whereby the fbi ends and twitter begins. hunter biden propaganda. silly does not begin to capture this obsession. don t just berate people basically because they happen to have an r or d by their name. my vision was about playing in the nfl and being the best player i could be but god s plan was to have a purpose greater than any game in this world. john: those are great words as we head into super bowl weekend. catholic student and chap ronnie s who say they were kicked out of the smithsonian n