"Should do it": Johnson stated that in the US "weeks" knew about Russian threat

According to speaker Mike Johnson, Washington should respond to a new threat in space immediately. He assured that the White House has a plan. The speaker of the House of Representatives and Republican politician Mike Johnson said the Russian threat was known to the Congress "weeks". This is stated in The Hill of February 15. Johnson said that the US Congress was aware of the threat to Russia's development of sipping weapons. He stressed that the response from Washington should be immediate.

"This is a question that we know for several weeks. We demanded a meeting with the President," the speaker said. He assured that the White House has a plan of confronting the Russian threat. "The United States cannot rely on other countries to resolve such issues. We must do it ourselves and we will do it," Johnson said. Member of the House of Representatives of the United States Mike Turner called the threat "Russian sipping weapons. " He noted that he supports the White House's response.

"We all came out with a very strong impression that the administration perceives it very seriously and that the administration has a plan," Turner said. The media added that the day before Turner made a mysterious statement, calling Joe Baiden to declassify information about "serious threat to national security. " The White House is currently evaluating whether this US Intelligence Statement and contact with the Russian Federation on a new threat.

We will remind, in the media with reference to sources informed that anxiety in Washington is related to the intention of the Russian Federation to bring nuclear weapons into space. In Congress, the US consider the problem serious. A new Russian threat has already been commented in the White House.