Source: United States Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joined Leland Vittert on NewsNation to discuss the unidentified objects struck down in U.S. airspace and U.S.-China relations. Excerpts and full video are below.
On Unidentified Objects in U.S. Airspace:
“When you don’t tell people facts, when you withhold information – even if it’s not very much information – you allow their imaginations to run wild. Right now, people are afraid. The President of the United States, maybe the National Director of Intelligence, somebody should go in front of the American public and tell them everything they can about these incidents.”
“Part of why we don’t know about the three [unidentified objects shot down over the] weekend is they were very small, they had very little payload because they weren’t big enough to… nothing about them carries weapon systems or presents any imminent threat of any type — the threat they posed was to civil air traffic.”
On U.S.-China Relations:
“The experience in Grand Forks – the way the community rose up and pushed back against their local leadership, the way some of us at the federal level were able to work with our National Defense and Intelligence agencies, and ultimately the decision coming down from the City Commission to stop the Fufeng project… as painful as that year was for the City of Grand Forks, it was a gift to the country. The same can be said of the large spy balloon. […] That experience we went through – and while we can pass judgment on the judgement to not shoot the balloon down sooner – it did alert a lot of people to the reality of the threat of China.”