{"id":1328,"date":"2023-02-16T10:04:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T15:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2023-02-16T10:04:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T15:04:44","slug":"reporter-asks-white-house-will-biden-be-embarrassed-if-he-sent-fighter-jets-to-shoot-down-weather-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"REPORTER ASKS WHITE HOUSE: WILL BIDEN BE EMBARRASSED IF HE SENT FIGHTER JETS TO SHOOT DOWN WEATHER BALLOONS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-43.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-1329\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-43.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-43.png 1000w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-43-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-43-770x514.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-43-370x247.png 370w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-43-293x195.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-43-120x80.png 120w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-43-240x160.png 240w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-43-390x260.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During Tuesday\u2019s press briefing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that President Biden should not be embarrassed if he sent the military to shoot down weather balloons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c[Biden] was criticized for waiting too long on the first balloon and so the over-reaction, critics would say, is that he moved too quickly to shoot down the other ones before even knowing what they were. How do you respond to that?\u201d a reporter asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI hear you,\u201d Jean-Pierre&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2023\/02\/14\/reporter_to_wh_will_biden_be_embarrassed_if_he_sent_fighter_jets_to_blow_up_american_weather_balloons.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">responded<\/a>. \u201cAnd I know you just read me the whatever, the national weather data on numbers of balloons. I get that. What I\u2019m telling you is what I can give you from our vantage point. The Chinese surveillance balloon was very different from what we saw with these three objects.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe National Weather Service website says weather balloons are released around the world from 900 locations twice per day every single day, including 92 released by the National Weather Service inside the U.S. They fly for at least two hours per day, drift as far as 125 miles\u2026 If it turns out, as it looks like, that the president and Mr. Trudeau sent top gun fighters to blow weather balloons out of the sky, does the president regret that, and is he embarrassed by that?\u201d the reporter asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m not going to get ahead of any final decision, we just don\u2019t know yet. We actually don\u2019t know\u2026 It is a consideration that, that could be a leading explanation here,\u201d Jean-Pierre responded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIs the president embarrassed by that? The idea that you would take hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment \u2013\u201d the reporter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLet me answer the question,\u201d Jean-Pierre interjected. \u201cI don\u2019t think the president should be embarrassed by the fact that he took action to make sure that our airspace, civilian airspace is safe\u2026 The president took action because we did see that these objects were in the airspace of civilian airspace. So to protect the civilian airspace, the president took action. The action he took was a recommendation by the Pentagon to take that action. I don\u2019t want to get ahead of what will be the final analysis of what the objects may have been or may not have been, so don\u2019t want to get into a hypothetical, but look, the president does everything in his power to defend, to track, and to protect our airpace. That\u2019s what you should glean from the actions the president took.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/thejeffreylord.com\/reporter-asks-white-house-will-biden-be-embarrassed-if-he-sent-fighter-jets-to-shoot-down-weather-balloons\/\">https:\/\/thejeffreylord.com\/reporter-asks-white-house-will-biden-be-embarrassed-if-he-sent-fighter-jets-to-shoot-down-weather-balloons\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Tuesday\u2019s press briefing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that President Biden should not be embarrassed if he sent the military to shoot down weather balloons. \u201c[Biden] was criticized for waiting too long on the first balloon and so the over-reaction, critics would say, is that he moved too quickly to shoot down the other ones before even knowing what they were. How do you respond to that?\u201d a reporter asked. \u201cI hear you,\u201d Jean-Pierre&nbsp;responded. \u201cAnd I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-biden"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}