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cant give or on what timeline. and if one of our allies and partners wants to provide fighter aircraft to president zelenskyy, thats a sovereign decision they have ever right to make we would welcome that. >> $100 million in the appropriations bill in july to train ukrainian pilots on u.s. aircraft. whats the status -- >> no training underway right now, theres no commitment by the united states to provide fighter aircraft. >> you dont have to have fighter aircraft. >> no p training rig...

. this is cnn breaking news. welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world im rosemary church, we continue tracking breaking news out of the middle east this hour where major earthquake killed hundreds of people in syria and turkey and the death toll is rising. syrian state media report at least 237 people have died in syria and more than 600 injured an unknown number could be trapped under rubble. we got this video earlier of a rescuer carryi...

welcome to "inside politics." im john king in washington. thank you for sharing a remarkable news day with us. we begin with a brazen spy drama. straight to the pentagon, the briefing on a chinese balloon over montana. >> conducting press briefings in our temporary press briefing room while other primary location undergoes technical renovations and upgrades. we greatly appreciate your patience and flexibility as we work to install some long, overdue upgrades to the pentagon press brief...

thing. the pentagon briefing has begun, lets go there. >> the pentagon for a variety of reasons our normal call-in options will not be available, for those that have had to call in, we apologize. we will get it up as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and answer questions from the dod press desk. moving forward well look at ways to improve briefing operations and expect regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. we appreciate your pati...

good day. im andrea mitchell in washington. we go directly to the pentagon and the briefing on the china spy balloon. >> because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call-in options will not be available. for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio up as quickly as possible. we will aim to answer your questions through ou...

Would be significant and potentially cause civilian injuries ore deaths or significant property damage. this is part of the calculus in terms of our overall assessment, we will monitor and keep you updated as available. here and here. >> thank you. following up on the balloon question. do you conversation with chinese have they indicated to you what is inside the balloon to prove the point it is a civilian balloon and does that assessment differ from your assessment what is inside the balloon an...

>> yeah. so on your latter question, im not going to get into intelligence. we do continue to monitor the balloon. we know that it is a surveillance balloon. in terms of the size, im not able to get into the specifics other than to say that it is big enough that, again, in reviewing our approach, we do recognize that any potential debris field would be significant and potentially cause civilian injuries or deaths or significant property damage. this is part of the calculus in terms of our overal...