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PREVIEW: DRONES: The Hill and Fox News analyst Liz Peek describes mounting New York area frustration over the Biden Administration's silence regarding nightly drone activity. More later.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: DRONES: The Hill and Fox News analyst Liz Peek describes mounting New York area frustration over the Biden Administration's silence regarding nightly drone activity. More later.

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0:00.0

This is John Batchelor, speaking with colleague Liz Peake about drones over the marketplace,

0:07.5

drones over Jersey. What are they? Liz goes through the possibilities and lays out the scale of this,

0:14.5

not frequent, nighttime, also going on for months. What are they? And if the White House knows, why won't they tell us?

0:24.9

Liz sums it all up and we're asking and we're not getting an answer from the Biden administration.

0:30.7

Why? More of this tonight.

0:35.4

Yeah. It's possibly the worst communications disaster I've ever seen from a White House.

0:43.3

They are basically stonewalling.

0:45.3

In the beginning, having people like Alejandro Mayorkas, who has zero credibility and John

0:51.3

Kirby, who has slightly less, coming out and saying, well, people are just

0:55.3

seeing things. It's really airplanes and perfectly normal commercial drones, etc., which was

1:02.3

just totally idiotic, because people have seen these enormous machines, the size of small SUVs

1:09.0

hovering over their houses.

1:17.2

There have been more than one airfields now closed because the drones were spotted over the runways.

1:26.8

Ask yourself in the case of like Stewart Air Base in New York, which is a military air base and also commercial.

1:34.7

Do we not think that the FAA people and the military know what a normal drone or a airplane looks like?

1:35.4

Of course they do.

1:38.9

So, yes, there are two possible answers.

1:42.5

One is they thought, by the way, this has been going on for months.

1:47.7

And that's one of the most offensive things about all this ridiculous talk we're getting from the White House.

1:52.3

Back in October, there were sightings that the Wall Street Journal reported on.

1:56.5

In November, there were sightings over a U.S. airbase in the U.K.

1:59.5

And they scrambled all kinds of law enforcement.

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