Energy Secretary Rick Perry explained on Friday that he was picked by President Trump to sit on the National Security Council because of the broad spectrum of national security issues his department handles.
“There’s probably a lot of reasons that the Secretary of Energy needs to be sitting at that table when decisions are made. There are mirative tentacles, if you will, that go very deep and very broad out of the Department of Energy that effect the security of our country,” Perry said.
It’s not clear if Perry meant to say “myriad of tentacles” instead of mirative, which relates to grammar.
Perry, who served as the Republican governor of Texas prior to his Cabinet appointment, did not disclose the types of information his department has about national security threats related to energy, though nuclear is part of his portfolio.
