you were her mother or father and saw the comments that were made, you would be afraid about what would be facing your child at that point. and you have to think about it from that perspective too. right, but as twisted as it sounds, you make these folks fundraising superstars when you do single them out, right? they re all the stuff of cable television. i m sure somebody s going to tweet, hey, michael, you re talking about them right now, but i am, to make my point that i think we need to ice them out because all it does is look, congressman, thery re not there to do what i think you re there to do, which is to accomplish things. they re there to stay there by getting oxygen on public television, terrestial talk radio, and fund raise. that s true, but part of the reason these people get so much attention is because they are fundraising superstars already. they are taking these aggressive actions because they feel like they already know who their audience and i ttheir base is. so
they re all the stuff of cable television. i m sure somebody s going to tweet, hey, michael, you re talking about them right now, but i am, to make my point that i think we need to ice them out because all it does is look, congressman, they re not there to do what i think you re there to do, which is to accomplish things. they re there to stay there by getting oxygen on public television, terrestial talk radio, and fund raise. that s true, but part of the reason these people get so much attention is because they are fundraising superstars already. they are taking these aggressive actions because they feel like they already know who their audience and their base is. so the decision for us is to consider whether we still have faith in the broad american public s ability to understand our ethics and our reason for acting and why we would try to
here. the good news is the pentagon acknowledged this is a national security issue and say there will be closer cooperation between the military and the intelligence community, which is good. the bad news is senator gillibrand has an amendment in the national defense authorization act which would have done much more. what the department of defense is trying to do here is take a little bit of the wind out of her sails and say we are doing this. no need to do anything more. brian: what worries you more. they are from another planet or it s china or russia? well, i guess the extra terrestial one is the scariest because we can talk to these people. if there is really aliens, who knows. some people in the department of defense thinks that is a possibility. that s not off the table. we hope this new group will get to the bottom of this.
will be closer cooperation between the military and the intelligence community which is good. the bad news is senator gillibrand has an amendment in the national defense authorization act which would have done much more. what the department of defense is trying to do here is take a little bit of the wind out of her sails and say we are doing this. no need to do anything more. brian: what worries you more. they are from another planet or it s china or russia? well, i guess the extra terrestial one is the scaiest because we can talk to these people. if there is really aliens, who knows. some people in the department of defense thinks that is a possibility. that s not off the table.