undermined, the congress legitimacy, under minded, effectiveness undermined, and now there s an attack on the judiciary. and i m tremendously concerned about the fact that we have a judicial system created by the founders, grand juries prosecutors, judges, trials, you know, this is not the time to continue to push to tear this country apart, and people say, well, it s all political well, let s let it play out. let s look at the charges. let s figure out if there s been consistent in terms of what they ve done in new york is there other cases that we can compare this to. but, you know, people fundraising right away off this, on all sides, sad isn t it it s sad is what it is i mean, i think a lot of people did go on television, and they said what you said, this is a sad day in america, but then they fund raised or they went on to criticize so, look, you ve been around the political realm a very long
effective quote on quote protective ring he put around care homes. is ring he put around care homes. is there anything matt hancock could say to bereaved families that would make a difference to you? i personally believe that when people tell you who they are, you should listen to them and trust them. matt hancock has had years now, time as health secretary and time afterwards, to show some contrition, show he was sorry for the disaster that was the leadership as health secretary and the lives that have been lost. instead he chose to write a book, go on television. i cannot speakfor everyone, but a book, go on television. i cannot speak for everyone, but for me personally, ifeel like speak for everyone, but for me personally, i feel like it speak for everyone, but for me personally, ifeel like it is speak for everyone, but for me personally, i feel like it is too little, too late. if he wants to start making amends, and start building some kind of trust again, i think he needs to be at
watch. why did the president go on television? the country with cameras and explain what we are dealing with here and why he is making the decisions on what they want to do. i don t understand that. i don t understand why he wouldn t do that. that is the beginning of dereliction of duty. the president taking it down over the atlantic is like the quarterback, tackling the quarterback after the play is over. letting a chinese surveillance balloon drift over america is like seeing a robber on your front porch and inviting them in. it makes us look weak and flat-footed on the world stage. we need the chief to respond in national defense to respond within seconds to minutes to penetration of the airspace. this looks very, very weeks in the odds of our enemy. a spy balloon has become a testing of president biden strength and unfortunately the president failed that test.
over montana, all these sensitive military installations, air force bases, icbm fields, that s unprecedented. that it flew briefly over the continental u.s., that s one thing. this week, this is unprecedented. we ve never seen this. this is no comparison to anything that may have happened up to this point. your colleague and friend republican tim scott of south carolina accused president biden of, quote, dereliction of duty by allowing the chinese spy balloon to fly across the u.s. that s a pretty strong accusation. do you agree with it? well, i think the dereliction of duty begins with this, why not tuesday or wednesday you know people are going to see it. they didn t twoont have their hand forced on canceling the blinken visit so they didn t want to have to talk about it. why didn t the president go on television and basically explain what we re dealing with here and
want to have to talk about it. why didn t the president go on television and basically explain what we re dealing with here and why he s made the decisions he s making and what they intend to do? once they went public with it, knowing the amount of interest this was going to generate, presidents have the ability to go before a camera, go before the nation and basically explain these things early on. his failure to do so, i don t understand that. i don t understand why he wouldn t do that. that is the beginning of dereliction of duty. the second is, you have to act swiftly on these things. i think that s part of one of the things the chinese are trying to message, and that is the u.s. had to see this coming and decided they couldn t or wouldn t do anything about it early on and had to wait until this thing went across the middle of the country. what are we going to do the next time? allow it to fly through again and shoot it down once it gets to the east coast? these are questions the w