Government issues statement explaining mystery drones: What happens when people no longer trust their leaders?
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
The ongoing controversy over nighttime drones points to a crisis of confidence in our government, where less than one in four Americans trust the federal government and only 15 percent believe it to be transparent. As today’s Daily Article shows, such trust is vital to America’s collective future. How can leaders earn trust? By following the example set at Christmas.
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| 0:51.0 | Good day and welcome to the Tuesday, December 17th, 2024 edition of the Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:59.6 | I'm Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum, narrating today's daily article written by our co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 1:08.6 | I had planned to write today's daily article about the continuing lack of information from the |
| 1:14.5 | government regarding the mysterious drones in the night skies. |
| 1:17.9 | I was not alone in my concern. |
| 1:19.9 | Podcaster Joe Rogan said he is genuinely concerned about them. |
| 1:24.2 | One New Jersey lawmaker demanded that the federal government get to the bottom of this very threatening situation, |
| 1:31.3 | stating that we should presume the drones are not friendly. |
| 1:34.3 | Senator Chuck Schumer called for the DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, |
| 1:39.3 | to deploy better drone tracking technology to identify the objects and their operators. |
| 1:45.7 | Chris Christie, the former governor of New Jersey, told ABC News Program this week, |
| 1:51.0 | quote, you can see why people are concerned, and it's a lack of communication from the government |
| 1:56.2 | at the federal and state level that's at fault here. |
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