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what the heck is that? those are the bad guys. are they friendly? the 10g network, only from xfinity. one giant leap for mankind. the top of the hour this monday. im jim sciutto. >> im erica hill. this morning the white house is refuting chinas claims that they had illegally flown balloons in china airspace ten teams. the white house is calling that allegation flat out false. it is coming on the heels of the u.s. shooting down three unidentified objects over the last week. >> and it is...

planes. >> we are laser-focused on confirming their nature and purpose. >> reporter: three day, three unidentified objects shot down by u.s. fighters. no precedent. >> efforts are actively under way right now at all sites to find whats left of those objects so we can better understand and communicate with the american people what they are. >> reporter: no shortage of unanswered questions, driving a robust all-of-government response from president biden. >> every element of the governme...

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Wednesday over at the office of direct tofr of national intelligence. >> phil mattingly at the white house, thanks so much. were getting brand new information including the object flew through u.s. sensitive sites. kylie atwood joining us now. what else does the memo say? >> this was a memo sent to lawmakers today. what it is saying according to the pentagon is the object that wu downed over canada was a small metallic balloon that had a payload beneath it. that was the object that is said to ...

Governor ron desantis over its preliminary decision, floridas preliminary decision to reject a course on a.p. african american stud dis. the statement says florida is attempting to claim a political victory by taking credit retroactively for changes that were never suggested to us. we afford courtesy to an education agency but theyve exploited this courtesy for their political agenda. that prompted this response earlier today from florida republican governor ron desantis. >> the college board wa...

The conditions are right. of course, the secretary of state canceled his visit to china just recently in recent weeks due to this chinese surveillance balloon. the question of conditions being right is still an open one. >> kylie atwood at the u.s. state department. lets bring in democratic senator kirsten gillibrand, chair of the u.s. senate arms committee. you just heard kylie atwood reporting the unidentified object shot down over canada had passed over u.s. sensitive sites. john kirby today ...

Planes. >> we are laser-focused on confirming their nature and purpose. >> reporter: three day, three unidentified objects shot down by u.s. fighters. no precedent. >> efforts are actively under way right now at all sites to find whats left of those objects so we can better understand and communicate with the american people what they are. >> reporter: no shortage of unanswered questions, driving a robust all-of-government response from president biden. >> every element of the government will re...

Task force underscoring the approach. >> were starting to see them in different ways. president biden has now made the decision that we are going to not allow those over u.s. territory. >> reporter: with u.s. fighters on three separate occasions using a single missile to take down objects over alaskan airspace, over canadas yukon on saturday and lake huron on sunday, all in the wake of a shootdown of a chinese spy balloon earlier this month. officials making it clear that they are dmon straybly ...

The slightest details about these objects. we also are told by u.s. officials that the object that was down over alaska, that was the one on friday, is described as a metallic object. we have this metallic drip tore for two of the three objects. theres still a lot of questions and the white house is being very clear in just calling these objects because theyre saying they wont have a definitive distributor until theyre able to recover the debris. >> secretary of state antony blinken and his chin...

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