WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:08.720 on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome to the Gary and Shannon Show. 4 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:11.800 There is a whole lot to get to. Obviously, the 5 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:13.880 big story of our day is going to be the 6 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:17.519 plane crash, this American Airlines jet that collided with an 7 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:21.280 Army helicopter in the Potomac or I should say, just 8 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:27.320 over the Potomac River next to Reagan National Airport in Washington, 9 00:00:27.399 --> 00:00:27.640 d C. 10 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:29.519 Sort of on the border there. 11 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:32.960 Since the Potomac is the border between the Wash, the 12 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:35.200 District of Columbia, and the state of Virginia. 13 00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:36.799 It is a. 14 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:43.359 Very heavily traveled air corridor, not just because of its 15 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:49.280 proximity to the Reagan National Airport, but because of the 16 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:52.799 military base that's just across the river. And as I 17 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:57.359 was looking up last night the footprint of what kind 18 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:00.320 of we're talking about in terms of the location of 19 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:03.280 this plane crash from last night, You've got Joint Base 20 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:09.560 Anacostia Bowling literally across the Potomac River from the Rega 21 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:14.319 National Airport, and with that comes a whole lot of 22 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:20.159 military Department of Defense National Intelligence National Defense Intelligence Agency. 23 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:24.680 That's also the hangar for Marine I, the helicopters that 24 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:27.879 are used to shuttle the president around. Secret Service has 25 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:32.719 a massive building along Joint Base Anacostia Bowling. There's a 26 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:36.879 lot of traffic, just traffic in general, that goes on 27 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:40.920 in that corridor. So we heard from the President, we 28 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:43.959 heard from the new Secretary of Transportation, we heard from 29 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:48.120 the new Secretary of Defense, all of them involved in 30 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:54.319 the aftermath of this horrific plane crash helicopter collision from 31 00:01:54.439 --> 00:01:57.560 last night. At least twenty eight bodies have already been 32 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:01.400 pulled from the Potomac River after the helicopter apparently flew 33 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:04.319 into the path of that airplane last night as that 34 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:07.200 plane was coming in for landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport. 35 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:11.599 The plane carried sixty passengers, four crew. There were three 36 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:15.039 Army soldiers aboard the helicopter, and according to the fire 37 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:18.680 chief in DC, we don't believe there are any survivors. 38 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:21.639 Several hours ago, they decided that this was no longer 39 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:24.039 a rescue effort and that it was going. 40 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:27.080 To be a recovery effort in the Potomac River. 41 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:31.159 The plane itself, there were a questions because it was 42 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:34.120 dark by the time this accident happened last night, several 43 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:38.599 reporters that I was watching from WTAM, from WTP on 44 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:43.759 radio from other places in and around DC, they couldn't 45 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:48.000 tell definitively whether or not the plane had gone into 46 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:50.639 the river. They said it was pretty clear by eyewitness 47 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:53.680 accounts that the helicopter had gone into the river, but 48 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:57.280 that they could not tell because the the visibility was 49 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:00.680 so low because it was at night, that they couldn't 50 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:03.199 tell if the plane itself had gone into the river. 51 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:06.479 Now it turns out that according to officials who have 52 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:09.599 been on the river, the rescue boats, the divers, the 53 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:16.080 plane itself, a small Bombardier airplane, had gone down into 54 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:20.759 the river and broke into three different sections, three different parts. 55 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:24.759 I suppose a positive is that the river in that 56 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:30.039 area is not very deep. Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary, 57 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:33.680 said it's maybe waist high, and there was another report 58 00:03:33.719 --> 00:03:36.240 that it was about seven feet deep in that area. 59 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:39.560 So the fuselage isn't going to necessarily disappear in seven 60 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:42.639 foot deep water depending on the amount of damage, et cetera. 61 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:46.000 But it still does not mean it's easy to recover 62 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:48.400 the bodies. It is a river, it is full of 63 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:53.039 silt is the visibility is very very low, and the 64 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:56.639 water temperature is somewhere between thirty five and forty degrees. 65 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:01.800 So even in the best wetsuit, the rescue divers and 66 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.240 now recovery divers that you have working on all of 67 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:06.520 that thing are going to have a hard time staying 68 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:08.400 down there for any amount of time. 69 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:09.599 So we'll get into that. 70 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:13.159 I have a lot of sound to play from some 71 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:15.439 of the news conferences that we heard earlier today, from 72 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:18.360 the President's comments just a short time ago, from what 73 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:22.600 the Secretary of Transportation has said, Secretary of Defense, the 74 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:25.360 Governor of Virginia, all of them are going to be 75 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:28.199 in this roundup of different sound, And I think most 76 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:30.720 importantly in terms of kind of getting a picture of 77 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:35.759 what happened, the air traffic control tapes, the actual words 78 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:40.279 spoken by air traffic controllers to both the airplane and 79 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:44.040 the helicopter just before the collision may shed some light 80 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:46.600 on what it was that actually happened that led to 81 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:49.959 this horrific crash. Also other stuff going on today, the 82 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:53.319 confirmation hearings continue. Not only do you have Robert F. 83 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:58.600 Kennedy Junior going again before a Senate committee, this one 84 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:01.040 the Health Committee instead of the Finance commitee from yesterday. 85 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:04.560 You've got the Director of National Intelligence nominee, Tulca Gabbard. 86 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:07.800 She is going on. She may be pre cruel. I 87 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:09.759 guess you could argue that she is the one who 88 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:12.720 in the most trouble and has the most uphill climb 89 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:15.959 in terms of confirmation. But also Cash patel Man, who's 90 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:19.279 been nominated to take over the FBI, his hearings today 91 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:21.399 in front of the Judiciary Committee. 92 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:24.600 So all of that, and locally some. 93 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:31.279 Notions perhaps about how are two huge fires started and 94 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:33.040 they may have been very different by the way, the 95 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:36.079 Eton fire and the Palisades fire. All of that still 96 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:38.759 to come on this Gary and Shannon Show. And Amber 97 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:41.000 alert still up for the two little girls believed to 98 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:43.120 have been taken by their father after he killed their 99 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:47.079 mother up in the San Joaquin Valley. Alana and Aria Maldonado, 100 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:50.199 two and three years old, might be headed to Mexico. 101 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:51.279 Their dad last seeing. 102 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:56.199 Driving a gray Hyundai Elantra California license plate eight l 103 00:05:56.439 --> 00:05:59.160 z D zero eight four and if you see it, 104 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:01.959 obviously should call it nine to one one and internationally. 105 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:06.160 Hamas handed over three Israelis and five Thaie hostages in 106 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:10.680 Goza today, but Israel delayed the expected release of the 107 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:13.600 Palestinian prisoners that were part of this swap because of 108 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:16.720 the chaotic scene at one of the handover points. A 109 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:19.560 bunch of large crowds, I mean hundreds and hundreds of 110 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:23.120 people were swarming around these hostages as they were being 111 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:27.040 turned over to the Red Cross. So they decided to 112 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:29.319 hold off on that for just a bit. Another rain 113 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:33.040 event coming to southern California. We will see rain probably 114 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:37.480 Tuesday through Thursday of next week. National Weather Service is 115 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:41.279 forecasting what they say is a minor to moderate rain event, 116 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:43.160 so a quarter of an inch to an inch of 117 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:46.759 rain expected Tuesday through Thursday. Rainfall amounts could be a 118 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:49.240 little bit higher in the mountains and the hills, maybe 119 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:51.560 one to two inches, and they said the rain the 120 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:53.680 snow level is going to be just a bit higher. 121 00:06:54.959 --> 00:07:04.480 Flight of a All right, so let me set the 122 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:07.319 scene just in terms of the location of what we're 123 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:13.160 talking about, this air crash from last night on imagine 124 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:19.120 a why that why is the Potomac River and the 125 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:23.199 top left branch is the continued portion of the Potomac 126 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:24.120 River upriver. 127 00:07:24.680 --> 00:07:27.680 The right branch of the WY on top is the 128 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:32.560 Anacostia River. They come together, then the Anacostia disappears, basically 129 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:35.199 becomes the Potomac, And on the body of the WY, 130 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:37.720 they're sort of straight up and down. On the left side, 131 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:41.279 you've got Reaga National Airport. On the right side, you've 132 00:07:41.319 --> 00:07:44.639 got a military base, Joint Base Anacostia Bowling just across 133 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:48.439 the river from the airport. And the way this happened 134 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:53.560 last night, the airplane, the American Airlines jet coming in 135 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:59.319 from Wichita, was flying basically south to north and it 136 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:02.040 was going to make a broad left turn and land 137 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:05.079 at Reaga National Airport. So it's coming up sort of 138 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:07.000 the body of the why if you will, coming up 139 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:11.199 the river. The helicopter is coming from the north to 140 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:15.279 the south, following that left arm of the WY, sort 141 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:19.000 of coming along the Potomac River on a training flight 142 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:21.720 according to the President, according to the Secretary of Defense, 143 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:26.519 and at some point as the plane is descending to 144 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:31.279 come in for its final approach, the helicopter is apparently 145 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:36.879 rising at somewhere between two one hundred and fifty three 146 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:39.919 hundred feet, which is as the plane is descending into 147 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:45.440 that same airspace and then the collision happens. The air 148 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:51.360 traffic controllers had asked the helicopter if they had visual 149 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:55.759 on the airplane, and they referred to it as CJR, 150 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:59.480 this regional jet, and it's the type of jet that 151 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:00.240 they were looking for. 152 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:08.600 I don't know what happened with them. There was a 153 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:10.600 puision on the. 154 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:13.240 Three You can hear in that air travel played this 155 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:15.559 little part again. You can hear people in the background 156 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:23.240 reacting to what they saw outside the tower. So according 157 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:26.919 to transcripts and what we can tell from the radio tower, 158 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:31.039 the helicopter did acknowledge that they did have visual on 159 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:34.600 that airplane, but it might have been the wrong airplane. 160 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:37.919 That's the best theory that's been floated so far, that 161 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:41.840 it was simply a mistake by the helicopter pilot. I've 162 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:45.679 seen information from people who say that they were controllers 163 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:50.279 at that airport for several years. It's normal operation because 164 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:52.919 there are a lot of military operations in that area. 165 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:55.639 According to the Secretary of Defense, by the way, which 166 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:57.840 we'll hear from a little bit later, this may have 167 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:04.440 been a continuation and of government training flight. Now when 168 00:10:04.440 --> 00:10:07.960 he says that it sounds like all hell break this 169 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:10.919 is a training exercise in case all hell breaks loose 170 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:13.879 and they need to get members of the government out 171 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:16.320 of DC or bring them into d C or whatever 172 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:17.879 they would do. But it would be sort of the 173 00:10:17.960 --> 00:10:21.720 doomsday kind of environment training exercise that they were doing. 174 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:24.919 But they do it very regularly. Now when. 175 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:30.759 One of our friends, friends of the show, is in 176 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:35.960 contact with former air traffic controllers there at DCA, and 177 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:41.759 they said that it's very common for air traffic controllers 178 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:46.799 to let everybody know who might be involved, to let 179 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:48.759 the airplane know the helicopters come, and then let the 180 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:51.200 helicopter know the airplane is coming, and make sure that 181 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:54.120 both of them have visual contact with the other. Can 182 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:57.759 you see that airplane? Can you see that helicopter? And 183 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:02.039 it looks as if not a conclusion by anybody, no 184 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:05.240 National Transportation Safety Board. But the President has said something 185 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:08.200 similar to this that he believes it was a mistake. 186 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:09.919 By the crew in the helicopter. 187 00:11:10.919 --> 00:11:17.879 If this is true, it's likely that the helicopter identified 188 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:22.000 the wrong airplane that it's flying and off to its 189 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:24.960 right side, off to its starboard side, you're looking at 190 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:28.799 planes taking off and landing at Reaga National Airport and 191 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:32.080 when asked if they have eyes on, if they have 192 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:35.960 visual on that regional jet, they may have been looking 193 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:38.960 at the wrong airplane and flown directly into the path 194 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:44.399 of the airplane that eventually they collided with and went 195 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:48.519 down again. Sixty four people, sixty passengers, four crew on 196 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:51.320 the American Airlines jet that was coming in from Kansas, 197 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:54.879 three Army soldiers on the helicopter. 198 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:57.679 All of them are believed to have died. 199 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:02.440 Former Coast Guard diver shannon's Gaff said, these conditions for 200 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:06.720 the divers that are now looking for the people involved 201 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:09.440 in the crash, the conditions for the divers are just 202 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:10.120 as dangerous. 203 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:12.240 You know, they're out there in terrible conditions right now 204 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:16.759 trying to get that get that done. The survivability for 205 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:19.679 tempatures in thirty five degree water is about an hour 206 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:21.639 to an hour and a half and that's for someone 207 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:26.320 that's healthy, that has lecture on. So they're really I've 208 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:30.840 got some real challenges to affect this safely, and I'll 209 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:31.759 be pulling for them. 210 00:12:32.440 --> 00:12:37.200 Meta platforms Facebook, Instagram, Etcetera has agreed to pay about 211 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:42.720 twenty five million dollars to President Trump to settle this 212 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:46.159 lawsuit that was brought against the company and Mark Zuckerberg 213 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:50.519 after they suspended Trump's accounts after the attack on the 214 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:54.399 Capitol of January sixth. Of the twenty five million, about 215 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:58.759 twenty two million goes towards a fund for the President's 216 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:02.320 future sentential library. The rest of it's going to go 217 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:04.919 to legal fees and other plaintiffs who signed onto the case. 218 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:09.279 And in this settlement, Meta does not agree to any wrongdoing. 219 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:10.960 At the top of the hour, we're going to talk 220 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:16.879 about the potential clues that we have about what started 221 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:20.440 are two massive fires earlier this month, the Palisades fire 222 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:23.080 and the Eaton fire, and they may be very, very different. 223 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:27.159 We'll explain what that's going to look like coming up 224 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:30.000 at the top of the hour. Glen Youngkin is the 225 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:30.799 governor of Virginia. 226 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:36.440 I've noticed this morning that all teams had shifted from recovery. 227 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:41.320 From rescue to recovery. Is just heart wrenching and is 228 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:45.639 heart wrenching for the families that I know. We're expecting 229 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:48.519 a loved one to be home with them last night, 230 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:51.279 and that is where all the focuses are today. 231 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:54.000 Again, Glenn Youngkin, Governor of Virginia. Sixty four people on 232 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:56.919 board that American Airlines playing the collido with an Army helicopter. 233 00:13:57.879 --> 00:14:00.639 Three crew members on the Army helicopter, All of them 234 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:04.879 are feared dead. President Trump gave sort of a play 235 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:06.080 by play earlier today. 236 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:10.120 Just before nine pm last night, an American Airlines regional 237 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:14.360 jet carrying sixty passengers and four crew collided with an 238 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:18.440 Army black Hawk helicopter carrying three military service members over 239 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:22.919 the Potomac River in Washington, DC, while on final approach 240 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:27.960 to rega national airport. Both aircraft crashed instantly and were 241 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:33.159 immediately submerged into the icy waters of the Potomac. Real tragedy. 242 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:37.519 The massive search and rescue mission was underway throughout the night, 243 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:41.240 leveraging every asset at our disposal. And I have to 244 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:46.600 say the local, state, federal military, including the United States 245 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:51.159 Coast Guard in particular, they've done a phenomenal job, so quick, 246 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:56.759 so fast. It was mobilized immediately. The work has now 247 00:14:56.919 --> 00:15:02.879 shifted to a recovery mission. Sadly, there are no survivors. 248 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:06.039 Pete Hegseth is in the new Secretary of Defense that's 249 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:09.480 got to deal with the military aspect of this being 250 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:11.480 the Army helicopter. 251 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:16.200 Routine annual retraining of night flights on a standard corridor 252 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:21.919 for a continuity of government mission. The military does dangerous things, 253 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:25.759 it does routine things on the regular basis. Tragically, last 254 00:15:25.840 --> 00:15:28.360 night a mistake was made, and I think the President 255 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:32.559 is right, there was some sort of an elevation issue 256 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:35.720 that we have immediately begun investigating at the DoD and 257 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:40.279 Army level. ARMYCID is on the ground investigating top tier 258 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:44.440 aviation assets inside the DoD are investigating, sir, to get 259 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:46.039 to the bottom of it so that it does not 260 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:48.519 happen again, because it's absolutely unacceptable. 261 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:50.879 Okay, to go back to President Trump, he had said 262 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:54.120 that it appears that the pilot of the helicopter, or 263 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:58.120 at least the crew of the helicopter, made the mistake 264 00:15:58.720 --> 00:15:59.840 that caused the accident. 265 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:00.879 Is it fault if. 266 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:03.559 It was the plane, the helicopter, air traffic control? And 267 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:05.879 can you assure people that it is safe to fly 268 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:06.399 in and. 269 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:06.799 Out of DC. 270 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:09.919 Well, I've given you the analysis, and the analysis was 271 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:15.320 who's based on envision. You had a lot of people 272 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:17.960 that saw what was happening. You had some people that 273 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:21.679 knew what was happening. There was some warnings, but the 274 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:24.200 warnings were given very very late. You know, those warnings 275 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:26.879 were given very late. It was almost as they were 276 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:29.759 given a few seconds later there was the crash. It 277 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:34.840 should have been brought up earlier. But the people and 278 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:39.240 the helicopter should have seen where they we're going. I 279 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:45.639 can't imagine people with twenty twenty vision not seeing, you know, 280 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:46.919 what's happening up there. 281 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:50.080 Okay, this is where they're going to get into trouble. 282 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:54.399 They being President Trump Secretary of Defense Pete hag Seth, 283 00:16:55.039 --> 00:17:00.120 they are now suggesting that diversity, equity and inclusion programs 284 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:05.240 are also responsible for this crash. Here, for example, the 285 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:08.279 President this just this morning, when he's talking about this 286 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:13.160 plane crash, reads an article about FAA hiring practice. 287 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:17.440 I do want to point out that various articles that 288 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:23.400 appeared prior to my entering office, and here's one. The 289 00:17:23.640 --> 00:17:28.400 FAA's diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe 290 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:35.240 intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. That is amazing, and there says 291 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:41.039 FAA says people with severe disabilities the most underrepresented segment 292 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:43.119 of the workforce, and they want them in and they 293 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:46.720 want them they can be air traffic controllers. I don't 294 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:47.079 think so. 295 00:17:47.839 --> 00:17:49.759 This was Pete Hegseth a short time after that. 296 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:53.400 I want to echo what Transportation Tectory and you, mister 297 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:57.480 President said, because it pertains the DD as well. We 298 00:17:57.559 --> 00:18:00.680 will have the best and brightest in every position impossible. 299 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:01.720 As you said in. 300 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:06.200 Your inaugural, it is color blind and merit based the 301 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:10.400 best leaders possible, whether it's flying blackhawks and flying airplanes, 302 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:16.279 leading platoons, or in government. The era of DEI is 303 00:18:16.359 --> 00:18:18.960 gone at the Defense Department, and we need the best 304 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:21.839 and brightest, whether it's in our air traffic control, or 305 00:18:21.839 --> 00:18:25.000 whether it's in our generals, or whether it's throughout government. 306 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:27.680 And then there was this late in that news conference, 307 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:28.839 the President was taking. 308 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:31.839 Questionss I understand that. 309 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:34.079 That's why I'm trying to figure out how you can 310 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:35.519 come to the conclusion. 311 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:37.799 Right now that dubricity had something to do with this. 312 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:42.680 Crash, because they have common sense, okay, and unfortunately a 313 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:43.559 lot of people don't. 314 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:47.319 This is going to get him into trouble. What if 315 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:50.039 these were the best in the brightest. What if the 316 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:53.079 air traffic controllers who are in charge of the situation 317 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:57.519 from last night were top of the class, regardless of DEI, hires, 318 00:18:57.519 --> 00:18:59.559 et cetera. They were the top of the class. What 319 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:04.880 if the hell helicopter pilot, the army pilot, what if 320 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:06.279 he was the best or she. 321 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:07.119 I don't know. 322 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:11.640 The idea that you're now injecting the d I listen, 323 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:14.119 and I agree with him. All of those positions should 324 00:19:14.119 --> 00:19:17.640 be merit based hires. I completely agree with him. But 325 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:20.680 the idea that now you're shoehorning this into what has 326 00:19:20.759 --> 00:19:24.680 become I think it's the third worst air traffic tragedy 327 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:28.759 in the United States history, that that is the first 328 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:30.319 of all, that this would be the time that you 329 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:33.039 would do that less than twelve hours after the crash. 330 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:36.759 And then to suggest. 331 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:40.440 That that was had anything to do with the crash 332 00:19:40.519 --> 00:19:43.880 before you know exactly what happened, that's going to come 333 00:19:43.920 --> 00:19:44.599 back to bite them. 334 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:46.400 I think again. 335 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:50.920 I agree that that air traffic controllers, pilots you need 336 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:56.599 the best period, color blind hiring, a gender blind hiring, whatever. 337 00:19:56.759 --> 00:19:58.440 Yes, I completely agree. 338 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:02.039 But to suggest now that you know that that was 339 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:05.279 what caused this crash a little ridiculous. At these twenty 340 00:20:05.319 --> 00:20:07.599 eight bodies now have been pulled from the waters of 341 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:11.000 the Potomac River. After that, American Airlines Jack carrying sixty 342 00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:14.920 passengers and four crew, collided with an Army helicopter with 343 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:18.440 three on board while the airplane was landing at Ronald 344 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:21.920 Reagan National Airport near DC. Cruisers still looking for other casualties, 345 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:24.160 but don't believe there were any survivors that would make 346 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:27.880 it the deadliest US air crash in about twenty four years. 347 00:20:28.759 --> 00:20:33.359 We know that there was a group of figure skaters 348 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:37.920 apparently on board the plane from Wichita, Kansas that was 349 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:42.240 bound four DC. A bunch of figure skaters US figure skating. 350 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:44.559 The governing body for the sport said that skaters were 351 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:48.240 returning from a training camp or top juvenile, intermediate and 352 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:51.799 novice skaters that follows the National figure Skating Championship which 353 00:20:51.839 --> 00:20:55.079 were held in Wichita over the weekend. Some Russian figure 354 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:57.519 skaters were among those on the plane. According to a 355 00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:02.039 spokesperson for the Kremlin, one of the young figure skaters 356 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:04.960 did not get on that flight because his dog was 357 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:08.880 too big. A guy named John Maravilla set to be 358 00:21:08.920 --> 00:21:12.680 among the passengers on board American flight fifty three forty two, 359 00:21:13.119 --> 00:21:16.559 but he posted about his ordeal on Instagram yesterday saying 360 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:20.200 not allowed past gate to board flight. And he's got 361 00:21:20.240 --> 00:21:23.359 a picture of his dog apparently, and he wrote, get 362 00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:27.039 me TF out of Kansas please. He rented a car 363 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:28.440 and said he was going to drive the rest of 364 00:21:28.440 --> 00:21:30.240 the way, which would have been a fourteen hour drive, 365 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:34.240 but the size of his dog prevented him from getting 366 00:21:34.279 --> 00:21:38.440 on that airplane. Last night, also in Washington, d C. 367 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:44.599 Confirmation mania continues. A trio of President Trump's top allies 368 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:48.640 appear for these confirmation showdowns, Tulcy Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy 369 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:51.920 Junior for day two, and Cash Patel appearing in confirmation 370 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:52.960 hearings this morning. 371 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:54.440 It's going on right now. 372 00:21:56.640 --> 00:21:58.960 One of the members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor 373 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:03.319 and Pensions Committee he committee is Tommy Tubberville. He says, 374 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:05.400 it's huge. We're going to separate the men from the 375 00:22:05.480 --> 00:22:10.240 boys in this hearing. Most of the attention. Well, let 376 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:14.079 me get into the Kennedy thing first of one of 377 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:19.680 the outspoken supporters of Robert F. Kennedy Junior as the 378 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:23.680 potential Health and Human Services Secretary is doctor Pat Sun Shong, 379 00:22:24.400 --> 00:22:26.960 whose name should ring a bell if you're in southern California. 380 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:29.839 He's the new editor of the La Times, the new 381 00:22:29.880 --> 00:22:33.359 owner of the La Times, I should say just yesterday, 382 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:37.440 he posted two days ago. Sorry, he posted on X. 383 00:22:37.720 --> 00:22:40.279 I had not met Bobby Kennedy until a few months ago. 384 00:22:40.599 --> 00:22:42.839 The more I got to know him, I truly believe 385 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:46.119 he has the American public's interest at heart. I've worried 386 00:22:46.160 --> 00:22:49.200 about toxins and the cause of cancer my entire career 387 00:22:49.599 --> 00:22:52.680 as a physician scientist. I really hope he is confirmed. 388 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:57.440 And then tags RFK Junior. If you remember some of 389 00:22:57.440 --> 00:22:59.359 the stuff that we talked about yesterday and the hearing 390 00:22:59.400 --> 00:23:02.640 for RFK Junior in front of the Finance Committee, of 391 00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:06.960 all things, they spent a lot of time talking about measles, 392 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:09.599 but they didn't spend a lot of time talking about 393 00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:14.400 chronic diseases and food supply issues that have tainted, you know, 394 00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:17.359 chemicals that exist in our food supply. So just to 395 00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:19.880 give you an idea of who it is that's asking 396 00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:23.799 those questions, one tally said that the word measles was 397 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:28.160 used twenty five times by Democrats on the Finance Committee yesterday. 398 00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:32.119 None of the questions about his big push recently, not 399 00:23:32.200 --> 00:23:37.559 about vaccines, not about measles or anything, but about chronic 400 00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:42.559 health problems that constitute the national security emergency that he 401 00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:43.519