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hello everyone. i am alicia menendez. a new hour of american voices, and we begin with breaking news. just hours ago, a third on and fight object was shot down over north america. canadian prime minister justin trudeau tweeted that norad successfully downed the using a u.s. f-22 fighter jet. the prime minister also announced the canadian and u.s. forces will work together to recover and analyze the objects wreckage. short time ago, the pentagon issued a statement saying that president biden spoke with prime minister trudeau, authorizing u.s. fighter jets to work with canada to bring down the kroft. the statement also reveals that the u.s. detected the object over alaska late friday night, and continued to monitor it as it crossed canadian airspace. now, at any moment, we expect an update from canadian authorities about the situation. joining me until we get that visual out, nbc s dan de luce live in washington. dan, i ask you to flag us, as you had new reporting, roll ....
mendes, a new hour of american voices, and we begin with breaking news. just hours ago, a third unidentified objects was shot down over north america. canadian prime minister justin trudeau tweeted that they successfully downed the object using a u.s. f 22 a jet. it s unclear whether the latest object has anything to do with the chinese by balloon shutdown off the coast of carolina s just last week or the object that was down over alaska on friday. a short time ago, the pentagon issued a statement saying that president biden worked with trudeau to break down the crime. the statement also said that the u.s. to take to the object over alaska late friday night, and continuing to monitor as across into canadian and a minute, now we are waiting for an update. but for, now we have dan joining us for a new update. jeff, you asked me to tell you what it s coming in. so what did we learn from this incident? i think we ve got a few more details but hopefully we re gonna get a ....
Looked it was in airspace altitude, 40,000 feet high. so, there is a very quick defense oriented reaction to that. and regardless of the diplomatic repercussions, which there were none, clearly, we hadn t heard of any yet, it had to be taken down. today, it s interesting, it s a joint operation, as dan mentioned out of a norad joint operation, u.s. kennedy and canadian, demonstrating that they re tracking this now. no clear diplomatic angle yet, but when we find out what that stuff is and dissect it, i m sure we ll have a better idea of where it came from. joel, in dan de luce some s reporting, he had some interesting analysis that we often hear when it comes to matters of national security of defense, which is this push and pull on transparency, and the way in which the comments that we are going to hear today that we are waiting to hear likely can be influenced by things that happened earlier in the week. walk us through, and they ....
These decisions are made, the national security considerations, the implications of shooting down unindentified objects? what we have our three very distinct shutdowns in this past week. clearly, the first one, the prc spy balloon flying over the united states. we tracked it. it was diplomatic conundrum clearly with china. and it s something to be sensitive to do. so, that had its own dimension. and there s all the iterations, the discussions about what this this mean for diplomacy with china, if we shoot this down, and how do we do to protect american lives? these two recent cases yesterday over alaska, and today it looks like over the yukon, these are much more cut and dry in terms of posing a danger. the one today yesterday, it looked it was in airspace altitude, 40,000 feet high. so, there is a very quick defense oriented reaction to that. ....