on to become spokes for the secretary of state, when john kerry was secretary of state, under president obama. he has had these very high visibility jobs at the pentagon, at the state department, he is also a rear admiral in the united states navy. john kirby served in the navy as the public affairs officer for the blue angels, he served as the editor in chief of the navy s magazine, he served as chief spokesperson for the department of the navy. these aides, he is back at the department of defense, reprising his role as pentagon press secretary. this time of the biden ministration for the defense department that has now led by defense secretary lloyd austin. john kirby has been a very very high profile person in washington for a long time. right now, he has one of the most difficult and scrutinize jobs in washington, because right now, daily, sometimes multiple times per day, he is briefing the defense department press corps, which is not a bunch of pushover s, briefing them, reading
of people under their control and command. but two and a half years into this presidency, i mean, this administration right now doesn t even have full-time fully fledged confirmed people running any of this stuff. there s an acting commissioner of the food and drug administration. an acting administrator of the small business administration, u.s. citizenship and immigration, the acting ambassador to the united nations. an acting fema director. the acting secretary of the air force. acting homeland security secretary. an acting defense secretary for months. we know that part of the reason the upper echelons of the trump administration have been so filled with holes in what is now a persistent way, we know part of the reason is because senior people get flung off from the administration into the ether so quickly and so regularly, people don t bother to change their address or forward their mail when they get trump administration jobs in
but two and a half years into this presidency, i mean, this administration right now doesn t even have full-time fully fledged confirmed people running any of this stuff. there s an acting commissioner of the food and drug administration. an acting administrator of the faa, acting head of the small business administration. acting head of immigration and customs enforcement, the acting ambassador to the united nations, acting fema director. the acting secretary of the air force. acting homeland security secretary. an acting defense secretary for months now. we know that part of the reason the upper echelons of the trump administration have been so filled with holes in what is now a persistent way, we know part of the reason is because senior people get flung off from the administration into the ether so quickly and so regularly, people don t bother to change their address or forward their mail when they get trump administration jobs in washington. it s obvious.
affecting these businesses. how do you respond to that? there s no demand when your product costs too much. there s no demand when you can t get your factory built on time. there s no demand when your factory is built in another country and no place to do business. the critics are right without understanding little by little, the growth of regulations under republicans and now under this democratic president are killing our competitiveness around the world and when boeing can t export, guess what, the jobs in washington that rely on on that success, that s happening in the rust belt. wooer not exporting what we did. as a result the shop keepers and restaurants don t enjoy that. and tomorrow, you have specific examples? we ran the gam mitt from live stock individual to a snake, you know, raisor. the fact is, with american job creators.com we asked job creators to tell us what was
president obama went to solyndra solar panel plant and touted green energy and the stimulus. we can see the positive impacts right here at solyndra. reporter: but this summer after ceo brian harrison told members of congress that solyndra s financial condition was improving, department of energy or doe officials let lawmakers know the company was facing decreased revenues. obviously there was a form of due policety. the board was monitoring what happened. it was the bush administration that first considered loaning money to solyndra and one says that obama officials are likely to stress that point tomorrow. this just didn t start with the stimulus, but this was the first loan guarantee of the obama administration. so, that s going to be the problem. solyndra s ceo was supposed to testify tomorrow at the hearing. but congressman stern says the company wants another week to prepare. in washington, molly