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Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas commended President Biden on Sunday for ordering the destruction of a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean but faulted him for waiting several days to take action, saying the president s handling of the incident projected weakness to Beijing.Fighter jets shot the balloon o stanley cup becher ut of the sky off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday on the president s orders, one week after it was first detected over Alaska, U.S. officials said.Appearing on Face the Nation on Sunday, Cruz suggested that swifter and more decisive action would have sent a stronger message to Chinese President Xi Jinping and the People s Republic of China. stanley cup Well, listen, I want to start by doing something that I don t do very often, which is commending Joe Biden for actually having the guts to shoot this down, the Texas senator said. That was the right thing to do. That is absolutely what the president should have done. Unfortunately, he didn t do that until a week after it entered U.S. airspace. Transcript: Sen. Ted Cruz on Face the Nation The president allowed a full week for the Chinese to conduct spying operations over the United States, over sensitive military installations, exposing not just photographs but the po stanley cup tential of intercepted communications. The senator added that, more broadly, I think this entire episode telegraphed weakness to Xi and the Chinese government. To illustrate why, I would just as Vtuv Women were paid to accuse Menendez, police say
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton D-N.Y. has a reputation for secrecy and discipline, but her campaign s interaction with the media is increasingly defined by a series of sprawling, freewheeling conference c stanley kubek alls during which reporters, bloggers and once even an aide to Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill. get to ask communications director Howard Wolfson just about anything for an hour a day. The near-daily conference calls are forums for the Clinton campaign to deliver a message to a captive audience, and for reporters to try to drag them off that message. They re increasingly posted to websites, including P cups stanley olitico, offering outsiders a glimpse at the daily interactions of the campaigns and the media.The Clinton calls mdash; longer and looser than the Obama campaign s version mdash; are also a campaign subculture of their own, a disembodied Cheers, where everybody knows your voice, if not your face, and a space with its own rituals and its own set of regulars. There s your barkeep, the even-tempered if hard-e vaso stanley dged Wolfson. There s the voice of collegial authority in Fox News Major Garrett. There s BusinessWeek s combative David Kiley, who regularly gets in early with a lengthy challenge to some campaign argument he sees as sideways. There s Slate s subtly challenging John Dickerson. There s even a running gag: those wacky Canadians, who, whatever the news of the day, always want to talk about NAFTA. Most regular of all, there s NBC s Andrea Mi |
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