Welcome to pushback. I'm Aaron Matei. Joining me is Seymour Hirsch, now writing at seymourherstack.com.

Sy, thanks for joining me.

Glad to be here.

It's been three weeks now since you reported that the U.S. blew up the Nord Stream 2,

and your article goes in a great detail about how they did it.

So far, none of the principles that you name, Victoria Newland, Anthony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, William Burns,

have issued a statement about your reporting or even been asked about it, despite multiple public appearances.

I'm just wondering your thoughts on their lack of comments so far on this and the

overall reaction in the U.S. to your story. Well, that's a big comment. I don't know what goes on

in the White House. I can't begin to tell you. I can't imagine they have enough time to worry about commenting

about me because they're so concerned about everything Russian and communism. It seems there's

a lot of time just going around and trying to poke everybody they can poke without much in

return. So, but they, you know, I must acknowledge that trio are clearly the, the driving force of the foreign policy.

I don't know where the White House fits, the president fits in on that, but they seem to be the driving force.

But, you know, I'm an outsider looking in.

And it worries me that we're, we, it just worries me that,

that I don't get a strong sense of presidential leadership on a lot of these issues. But I could

be wrong too. I don't know. I'm not, you know, I'm not inside. And as for the press coverage,

it's, you know, if I worried about worried about what the major newspapers did, I would,

I would, I wear myself to a frazzle. I am a little surprised that they don't have to buy into

my story, but there's been, you know, there were rallies in, in Europe about it and not about

this issue, but about the consequences of the

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