and that is why we are here for that, and we are meeting with the heads of the defense departments.coordinating our mechanisms in order to speed up and to improve the overall result, we start a so-called so-called pipeline that would work very well in order for the off-peak situation to work like a swiss watch in europe so it er requires effort between people like as i am from my colleagues and yes, we need to raise issues as soon as possible and solve them only for us it is more important when we talk about the time of production of weapons on chiryal people's anger so we cannot say that at that time the production corresponds to the urgency on the front line in any case it is necessary to speed up because the european peace settlement tool is much more flexible than we expected, in particular, and in the budgetary issue it is not part of the european intergovernmental budget, the members of the governments must decide for themselves how they will increase financing and they already decided that some time ago they decided how much they will increase the percentage of their gdp in i

from our defense department in the video of a ukrainian nationalist who was captured says that he served in the 72nd separate mechanized brigade of the armed forces of ukraine and remained alive only due to the fact that he surrendered, he urges the servicemen to lay down their arms, emphasizing that there are heavy losses in the ranks of ukrainians. i wasn't beaten. relations are normal. therefore, if you want to stay alive, please, better surrender, otherwise there will be the stuffing that you saw in these trenches. trust me, it's very scary. in rostov-on-don, the fsb detained a militant from a ukrainian nationalist regiment banned in russia. azov man arrived in our country under the guise of a refugee and wanted to legalize according to intelligence agencies. he joined the regiment in 2016, participated in the so-called march of the nation, which was carried out by radicals in kiev in rostov, tried to propagate terrorist views. among the youth, at his house during searches for shlyaged leaflets and symbols of extremists. meanwhile, hundreds of units of american equipment are in the p

so that's what the us defense department has put out. there's no reason to believe that fabricating anything, but no, that's no way to independent independently. corroborate this at this point in time, the canadian ministry of defense. so they've been tracking it, but that's basically all we have at this point in time. the trainees interesting, we haven't denied it. they've called for calm and awful speculation. but if they were adamant there wasn't them. they could have also just denied it flat out, but they have not done that. what do you think this all means for chinese? you west relations so suddenly puts it complications on the upcoming ob lincoln visit to our to china? are this, if the visit goes on, it will certainly be in our area of discussion. we've seen the house republicans call for the book a visit to be put off. so this sort of the timing of this particular a balloon being i'll look a put a cost of us is very curious. it comes at a time when the chinese to want to talk to the u. s. o, why they've decided to do this. if it i

the department of defense says the baloon was most certainly launched by china, but there's been no wordet from beijing. the pentagon press secretary brigadier general pat ryder posted a statement on the department of defense website, saying the balloon is being tracked. our north america correspondent, peter bowes, has been following the story and gives us some more detail. we know, according to the pentagon, that the surveillance this is an unusual but not unprecedented situation. we have the surveillance balloon in the stratosphere, so extremely high altitude, and as you refer to it, not deemed to be a danger to commercial aircraft or indeed to people on the ground. we understand that at one point there was some consideration given to shooting this balloon down, using the us military, that option was rejected because of the danger of debris falling down and potentially hurting people. that doesn't necessarily rule that option out, and although this was apparently quite a remote part of the state of montana, officials would need to be absolutely certain that there was no danger to the

that's a better question for the defense department. but it will be many months since they can be contracted for building and procured and getting into ukrainian hands. it will be a while. >> when the president says he will support ukraine as long as it takes, does it mean if president zelenskyy decides to launch a battle to retake crimea the president would support him as well? can you confirm pentagon officials arrived in taiwan for a visit? >> the first question i will not get into a hypothetical or hypothesize about potential future operations ukrainians might or might not conduct. that is up to president zelenskyy and his team. when president biden says as long as it takes he means as long as it takes. there is no special way to interpret that. he means as long as it takes. hopefully it will not take longer than another day or so but icing we all know that is not the case. when he says it, he means it and i think all you have to do is look back at the last year, at the unprecedented amount of assistance, security assistance alone,

hear the latest what the defense department officials are saying. captioning funded by cbs officials are saying. >> good morning and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. >>> breaking overnight, police are searching for a motive after a gunman broke out shooting at michigan state university. at least three were killed and others injured. a shelter in order was issued. authorities say he took his own life at an off-campus location. jarred hill is in new york with more on this. good morning. >> hey, anne-marie, we're learning a bit more about this suspect here. michigan state university police say the shooter was a 43-year-old man. what authorities don't exactly understand is why he was there. campus police say he wasn't a student, he wasn't staff, he had no apparent affiliation to the school, which is now mourning people killed. the search is over for what police say was a lone suspected shooter who went on a shooting rampage overnight. the suspect shot and killed himself as he was confronted by police off campus in nearby lancing. >> that 43-ye

a senior defense department official says the balloon has been flying over sensitive locations to collect information, but they say it would have limited intelligence value. president joe biden decided not to shoot it down because it could harm people on the ground with falling debris. the pentagon said other spy balloons have been observed over the u.s. in the past several years. the government told china that it takes the matter seriously. meanwhile, the canadian national defense department said it is coordinating with the united states through their organization norad. canada confirmed it detected the balloon and says it is monitoring a potential second incident but did not provide any details of what it could be. earlier, kanako sachno spoke to our former beijing correspondent about this incident. >> shohei, you've been following this situation. why is this a concern for washington? >> if a foreign spy balloon is spotted above one's country, it is often taken seriously by officials, of course. this time, it is the path that is especially notable. it was spotted over montana's air forc

. >> defense department officials answered questions about a chinese surveillance balloon that flew over the u.s. before members of the senate appropriations subcommittee on defense. >> i want to thank you all for being here today for this very important briefing. before we get started, i want to welcome susan collins, senator, thank you for being here. i look forward to working with you as the vice chair of this committee. we've had a long working relationship. and we expect to do good things together. before we get into this briefing, i want to start by setting the tone for what i hope can continue for the next two years. as i traveled across my state every year and meet with montanans face to face, it doesn't matter if you're from a rural town like the one i live in, or college town. i always hear one thing. and that is why is congress so divided? sen. tester: last week was the reminder of how petty and divided our politics have become. make no mistake about it. what china did last week was completely unaccepted and a real threat to american sovereignty. it deserves a real response fr

. >> the defense department did confirm after this chinese spy balloon transited the u.s. last week and caused a political uproar against the biden administration for how they handled that, the defense department did widen the aperture essentially of what their radar was capable of detecting over american skies. what they did was changed the filters basically to make it so they could spot objects that were traveling at a certain altitude that were slow moving, that were potentially smaller than what they usually track, and that is when they started picking up all of these kind of smaller objects in u.s. air space that they had not been able to detect before. that is why according to the pentagon there have been a number of -- an increased numbers of instances they have been tracking over the last couple days, john. >> natasha continuing what has been breathtaking reporting. thank you, keep us in the best information we can have. with me now to share critical perspective is the former deputy director of national intelligence. let's start with what natasha just said. to the

was later destroyed, however , samples of dangerous substances were supplied, noted in our defense departmentaccording to kirillov , in the west they regularly claim that this russia can use weapons of mass destruction. only now, such projects are being implemented by the states themselves to achieve political goals, every ruble that is allocated for the implementation of national projects and state programs should be used with maximum efficiency, mikhail mishustin said at the profile strategic session following the results of last year, the level of implementation of plans is close to 100% active work , was carried out in all directions, the prime minister emphasized in russia , let me remind you, there are a variety of national projects that affect the sphere of education , culture, health, entrepreneurship development of road facilities and a comfortable urban environment. in his address to the federal assembly, the president supported the regions' intention to significantly speed up the renewal of social infrastructure. establishment of the culture of sports resettlement of dilapidated ho

china's defense department condemned the strike and denies the balloon was intended for surveillance. but a senior administration official has rejected that claim, telling nbc news this. this was a prc surveillance balloon. this surveillance balloon purposely traversed of the united states and canada and we are confident it was seeking to monitor sensitive military sites. it's route over the united states near many potentially sensitive sites contradicts the prc government exclamation that it is a weather balloon. republican lawmakers have seized on the saga altogether, insisting it represents another supposed failure of the biden administration. here's what house intel -- told my colleague today. >> the president allowed this to go across our most sensitive sites and was not until the american public, if you had not broken this story, the american public would not have even known. there was no attempt to notify congress, no attempt to put together the gang of eight. i think this administration lacks urgency. >> for the record, the defense department says that chinese spy balloons ent

she doesn't have to constantly refer to the defense department. he will be right there. thanks, mark. >> you bet. >> bill: congress and the military getting serious looking into ufos last year. the recent incidents spurring officials to have a look, a second look at past sightings. also raising questions about a potential threat to national security. chad pergram is on that story live from capitol hill to try to figure out what's going on there. chad, hello. >> good morning, bill. americans want to know if these objects are from russia, china, or outer space. the military is koi about the latest batch of unidentified flying objects. >> have you ruled out aliens and if so, why? that's what everyone is asking us right now. >> i will let the intel community and counter intelligence community figure it out. we continue to assess every threat or potential threat unknown that approaches north america with an attempt to identify. >> the house intelligence committee held a public hearing last year on ufos, the first formal inquiry by congress into ufos since the 1960s. lawmakers

the department of defense did not. we do not know the point of origin of this object. >> was there any effort to jam or disable this object? >> i do not want to get into specific tactics or techniques we may or may not use. when observing these things. again, norad sent aircraft to observe to see what it was, then the decision was made based on the reasonable threat to civilian air traffic to take it down. and c-span is your unfiltered view of government. funded by these television companies and more including -- ♪ announcer: -- supports-span as a public service along with these other television providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. announcer: saturday, u.s. surgeon general of the murphy -- dr. vivek murthy discussed youth mental health. watch live at 10:00 on c-span, c-span now or online at c-span.org. announcer: in 1848, husband and wife william mandel and kraft embarked on a journey of self emancipation. disguised as a wealthy disabled white man with his servant, they left georgia, avoiding slave trade

guest: not defense industry but the government, different organizations within the department of defense and partner with us to do research. host: when it comes to issues of defense spending and how it fits into the larger budget, how do you view these things? not only what is being asked by the government but how it is spent. guest: becoming more of a hot button issue now with the new congress. taking a closer look on the overall level of federal spending, you have got to look at it within different context. one, looking at the total amount of defense spending over time, adjusting for inflation. in that respect, we are near the highest we have ever been. even higher than we were at the peak of spending in world war ii, when you adjust for inflation. another way of looking at it is defense spending as a percentage of the economy, a percentage of gdp. in that respect, we are fairly low. we are down to about 3% of gdp spending. how can those to be true? how can it be high in adjusted dollars and lower with gdp? the economy over many decades has grown faster than the defense budget. defense

there is all sorts of things we can cycle within the department of defense, woke spending, lgbtq inclusionversity training is heat department of defense, not focus on the key things like naval modularization, space force. we put out a budget that funds all the capabilities we need and we would have shown a 2% cut compared to where it last year spending came in. i think you can more than pay for legality is gone national security and yet either be pulled back or some ways of constructing the cap. host: our guest is with us until about 9:30 a.m. if you want to ask questions about issues of spending. republicans, 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002. you can text us at 202-748-8003. host: you said this a couple of times, woke. what does that mean to you? guest: any effort by the american bureaucracy to divide america on the base of identity, race, anything that is not unite them on a shared base as american. a says that the american founding is flawed -- it is a sense that the american founding is flawed that we are unequal opposed to being equal. it is not someth

s. defense department has been trying very, very diligent, even to diligently i may say almost acting as an art and suitor with the yellow counterparts to have subst conversations. and as the chinese that have been rebuffing those at every opportunity. right? although being the, when you these apologies, but these issues that you mentioned, the us expanding its military presence in the philippines, the u. s. and japanese integrating their command structure. so from the chinese perspective, these can be seen as provocative. so do you think that there could be any link between these particular moves by the united states on the incidence of the balloon high? know if so, it would be a clumsy reaction. frankly, of what again, i would say that what the united states, as partners now is in the region and globally, are doing our a reaction to what the chinese have been doing the last many years and fringing on sovereignty of many countries as well as. and, you know, continuing the pervasive military pressure on taiwan and unprecedented levels. ok, let's bring and zeno. i know you want to resp

and we also know, according to this to pet defense department official, that this is not the 1st time that a spy balloon has entered us air space. but they wouldn't share more details on when that has happened before. out. authorities, of course, don't like seeing a chinese balloon whatever its purpose, the in us air space. why don't they just shoot it down? well, they said all options are on the table, so that would likely include the shooting down of this balloon. that didn't happen until now. because it was floating over, heavily populated part of montana. there was concerned that falling debris could be a danger to people. but i have to say that president biden's administration is getting a lot of heat from particularly republicans right now. who 1st of all asked why wasn't this balloon shot down before it entered u. s. aerospace and want him to do so now because they also believe that the u. s. could gain some information on chinese intelligence by taking this balloon down. so again, the pressure to do something is rising, but no decision has been made on that yet. the w correspo

they would be interested in agreements, that enter into their department of health with the department of defensehe united states think about the department of health is an agreement with the pentagon. which is deliberately discriminatory in nature for national sovereignty and biosecurity, which completely hides from the citizens the true essence of the ongoing research. the special operation made it possible to literally uncover the most dangerous military-biological projects being implemented today in the world by the united states and on the territory of ukraine in particular. found by russian military documents. more than three dozen biological laboratories operated there, which can be divided into research and sanitary-epidemiological work according to the ministry of defense. conducted in three main areas - this is the monitoring of the biological environment, the selection of the transmission of strains and biomaterials, as well as research work to study potential agents of bioweapons specific to the region , the authors of the report of the ministry of defense argue that under the pretext

but don't -- again, i work hard at trying to get the amount of money to the defense department to defend if we simply fund the department, that that alone is sufficient. if we don't have leadership that utilizes our capabilities, we've lost our opportunity to push back on china on this and other actions that they will take. so it's disappointing to me. we worked hard in this recent appropriation bill to get more money to the defense department to defend our nation. but it also requires more than equipment and personnel. it requires leadership. >> neil: well-put, senator. so much we don't know. i found it fascinating of your most recent intelligence issue that never came up. jerry moran, the kansas republican following that. we're getting word right now that the biden administration does plan to brief this so called gang of eight on this spy balloon. that includes people like mike turner, the republican, mark warner, marco rubio, kevin mccarthy, hakeem jefferys, chuck schumer, mitch mcconnell to give them an update. we'll explore this tomorrow on "cavuto live." we have representative mark

the faa closed it said it was because of defense department or defense related activities.elieve that they thought they had another balloon or invader of some kind in that airspace, but then they rescinded the closure. apparently, the airspace is reopened. now what does that tell you, lieutenant colonel. yeah so with that with that note, i'm going out like it did. actually my son sent me that about an hour ago because i was talking to you before he's like, hey, this is going on. and then now we're talking about it. uh we do have activity up in in montana there, uh, just give you a little tidbit. i was actually stationed up there doing electronic warfare back in my earlier military days. not too far from heaven. um obviously, you know what? we have the assets that we have in montana. it's not a secret with the missile silos up there, so obviously we're looking at that as a restricted area. wouldn't we identify stuff? so what i like to hear is that we're actually paying attention and looking at things, um, a little differently than we did a week ago. uh one concern that i hav

as emphasized in the us department of defense and their allies, they repeatedly used ammunition withhemicals during military conflicts in afghanistan iraq syria even in washington and they said that everything was later destroyed, however , this is not the case, samples of hazardous substances left this noted in our defense department. according to kirillov, the leadership of western countries regularly makes provocative statements. as if it is russia that can use weapons of mass destruction. but such projects are implemented by the states themselves to achieve political goals. suffice it to recall the story of the vial of the american secretary of state. kholina powell, who he shook at the un security council to justify the us plans to invade iraq now about how our artillerymen, msta self-propelled guns and hyacinth are working in the southern sector. at targets tens of kilometers away , experienced crews operate such formidable installations. fighters, real teamwork, where they understand each other perfectly. well, after accomplish the task of quickly changing positions at the for

the defense department, they don't have curiosity. low tech does pay off sometimes, you don't have to have a high-tech fight to win it, low tech and high-tech can be potent. >> sandra: i want to highlight this moment, he did get to a lot of the reporters in that room. and there was one moment where a reporter questioned kirby and this administration on t whether or not america's borders are secure. here is the exchange. >> when it comes to these higher altitudes, are america's borders secure? >> the president takes, as i said earlier, he takes our national security extremely seriously. he has no higher responsibility than the safety and security of the american people and i don't think you need to look any further, frankly, than the decisions he's made in the last week to ten days to evidence that. >> feels like he's plugging holes, vulnerabilities we are discovering in realtime. >> you are making -- >> sandra: hesitancy. >> the question was accurate, we don't have a good handle on not only ground border, but air borders as well becau

decisions you can with the information you have at the recommendation of the leaders in the defense department who are going to have to execute on that mission. the president did exactly that. put the safety and security of the american people first and will never apologize for that. >> knowing everything he did now, would he take the same steps and use the expensive missiles to shoot at the objects? >> policies in place to govern the way going forward, you make the best decisions you can, at the recommendation of military leaders. >> thank you, john, you've said often, actually, reclarify one more thing before i move on to ukraine. have we -- >> i can't imagine anything i said needs to be clarified. >> have we put forward the formal request for the call with president xi? >> no. >> no formal request. >> no, it does not mean it's not going to happen. the president -- he will. >> understood. you said ukraine gets to decide when it wants to negotiate. at this point, is there any serious effort, or any effort from the administration side to look at pathways to peace, do we have any idea what the

and the house armed services commite will hear from defense department officials regarding management of u.s. military support to ukraine. then on wednesday, u.s. attorney general merrick garland testifies before the senate judiciary committee on oversight of the justice department. watch this week live on the c-span networks or on c-span now, our fremobile video app. also, go to c-span.org for scheduling information or to stream video live or on-demand any time. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. : we welcome farnousi to the washington journal. she is a journalist with the -- reporter with the associated press here to talk about a short week for the house and senate. what are the highlights, the things you are looking at going into the week? guest: it is a shorter week because of the retreats for houston -- house dems. how santa senate are catching up -- house and senate are catching up on the news of the week, the ohio trained a rail meant. both parties have -- train derailment. both parties have promised to look into it. host: one of your pieces last week, the headline of

president biden said he ordered the department of defense to shoot it down on wednesday, but the departmentter when there would be no risk to folks on the ground. that looks like the envelope of the balloon, the top of the balloon deflated and falling down there. this was a pretty easy day, likely, for the aviators of this f-22. it is the perfect missile mount to do this in the military arsenal. 65,000 feet is as high as the f-22 can go. we know this balloon was at 60,000 feet according to the pentagon. it is a very fast jet. it can go 2.25 mach, twice the speed of sound, 1,500 miles an hour. this balloon is hardly going that, maybe 60 or 80 miles an hour with the winds alostft at 60,000 feet. they just needed to wait, these fighter pilots, until the right moment when it got away from land and over the water off the coast of north carolina and south carolina. really interesting here that this is still over the territorial waters of the u.s. that ends about 12 nautical miles offshore. essentially it is ours and we get to keep it now. these fighter pilots had to wait until this was in the rig

the defense department says a $460 million package will be going through. mr.s on people and companies assisting the russian war effort. >> putin thought ukraine was weak, and the west was divided. as you know, mr. president, i said to you in the beginning, he is counting on us not sticking together. he was counting on the ability to keep nadel united -- nato united, counting on us not to be able to bring in others. paul: china has laid out a fresh list of problems it has with the way the u.s. uses its power. the official state news agency published an article titled "u.s. hegemony and its perils," that blasts u.s. policy and its actions and how tensions have worsened over the suspected spy balloon incident, and the war in ukraine. jp morgan is said to be let go of 30 investment bankers in the asia-pacific this week, the majority based in china. sources tell bloomberg the cuts are the biggest seen in years, to the makeup less than 5% of the investment banking headcount in the region. we are told the decision comes with deal flows, and the bank process biggest g

defense cooperation agreement locations and both secretary austin and secretary galvez noted that the edca is a key pillar of alliance cooperation and supports combined training exercises and inneroffer ability separately the department of defense announced today a significant new package of security assistance for ukraine including the authorization of presidential drawdown of security assistance valued up to $425 million as well as $1.75 billion in ukraine security assistance initiative funds. the presidential drawdown is the 31st such drawdown of equipment from dod inventories for ukraine. in total the u.s. has now committed $32 billion in security assistance to ukraine since 2014 and 29.3 billion since russia's unprovoked and illegal invasion nearly one year ago this month. today's announcement includes critical air defense capabilities to help ukraine defend its people as well as armored infantry vehicles and more equipment that ukraine is using to so effective ly including javelin anti anti-tank missiles artillery am you mission and conventional and long range rockets for the u.s.. additional information on the security package can be found on defense.gov. in regards to our announcement regarding the high altit

using a lot of a armaments now, joe biden does not propose a budget for defense department that is comee concerns me. we'll have few are ships in 5 years. we will have few are capabilities in space, than we had, not just the absolute magnitude but you get it right, president biden has gotten it wrong, he is talking about shrinking scale of the defense department, and told a group of hold soldiers we'll have every military vehicle green. that is disconnected from protecting and spreferring preserving our nation. you can read about it, there not a chance that chinese military are doing that. we need to make sure our military is sized correctly, and shaped correctly. to protect the things that matter most to us. mark: you know. secretary pompeo, you are raised in the midwest. those are the kind of values, background and patriotism you bring to the table. you look at the country today, what is going on, you talk about the wokism, act on our history and our classrooms, joe biden keeps trashing our nation left and right. systematically racist, an irony given his early career. it has to be trou

defense department and with the u.s. counter intelligence authorities. security consultant, josh, a former fbi supervisory special agent. also joining us, cnn national security analyst terry cordaro. josh, let me start with you. what do you think specifically when the debris reaches quantico, what will investigators be looking for? >> wolf, this will be the damage assessments phase. basically trying to determine what threat to u.s. national security was there from this intelligence collection platform in and to the extent that the intelligence apparatus of this balloon actually survived, the fbi would be trying to look at that to determine what were its capabilities? was this the realtime collection that we've heard about is this was it stored collection? a lot of questions there, obviously. i can tell you, having worked in the fbi, a lot of people, when you think about the fbi laboratory, you think about dna analysis, firearms analysis. there's actually an entire division called the operational technology division that is response for looking at devices

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place . air traffic has now resumed, and president biden actually gave the green light for the defense department to go ahead and bring down this balloon on wednesday. so it was military leadership that deemed that the risk of taking down this balloon over land was too great because it was so high up and the threat of debris injuring people was great. so they decided to wait until the balloon was over. open water president biden. has been under massive pressure here, particularly by republicans who have accused them of a dereliction of duty for letting this balloon enter u. s. air space at all. and they are still criticizing him by the way, even after the shooting down of this balloon, saying that he's been weak in the face of china. but again, the president saying, as we heard him, that sound by he said on wednesday, the military can shoot it down when they deem it is safe. and that moment was on saturday. and from so me some a scandal, a brief look. now some of the other stories from around the world, israel is in television, and other cities have again taken to the streets in their thousands,

the american defense department doesn't seem to agree with you on that. the chairman of the joint chiefs general mcmillan said last week, he still believes the war will end with neither side likely to achieve their military aims. neither side sounds like stalemate. you know, i am just, i was just one month soldier to return the defense in general, nearly the respect to general. but is he wrong? yes, i think so. why a year ago, why we should be sure that they are not wrong today? do you trust western governments to, to back whatever demands you are going to make to get to a peace deal? i trust our partners, we trust our partners and alice, when does tend to, they have concerns. we need to work with this concerns. but in general, yes, the restaurant between ukraine and the west and the free world. absolutely of any of the countries said they want to say in the piece of negotiations. we want to. yeah, definitely, i think because this war is not just because between ukraine and russia, not just about ukraine and russia, it's much why the context more countrie

hearing on countering the chinese company is party, and has armed services can you will hear from defense department officials on managing support ukraine. on wednesday, u.s. attorney general america garland testifies before the senate judiciary committee on oversight of the justice department. watch this week live on the c-span networks or on c-span now, our free mobile video app. go to c-span.org for scheduling information or to stream video live on demand anytime. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. we will hear from some lawmakers over the weekend, from some of the sunday shows focusing on the alliance between russia and china. china has a proposed piece and the talks of arms from china to russia. all of that is ahead. we get our question from an article in the new yorker. the title of his piece is sliding toward a new cold war. not since the berlin wall fell has the world and so cleaved by the conflict john f. kennedy called a long twilight struggle. he writes this: . he also writes: (202) 748-8001 is the republican line. democrats (202) 748-8000. independents (202) 748-8002. are we on

operate to evaluate the agreement concluded by their national health services with the us department of defenseo what extent the activities of these laboratories are safe and in line with the national interests of these countries. now , state duma vice speaker irina yarovaya is in direct contact with us or on anatolyevna i welcome you. hello, what exactly does the appeal of russian parliamentarians to colleagues from other countries contain. that's who should pay attention to him. this appeal is sent by the entire parliament of the world, because the entire state has a serious reason to worry about its biosecurity safety , and the parliamentary investigation that we are conducting on the fact of the activities, and the american laboratories in ukraine, itself was introduced with the dota report by the united states department of defense threat reduction agency states that has become the property of public authority fully correlate and confirm our preliminary conclusions that the project that has the name biomedical, in fact, washington is implementing a military-applied project in high secrecy

. >> [question inaudible] >> the defense department has.them. >> [question inaudible] >> mr. president, you have known about the balloon program for some time. >> say again? >> you've known about the balloon program for some time. has it always been your view to shoot down a chinese spy balloon or was it only because it became public? >> oh, no. always my position. once it came over the -- in to the united states from canada, i told the defense department i wanted to shoot it down as soon as appropriate. they concluded we should not shoot it down over land. it was not a serious threat. we should wait till we got across the water. >> this will figure in to the speech tomorrow night? >> no. >> why would the chinese commit a brazen act floating a balloon across the continental united states? >> because they're chinese. the government. >> should americans be concerned -- >> i want to talk to the american people, let them know the state of affairs. what's going on, what i'm looking forward to working on from this point on, what we've done. just

so we're talking about putting a budget together for the defense department. it was a really robust budget last cycle. i don't remember anything -- hearing about anything that dealt with balloons in the budget. do we have plans the next time this happens? ms. dalton: senator, thank you. as you know, in the national defense strategy from 2022 on the p.r.c. is the pacing challenge. senator tester: i know. what about the balloons? i got all the other stuff, is there money in the budget or if , you're not in that pay grade, do we have a plan for when this happens again and what we're going to do and when we're going to do it? but the truth is, we think we know what they were going to collect. we don't know. that scares the hell out of me. ms. dalton: senator, thank you. it is incredibly serious, and please know as we are recovering the balloon and learning more about it, also including what we learned last week, we are building our understanding of what capabilities they have. what we need to do going forward. senator tester: i am over time. this is the last thing

a survey by the defense department was left exposed for weeks. we have details on that. take a look at this headline, china's spy balloon should be a wake-up call about us schools. why -- the spy flight is our generation's sputnik moment. she is for school choice. the white house wants to impose new sanctions on china as we learn china's president xi xinping could be heading to moscow to meet with putin. edward lawrence has the story from the white house next. your best defense against erosion and cavities is strong enamel- nothing beats it. new pronamel active shield actively shields the enamel to defend against erosion and cavities. i think that this product is a gamechanger for my patients- it really works. ♪ ♪ wow, we're crunching tons of polygons here! what's going on? where's regina? hi, i'm ladonna. i invest in invesco qqq, a fund that gives me access to the nasdaq-100 innovations, like real time cgi. okay... yeah... oh. don't worry i got it! become an agent of innovation with invesco qqq first psoriasis, then psoriatic arthritis. even walking was tough. i had to

the secretary of defense, the department of defense absolutely supports, strongly supports a free and independent press, so i would refer you to the ohio national guard for any comment. i do not know that particular incident, what i can assure you that is not acceptable behavior. >> [indiscernible] any kind of charge? >> i will have to refer you to them. i will not make those kinds of policy announcements from the podium and terms of what they may or may not be doing to address it. let me go to nancy. >> i just had a couple of clarifying questions. you said that the pilots were able to see it, that it was not the same shape or size of the balloon. can you say definitively it was not a balloon? >> i do not at this point, considering the fact we are still assessing the object. i do not want to get into characterizing it. >> you mentioned you know how fast it was traveling. can you say if it was traveling fast or slower than the balloon? >> i do not have that information. >> did anyone try to within the administration contact chinese counterparts before the decision to shoot it down? >>

the defense department saying in speaking to reporters that they had been in communication with china right away and they may clear that they will do whatever is needed to protect you as security that might be including postponing this trip from the secretary of state. ok. respondent soon. so mascara in washington there. thank you very much so me to ukraine. our president, blood am, is lensky has renewed his appeal for his country to join the european union. after a summit with senior european officials included, author talks with commission president was upon the land. zalinski said he would hasten to bring the goal of the you membership closer. i think that ukraine deserve to begin succession talks this year. now european council, president shaw michelle was also at the talks in keith. and here's what he had to say about that. the future of your pre is with your credit people, you have made a clear choice for freedom for democracy and hulu, flow and re in with or so me to clear the fusion. your future is with us. our come in the repeat, the new york destiny is our fishing and it's w

that the statement said the president biden gave his green light for the defense department to move ahead and take down this balloon on wednesday when he was briefed about what was happening. it was then the military leadership itself, that dean that taken the balloon down over land was too great of a risk because of the size, an altitude, as they wrote here, of this balloon, the threat of debris injuring people. so they decided to wait until this balloon was over open waters. and as soon as it was, again off the coast of the carolinas, they then took action and they said in a statement, or we will quote, always put the safety and security of the american people 1st. and you know, you saw that sound bite from president biden just there are. he was landing in maryland on route to camp david for the weekend. interesting that he emphasized again that he gave his green light on wednesday, the military decided to wait until the moment was right. the reason he's really been driving that home, it appears, is because he's been under a lot of pressure, particularly from republicans for not having