在来自民主党和共和党的政治压力下，乔·拜登总统正在考虑在未来几天发表演讲，以解决中国间谍气球和另外三个被击落的物体两位高级政府官员周三证实了美国广播公司的消息。
白宫正在关注拜登启程前往波兰之前的几天，以发表可能的气球言论。他计划启程前往乌克兰，在此期间，他将在2月20日(周一)纪念俄罗斯入侵乌克兰一周年。
对演讲的审议是第一步据报告的路透社报道。
总统还没有广泛地谈到2月4日被击落的中国间谍气球或上周末在北美领空被击落的三个不明物体。
两党议员都敦促拜登更彻底地解决这个问题。
“美国人民需要也应该知道更多，”康涅狄格州民主党参议员理查德·布卢门撒尔(Richard Blumenthal)周二在退出所有参议员的机密简报时告诉记者。
2023年2月15日，美国总统乔·拜登在马里兰州兰哈姆的国际电气工人兄弟会地方26联盟发表经济演讲。
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布卢门撒尔补充说:“今天上午向我们展示了许多信息，这些信息可以在不对来源或方法或我们的国家安全造成任何伤害的情况下告诉美国人民，美国人民需要了解更多信息，这样他们才会对我们的国家安全更有信心。”。
参议员罗杰·马歇尔。，还呼吁拜登“走到美国面前，直接告诉他们我们是安全的。”
“政府需要更加透明，顺便说一下，这是两党的观点，”阿拉斯加共和党参议员丹·沙利文补充说。
拜登对中国间谍气球的第一次公开评论是在它被击落的当天，当时他在任务前几个小时告诉记者，“我们会处理好它的。”
气球在南卡罗莱纳州的大西洋上空被击落后，拜登告诉记者，他命令五角大楼尽快击落气球，并称赞了执行这项行动的飞行员。
自那以后，他只是简单地谈了几次，包括在国情咨文中顺便提到，“毫无疑问，正如我们上周明确表示的那样，如果中国威胁到我们的主权，我们将采取行动保护我们的国家，我们做到了。”
在上周接受新闻电视台主持人胡里奥·瓦奎罗采访时，拜登表示，这个气球“不是重大违规行为”，但违反了国际法和美国领空。
白宫发言人约翰·柯比周一表示，拜登已任命国家安全顾问杰克·沙利文(Jake Sullivan)监督一项跨机构审查，“以研究对探测、分析和处置构成安全或安保风险的不明飞行物的更广泛的政策影响”。
白宫新闻秘书郭佳欣·让-皮埃尔周二告诉记者，这一审查预计将于本周末完成。
当被问及击落三个不明物体是否需要发表全国讲话时，让-皮埃尔说，拜登“对此非常重视”，并指出他已经多次听取了关于这些事件的简报。
周一，在拜登对连续三次击落事件保持沉默的情况下，柯比也为政府辩护。
“我认为，我们已经尽可能地透明了，”柯比说。“我不会为总统的个人演讲时间表说话，但是，我的意思是，他一直深入参与其中的每一个决定。”
Under pressure, Biden considering speech on Chinese spy balloon, other objects shot down
Under political pressure from Democrats as well as Republicans, President Joe Biden is considering giving a speech in the coming days to address the Chinese spy balloon and thethree other shot-down objects, two senior administration officials confirmed ABC News on Wednesday.
The White House is eying the days before Biden departs for his trip to Poland for the potential balloon remarks. He is scheduled to depart for that trip, during which he'll mark the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, on Monday, Feb. 20.
The deliberations over the speech were firstreportedby Reuters.
The president has yet to extensively address the Chinese spy balloon shot down on Feb. 4 or the three unidentified objects taken down over North American airspace this past weekend.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have urged Biden to address the matter more thoroughly.
"The American people need and deserve to know more," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told reporters Tuesday upon exiting a classified briefing for all senators.
"There is a lot of information presented to us this morning that could be told to the American people without any harm to sources or methods or our national security and the American people need to know more so they'll have more confidence in our national security," Blumenthal added.
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Ky., also called on Biden to "get in front of America and tell them firsthand that we're safe."
"The administration needs to be more transparent and, by the way, that was a bipartisan view down there," Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, added.
Biden's first public comment on the Chinese spy balloon came on the day it was shot down, when he told reporters hours before the mission, "We're going to take care of it."
After it was taken down over the Atlantic Ocean off South Carolina, Biden told reporters he ordered the Pentagon shoot the balloon as soon as possible and he complimented the aviators that carried out the operation.
He's since only addressed it briefly a handful of times, including a passing reference at the State of the Union when he said, "Make no mistake about it, as we made clear last week, if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country and we did."
During an interview with Noticias Telemundo anchor Julio Vaqueiro last week, Biden said the balloon "wasn't a major breach" but was a violation of international law and U.S. airspace.
Biden has tapped national security adviser Jake Sullivan to oversee an interagency review "to study the broader policy implications for detection, analysis, and disposition of unidentified aerial objects that pose either safety or security risks," White House spokesperson John Kirby said Monday.
That review is expected to be done by the end of this week, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Tuesday.
When asked whether the shooting down of the three unidentified objects warranted a national address, Jean-Pierre said Biden "takes this very seriously" and noted he's been briefed multiple times on the incidents.
Kirby also defended the administration Monday amid the silence from Biden on the three successive shootdowns.
"We have been, I think, as transparent as we can be," Kirby said. "I won't speak for the president's personal speaking schedule, but, I mean, he has been deeply engaged in every one of these decisions."
