palestine, ohio, on the train derailment disaster, the latest test shows no signs of toxins even as the people living there are reporting being sick, dead fish in the water, garrett is live. people are getting reports it s safe to breathe the air and drink the water but they are skeptical, rightly so. yeah, and they have been wanting to see folks from washington actually come out here and see and experience for themselves what the town has been seeing and experiencing for the last 13 days, and today they are getting that with the visit of the head of the epa, as well as a congressional delegation. as you mentioned, it s not clear the visit is going to do much to ease these concerns and fears, but just a short time ago the head of the epa tried to reassure folks the test results from today again showed that they should not be concerned. epa air monitoring has not
0 out because it was jammed. are we to believe that this didn t get any communications out back to beijing because it was effectively jammed all the way through by either the intelligence agencies or the military? yeah, well, dealing with the first thing, it s obvious, i think, given the action we took against these three unidentified objects, we did not act accordingly when air space was about to be violated by the spy balloon in alaska, did not shoot it down, that reacted in i think what may be an overreaction to the others. he has to be absolutely clear what we are going to do about it. i don t think he s going to fess up to the fact that they may have made a mistake in permitting it to go across the united states. i believe he did, he s going to get questions around that. in terms of what did we learn and did we shut them down, i m not a technology expert but my gut tells me we would never know for sure about that until we get ahold of the devices which we have in our hands now a
about passing something that can become law. it is literally all just messaging bills, and they somehow can t even do that right. at the running an interim campaign on inflation, gas prices and crime, they have done nothing to even symbolically address those issues. instead, they ve turned congress into the legislative branch of fox news, holding these hearings about why their twitter accounts were banned or promising to investigate why a tv provider dropped news max. yes, you can chalk a lot of this up to the personality issue, the kind of people who excel in moderate republican politics, the fractiousness, calling the shots in a narrow majority. but that does not explain it. all i actually think there is something much deeper a plea. i have a theory here, and an illustration of that theory in action is on display right now in the reaction to the train derailment disaster and ohio.
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