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WHITE HOUSE - President Joe Biden will speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping about the suspected surveillance balloon that he ordered shot down this mon

The US president said he had directed his national security advisor to review procedures.

Suggests they were part of chinas spy balloon program or engaged in surveillance from any other country. but he stood by his decision to send fighter jets to alaska, canadas yukon territory, and the great lakes to take the objects down, saying he will take action to any perceived threat. the president saying hes not looking for a new cold war with china, but not apologizing for shooting down their balloon and keening its remains. abcs chief global affairs anchor martha raddatz leading us off in ...

Notwithstanding Taiwan's concerns about growing military provocation by Beijing in the last three years, this is the first recorded discovery of a suspected Chinese weather balloon. Read more.

The us of flying at least ten balloons over its own airspace. this was president biden earlier. iam directing i am directing my team to come back to me with sharper rules for how we will deal with these unidentified objects moving forward, the suturing between those that are likely to oppose safety and security risk that necessitate action and those that do not. but make no mistake. if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the american people, i will take it down. president ...

Quarterback but given what had just happened with the chinese balloon, it doesnt seem to be something radical that we were looking harder for more objects that we are not used to seeing and we took action when we saw them. >> does a past pass muster that it was because they posed a threat to commercial air travel. >> i wasnt involved in the situation room but if something is flying over the state it is good to know that civilian traffic doesnt get in the middle of it. to me whether it was just m...

Flew over the united states. and also continuing with what we heard from white house officials, that no evidence of surveillance as they described them, benign balloons. >> he said those three balloons were most likely linked to a private company or research that some institutions are conducting right now. he drew a sharp line between those balloons and the surveillance balloon sent over by china. he said the united states had been monitoring that balloon since it was traversing over the contine...

Dollars each. at least one hobby group has already come forward to say that their homemade balloon went missing last saturday. the same day an object was taken out over canadas yukon territory. >> i have directed my team to come back to me with sharper rules for how we will deal with these unidentified objects moving forward. >> reporter: chinese officials still denied the massive balloon that started this whole saga was being used for spying. today, they accused the u.s. of smearing them and es...

Anchor leigh ann caldwell and lord peter ricketts, the former uk representative to nato. president biden says he expects to speak with chinas president xi about a chinese balloon shot down in us airspace earlier this month. in a speech given under two hours ago, he said the us would keep a better inventory of aerial objects in its airspace, and he wont hesitate to bring down any aerial object seen as a threat to the united states. take a listen. i want to be clear — we have no evidence that th...

Lockheed martin and raytheon. but biden appeared to brush off concerns the tit-for-tat is escalating telling nbc i think the last thing that xi wants is to fundamentally relationship re relationship with the united states and with me. >> i expect to be speaking with president xi and i hope we have -- we are going to get to the bottom of this. but i make no apologies for taking down that balloon. >> we also learned today the biden administration briefed former trump administration officials and w...