trump-pence administration, that never happened? to my knowledge, not a word, and remember, john, i received the presidential daily brief every day. i often received it first at the vice president s residence and then on the days he had them, i joined the president for his briefing, and so that alone, let alone the realtime reaction that our administration was able to brought to our attention. john: if they had been detected, would you have been told? i don t think there is any question. i have no doubt that our administration would have taken swift and decisive action to defend the sovereignty of the air space of the united states of america. i think that s what s mistyfying to the american people today we saw this thing come in over alaska, we knew what it was, we knew it was a chinese surveillance balloon, still don t know what the smaller aircraft at lower altitudes were but the fact it was allowed to traverse the united states and
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
these resources right here to be tapped into, our neighbors, canada, mexico, plenty of oil. why are we why are we talking about turning to iran, venezuela, obviously huge producing countries but we know based on the last couple year how we can be we can be energy independent. it s mistyfying, unless they want to feel good about themselves about killing oil and gas production. if they are worried about greenhouse gas emissions, iran and venezuela will create more emissions, they don t have the advanced systems we do. and we can help export to europe to be more independent of russian oil and gas. john: good of you to come in this afternoon. sandra: thank you, senator. new video out of ukraine right