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Generous. thank you. i have no choice. okay. this is borscht? beautiful. in all the years ive been doing journalism, i found the people who are the most generous are generally the people who have the least to give. >> richard is with us now along with former nato supreme allied commander admiral james savritas. this goes to their generosity in the face of this adversity. >> reporter: and it was good borscht. a very lovely family. people are showing incredible determination. just to set that clip...

Question. so a couple of questions. first of all, has anything like this happened before with an object this size, this shape, in this particular height, the 40,000-foot range, has it happened before? and second of all, why did you -- can you say more about why you knew that last balloon or object was from china whereas this one you dont know? >> so in terms of this particular object, again, as i highlighted, we dont know where its from. it posed a reasonable threat to civilian air traffic and s...

>> reporter: thanks for taking my question. what made this threatening enough to shoot down? what is different about this object than the last object that was over alaska because it was chosen not to shoot the last one down over alaska? >> so, you know, the important thing to understand here, anytime we detect anything, were going to first of all observe it, and then make a decision and take appropriate action. so you have to look at each individual case on its own merits. in this particular cas...

Believe when prime minister modi told president putin to stop the war, do you think theres still time for prime minister modi to stop the war or convince president putin? >> i think theres still time for mr. putin to stop the war. i think theres still time for mr. putin to stop the war. >> do you think prime minister modi convince? >> ill let the prime minister speak to whatever efforts hes willing to undertake. i want to stress it again. certainly the united states would welcome any effort that...

Objects on its own merits, it entered into u.s. airspace on february 9th. we sent help aircraft to assess what it was, the decision was made that it posed a reasonable to civilian air traffic, the president gave the order to take it down and we took it down. thank you. laura, then i will go to dan. >> sorry, thanks for taking my question. so a couple of questions, first of all, has anything like this happened before with an object to this size, this shape, in this particular height, the 40,000-f...

And he could stop it right now. instead, hes firing cruise missiles into energy and power infrastructure, and trying to knock out the lights and knock out the heat so the ukrainian people suffer even more than they already have. he could end it right now. and since hes not willing to do that, clearly, weve got to make sure that we can help the ukrainians succeed on the battlefield, so that when president zelenskyy determines its time to negotiate, and hes the only one that can make that determin...

40,000 foot range, has it happened before? and second of all, why did you -- can you say more about why you knew that last balloon or object was from china whereas this one you dont know? >> so in terms of this particular object, again, as i highlighted, we dont know where its from. it posed a reasonable threat to civilian air traffic, and so the determination was made to take it down. in terms of the other balloon, as i mentioned in our previous briefing, we have learned a lot about the chinese...

Minister modi to stop the war or president putin? >> i think theres still time for mr. putin to stop the war. i think theres still time for mr. putin to stop the war. >> and mr. modi can convince? >> ill let the prime minister speak to whatever efforts hes willing to undertake. i want to stress it again, certainly the united states would welcome any effort that could lead to an end of hostilities in ukraine. thats in keeping with president zelenskyys objectives and his leadership, his determinat...

0 a little further detail on that, the decision was made this morning he just revealed, asked when did the president give the order to shoot it down? this morning. >> john: talk about burying the lede, talks about all of this other stuff, and then a reporter says, oh, by the way, did you shoot something down? oh, yes. here are the details. my gosh. >> martha: grade to be with you come have a great weekend. im sandra smith. >> martha: elsey and monday, thank you for joining us, "the story" with m...

0 president lula has to make. >> reporter: i wanted to follow up on a question i asked in september. in light of the chinese spy balloon incident does this administration consider chinese land purchases near u.s. military bases a national security threat? >> we are always concerned about potential foreign collection near or around our military sites, and youre right, last week is a good example of that. we take that seriously, whether thats terrestrial related or whether its from the air. and i ...