ukraine. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start with breaking news, the united states military has taken down another high-altitude object flying over the united states this afternoon. the white house announced the object was shot down at 1:45 p.m. eastern time at the direction of president biden. u.s. officials say it was flying off alaska s northern coast at an altitude of 40,000 feet and was approximately the size of a small car. as of now, the administration is not offering many more details than that. we re calling this an object because that s the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it, whether it s it s state owned or corporate owned or privately owned. we just don t know. the context, of course, is crucial. last saturday, less than a week ago, the u.s. military shot down what the biden administration says was a chinese surveillance balloon. they did this off the coast of the united
i d be telling bibi finish the job once and for all with these butchers hamas. do you want dick cheney in 3 inch heels? you ve got two of them on stage tonight. and they are 5 inch heels. hamas, high heels and entiktok. republicans not named trump debate for more than an hour and a half before even mentioning the issue that sunk their party on tuesday. abortion. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it is thursday, november 9. the morning after. five republican presidential contenders duked it out on the big stage in miami. foreign policy took the spotlight at the third republican debate. the candidates all agreed on supporting israel and opposing hamas, iran and china. we have to stay as strong with our jewish americans. hamas should release every hostage and surrender. china is buying oil from iran, russia is getting drones and missiles from iran and there is an unholy alliance a. all critical issues of course.
meetings? blinken sat for three days which is have a ordinary to actually stop in one country for that long. and i think that that tells you about the amount that he wants to achieve there and the fact that in many ways saudi arabia and crown prince are positioning themselves as the key diplomatic interlocu interlocutor. whether the help that saudi gave the united states in helping get citizens out of sudan over the recent months, or there is a lot still to do. obviously blinken would love to convince the crown prince to bring down the price of oil by not reducing their output by a million barrels a day which is what was agreed at the latest opec+ meeting which potentially and intellectually puts gas up in the united states and helps fund russia s war in ukraine. there is a normalization with israel that the united states would like saudi to get on board
button there in the relationship. obviously blinken s canceled his trip. and yet they re either going to double down, or the chinese military s making moves that their leadership weren t fully apprised of. either way, that s disturbing, and we have more and more questions. what do you think the policy should be? well, look, i think a violation of our airspace by an entity that can surveille, that can gather information to inflict harm in the future shouldn t be tolerated, should be shot down. what s been left out of the discussion is the message that it sends to our adversaries by not doing so. and you know, we still have a lot to learn, but it could have been that the chinese, once they got away with it for the last several years, believed that they could get away with it again. it turns out they did. we still have yet to learn what they collected with that first one that hovered over not just