hello, everyone. thank you for joining me, i m fred whitfield. and we begin with new details on the latest potential threat shot down in north american air space. the third object taken down in the last week by a u.s. fighter jet. this shootdown happened on saturday over the canada central yukon territory, about a hundred miles from the u.s. border. chuck schumer suggesting that intelligence suggested it was another balloon. joe biden and trudeau giving an update a short time ago. yesterday afternoon, i also spoke with president biden and confirmed together that we will continue to do everything necessary to protect the sovereignty of our shared north american air space. but also to do everything necessary to keep our citizens safe. u.s. fighter jets assigned to norad scrambled to take the object down. canadian authorities are now ron ducting recovery operations. jasmine wright and kylie atwood are tracking the developments. jasmine, to you first, what do we know about th
anyone who shared information from it. the repair shop owner calling the latest legal move retaliation after he slapped hunter with a defamation suit. i actually have been public in announcing there have been several attempts by several individuals to modify and insert fake data to muddy the waters or to discredit the overall contents of the laptop by asserting fake data into the laptop and why i made a copy of the drive before i gave it to the f.b.i. i didn t trust the f.b.i. dana: chad pergram live on capitol hill untangling the threads for us. hunter biden is now seemingly conceding that the world s most famous or infamous laptop is his. this comes ahead of a house hearing next week focusing on suppression of the laptop story by social media. i m glad we re finally confirming it is his which the f.b.i. knew all along. by the way, they knew it was his when they were out briefing members of congress and the media saying it was russian disinformation. you talk about l
this situation. we re awaiting that. we ll hear the president s plan, we re told, of action. china today claims that balloon is just a civilian air ship used for research and that it got blown off course. all the way to montana? it just so happens that it was very close to a sensitive site in that state. 1 of 3 in the nation with nuclear weapon silos. it also houses ballistic missiles. montana in red on the map for a reason this hour. deafening reaction so far, bipartisan lawmakers biden allowing on-demand access to our u.s. airspace is dangerous. it is not okay. some republicans, including 2024 hopeful nikki haley, calling on president biden to shoot it down. congressman andy biggs calling biden a affectless commander in chief. secretary of state antony blink en was scheduled to travel to beijing but now the trip is postponed indefinitely. senator tom cotton says biden must answer as to why he hasn t secured u.s. airspace. the president walking away from questions moments ag