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Later as it entered canadian airspace. >> dan, i'm curious, can you talk us through why it was a u. s. jet that was used, of course, president biden approved this. we know that justin trudeau gave the order. do you have a sense of the mechanics there of how that played out? >> we don't have a lot. but certainly, as some viewers may not know or may know, that u.s. and canada have a joint aerospace defense command, norad, so they very much jointly defend the airspace of north america. and obviously, the u.s. does have a much larger air force, and there is an air force base in alaska where they s...

>> yes, we didn't get a lot of information about the object itself. of course, we have a ton of questions. one piece of information we did get was that in addition to that f-22s from the u.s., there were also f-18s from canada involved in that approach. another thing i was struck by, joel, right? there was a question during the q&a about whether or not there was any belief that this object was tied to china. you had the defense minister being very careful, they're saying, we do not know. we do not have full information yet. we have a lot of analysis that needs to take place. i wonder if you, j...

So what did we learn from this incident? >> i think we've got a few more details but hopefully we're gonna get a lot more at this press conference in canada, we do know that they spotted it in friday evening, that is significant. it made's it's not necessarily moving that past, it took all of this time to cross into northern canada and then also the u.s. aircraft looking a close look at it according to norah. now, we're not hearing it description or seeing an image of what they saw, but it begs the question what they saw that led them to decide both the canadian prime minister and president bi...

Supported by the canadian armed forces in conjunction with the rcmp. this coordinated operation will allow a further investigation into this object. we have no further details about the object at this time other than it appears to be a small, cylindrical object, and smaller than the one that was downed off the coast of north carolina. i also spoke today with yukon premier and conveyed that we will continue to work hand in hand with the territory. i and their government will continue to reach out to indigenous peoples,, potentially affected by this incident, to provide information and updates a...

You, thank you for being patient -- last week, the u.s. shot down one of these balloons. they said they called it a chinese surveillance balloon. china pushed back, saying it was a weather balloon. what is canada's position? >> this is an object. this is a cylindrical object that we shot down today. it appears to be a cylindrical object. and we are working to analyze the debris to identify more specifics about this object. it appears to be smaller in size than the one that the united states shut down off the coast of north carolina last week. but at this point, that is the information that i c...