HYGO News Top Biden Spox John Kirby Won’t Say If Biden Regrets Shooting Expensive Missiles At “Benign Objects”
Top Biden Spox John Kirby Won’t Say If Biden Regrets Shooting Expensive Missiles At “Benign Objects”
#shorts a reporter asked White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, “Had you seen this story in Aviation Week that an Illinois hobby club feels like their balloon might have been a candidate for the balloon shot down a week ago?
MR. KIRBY: I have. I’ve seen that press report.
Reporter: Any response to that? Because it’s a very particular location in the last set of data that they got.
MR. KIRBY: Yeah, we just can’t confirm those reports …
Reporter: … an anecdote like this, does it make any sort of reconsideration of perhaps this was an overreaction at any point over the past week?
MR. KIRBY: So, I’d ask you, just for a second, put yourself in his shoes …
Reporter: But it — and just last — a follow-up on that. Everything you just said, can that coexist? Let me rephrase: Was there any feeling of frustration of perhaps this was a 12-dollar hobby balloon from a group of kids in Illinois, after the fact?
MR. KIRBY: Again, given the information that we had at the time and the legitimate concerns about potential
On 2/17/2023, John Kirby told reporters that Biden launched a $439,000 missile to pop a $12 balloon near Alaska — but insisted that it was “exactly the right thing to do” either way. Kirby faced the press one day after the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade said its silver party-style balloon may have been one of three unidentified objects that Biden ordered shot down this past weekend.
other clips of this published longer video is here: <a href=“https://youtu.be/8H5cTJhpB6A\” rel=“nofollow”>https://youtu.be/8H5cTJhpB6A
Top Biden Spox John Kirby Won’t Say If Biden Regrets Shooting Expensive Missiles At “Benign Objects”
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#shorts a reporter asked White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, “Had you seen this story in Aviation Week that an Illinois hobby club feels like their balloon might have been a candidate for the balloon shot down a week ago
- Because it’s a very particular location in the last set of data that they got
- KIRBY: Yeah, we just can’t confirm those reports
- an anecdote like this, does it make any sort of reconsideration of perhaps this was an overreaction at any point over the past week