joining us live. but first, this fox news alert. two interviews and a primetime speech, but a week of talk from president biden only serving to raise new questions. one was about the chinese surveillance craft. the president brushing off its significance and risk after it loitered across the nation just last week. john: president biden claiming the violation of u.s. air space was not a major breach of national security, yet it traveled thousands of miles over some military sites and collected information from the ground to above. and capable of collecting communications and sending them straight back to china. sandra: a far cry to portray it as no big deal, just a balloon. a lot to unpack as america reports rolls into a second hour here. another busy news afternoon on a friday. sandra smith in new york. great to be with you. john: john roberts in washington, good to be with you, sandra. the president getting attention for trying to downplay the classified document
ok. can i just follow up, john, and thank you for that. that s really helpful. can you give more details on the support to turkey, specifically the u.s.s. george h. w. bush is on stand by, any communications with ankara whether it will be a part of humanitarian efforts? i think i updated as much as i could. what we are doing is what i put in the opening statement. there are naval assets in the mediterranean and under the command of u.s. naval forces europe. commander of u.s. european command has designated the commander of u.s. naval forces europe in charge of the operational coordination for military assets, and he is doing that. i cannot speak to any specific contributions by the aircraft carrier u.s.s. george h. w. bush, but obviously there is lots of there s lots of capabilities in the
european command has designated the commander as in charge of the operational coordination for military assets, and he s doing that. i cannot speak to any specific contributions by the aircraft carrier, uss george h.w. bush, but obviously there s lots of capabilities in the mediterranean region that could be brought to bear, but we re working, and this is a really important point, we re working in lock step with our turkish counter parts to make sure what we re providing is what they need at the scale and the speed that they need, and not, you know, not trying to overwhelm their system with unneeded material or unneeded capabilities. so, you know, you talked about the bush, but there s a lot of military capability on the continent, under the european commanders authority that could be used, but again, we want to make sure we re doing this
we want to, again, express our support for the people of turkey and syria as they respond to the deadly earthquakes that struck there earlier this week. in support of ongoing u.s. assistance efforts, spearheaded by the u.s. agency for international development, u.s. european command has positioned personnel, equipment and a range of assets to aid the government of turkey in its continues search and rescue efforts, includes the u.s. navy s george h.w. bush carrier strike group, to provide logistics, medical, and rotary air lift support. to transport first responders to the most affected populations and on february 8th, uh-60 black hawks transported injured civilians to a local medical facility. u.s. european command has designated u.s. naval forces europe and africa as the lead
out of an abundance of caution and at the recommendation of the pentagon, president biden ordered the military to down the object, and they did, and it came inside our territorial waters. those water waters right now ar frozen. fighter aircraft assigned to u.s. northern command took down the object within the last hour. okay. reporter: thank you for that. that s really helpful. can you give more details on the support the u.s. is providing to turkey, specifically we understand that the u.s. george h.w. bush is on stand by. can you update us whether there s been communications with ankara on whether the ship will be part of humanitarian efforts. i think i updated as much as i could right now. what we re doing is what i put in my opening statement. there are naval assets in the mediterranean, and under the command of u.s. naval forces europe, the commander of