national security adviser jake sullivan, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley,efense secretary lloyd austin. >> they stayed down in this cold, cramped seller for the last 27 days. do you think the worst is over? >> [interpreter] i hope our soldiers tame this beast. the russian president is deranged. i wish his kids would have to go through this. maybe then it would be different. his granddaughter, at lisa, spent her time drawing on the walls, images of happier days. it was my therapy to keep calm, she says. wise words from a girl who just turned eight. today, alyssa was drawing with her chalk outside. >> that was nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel reporting from kharkiv. just one month into the war. russia's new offensive is focused on an area about three hours south of there. richard brings us the latest from the front lines. >> reporter: after a year of fighting -- [sound of artillery] russia has failed to capture a nation a fraction of its size. the most intense battles are now on the front line in the east, where ukrainian soldiers, like this

it is my pressure -- pleasure to introduce secretary of defense lloyd alston and general mark milley.ecretary alston will begin with read comments followed by general milley. i will call on the reporters and due to time constraint i would ask you to limit your follow-ups. without a turn it over to the secretary. sec. austin: thank you. we have just concluded our ninth meeting of the ukraine defense contract group. i would like to thank ukrainian minister of defense and his team for once again joining us today. next week the world will mark a grim milestone. it will have been a year since russia invaded this peaceful neighbor, ukraine. our hearts are with the families of all of the ukrainian soldiers killed and wounded, fighting to defend their country, their sovereignty and their fellow citizens. and we mourn alongside ukrainian civilians who have lost children and parents and loved ones as russia has deliberately attacked civilian targets. russia has inflicted a year of tragedy and terror on ukraine. but the people of ukraine have inspired the world. we deeply admire the resilience o

, mark milley would call them in advance if donald trump seems unsteady.have in addition to that. mark milley gave this testimony before congress, without any data and no supporting evidence, he said he was going to root out white rage, weitzer pharmacy, white privilege, all that has done is upended a content constituencythat died in numberd afghanistan, and they are short on their recruitment. this pattern is continuing and it's really reified in this latest disaster. somebody has got to take control of the pentagon, shake them up and go, you know what, this is very serious if you're going to lose the terrence again and again, something serious is going to happen. >> i'm going to be very disappointed if the g.o.p. doesn't have several surveillance balloons floating over the dnc at 2024, let me just tell you, very disappointed. jason, i found something else to jarring in addition to what dbh just said. china's surveillance stunt is going to have no impact on our future dialogue with the ccp. watch this. >> how will this incident effect the secretaries of f

we were told that mark milley contacted his chinese counterpart to warn him that adva milley would call in advance if donald trump seemed unsteady. ma had in addition to that, mark milley gave this testimonyo before congress where without datao ro and no supporting evidence, he said he was going to root out white rage, white supremac, wey, white privilege.p and all thaten has done is offended a constituency. it's died at twic their numbers in iraq and afghanistan and their 50% ad in some some areas short they ar on their recruitment. so this pattern is continuing and it's really reified in this latest disaster. somebody's got to take control.h the pentagonas got t, shake thew and say, you know what, thisha is very serious. if you're going to losevery deterrence serious if yo , again and again, something terrible is going to happen. >> well, i'm goingain, somng ser disappointed if the gop doesn't have several surveillance balloons floating over the dnc and twenty twenty four .el let me just say i'll be very disappointed. disaright, jason , i found something else jarring injarrin addition

even the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley has shown that there was no risk to the safety of the people. not to shoot it down basically. even u.s. intelligence has shown that our best assessment right now is that it does not. it says china has great military surveillance equipment. they could use xi jinping's policy is one of peaceful coexistence, as he has stated himself. u.s. politicians are aiding the side of imperialism. they are escalating conflict. host: let's talk about the weaponization of the federal government. that is the focus of a new-committee under the gop led house. tell us about the committee and what they have planned. guest: the weaponization subcommittee has a hearing planned for this thursday, that they have not released topics or a title for it so it is hard to glean what their opening move is going to be. the general thrust of the committee in general is the thought that house republicans have been pushing, which is that the fbi has been weaponized to go after president trump. that is why they have " weaponization," in the title, that is something law e

to say. >> ainsley: mark milley said this. >> brian: biden said i told them to blow it up wednesday.blow it up saturday. wait, the president said to take it out. find a way to take it out, the same way you found to take us out of afghanistan, in the worst military operation in the history of the nation, but, again, now you say i'm pushing back on the president when it comes to a chinese balloon? would we have ever known about it had the press in billings, montana not wrote about it? we would have had the meeting with the secretary of defense. no harm, no foul. but it was about us finding out about it is the key. we never heard -- we still barely heard from the president. just shouting through a chopper. >> pete: exactly right. i think it comes down to risk aversion. stupid risk aversion inside the pentagon. you can figure it out. there is ways to disable a balloon so it floats down or the hall detached do it in. >> brian: so much wide open space. >> ainsley: what it's something more serious than a balloon. what if it is not gathering intel. >> pete: this is a trial balloon. this is c

joint chiefs chairman mark milley said remnants of each object fell in very hard-to-reach areas. >> they'ren difficult terrain. the second one, off the coast of alaska, that's up in really, really difficult terrain, the arctic circle. with very low temperatures. minus 40s. the second one is in the canadian rockies in yukon, very difficult to get that one. >> the general said the debris from the third shot down in lake huron landed in 100 feet of water. officials say it's likely on the canadian side. today, senators received a classified briefing on the unidentified objects and senators from both parties ask that the president share more. senator marco rubio said similar objects were seen in the past. >> 90% of what was said in that room today could be made public without harming the public. the other three instances as described both publicly and in there are not new. >> cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond is here. so the white house briefing just started. what is the latest from the white house on these objects? >> reporter: well, victor, we know that the u.s. and canadian officia

general mark milley said there is no threat to the public. >> on the fourth one over lake huron first, second shot hit. the missile landed harmlessly in the water of lake your ran. we tracked it all the way down and we made airspace was free of commercial or recreational traffic. >> reporter: meanwhile the main payload of the chinese spy balloon, 30 feet wide was pulled from the bottom of the atlantic ocean with a crain ship friday according to a u.s. defense official. important electronics an sensor weres were removed and expected to have high intelligence value. >> we are studying it, analyzing it. there is no question in our minds that that system was designed to surveil that was an intelligence asset. >> reporter: u.s. defense officials say they would not have been able to recover the payload of the chinese balloon if it had not been taken down over the water. more than 100 scientists were studying the balloon as u.s. agencies collected intelligence on it as it crossed the u.s. neil? neil: thank you for that didnt, former new york congressman, former new york gubernatorial candida

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national security advisers, jacob sullivan, and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milleymed about the current situation. on the front, in particular in the donetsk and southern directions, in addition , there was an exchange of views regarding the possible actions of the enemy in the near future, this is in according to the texts of the press service, yarmak assured the american side that volodymyr zelenskyi's entire government team is determined to comprehensively contribute to the cleansing of the authorities from corruption risks . well, we actually understand the extremely serious story. there is an immediate front. and there is also a front, so to speak , not so obvious. of ukraine, in particular, the readiness of our authorities to work in a civilized manner with our society, with our business, and so on , let's hope that this dialogue does not end, in particular, it is about representatives of various structures of the european american authorities and representatives of our authorities. well, let's hope that soon there will be a great normalization, in particular

joint chiefs of staff mark milley says russia has effectively already lost the war.he death toll from the earthquakes in syria and turkiye has risen to more than 40,000. but more than a week on, emergency crews are still pulling survivors alive from the rubble. and don't forget, you can always get dw news on the go. just download our app from google play or the app store. that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world, as well as push notifications for any breaking news. stay with us now. i will be right back to take you through "the day." hope to see you there. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] óúóúóúóúórórórórórórór■pçóÑ■Ñ■x■ >> welcome to "life from paris" -- "live from paris," world news and analysis from france 24. the united nations says the turkey-syria quick is the worst in over a century. turkey's president describes it as like a nuclear bomb scene. voices are still being heard miraculously under the wreckage. in syria, aid is gett

read the interview, i think colleagues also got to know the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, mark milley, well, on the one hand, it's a bit alarming, but on the other hand, he said the right thing that every war ends at the table negotiations. i believe that this is the negotiating table when russia will sign the capitulation, and another thing worries me when he said that none of the parties will achieve their military goals, but at the bottom he said, i do not rule out that this year ukraine will win. that is, it means that the united states is our reliable partner, as people's deputy mykola knyazhytskyi said, it's really the second time in a year that president biden is coming to poland. it's respect for them and support for us ukrainians. i think there will be a lot of interesting things there. surprises for the enemy and pleasant surprises for ukraine, the ukrainian army as a whole, today is also an important day 101, 100 prisoners of war, 100 soldiers and one civilian returned to ukraine, this is also a personal pain for me personally, because there are those guys who were from azo

well, we'll see. head of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley the day before called the battlen the bakhmut area the most large-scale in terms of losses at the moment and predicts that ukrainian forces will not retreat. how do you comment on this thesis ? no one is going anywhere, i said, we will not retreat, we of the 93rd brigade came here a month ago and, so you understand, they told us every day to get ready, maybe we will leave, but our eyes are afraid and our hands are doing. as you can see, we we stood for a month. we are standing and we will stand as long as necessary until victory itself. mr. andriy, i would like to ask you about the current quality of the russian offensive groups . yes, we understand that the so-called zeki battalions named after wagner were defeated , and there has been a lot of change there. to a large extent, the personnel, that is, it is about their professional fighters there, in particular, those who were part of the league group, but they are all trying to recruit new and new waves of former or until recent flights, those prisoners. well, accor

. >> secretary lloyd austin and the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley, reaffirm the u.s. commitment to ukraine's defense. general milley also discusses safety measures to protect the public from missiles. brussels for meetings on ukraine defense. >> secretary austin will begin with some brief comments followed by general mill ey. i will call on reports and >> you, good afternoon and thanks for joining us. we have just concluded our ninth meeting of the ukraine defense contract group. i would like to thank ukrainian minister of defense and his team for once again joining us today. next week the world will mark a grim milestone. it will have been a t neighbor, ukraine. our hearts are with the families of all the ukrainian soldiers killed and wounded fighting to defend their country, their sovereignty and their fellow citizens. and we mourn alongside the ukrainian civilians who have lost children and parents and loved ones as russia has deliberately attacked civilian targets. russia has inflicted a year of tragedy and terror on ukraine. but the people of ukraine hav

and, whit, the commander of all ukrainian forces today warning america's top general mark milley that russia is using water-borne drones, calling them a threat for commercial ships off the coast of ukraine. whit? >> certainly, another concern. tom, our thanks to you tonight. >>> back here at home, the father of a bullied teen who died by suicide is demanding justice and accountability from her high school. 14-year-old adriana kush, died two days after a brutal beating was posted online, showing her being punched, kicked and dragged by classmates. she was also hit by a water bottle. we want to warn you that some viewers may find this video disturbing. here's mona kosar abdi. >> reporter: tonight, four new jersey teens now charged after a brutal attack on a 14-year-old classmate was filmed according to the ocean county prosecutor's office. adriana kuch, dying by suicide one day later. the video part of an official investigation, begins as one teen alerts the others that they are recording. then, the freshman is hit in the face with a water bottle. she is kicked and punched repeatedly, h

here are the results of the joint committee of the chiefs of staff of the united states, general mark milleyinterview with the times, said the following to completely liberate the territory of ukraine this year, the collapse of the russian federation is needed, russia cannot subjugate ukraine, achieve its political goals by military means, russia's war against ukraine is likely to end negotiations this year , it will be extremely difficult for ukraine to completely liberate all its territories by aggression, it must be stopped firmly with deterrence and military force , general milli added, he also indicated on the need for careful management in case of escalation, because it is about russia, which is a large country with a nuclear arsenal, mili , however, noted that it will be difficult for ukraine as well achieve a complete victory this year, which will include the liberation of all its territories, i quote, it is also very difficult for ukraine this year to expel the russians from every inch of the territories occupied by russia, it cannot be said that it cannot happen but it will be extr

mark milley said that now ukraine is given a lot of weapons and now it must win back as much of its territory as possible, because then everything will end anyway at the negotiating table. look at the military aid packages. in fact , i can assure you that during the rammstein meetings, no political issues , including negotiations, are discussed, he is a zoologist; aid to ukraine is generally discussed weapons, the launch of their system of the military-industrial complex, so that they produce projectiles, weapons, replenish their warehouses to replenish our and your capabilities , and everyone understands that we need to go on a counteroffensive. everyone understands that we need to stop the russians. everyone understands that we need to liberate our temporarily occupied territories , so i i can agree with mr. mark and in the part when he says that russia will not achieve its goal in ukraine on the battlefield because the goal of russia is the destruction of ukraine, the goal of russia is the restoration of the soviet russian empire the goal of russia is the absorption of ukraine, belarus, li

you go to our website, c-span.org, defense secretary lloyd austin and joint chiefs of staff chair mark milley are briefing reports after military operation toss shoot down unidentified aerial objects over the u.s. and canada. the two are in brussels for meetings on ukraine defense. >> secretary austin will begin with some brief comments followed by general mill ey. i will call on reports and due to time constraints i'd ask you to limit your follow-ups. secretary austin. >> thanks, patrick, good afternoon, everyone, and thanks for joining us today. we have just concluded our ninth meeting of the ukraine defense contact group. i'd like to thank ukrainian minister of defense and his team for once again joining us today. now, next week the world will mark a grim milestone. it will have been a year since russia invaded its peaceful neighbor, ukraine. our hearts are with the families of all the ukrainian soldiers killed and wounded fighting to defend their country, their sovereignty and their fellow citizens. and we mourn alongside the ukrainian civilians who have lost children and parents and love

as old as she is of this display city 's chief chairman mark milley seems more worried about tiktok. during the promise of a few things he asked us. i'm in and with strong presidentsbe seen the best way to prevent war is always shows . peace is with buy-in. it is. now this question seems more urgent. >> will? c4 exactly. us what you think ofthe new free twitter . and share this message when we post it as a defense of initial offer of the energy of dell covers your assessments of this incident and where it leads us china relations. >> i think it leaves us looking pretty embarrassed at sort of. i think the chinese is no way this could have been accidental and they probably did it to trouble but also embarrass us. i've been doing international media people across theworld are saying americans, why are you overreacting ? how this remains to be seen in here. questions about the country and there were bases that were even listed on the net and the administration is claiming or asserting that they jammed the chinese from exploiting this information but we have no reason to know that . it wa

joint chiefs general mark milley said last week that he still believes this war will and at the negotiatingtable with neither side likely to achieve their military aims. how widely do you think that view is shared in washington? >> it is always difficult to predict exactly how a war is going to end. what we have here is there a case of one country invading another. until the ukrainians have a contrary view, my view is they ought to determine, on what terms, the war ends. at least, so far, what i hear you saying and what i hear your president saying is that is when you get your country back, is when it ends. i do not think we ought to be negotiating a solution for ukrainians that they might not be able to live with. i think our goal, immediately, is get them what they need. it i 2:00 -- it it to them as quickly as possible and let them win. >> ukraine stay in the driving seat when negotiations start? if they start. >> i think the definition of victory ought to be left up to those who are affected by it the most. in other words, i am not in favor of us again getting up and forcing a solution

yes, they said that any operation is coordinated with mark milley, chief of the united states joint staffs, everything that is being worked out, it is being worked out in washington. they say, not caught, not a thief, but i don’t remember one thing, not a thief, and another when it’s the use of weapons, it’s impossible without a guidance system from nato, because what, uh, i put it for you, he wouldn’t have put a tank and a reserve. i put the ammo participant in the process. uh, us political scientist mike harris is here with us now . mike we welcome your comments, so about. thank you very much for inviting the pranksters who bring up all these moments. eh, they were able to force poroshenko to tell him about the crimes that were going to be committed on the territory of russia against russia in essence. uh, the states are interested in the conflict continuing, that is, in order to receive their profits is absolutely necessary for something to burn in order to get their own money and earn on it the military-industrial complex. in america , it has a very great influence on the government o

here is mark milley addressing that first attempted missile strike. we go to great lengths to make sure air space is clear and back drop is clear for the missile and in this case, the missile landed harmlessly in the water of lake huron, we tracked it down and made sure air space was clear of traffic. >> todd: lucas, go into detail on the word harmlessly and they'lley just referenced there. >> lucas: there is no warhead on that heat-seeking missile that missed the tarringel, none of these have been launched or armed, no warhead on the missile. they are acting like a giant spear, expensive issue fast, violent sphere destroying the object and popping the balloon, like we saw over the coast of south carolina. >> ashley: that is good to know for people wondering like me. >> todd: great work. richard newton has this warning about china's spy campaign. listen to this. >> this is a significant threat and it is a wake-up call forern ms. the fact the chinese are operating a spy vein through balloons, the first balloon shoot down by f-22 was at 65,000 feet, nea

operations ended al-baghdadi's miserable life, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milleyreceived a call in the situation room. he was told that the brave men of the elite special forces team that so perfectly carried out the operation had given their mission a name: "task force 8-14. " it was a reference to a special day: aug. 14, kayla's birthday. carl and marsha, americas warriors never forgot kayla, and neither will we. thank you. [applause] every day, america's men and women in uniform demonstrate the infinite depth of love that dwells in the human heart. one of these american heroes was army staff sgt. christopher hake. on his second deployment to iraq in 2008, sergeant hake wrote a letter to his 1-year-old son, gage: "i will be with you again, " he wrote to gage. "i will teach you to ride your first bike, build your first sand box, watch you play sports, and see you have kids also. i love you son. take care of your mother. i am always with you. daddy. " on easter sunday of 2008, chris was out on patrol in baghdad when his bradley fighting vehicle was hit by a roadsi

in beginning of war mark milley, saying that russia will come in 3 days and take kyiv, now we're a year later, there is no plan other than writing blank checks from administration to the ukranians. i would love to know their plan. and what is the plan. really have to -- are we going all in and join ukraine in this war against the russians? or sit back and allow the russians to engage in this? we have no information and no guidance and no leadership from this administration. elizabeth: the cold war with china, we can't let that turn hot. china's global times congress calling biden's ukraine trip, irrational and selfish, may trigger a more aggressive counter strike in white house, "washington post" reports that white house is warning ukraine this aid is last chance before peace talks and a poll showings more americans disapprove on br biden's response with ukraine. >> that is also because you have a republican house, the money comes from. that is much more reluctant to give blank checks to the ukrainians, for over a year now we republicans have requested from this administration and penta

here is chairman mark milley addressing the first attempt and missile strike. >> we have to make suret airspace is clear and the backdrop is clear to the max effect range of a missile. this case, the missile landed in lake huron. we said we would track it down to make sure the airspace was clear of any commercial or recreational traffic. >> ashley: lucas, what else do you know that you could tell us? >> it is important to tell our viewers that that missile that went down lake huron after missing the object is not armed. there is not harm on the midsole. is there an armed missile at the bottom of lake huron right now question worth answer is no. in fact, fighter pilots told me none of the missiles were using to shoot down these objects including chinese spy craft shot down with armed missiles. actually there were missiles that did not have warheads on them and kind of acting like a lower spear, high-tech spear to pop these balloons to destroy these objects. >> todd: so armageddon and less space needle one prick trying to pop this thing. in a jokey context, that is what it is because ob

there is mark milley, mark meadows per the story of cassidy hutchinson where he said i don't want anyone to know we lost. which i can't begin to unpack. there are all of these indications not only that he was told by everybody, but that he understood he lost and he was leaving. >> i think there is plenty of evidence that is available now and that would be available with the tools that the federal government has to compel testimony that donald trump knew what he was doing, that he committing a fraud. he knew he was committing a fraud but he thought he would get away with it. the question i want answered, i get it that there was a fight going on between the j6 committee and doj about the availability of transcripts but they knew pence would never respond to a congressional subpoena and mark meadows would never response to a congressional subpoena. why didn't they appoint jack smith two years ago? why did they wait until over two years after the fact or almost two years after the fact to appoint a special counsel? i need somebody to explain that to us. i need somebody to tell us why -- what

here's us joint chief of staffs general mark a milley on the recovery effort.y difficult terrain in the arctic circle with very, very low temperatures in the minus forties. the second one is in the canadian rockies and yukon. very difficult to get that one. and the third one is in in lake huron. at probably a couple of hundred feet depth. so we'll get them eventually. but it's going to take some time to recover those. canada's defence minister also gave an update today on the search for the wreckage in yukon. i want to indicate that the terrain is extremely rugged. it is extremely remote. the temperature is approximately —25 celsius there and there is heavy snow. so the recovery effort is difficult but, as i said, we have a number of aircraft in the air and people on the ground. we still don't know what the three other objects shot down are. cbs news correspondent, jarred hill explains. they still say that they don't know exactly what these things are, in part because they haven't had a chance to actually recover whatever materials fell. one of those in alaska

biden asked what his military options were, it was the pentagon going all the way up to general mark milley who recommended against shooting it down because of the potential risk to persons and property below. we know there are senior pentagon officials in the building today. it is a saturday, so that is unusual. if the reason you didn't shoot it down over land is because the risk of people and property, that risk no longer there when this floats over the water later today. it was over western tennessee and moving toward eastern tennessee today. we'll keep watching and wait for an update on what the decision is made about what to do with this balloon. pentagon said yesterday they were tracking it count yntinuou. it does not give the chinese any surveillance or intelligence gathering capabilities above and beyond the spy satellites they already have. we'll let you know if anything changes on that. >> dine,ana, you're in north carolina. >> reporter: both me and the balloon in north carolina today. there have been sightings starting in asheville, north carolina, to the west of where we are in

and echoed something of joint chiefs chairman mark milley has also said. lost strategically, operationally and technically. when one, do you agree? and to, how concerned are you about concerns that ukraine is running low on ammunition? >> well, look, general milley has got enormous experience. this very hard and combat veteran, he's been around a long time. he's got great contacts inside ukraine. so, i think we have to have some confidence in his judgment on this. i will tell you, i may have retired as a four star general, but i retained the perspective of an infantry company commander in combat. and a battalion and company level, the ukrainians are having a difficult time. they're fighting it out and in some cases, is a world war i battlefield of attrition, artillery, trenches. and what they need is armor, deep strike rockets and artillery, and possibly, a lethal drones that have 100 or more mile range on them. so, i think we're in a perilous situation still where the ukrainians simply can't absorb as a nation and arms, this level of casualties. the russi

general mark milley told reporters in brussels, quote, the first shot missed. the second shot hit.>> vice chair of the federal reserve lail brainard and jared bernstein, an economic adviser for joe biden when he was vice president, are expected to be named to top white house economic posts after today's market close, according to reuters. >>> last week cnbc reported it was likely they would get those jobs. >>> and president biden is celebrating what he calls an historic agreement for air india to buy 220 boeing jets with a list price of $34 billion. he says the purchase will support more than 1 million american jobs in 44 states jon? >> thanks. >>> this morning's hotter than expected inflation data giving the fed more reason to continue its hawkish policy and with higher rates comes the end of the free money era feels like it ended a few months ago. forcing companies to revamp their growth strategies. >> you can't just buy market share with the weight of money and be successful. so, there were some winners, but that was a bad strategy overall driven by cheap money. back to basics m

it would be the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley, and the secretary of defensehey should have notified the president far before they did. stuart: it could be a failure on the part of china because they no longer have these balloons to fly around the world, because they're going to get shot down. >> they can make a lot of these, and they have a lot of them. there's one in latin america, as you reported. they've been sighted all over asia. so, clearly, the chinese have a big fleet of these balloons. stuart: fascinating. gordon chang, thawpg the, sir. see you later. lauren, are former trump officials, are they going to get a briefing on the balloon? lauren: yes, that's the plan according to the national security council. here's john kirby. >> we are preparing to brief key officials, and i'd refer you to the intel community to talk about who those officials might be and, you know, whether they, you know, whether they've accepted the invitation. i don't want to detail that here, especially since those briefings haven't happened yet. that wouldn't be fair of us to do

our short time ago our chairman general mark milley come from the first missile landed in the water andresting unarmed on the bottom of the lake. meantime the president is set to speak in about an hour from now but it won't be on this. no, he will be giving a keynote address at a conference for county officials across the country. yesterday we learned little from the white house as the press secretary downplayed and dismissed concerns surrounding the matter. >> i just wanted to make sure we address this from the white house. i know there been questions and concerns about this but there has been no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns. again, there is no indication of aliens or terrestrial activity with these recent takedowns. wanted to make sure the american people knew that come all of you knew that, and it was important for us to say that from here because we've been hearing a lot about it. [laughter] >> will you tell us? >> i loved et the movie but i would just leave it there. >> emily: the reality is after decades of no infiltration of our ai

. >> you have a guide biden his family taken money from china even mark milley said china previously wasn't a threat. he called china behind trump's back, these are people on the biden administration side let's look at trump he sat down with president xi jinping over moist chocolate cake telling him he was sending 59 tomahawk missiles to syria i got he was tough on china would trade and want to bring manufacturing to the united states. we were as rely on china. when he found out there was a chinese spy ring at the consulate in houston, texas, your 72 hours to vacate. the record stands at trump was tough on china, biden is not if anything is compromised on the issue. >> just remember this is the same establishment, 52 intel people reinforced, the laptop was rushing information don't ever forget who were dealing with when it comes to information. >> we've been talking about the politics of all of this there are severe geopolitical implications incur retired navy commander listed them out for us. >> when i look at it we should not have hesitated, this reminds me of the mindset that our

general mark milley said there is no threat to the public. >> the fourth one over lake huron, the firstown. we made sure space was clear of any commercial, civilian recreational traffic. >> the main payload of the chinese spy balloon about 30 feet wide was pulled up from the bottom of the atlantic ocean with a crane ship friday, according to a senior u.s. defense official. important electronics and sensors were removed and are expected to have high intelligence value. u.s. defense officials say they would not of been able to recover the payload of the chinese spy balloon if it had not been taken down over the water off south carolina which factored into the pentagon's recommendations. general milley explain why it's taking so long to recover the other three. >> very, very low temperatures, minus 40. the second one is in the canadian rockies, the yukon, and then a third one is in lake huron. probably a couple hundred feet. >> more than 100 scientists were studying the chinese spy balloon as u.s. agencies collective intelligence on it as it crossed the u.s. and are continuing to learn a l

waltz mention that i want to play a sound piety from the chairman of the joint chiefs today general mark milleye it stands. take a listen. >> russia is now a global pariah and the world remains inspired by ukrainian bravery and resilience. in short, russia has lost, they have lost strategically, operationally and tactically. and they are paying an enormous price on the battlefield. >> bret: i know you are all on the same page on getting weapons in and supporting ukraine. but you agree with that, that russia has lost from what you saw over in poland? >> well, i would put it this way. russia is losing. this fight is not over. and that is one of the major reasons that we were there. to make sure that the american equipment, that is flowing into that area, is actually getting to the front in a timely way. there is plenty to debate about whether something should have been there two or three or four months ago. and that's great worth having. what we know now from this trip and i was there with the chairman of the -- the new chairman of the committee, mike rogers is that the american military, out log

. >> where the president needs to call in mark milley and lloyd austin and explain how was this missed at the sensor packages the balloon that happened this last weekend, it's kind of hard to miss the sensor package, and i've heard two stories. >> john: size of a regional jet or school bus. >> and transmitting, and we think it had directed movement, to not like it was free floating out there and it was not caught by the military, it was some civilians in billings, montana. and call them in and if you can't give me an answer. >> john: the general explained this way. >> i will tell you that we did not detect those threats and that's a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out. >> john: domain awareness gap. i'm not quite sure what that means. maybe another word for extraordinary failure. >> no doubt it's a violation of american sovereignty, john. be very clear, this should not have happened, should never happen again. they have these balloons down in latin america right now, we have allies across the world, let our allies know what's going on and take care of it. >> john: not only

ukraine said they he needed when he spoke to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff in the u.s., mark milley called for supplies, weapons, the needs, because of that intense fighting in the east and the possible beginning of a wider offensive, or fight-back by the russian forces. certainly, with president biden coming to the region in the next few days, there will be an increased urgency, i think, from the ukrainians to ask for more support to try and push the russians back. fredricka? >> hard to believe allful this is still going on, just ahead of that one-year marker. david mckenzie in ukraine, thanks so much. >>> still ahead, the biden administration is about to declare an end to the covid-19 public health emergency, in this country, what this means and how it affects you, straight ahead. ♪ i got into debt in college and, no matter how much i paid, it followed me everywhere. so i consolidated it into a low-rate personal loan fr sofi. get a personal loan with no fees, low fixed rates, and boow up to $100k. sofi. get your money right. with no fees, low fixed rates, i brought in ensure max p

. >> today the chairman of the joint chiefs, general mark milley confirmed the first missile fired at the fourth object over lake huron missed its target initially. general milley says the first missile landed harmlessly in the waters of lake huron. this does raise the question if the u.s. is more aggressive about shooting down unidentified objects, does the inaccuracy of the first missile concern you? >> yeah, no, absolutely. we have to be careful. going back to the very first balloon and the biden administration's decision to wait to shoot it down, the more we learn the more we know that was the absolute right decision. shoot first and ask questions later is never a particularly good approach. take time to understand it and there is risks. if you fire a missile at something over the continental united states or canada, there is risk. best to be cautious and secondarily as we've heard, because they waited to shoot down the balloon we know is from china in a place where they wanted it to, we were able to recover it because we shot it down in a recoverable spot. we're learning a lot ab

but senior military leaders including mark milley, advised against shooting this down.it and seeing where it goes. it's severaled over several sensitive sites. montana is home to ballistic missile silos. perhaps that's what this was after. the pentagon says they are confident, very confident, that this was launched by china. and they brought it up through diplomatic channels here in washington and in beijing. essentially to express how angry they are about this. tensions with china are already high. secretary of state anthony blinken will head to china soon. >>> and when we come back, something you got to see. your favorite disney princesses reimagined in a whole new why. the founders of the black-owned business that launched a new doll collection with disney are going to join me next. beautiful. owns a life insurance policy of $100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. even a term policy. even a term policy? even a term policy! find out if you're sitting on a goldmine. call coventry direct today at the number on your screen, or visit coventry

until cassidy hutchinson and john kelly is the subject of your new reporting, in your book, mark milley and until his -- my generals and my staff, tells the truth, they're inside the family if you will. once they tell the truth, they're sort of cast about. it is as mark pomeranz writes, similar to a mob family. >> i think the break with pence has been, you know, gone for a long time. i think the relationship has begun gone for a long time. dating back to everything that happened on january 6. so i'm not sure that it changes that much. i'm sure that trump is on truth social saying mean things about mike pence. and he should be careful, because in that area, once again, he's sort of playing in that obstruction sort of area with where he knows mike pence is going in and trump has said anything and never suffered any consequences for any rhetoric around witnesses and such. so that is certainly one area. but the relationship seems like it has been severed for a long time. and it is really been for pence to deal with. if you looked at that clip that we saw before, that is pence trying to figu