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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Pentagon: object shot down Saturday was “small, metallic balloon”

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

News

3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Four times in eights flying objects have been shot down over North American skies by the U.S. military. Sen. Kirsten Gilibrand of the Intelligence Committee joins to answer if the objects were a threat and to discuss recent laws passed which address reporting unidentified aerial phenomena in the United States. The White House insists there is no indication extraterrestrials are affiliated with these flying objects. Plus, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes joins to discuss winning Super Bowl LVII. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The White House insists that there is no indication extra terrestrials are affiliated

0:07.4

with these flying objects.

0:09.5

For now, the lead starts right now.

0:12.8

Four times in eight days, flying objects shot down over North American skies by the U.S.

0:17.9

military.

0:18.9

Were they a security threat?

0:20.8

What did they carry?

0:22.2

And why different protocols now for shooting them down than for the Chinese spy balloon?

0:27.0

Plus, a father's pain after his 14-year-old daughter is bullied and beaten at school and

0:33.2

later died by suicide, why he says her school did not do nearly enough.

0:39.9

And the thrill of victory in the face of my beloved Eagle's agony of defeat to time Superbowl

0:45.9

MVP Patrick Mahomes will join us live, fresh off his incredible come from behind Superbowl

0:53.3

victory.

0:59.0

Welcome to the lead object tap when we start with our world lead so many questions and

1:03.8

so few answers from the Biden administration today after the United States shot down three

1:10.1

more unidentified objects over the last few days, bringing the total to four, including

1:15.4

that Chinese spy balloon.

1:17.3

Moments ago, the Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin addressed the objects as he prepares

1:21.6

to meet with NATO allies in Brussels.

1:26.1

We don't know if they were actually collecting intelligence, but because of the route that

1:30.8

they took out of an abundance of caution, we want to make sure that we have the ability

1:35.5

to examine what these things are and potentially what they were doing.

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