For her to step down. She tried to give defensive speeches instead of answers. Theres something just deeply wrong here that needs to be fixed. Lock the front door . Theyre going to leave the tv on. Yeah, yeah. Are things actually going to get fixed . By mid afternoon, Julia Pierson delivered her resignation to jay johnson. In an interview, pierson said i think its the best interest of the secret service and the American Public if i stepped down. Congress has lost confidence in my ability to run this agency. The media made it clear that this is what they expected. The president s family woke up to this headline this morning in their local paper. Man with gun was feet from obama. That was the latest in a series of stunning revelations by the Washington Post. This mornings Washington Post front page was clearly the last straw for the white house. The White House Press briefing was delayed three hours today and began immediately after the secret Service Director submitted her resignation.
Theres something just deeply wrong here that needs to be fixed. Lock the front door . Theyre going to leave the tv on. Yeah, yeah. Are things actually going to get fixed . By mid afternoon, Julia Pierson delivered her resignation to jay johnson. In an interview, pierson said i think its the best interest of the secret service and the American Public if i stepped down. Congress has lost confidence in my ability to run this agency. The media made it clear that this is what they expected. The president s family woke up to this headline this morning in their local paper. Man with gun was feet from obama. That was the latest in a series of stunning revelations by the Washington Post. This mornings Washington Post front page was clearly the last straw for the white house. The White House Press briefing was delayed three hours today and began immediately after the secret Service Director submitted her resignation. This afternoon, the president had the opportunity to telephone director pierson
If he didnt deflate the footballs, who did . I realize there are four stages of getting a football onto the field. Stage 1, nfl checks the pressure to make sure its up to regulation. Stage 2, equipment managers engage in some sort of process with the ball. Stage 3, brady himself engaged in a process with the balls. Stage 4, the equipment managers get the footballs finally out onto the field. The question is, at what stage of custody did they get dropped below the regulation level . And why hasnt the envelope that says its investigating the matter even spoken to brady yet. What is the story here . Joining us is the great john rig gins, who was the super bowl mvp back in 83, inducted to the football hall of fame, and joined by rob simmelkar. He said he had no knowledge that the footballs had been tampered with. Here he is. Are you comfortable with yourself that nobody on the patriots side did anything wrong . I have no knowledge of anything. I have no nothing of any wrongdoing. Im very c
Regulation. Stage 2, equipment managers engage in some sort of process with the ball. Stage 3, brady himself engaged in a process with the balls. Stage 4, the equipment managers get the footballs finally out onto the field. The question is at what stage of custody did they get dropped below the regulation level . And why hasnt the envelope that says its investigating the matter even spoken to brady yet. What is the story here . Joining us is the great john rig gins who was the super bowl mvp back in 83, inducted to the football hall of fame and joined by rob simmelkar. He said he had no knowledge that the footballs had been tampered with. Here he is. Are you comfortable with yourself that nobody on the patriots side did anything wrong . I have no knowledge of anything. I have no nothing of any wrongdoing. Im very comfortable saying that. Im very comfortable saying that as far as i know. I also understand that i, you know, was in the locker room reparing for a game. I dont know what hap
Meeting, as far as we know nothing did happen at that meeting. And so behold, we are transfixed. There was blanket coverage of the politicians arrival at the meeting. There was even breathless coverage of the politicians departure of the meeting. And the outcome was nothing, because nothing was supposed to happen at this meeting and apparently, nothing did. Tada i do think were pretty good as a country at paying attention and covering stuff that does happen. But turns out we are maybe even better at covering stuff that doesnt happen, that we nevertheless ingest with fake meanings as we talk to ourselves about what is politically important. Today was a tremendous ado in the political media, tremendous ado in washington about a closeddoor meeting that nobody could cover, from which there was no outcome. A meeting at which Nothing Happened and that ultimately will mean nothing. And here is sort of the lurid way of understanding that that is true. Here is part of how we know that is true.