somebody seaworld headquarters to new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. concerns are growing. new questions arising today after the u.s. military shot down a third high flying object in a week. the latest object taken down saturday by a u.s. fighter to dover the yukon territory in canada. under prime minister justin trudeau s orders. today, the prime minister says recovery team are looking for the cylindrical object with the country s defense minister has described as smaller a potentially similar to the chinese spy plane shut down off the carolina coast. last weekend. today on msnbc, the biden ministration justifying its quick action. the president took this accent. we wanted to make sure that we are always the promises we re always going to track. we re always going to detect and we re always going to defend our airspace and that s what the american people should expect. also new reaction from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. as they express concerns
Of years to three in a week. i think it s because we have more eyes, more details are coming forward about what they re seeing. the challenge coming forward is what kind of policies come out of this? when do you one of the parameters for it? how do you manage all this new data coming in such that the u.s. is not unnecessarily shutting things that don t pose a threat to the united states. to its airspace. gotta find a very fine line there. i want to ask you both to hang on a second. anderson monica s got some more information for us from the white house. what do you have, monica? alex, this is what we were just discussing in relation to these questions last night that were raised about air space being temporarily closed over montana. shortly after, we re now learning from our very intrepid aviation producer jay blackmon that there is a temporary flight restriction currently over lake michigan. the reason this is important is because they cite in that restriction that it is due to
Looking into why took so long for us, our military are intelligence to know about these balloons. that s something i support. congress should look at that. as they look at social media this morning, all of a sudden, massive speculation about alien invasions and additional chinese action, a russian action. in the absence of information, peoples anxiety leads them into potentially destructive areas. i hope the administration has a lot more information for all of us on what s going on. you are hearing this real bipartisan call for more information. you are seeing republicans or democrats agree they would like for information. i m told by the white house that they have continuously kill congress in the loop. they ve been briefing them and they will continue to do so. that at this time, they really feel they can t say much about these last two objects. because they have not been able to get the teams there to fully recover in analyze them. there was this other scare last night. airspace
That was the same language that was given last night when the faa announced this temporary restriction. eventually, they lifted that. they waited everything resume. this morning, they basically summarized that is saying we were reviewing everything but it was simply too dark to tell what they had potentially raised as a flag that they wanted to go check out. they needed to wait for conditions to improve to take a look at that whether this is another object or not. we don t know even though we did hear from some of the montana delegation. those lawmakers speaking out saying that they had been briefed that it was some kind of an object potentially. we just don t know at that time what they were able to assess and we don t know that they were able to then lift that temporary hold. now, the fact that we have one over lake michigan suggest potentially that again this is the department of defense. still trying to assess. is there an object that is moving across the united states again. is
Department of defense but by a citizen journalist about the first balloon being spotted over the skies montana over a week ago? how much do you think that was a kickstart for the d.o.d.? i think it s certainly changed how the u.s. reacts. i d can tell you as someone who s pointed out for a very long time. it feels more intense. there are people working longer hang on, nancy, is that because there are more things in the sky or because we re talking about it? and everybody knows about it? there were at least prior balloon type entities that were flown in recent years. for which by the way happened to the trump administration and we did not know about it. we don t know if the white house knew about it during the termination. we don t know anything about those. they were detected. that was, again, true the trump administration. and nothing was set. this tenseness that you re describing comes from what, do you think? i think it was so unusual