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america this weekend. kasie hunt picks up our coverage right now. good afternoon. im kasie hunt here in washington. were going to begin with the scramble for answers after a u.s. fighter jet were scrambled three days in a row this weekend, shooting down three separate aerial objects that were flying over north america. in just moments, the white house is going to take questions on this deepening national security mystery, as president biden faces increasing pressure to address the na...

the sky, but theyve now had to do it four times in less than two weeks. what the heck is going on? is today the day the white house gives the public some answers. dramatic video out of turkey where this woman was pulled from the rubble after spending 175 hours buried alive. shes not the only one. the stories that are providing flickers of joy in the midst of an escalating catastrophe coming up. nikki haley is poised to become the first republican to take on donald trump and she won...

Last august. and last week, administration officials provided classified briefings for all senators and all members of the house of representatives on the prcs surveillance balloon. we fully expect and anticipate and support the continuation of the briefings in the days ahead. fourth, the president has today directed an interagency team to study the broader policy implications for detection, analysis, and disposition of unidentified aerial objects that pose either safety or security risks. every...

We fully anticipate and support the ability to continue these briefings in the days ahead. fourth, the president, through his national security adviser, has today directed an interagency team to study the broader policy implications for detection, analysis and disposition of unidentified aerial objects that pose either safety or security risks. every element of the government will redouble their efforts to understand and mitigate these events. im happy to take some questions. >> john, if the obj...

This is about future actions and where they hope to go. >> there was a lot of hysteria last night on some american television discussion of this, about what was going on. as an experienced military personnel, you dont see anything that troubles you? presumably the initial custody was being done by very low ranking people in the iranian navy. those are small vessels. >> iranian waters go out 12 nautical miles. and any sovereign state would rarld a breaching of their territorial boundaries as an a...

Presumably the initial custody was being done by very low ranking people in the iranian navy. those are small vessels. >> iranian waters go out 12 nautical miles. and any sovereign state would rarld a breaching of their territorial boundaries as an act of provocation. they will have appeared as radar blips on the screen. the iranians wouldnt have known why they were there. so we need to sort of look at the macro picture here. >> and were going to learn a lot more. >> and diplomacy has prevailed....

Been explained to me that radar blips are fairly simple. and that it seems, you know, it seems that they should have before now worked out that the plane was traveling faster as it traveled from flip a to blip b. it seems stagger, but we have to assume since theyre experts that there was some good reason why they were conducting this search based on radar analysis so far further south and are now moving north. >> thank you very much for joining us with the latest tonight. thank you. >> youre wel...

And no radar expert, but its been explained to me that radar blips are fairly simple. and that it seems, you know, it seems that they should have before now worked out that the plane was traveling faster as it traveled from flip a to blip b. it seems stagger, but we have to assume since theyre experts that there was some good reason why they were conducting this search based on radar analysis so far further south and are now moving north. >> thank you very much for joining us with the latest ton...

Steve, let me ask you right out of the gate here, you know, the fact that it took a week to look at that flight simulator, the fact that the malaysian military did not follow up on those radar blips the day that they were passing over, didnt scramble jets. the day that it took -- >> just about on, so be very quiet. >> the fact that it took so long to identify those satellite pings. how confident are you in the malaysian investigation? all right, were obviously having trouble still with steve moo...

>> and its -- it does remind one in terms of the way the debris could be spread and search, tell me about the space shuttle columbia and what we experienced with that. >> well, that was a long time in the making but and there was wreckage scattered all over texas and so forth. but at least there you had wreckage you could recover. you had a clear track coming down that nasa tracked it over texas while it was reentering and all. it took a while to put it all together, many months actually to do t...