we ve seen the danger from denial is in and politicizing a pandemic. that s why we can t afford to politicize the investigation into how covid 19 found its way into the world. know he s worried about politicizing how much is asking questions and getting basic answers with millions around the world? especially this one. i worked with him 20 years ago in the anthrax attack. in every bureaucracy, one of the worst tendencies is to get along go along. we ve seen that at the state department. there is a tendency to say we don t want to raise these issues because if it is true is so collaboratively would rather not deal with it and took courage of the trump administration to blow the whistle inside these agencies and force the issue to confront china despite hurdles he faced in the bureaucracy and the media
And i was able to get out pretty quickly. thankfully they are still running and they are getting people uptown and downtown and away from the midtown area where all the chaos is. that is great to hear. i m glad it went so well and that new yorkers behaved well. i m not surprised. in midtown we have these drills because it s a big city, it s a target city, you have to be ready. our building was hit by an anthrax attack after the attack of 9/11 and security changes and it s not like walking into buildings in many parts of the countries. it s high-security and very serious. security is among the most important things and in this quarter of the world. given that it s such an incredible target with hundreds of thousands of tourists and more than 100,000 hotel rooms and centers for commerce and the
Restaurant, in a department store an, at a gasoline station, you push back on them and you tell them they re not welcome. steve: do you trace the waive of activists getting up in the face of republicans to that? i think that s the latest manifestation of it. i wrote a book in 2006 wrote unhinged exposing liberals gone wild. mug shots of inciters violence. the other thing that s important, too is there is a phenomenon of blame writing in the wake of all sorts of unsolved incidents of violence or domestic terrorism. a lot of times what happens is, especially the liberal media that jumps the gun on these things is always eating crow afterwards. they never learn their lesson. steve, yesterday you were talking about the anthrax attack. these people have amnesia about exactly what happened. do you guys remember that npr had unjustly smeared the traditional values coalition because a couple of the
We re less than two weeks away from the election, there are all sorts of conspiracy theories floating around the internet. i have seen some on television. we just don t know enough for that to be flying around, do we? we don t know the person. we don t know the motivation. the target pattern seems to be obvious on the surface. but, i ve got to tell you, you know, it is scary. it is wholly unacceptable. i think the president was exactly right in his assessment here. let s get behind law enforcement and those people in the public life, they re gonna have to just be very vigilant in making sure. i feel for the person who just wakes up and makes an hourly wage and works in the mail room. they shouldn t have to deal with this either. brian: i always feel bad for people who work in the post office because they work hard number one. number two, they are, since this anthrax attack after 9/11, in many cases they are in the line of fire. for example, we say well, hillary clinton s package neve
Condemnation of what s gone on here. but the president wasn t able to get to a chasm the vice president president included the media and his response, and said that we condemn this, the people will be brought to justice and be responsible. the president said to that, i agree wholeheartedly. but that s not saying sarah sanders later tweeted to include a condemnation of cnn being targeted, that was not her first response, i did not mean sarah trump, i mean laura trump, who condemned cnn. i think back to nbc being attacked after 9/11, i was there in tom brokaw s office with the anthrax attack. we re working in an environment here where the media and politicians are working on this