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president biden downplayed that balloon's significance in an interview this week saying the flight was, quote, not a major breach. let's bring in retired four-star general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox news senior strategic analyst. general, good to see you. thanks for coming in. so do you think the administration did the right thing here shooting down this latest object so quickly after it had waited a long time to shoot down the balloon? >> no, yeah, absolutely. it's the right call. i mean, it's interesting what we don't know, as you indicated...

besides daddy has an hawaii vacation booked in about 223 days, but who is counting? >> jesse: if you don't have musical chops, got to have jokes. >> number 7. make sure the white house library has lots of books with big print and pictures. [laughter] [applause] >> number 6, just for fun, issue executive order commanding my brother jeb to wash my car. >> jesse: all presidents have a presence about them. donald trump showed up to a ufc fight in miami saturday night and sat front row at the octagon. [chanting] [chanting u.s.a.] >> jesse: trump rolled up with a mali crew. iron mike tyson...

ukraine. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper. we start with breaking news, the united states military has taken down another high-altitude object flying over the united states this afternoon. the white house announced the object was shot down at 1:45 p.m. eastern time at the direction of president biden. u.s. officials say it was flying off alaska's northern coast at an altitude of 40,000 feet and was approximately the size of a small car. as of now, the administration is not offering many more details than that. >> we're calling thi...

that's the same type of aircraft and missile that shot down the chinese balloon off the coast of south carolina. one of the questions we asked at the pentagon briefing was if there was so much intelligence to gain by letting the previous balloon fly across the united states and being able to observe it, why was this one shot down so quickly especially when the senators were furious it wasn't shot down earlier. was the pentagon wbowing to political pressure. >> the decision to shoot it down before it entered into u.s. airspace, the pentagon bowing to pressure from the hill? >> we're g...

causing serious destruction. ukrainian government is now imposing energy restrictions, rolling blackouts across the country, after repeated strikes on critical energy infrastructure. >> in the meantime president biden responding to putin's declaration of martial law in these ukrainian territories saying it reveals his dwindling options in the war. >> i think vladimir putin finds himself in an incredibly difficult position. and what it reflects to me is it seems his only tool available to him is to brutalize individual citizens in ukraine. >> cnn got rare access to ukraine's military ...