transportation secretary. he has been utterlpothole pey mn just two years, he aimlessly is presided over multiple airline fiascos, chaos atao america s shipping ports,ship a supply chainping nightmare tht is still ongoing.a disast and now a disaster inn palestine, ohio, a train wreckkb followed by a control chemical burn that released all these dangerous chemicals into the air, the soil, the water.sh we have dead fish, deadnd dea animals, sick people. but pothole, pete, he s nowhere, to be found. he s nowhere to be found and same joe. h jo and four daye.s he has saidthin nothing, did nothing aboutould toxic fires so huge that itpitts could be seen on pittsburgh s pould be seen on pittsburgh s weather radar. now, ultimately, pothole pete,ps he was shamehame d into makingame a statement last week.cl he declared that his palestineat was getting more than enough attention. you decide. while this horrible situation has gotten particularly high amount of attention, there are roug
unfolding. ukraine, russia, you see t a net with russia and china. ng we have a chinese balloon c shoot it dowinese balloon c we don t shoot in.t down. i am seeing really troubleduble am seeing really troubleduble i want to get your take. loo, well, look i, it s all evidence of failed leadership by the bush administration. p by at home and abroad in the unprovoked war of aggression. now, one year in the making inn ukraine, with russia, look, vla vladimir putin s responsibleadet for the decisions that he made, but i have no doubt in my mind that the capitulation of this administration on nord stream to the disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan set the environment where putin thought he could get awa getyan with an invasion in ukraine. and here at home, the american
interesting. one of the signature achievements that he s very proud of is hie s so-calledich s infrastructure bill , which wash actually the green new deal bill, where they spent over a trillion dollars, much of that money going to china. do what did it not do?x it didn t fix america s railsra? because maybe it fixed america s rails. we wouldn t have had w the catastrophe in east palestine in the first place but but these people don t care about that. and it really does raise allpalt these questions about what the biden administration s and what s the biden families is interest in ukraine and china, because that s all i they want e to help. and , gee, does it have something to do with these business interests? interesbecause well, you know, russia don t care about east palestine and definitely had russia to the list. and clearly it s palestineeast didn t give hunter biden any business deals. so i guess they re lowunte bu on the priority list.siness deah but the bottom line for most a
one thousand cases a year of a train derailing., they obviously, they have levels ofso severity, but we re all of that points us to is the needo to continue to raise the bar on rail safetyrae bar on. oh, reallye ?, pete that s the answer, pete. trai s the answer, pete. train wrecks followed by massive chemical burns that kill off local fise hill off local fise and wildlife. that s just an average day. creeks, streams, are filled with toxic substances that can e be seen by the nakedd eye. if pothole seems lazy and out ofd touch, to all of you, thath is because it s true. you know, recently because it is americans trust him simply because he washi once the mayor of south bend, indiana, wherequ, he, quote, dealt with a lot of disasters. that s what he said. take a look at administration come under some fire for itsts response. the mayor of palestine has saidt it took nearlyh two weeks for the white house to contact. and there were shouts of where s boo? a judge at a town hall meetingiw
terms, on their soil. their that changed under this administration and in bold. and not only putin, but othert authoritarian leaders around the world. n th that said, we re in the fight.ta and i believe we ve got to stay in the fight. the you know, it was nineteen eighty five state of the union address by ronald reagan in which he articulatedya what camlde to be known as theos reagan doctrine. he said, we must not break d faith with those who are risking their lives to defocy soviet supported aggression. i mean, as the bible says, there s nothing new underw beere s nothing new underw the sun. what is now has been beforen be we are we are involved inwar ags a proxy war against the soviete union. the ukrainians are fighting iit. and w and i really believe it s absolutely essential that we thsolutely essential that we weei demand our european allies do more than their shareth because it is their front yard.i but i think it s absolutely essential that after a slow i start and providing s