2/6/23: China Balloon Popped, Santos Accused of Harassment
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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ποΈ 6 February 2023
β±οΈ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it is so good to be back on the program to talk about such important issues today |
| 0:22.8 | as the popping of balloons. |
| 0:26.1 | Alpha Joe Biden has popped the Chinese balloon and Trumpists are furious. |
| 0:33.4 | Why are they furious? |
| 0:34.4 | Well, it's not even clear that they know. |
| 0:36.8 | Oh, boy, I want to make clear that for me, this story is really about the meta narrative. |
| 0:44.3 | In other words, there is a hilarious story here that has developed and it is the story |
| 0:50.8 | being told about the story being told about this Chinese surveillance balloon. |
| 0:57.4 | And so we're not really talking about the balloon per se, but we're talking about the narrative |
| 1:04.4 | about the narrative of the balloon. |
| 1:07.1 | And the story in reality is not really about Joe Biden or Donald Trump, but there is |
| 1:13.4 | something so funny about right wingers spending a couple of days saying week beta Joe Biden |
| 1:22.4 | isn't going to do anything about the balloon. |
| 1:25.5 | Biden orders the balloon blown up. |
| 1:28.3 | And then we found out that similar balloons, maybe the same balloon actually crossed over |
| 1:34.2 | US territory three times when Donald Trump was president. |
| 1:37.4 | Now that being said, I'm not going to tell you anything we don't believe to be true. |
| 1:42.7 | It seems right now that Trump was not actually told about that. |
| 1:46.7 | Now this is the subject of some controversy and we're going to talk about it, but it seems |
| 1:50.9 | as though the latest claims are the Trump administration or Trump specifically was not |
| 1:56.0 | actually told about this during his administration. |
| 1:58.7 | And so we will get to that. |
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