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welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a remarkable news day with us. we begin with a brazen spy drama. straight to the pentagon, the briefing on a chinese balloon over montana. conducting press briefings in our temporary press briefing room while other primary location undergoes technical renovations and upgrades. we greatly appreciate your patience and flexibility as we work to install some long, overdue upgrades to the pentagon press briefing room. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call in options will not be available so for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and we ll aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward we ll look at ways to improve our ....
Briefings will resume back in the briefing room in the middle to late may. so again, we appreciate your patience and flexibility and extend our thanks to the department of the air force for allowing us to use airmen s hall as our temporary briefing home. in other news, secretary austin returned yesterday from a very productive series of meetings in the republic of korea and the philippines. the secretary and his korean counterpart minister lee jong sook reaffirmed measures to enhance extended deterrence on the korean peninsula. the two leaders pledged to closely cooperate regardinin th as well as further expand and bolster the level and scale of combined exercises and training. in the philippines, secretary austin had his first in-person meeting with his counterpart and reiterated that the u.s. commitment to philippine security is ironclad. the secretary expressed his appreciation for the philippines approval of four ....