garden of eden that they are confiscating apples. today actually it s less onerous downtown i think because of the loop he took yesterday. i don t know that he s taking it today. but they ve narrowed the number of ways you can get in, which is why we re seeing crowds that are waiting three hours to go through the security screening. it s probably also worth saying the pope is of course here to cap this world festival of families that has been going on all week, which was scheduled to run monday through friday but as of thursday night the security officials told them you ve got to vacate the premises. so they had to cancel an entire day of the meeting the pope was here specifically to celebrate in order to accommodate the exigencies of what many people would say has been a slightly overproduced security operation p. in terms of what happens next for the catholic church, for this pope, there is a big thing in october. can you explain that? it s a summit, a gathering.
well, i don t want to engage in a crystal ball gazing exercise. i think that would be wrong. i want to tell the australian people what has been done and what will be done. i want to reassure them that this is a government of practical initiatives to respond intel jeligently to all the exigencies that we may face. and i m sure premier baird has the same attitude as the new south wales government. the frinteresting, the interestg feature of this incident, this brush of terrorism that we ve just experienced is that the individual concerned is obviously, was obviously, a deeply disturbed person. deeply disturbed person.
they have got this all wrong and they re making this a race issue where it s an issue of people not submitting to arrest and deciding to fight the police. michael, carl says it s disgusting to retrain the police. is it disgusting? not in my opinion. a former mayor, i m a former federal prosecutor and officer with the auxiliary police officers in new york. we have to restore confidence. you have a lot of moving parts here. you have to make sure that you heal the city, that you improve things. you have on the ground you have officers whose safety is of primary import when the effecting arrest but at the same time the medical he can sin ex exigencies of individuals they are about to take down. you need to constantly train them.
to release this very same person who they re now in many ways denigrating, this is politics, not policy at all. yeah. it s just a terrible episode. and i think getting to the congressional notification point, you know, i wish the obama administration had managed to provide some measure of advanced notice to congress. they didn t need to do the full 30 days. i think the exigencies of this case would have warranted a much shorter time frame. but i think we could have avoided some of the controversy if the obama administration had just placed a few calls to the leaders of the senate and house intelligence committees and the leaders of the parties of the various chambers to just inform them, maybe even only a matter of a few hours before the plan was actually executed. that would have eliminated at least some of the complaint. but no one in congress has asserted that the president doesn t have the authority to make this move. they are complaining only about the fact that they weren t not
they can get treatment for their health conditions or that they re, you know, insured against all the other exigencies of poverty. you can t run a political campaign saying you re going to take away those benefits from people. the war is churning here. i remember a bill clinton line from way back when they passed the affordable care act, and they said, eventually, this is going to be a big political winner for democrats, because the other side is going to be running against taking away people s health insurance. and it s felt like that was a long time in actually coming. that the law remained in abstraction and then it wasn t the law, it was the website, and then it was the enrollment figures. and now there are people who have health care, and if you want a full repeal, you ve got to get up and tell them, you re going to take it away. and that accounts for all this kind of mealymouthed nonsense we are seeing from republican senate candidates. i kind of sort of think, when we get fu