McConnell slams 'so-called classified briefings' on downed objects: 'Complete absence' of useful information

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What is the game plan for protecting our skies? You get the impression [the Biden administration] were quite surprised by all of this. That would suggest that maybe we need a new plan to protect our own airspace.

But the complete absence of any useful information has been what has been most on display here over the last week and a half.

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So I hope the president will say something to the American people. I hope it goes far beyond what we've been able to glean from these so-called classified briefings that we've had over the last week or so.

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We've been in these briefings, as you suggest, but they don't seem to know anything. So we're anxious to hear what analysis if any, they've been able to achieve on the Chinese balloon and to just get a sense of what these other three actually were. I've never been in briefings where I learned so little.

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If the president knows a lot more, it's time for him to tell us all about it, including the American people.

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They've [teamed] up with the Iranians to support the Russians in Ukraine, and they're not being helpful on anything I can think of in the national security space. And, of course, we've had longstanding challenges with them, with our commercial interaction, with them stealing our intellectual property. The Chinese are not our friends.

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