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
ali velshi filling in live from ukraine, starts right now. hi, ali. hi, joy. thank, you my friend. have a good. evening j good evening from kyiv. i m ali velshi. any moment now are expecting air force one to land with joe biden s planned visit to ukraine and the surprise visit to a. close here in kyiv there is a heavy feeling vetting zion-y air as the world waits and watches now to see how russian president vladimir putin will respond to ukraine s show of strength this week. today putin held a captive audience rally to celebrate the one year anniversary of his invasion, when your anniversary will be on friday. but this happened in a massive moscow stadium, the site of the 2018 world cup. the propaganda event which began with the performance of the russian singer gregory laps, who has faced allegations of ties to the mafia and who until earlier this month was on the u.s. sanctions list. it also featured a grim start involving a number of children the russia claims it rescue
18 months of this campaign and over my, throughout my presidency, will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power. there s a new corporate feudalism in our country. greg: robert f. kennedy jr. is ready to challenge him for the democratic nomination. the media tries to write him off as a fringe candidate, but he already has 14% of joe s voters, no fringe, and 32% would rather have anybody but biden. the president could stop the democrat back stabbing if he was popular, but the white house can t defend that. 50% of those polled have a negative view of the economy. president biden talks about the economy all the time. he talked about the economy all the time because he wants the american people to know he is doing everything he can to make sure that his policies that he has put forward that has shown that he is building an economy that doesn t leave anybody behind. i know you re reading a poll now. that is one poll. greg: there you go, just one poll. dan
remember the wheelchair over the cliff? democrats used it. the wheelchair over the cliff commercial, very effective that was about him ryan, paul ryan is a bit reason mitt romney i m not a big fan of mitt romney lost his election to be honest with you, ron reminds me a lot of mitt romney. so i don t think you re going to be doing so well here, but we re going to find out. but those are the facts. oh, if ron only reminded us of mitt romney, i think a lot of people would be less worried there s donald trump doing what democrats love to see donald trump doing. shredding the republican party attacking the republican party tearing to pieces the republican party. it s not enough that he led to their te defeats in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 now, he s determined to do it in 2024 going after republicans and creating a civil war that was just part of donald trump s rant about ron desantis last night in iowa the former president had a lot to say yesterday about the florida
you can see the piece on the bottom of it. that is the piece that gathers the intelligence for this what loan. we ve known about this being in the skies over our country illegally for several days at least. some say going back months. so far, we have not done anything to impede this balloon from collecting surveillance over the country even though it s of clear violation of u.s. airspace. no word from the president of the united states at 3:00 eastern time. we ve known about this since last night really. twice now he has avoided shouted questions. watch this. mr. president, when will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? [question inaudible] are you worried about the balloon? martha: apparently not worried about the balloon as he walks across the lawn there. we know that it launched this instrument from china. you can see on that quick animation. maybe we can play it again from mainland china. now it has hovered over montana, h