Rep. Tim Burchett
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But I don't have any confidence in anybody in Washington currently.
I have confidence in Trump.
I really do.
I think if we can talk to him seriously about this for a short amount of time, I think he'll just tell him that.
Jam it.
We're going to do it.
Well, I still think it was part of Chinese influence.
I think when they flew the balloon over, they wanted to โ it was 50s or 60s technology.
They didn't have anything.
They weren't โ I mean, they got enough spies on the ground in every university and every think tank and every โ
National Lab, whatever, they got them there.
But they wanted to see what our response was.
They saw our political response, which was zero, our military response, which was zero, and our press response.
And the only thing was the people were outraged about it.
Then they shot it down off the coast of Myrtle Beach.
Something or something very similar.
Somebody experimenting to see what our response would be.
Because, you know, you could, you fly an airplane over the country and somebody's going to pick it up.
But you fly a drone, make it a small nukes, could have been a biological agent.
And I think now they know they could do that.