Deescalate the situation the u. S. Secretary of state joins an International Chorus calling for calm. Plus a cyber attack on a Major Oil Pipeline supplying fuel to much of the u. S. East coast highlights the severe vulnerabilities in american infrastructure. Welcome to the program we begin with the latest escalation in the israel palestine conflict tensions have been running high after days of protests will now anger has spread from occupied East Jerusalem to gaza it follows ongoing provocation and violence between palestinians and Israeli Forces marking some of the worst unrest seen in years at least 20 palestinians have been killed after israeli airstrikes hit gaza israel struck targets across the city after hamas fired a barrage of long range rockets from the strip into jerusalem well hamas launched that attack over what it called Israeli Aggression at the al aqsa mosque compound Israeli Forces fired rubber coated steel bullets tear gas and stun grenades at more than 300 palestinian
President to this one, and i mean klassy with a k in this context. One of the real nice things with this transition, the transition didnt really happen, everywhere from the pentagon to the parts of the government dealing with the vaccine rollout, the outgoing Trump Administration refused to do normal transition things that would have allowed the Incoming Administration to understand what they were walking into. How the trump people were leaving things, what remained to be done and needed to be picked up immediately on day one by the new team. The trump folks just had no interest in helping keep the government going by helping the new administration hit the ground running. And so the transition in many ways was nonexistent, and one of the consequences of that is in the month or so since joe biden was inaugurated as president , we have repeatedly heard from the new administration that they were surprised by things they didnt find out were going wrong inside the government until they were
The Incoming Administration to understand what they were walking into. How the trump people were leaving things, what remained to be done and needed to be picked up immediately on day one by the new team. The trump folks just had no interest in helping keep the government going by helping the new administration hit the ground running. And so the transition in many ways was nonexistent, and one of the consequences of that is in the month or so since joe biden was inaugurated as president , we have repeatedly heard from the new administration that they were surprised by things they didnt find out were going wrong inside the government until they were in position to be running things, things they didnt get briefed on during the transition because the Trump Administration blew off the transition. Like, for example, surprise, theres no National Plan for administering vaccines. We all thought they were doing that. We all assumed there was some sort of plan whatever the Trump Administrations
Running so the transition in many ways was knopf exist tent. And one of the consequences of that is in the month or so since joe biden was inaugurated as president , we have repeatedly heard from the new administration that they were surprised by Things De Thpts know were going wrong until they were in position to be running them, things they didnt get briefed on because, like, for example, there is no National Plan for administering vaccines. We all assumed there was some sort of plan but since there was no Transition Nobody knew for sure until they were gone there was no National Vaccine plan at all. Then the Republican Senate refused to move forward on nominees. In past administrations no matter who controlled the senate, there was at least that. It can all happen during the transition provided that the senate wants to work on those things if it happens during the transition, the final votes can happen on Inauguration Day. So particularly for National Security nominees that was what
And so, the transition in many ways was nonexistent. And one of the consequences of that is, in the month or so since joe biden was inaugurated as president , we have repeatedly heard from the new administration that they were surprised by things they didnt find out were going wrong inside the government until they were in position to be running things, things they didnt get briefed on during the transition because the Trump Administration blew off the transition. Like, for example, surprise, theres no National Plan for administering vaccines. We all thought they were doing that. We all assumed there was some sort of plan, whatever the Trump Administrations plans might have looked like. But since there was no transition from the trump folks to the biden folks, nobody really knew for sure until they were gone that, actually, there was no National Vaccine plan at all. The lack of a transition also became a nice backdrop for the Republicancontrolled Senate to refuse to move forward on sta