behind the security breach. the washington post reports the man is a low-level government employee. he worked in a military base and share the documents in a private chat group at videogame sites. biden insisted he is not concerned about the leaks u.s. military and intelligence documents. they are getting close to tracking down the leaker. could you give an update on the leak investigation for the leaked documents? i cannot right now. there is a fluegel full-blown investigation going on right now in the justice department. they are getting close. i don t have an answer. how concerned are you about the leak? are you concerned about the relationship? we ve got to move. i m not concerned. i am concerned that it happens, but there is nothing contemporaneous that i am aware of. while the president appears to be brushing off the leak, it has undermined ukraine s defense against russia. it has damaged relations with allies and exposed intelligent resources and further er
nbc news president biden directed the unidentified objects be shot down this afternoon. the president made the call out of an abundance of caution, at the recommendation of the pentagon. the source also saying the u.s. has no indication this latest object had surveillance tape capabilities, but they cannot rule it out at this point. this all comes after the u.s. military shot down a high altitude objects flying over alaskan air space on friday. then, on saturday, a u.s. fighter jet shot down another unidentified object over uconn territory in canada. back on for very fourth, the u.s. downed chinese balloon off the coast of south carolina. joining me now, nbc news congressional correspondent julie. julie, how are members of congress responding tonight? what answers to they hope to get from the pentagon? well, look, they have more questions than answers. i should note, alicia, that all these different rank and file lawmakers from michigan, wisconsin, montana all of these
officials tells nbc news, president biden directed the and i-5 object to be shut down this afternoon. told the president make the call at an abundance of caution at the recommendation of the pentagon. the source also is saying the u.s. has no indication this latest object had surveillance capabilities. they cannot rule it out at this point. this all comes after the u.s. military shot down a high altitude object flying over alaskan airspace on friday. then on saturday u.s. fighter jets shot down another unidentified objects over uconn territory in canada. back in february 4th, the u.s. downed a chinese balloon off the coast of south carolina. joining me now, nbc news congressional correspondent, julie tsirkin. julie, how are members of congress responding tonight? what answers do they hope to get from the pentagon? look, they have more questions than answers. i should note, alicia, all of these different rank and file lawmakers from michigan, from us conson, from montana, al
arraignment for former president trump. good morning, everybody. hope the weekend was grand. dana has the day off today. welcome back to our friend from washington aishah. aishah: historic week here in new york city. this is america s newsroom. right now the former president is getting ready to depart palm beach, florida, for new york city. that is where he will be arraigned on a reported 34-count indictment related to hush money payments made in the run-up to the 2016 election. the former president flies to new york at noon eastern. tomorrow at 11 eastern is arriving at the courthouse. aishah: the hearing to last 15, 30 minutes. after that he will head back to mar-a-lago and give a televised address at 8:15 eastern. bill: the nypd says it has been put on high alert. officers putting up barriers and closing streets. we ll see whether or not that s necessary in the end. they get ready to move a former u.s. president in and out of that courthouse swiftly and safely.
i m aishah hosni. the new report claims despite u.s. efforts to block it, that chinese spy craft was able to collect sensitive electronic signals from weapons, equipment and communication channels as it floated above all those military installations sending them right back to china in realtime. this was the worst case scenario. now we know it happened. fox not able to confirm this nbc report. u.s. officials are already pushing back on this telling us the information it got was of limited value. that craft first entered u.s. airspace over alaska back in january 28th. it was shot down february 4th off the south carolina coast. mike emanuel with more on this late braking news. the new report from nbc says the chinese spy balloon gathered intelligence from several sensitive american military sites despite the biden efforts from keeping it from doing so. it came from a senior administration official. china was able to control the balloon to make multiple passes over key sites de