Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray. I'm going Easy Boston's
Speaker 1: News Radio.
Speaker 2: We are going to introduce to Cole Davis, who is
Speaker 2: had some late information. There's been a plane crash, a
Speaker 2: collision between a plane apparently flying in from Wichita, Kansas
Speaker 2: to Reagan National Airport with a Sequorsky helicopter. Nicole, I
Speaker 2: know you've been following this for a few minutes. It's
Speaker 2: apparently could sometimes shortly after nine o'clock. Tell us what
Speaker 2: information have you been able to gather? And thanks very
Speaker 2: much for being there tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, happy to be here, Dan, and yeah,
Speaker 3: this happened about an hour ago. Going to get right
Speaker 3: into it first with the statement from the FAA. This
Speaker 3: is what we know. They say a PSA Airlines Bombardier
Speaker 3: CRJ seven hundred regional jet collided in mid air with
Speaker 3: a Sikorski H sixty helicopter. We know these is Blackhawks
Speaker 3: while on approach to runway thirty three at Reagan Washington
Speaker 3: National Airport around nine pm local time. This plane was
Speaker 3: operating as flight fifth fifty three forty two for American Airlines.
Speaker 3: As you just mentioned, it did depart from Wichitah. It
Speaker 3: was landing at Reagan Airport now as many seventy passengers
Speaker 3: can be carried on this kind of plane. Reports that
Speaker 3: I'm seeing say about sixty people were on board. We
Speaker 3: don't know who was on the helicopter, which agency was
Speaker 3: operating this. We do know that fireboats and helicopters, agencies
Speaker 3: like DC Fire, the US Park Police, Metropolitan Police are
Speaker 3: all on scene. Right now. There is a ground stop
Speaker 3: at Reagan. No flight's coming or going right now. The
Speaker 3: terminals are open, but nothing is happening. And you know, Dan,
Speaker 3: of course, we want to know casualties, but so far
Speaker 3: we have no information coming from any agency on this,
Speaker 3: so we certainly don't want to speculate. There's just a
Speaker 3: lot going on here. But yeah, this is a pretty
Speaker 3: serious situation in the nation's capital.
Speaker 2: Well, horrible conditions obviously at night on the river there
Speaker 2: of the Potomac River runs alongside the airport. I've seen
Speaker 2: pictures of the Potomac. Reminds me of that horrible place
Speaker 2: crash in January of nineteen eighty two, the Boing seven
Speaker 2: thirty seven, that that was a daytime plane crash that
Speaker 2: just basically was of Air Florida flight that just never
Speaker 2: got up. Really off the ground is up in the air,
Speaker 2: just temporarily before it crashed into the fourteenth Street bridge.
Speaker 2: So you have cold weather, cold water. It's got to
Speaker 2: be a tough situation there tonight. I have flown in
Speaker 2: and out of the Wichita Airport. It is a very
Speaker 2: small regional airport, although it's obviously an airport in the
Speaker 2: capital city of Kansas, very small. And just to think
Speaker 2: that people were flying on the plane, why there would
Speaker 2: be a helicopter operating in that area with you know,
Speaker 2: air traffic controlers. There's so many questions to hold that
Speaker 2: I know we don't have the answers for, but I
Speaker 2: think all of us can just say a prayer to
Speaker 2: night for the people who might might be at this
Speaker 2: point struck me to stay alive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, definitely. And I've flown into an out of
Speaker 3: Reagan a few times. That descent into Reagan. There's not
Speaker 3: a lot of space to work with there. The airspace
Speaker 3: is very limited, as you can imagine. It's right there
Speaker 3: by the nation's capital, by the Capitol Building, by the
Speaker 3: White House, by the Washington Monument, and so you really
Speaker 3: have to be very very particular about landing at Reagan
Speaker 3: Airport and you know, it's just it's just such a
Speaker 3: tragedy that I'm watching this video. I mean, obviously, like
Speaker 3: you said, it's nighttime here and it's very cold out
Speaker 3: and there are I'm counting dozens of boats in the
Speaker 3: river and helicopters and just really hoping that these people
Speaker 3: can all get out and be treated and that this
Speaker 3: turns out to be okay. But this is definitely something
Speaker 3: we're going to have to keep an eye on tonight.
Speaker 2: This will be something that as the information comes out.
Speaker 2: It tend these tend not to get better as the
Speaker 2: evening goes on, So we'll try to keep an eye
Speaker 2: on and we'll take some special network reports at the
Speaker 2: bottom of the hour, that is for sure, and again
Speaker 2: keep folks who are either in the water at this
Speaker 2: point in our thoughts and prayers, because I just don't
Speaker 2: know how you can even run a rescue mission at
Speaker 2: this time of night.
Speaker 3: This they're trying, they're really trying.
Speaker 2: Were well, sure, absolutely, I'm sure it's all hands on deck.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if you remember that crash in
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty two, there was a there were some heroes.
Speaker 2: That fourteenth Street Bridge is named after a gentleman who
Speaker 2: kind of stayed and continued in the water saving the
Speaker 2: lives of other people. So let's hope there are some
Speaker 2: lives that are saved tonight. Thanks Nicole, appreciated so much.
Speaker 2: Of course, tough story. These are not the stories that
Speaker 2: anyone likes to report on, and Nicole is the absolute pro.
Speaker 2: We talked during the newscast and we agreed to do
Speaker 2: something on this. Again, it's just horrible story, a horrible story.
Speaker 2: We intended this hour and we will have updates as
Speaker 2: the evening goes on. I assure you. The big story,
Speaker 2: ironically out of Washington today was the appearance of Robert F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy at his Senate confirmation hearings to become the Secretary
Speaker 2: of Health and Human Services. And this this was one
Speaker 2: that really got pretty feisty today. I would say, of
Speaker 2: all of the cabinet confirmation hearings so far, this is
Speaker 2: certainly was the most testy and matter of fact, our
Speaker 2: senior senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren, got into it with
Speaker 2: Robert Kennedy. It's interesting Bobby Kennedy, who has has taken
Speaker 2: some interesting positions in his career, was running for president.
Speaker 2: As I think everyone remembers at this time last year,
Speaker 2: And at this time last year he actually was showing
Speaker 2: in the polls twelve percent. There were some polls that
Speaker 2: had him a little higher than that. Uh. And then
Speaker 2: and when his popularity dropped off, and I think it
Speaker 2: was probably a function of money drying up, and the
Speaker 2: focus became on the fell on the debate between President Trump,
Speaker 2: you know, and well at that time former President Trump
Speaker 2: in late June and President Biden, and President Biden performed
Speaker 2: so horribly and and then the Democrats decided that Joe
Speaker 2: Biden would not be the party stand bearer. The standbearer
Speaker 2: for the party stand bearer, Bobby Kennedy's numbers dropped, and
Speaker 2: shortly thereafter he cast an alliance with Donald Trump. And
Speaker 2: today was facing questions from senators, and it was it
Speaker 2: was a tough day for everyone. Again, the Republicans have
Speaker 2: a fifty three to forty seven advantage in the US Senate.
Speaker 2: There have been now six or so of President Trump's
Speaker 2: cabinet selections who were fairly easily approved by the Senate.
Speaker 2: The one was the Defense Secretary, in which they had
Speaker 2: to be a tie vote that Vice President Vance cast
Speaker 2: the deciding vote. But this is a little bit of
Speaker 2: the testimony and then some of the back and forth,
Speaker 2: and it got a little silly at different times. But
Speaker 2: this is OURFK. Just for those of you who didn't
Speaker 2: get a chance to watch the hearings today, cut numbered nineteen,
Speaker 2: please were up cut nineteen.
Speaker 4: When I launched my camp man, it was about uniting
Speaker 4: America and Democrats and Republicans. There's no issue that she's
Speaker 4: united it more than this chronic health epidemic. There's no
Speaker 4: such thing as Republican children or Democratic children. These are
Speaker 4: our kids. Sixty percent of them are damaged. I know
Speaker 4: what a healthy get looks like because I had so
Speaker 4: many of them in my family. I didn't know anybody
Speaker 4: with a food allergy, growing pen allergy. Why do five
Speaker 4: of my kids have allergies? Why are we seeing these
Speaker 4: explosions and diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, neurological diseases, depression, all these
Speaker 4: things that are related.
Speaker 1: To toxic environment.
Speaker 4: Why can't we just agree with each other the pot
Speaker 4: differences about so many issues, intractable issues, aside as a we're.
Speaker 5: Going to end this.
Speaker 2: So that was sort of the appeal, but that he
Speaker 2: knew that there were a lot of Democrats on that
Speaker 2: panel today who were very much post to him, And
Speaker 2: I think part of it has to do with the
Speaker 2: fact that he comes from the Kennedy family and there's
Speaker 2: no well, there's no unanimity of support for him with
Speaker 2: the Kennedy family. There's a lot of people figures, including
Speaker 2: his cousin Caroline Kennedy, who said some tough things about
Speaker 2: him yesterday. As a matter of fact, I have a
Speaker 2: couple of the sound bites this is the daughter of
Speaker 2: President Kennedy just going after him, in which she pulls back,
Speaker 2: no holds back on, no punches at all. Let's go
Speaker 2: to cut twenty seven. B is in Boston. Please Rob Today.
Speaker 6: While he may encourage a younger generation to attend AA meetings,
Speaker 6: Bobby is addicted to attention and power. Bobby prays on
Speaker 6: the desperation of parents of sick children, vaccinating his own
Speaker 6: kids while building a following hypocritically discouraging other parents from
Speaker 6: vaccinating theirs even before he fills this job. His constant
Speaker 6: denigration of our healthcare system and the conspiratorial half truths
Speaker 6: he's told about vaccines, including in connection with Samoa's deadly
Speaker 6: twenty nineteen outbreak of measles have cost lives.
Speaker 2: Earlier. Just a little bit before that, she used language
Speaker 2: which was well, she basically calls him a predator. Listen
Speaker 2: to this. This is cut twenty seven.
Speaker 6: I've known Bobby my whole life. We grew up together.
Speaker 6: It's no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as
Speaker 6: pets because Bobby himself is a predator. He's always been charismatic,
Speaker 6: able to attract others through the strength of his personality,
Speaker 6: his willingness to take risks and break the rules. I
Speaker 6: watched his younger brothers and cousins follow him down the
Speaker 6: path of drug addiction. His basement, his garage, his dorm
Speaker 6: room were always the center of the action where drugs
Speaker 6: were available, and he enjoyed showing off how he put
Speaker 6: baby chickens and mice in a blender to feed to
Speaker 6: his hawks. It was often a perverse scene of despair
Speaker 6: and violence.
Speaker 2: So this was a statement that Caroline Kennedy released yesterday
Speaker 2: on the eve of the date, the night before the
Speaker 2: Senate confirmation hearings. I don't know if he's going to
Speaker 2: be confirmed. It seems as if the Republicans, with the
Speaker 2: exception maybe of one, were pretty solidly behind him. And
Speaker 2: again they do enjoy that advantage. But I'd love to
Speaker 2: get reaction to his nomination.
Speaker 7: This is.
Speaker 2: A nomination that is not what most nominations involved. This
Speaker 2: is Donald Trump nominating the son of Robert F. Kennedy,
Speaker 2: the Senator Robert F. Kennedy who when when when Trump
Speaker 2: was a young man, Robert F. Kennedy was this senator
Speaker 2: from from the state in which Donald Trump lived, and
Speaker 2: now Trump is president. Trump has nominated Senator Kennedy's son
Speaker 2: to lead Health and Human Service, which is probably outside
Speaker 2: of Defense Secretary and Attorney General, the most important position
Speaker 2: in any president's cabinet that I can think of. So
Speaker 2: I want to get your reaction to what Bobby Kennedy
Speaker 2: had to say today. We'll play some of the There
Speaker 2: were some absurd moments when Bernie Sanders uh and Elizabeth
Speaker 2: Warren were literally in shouting matches with Kennedy. Let's we'll
Speaker 2: open up phone line six one seven, two, five, four
Speaker 2: ten thirty six one seven nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: We will also try to keep our eye on this
Speaker 2: this this plane crash in Washington, d c. U as
Speaker 2: the as the evening where is on. So feel free
Speaker 2: to join the conversation. We are going to talk politics
Speaker 2: for a little while back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 2: You have the numbers six one, seven, two, five four
Speaker 2: ten thirty or six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nights Think Studios on w b Z, the news radio.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be taking a special report from ABC
Speaker 2: News in about four or five minutes. But first let
Speaker 2: me go to Jim on the Cape talking about the
Speaker 2: Kennedy Junior Senate confirmation hearing today. You get a chance
Speaker 2: to watch much of that today, Jim.
Speaker 8: Oh, my goodness, I was eating it with a spoon.
Speaker 8: I love it when democrats. I love it when democrats
Speaker 8: eat each other up. It's unvest So you believe the
Speaker 8: only two, the only two people in the cabinet that
Speaker 8: the Democrats want to get rid of our Democrats, Telsey
Speaker 8: Gabbard and Robert Kennedy. They were Democrats. And you can't
Speaker 8: make this up. And by the way, Carolyn Kennedy's letter,
Speaker 8: I grew up in the Cape with the Kennedys. You
Speaker 8: can take that letter and insert any name of the
Speaker 8: Kennedy family in that letter, and it would be true
Speaker 8: of all of them.
Speaker 2: Well Kennedy the Kennedy pool in the summertime, which notice
Speaker 2: the let's leave the uh, let's leave the dead out
Speaker 2: of this.
Speaker 8: What Let's show back to Elizabeth Warren. Elizabeth Warren is
Speaker 8: accusing Bobby Kennedy and telling him to not sue the
Speaker 8: pharmaceutical companies. Elizabeth Warren got five point two million dollars
Speaker 8: from the pharmaceutical companies. No wonder she doesn't want him
Speaker 8: to sue them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was so that was an interesting exchange today
Speaker 2: as well. I thought, just going back to the Caroline Kennedy,
Speaker 2: uh if she she did this videotape which was extraordinary.
Speaker 2: Uh us she used the term, she used the term predator, predators.
Speaker 8: Their whole their whole family as predators. That's the hilarious
Speaker 8: part about it.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no no, that I know some
Speaker 2: members of the Kennedy family don't know them well. Uh
Speaker 2: Joe Kennedy, the former congressman, the son of the older congressman. Uh,
Speaker 2: the young fellow who who ran against for the Senate
Speaker 2: against Ed Markey, an absolute gentleman. Well that's fine, great, great,
Speaker 2: I just want I don't want yo. Look, we can
Speaker 2: have some fun with this, but we gotta we gotta,
Speaker 2: we gotta control ourselves a little bit. Jim.
Speaker 5: Okay, uh, what you seven hundred kids?
Speaker 8: One of them is gonna be pretty good. Let's put
Speaker 8: it that way.
Speaker 2: They don't have that, Jim.
Speaker 5: No, he was it was.
Speaker 8: They were brutal to him. They were nasty. He's handled
Speaker 8: himself perfectly. And here's the problem. Eighty so many people
Speaker 8: love the Kennedy's. The Democrats would be fools. He's gonna
Speaker 8: get through, no problem.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's gonna be close. I don't think
Speaker 2: he's gonna get too many. I can't. I didn't see
Speaker 2: any Democrat on that panel today who had any interest
Speaker 2: of even having a conversation with him. They basically asked
Speaker 2: him questions, which which with a form of about a
Speaker 2: four or five minute statement. They had five minutes to
Speaker 2: question him, and they were demanding yes and no answers
Speaker 2: to questions that no one but a fool would answer
Speaker 2: either yes or no.
Speaker 5: I mean, and you have to put sim in the game.
Speaker 8: It's a game. An't you seeing the full game here?
Speaker 8: It's it's it's it's a full game. All the Republicans
Speaker 8: are going to vote for he's going to get in
Speaker 8: with just Republican votes only, as well many of the
Speaker 8: picks that Donald Trump has due to their Trump derangement syndrome. Here,
Speaker 8: Donald Trump is trying to be bipartisan, have a couple
Speaker 8: of Democrats and this and his cabinet, and the Democrats
Speaker 8: are losing their mind over it.
Speaker 2: Well, what you know is, Jim, you know as well
Speaker 2: as I do, that the Democrats on that panel view
Speaker 2: Robert Kennedy and Robert Kennedy Junior and Telsea gabbartt as apostates.
Speaker 2: They look at them as people who have deserted the
Speaker 2: Democratic Party, and they they dislike Kennedy and Gabbard more
Speaker 2: than they just they dislike Senator Cotton and Ted Cruz.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 8: The good analogy is Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzger of
Speaker 8: the Republicans. They are apostates the Republican parts. It's the same. Oh, absolutely,
Speaker 8: this is all and you know this is all show Dan,
Speaker 8: this is all for ratings. And look at me and
Speaker 8: my constituents. I'm gonna stick Mazi Herono. Ohly god, does
Speaker 8: she have the IQ of a coconut?
Speaker 2: Or I gotta be honest with you. I gotta be
Speaker 2: honest with you. There are a lot of members the
Speaker 2: United States Senator who you look at them and you say,
Speaker 2: how could citizens of America in a specific state conclude
Speaker 2: that that person is the most qualified. But you look
Speaker 2: at Maizie Horano and she sets the standard.
Speaker 8: I mean, I don't know as Joe Biden look like,
Speaker 8: look Ed Markey's lots moreter than mazing.
Speaker 2: It's not even close. You know, you may not like
Speaker 2: Ed Marky, particularly because you're in Massachusetts, but uh no,
Speaker 2: Ed Markey knows what issues and he and he beat
Speaker 2: Joe Kennedy and that in that prime. Look, we got
Speaker 2: to break away here. I've it's been an interesting call.
Speaker 2: You need you need to call more off and we
Speaker 2: got to get on this plane crash down in Florida, Jim.
Speaker 2: So I'll let you go for now and we'll get
Speaker 2: back to you later on. If folks, we want to
Speaker 2: talk about the Robin F. Kennedy hearing today, we will
Speaker 2: talk about that right after this special report coming to
Speaker 2: us from Washington, d C. From ABC News on the
Speaker 2: plane crash that has taking place tonight outside of Recan
Speaker 2: National Airport.
Speaker 1: With Dan Ray Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: So we are keeping an eye on the developments down
Speaker 2: in Washington. There's some reports now that there have been
Speaker 2: some survivors on this plane. Again, all his information is
Speaker 2: very sketchy, very sketchy. It was a plane coming in
Speaker 2: from Wichita, Kansas to National Airport in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: That's probably about seventeen eighteen hundred miles, fairly long trip
Speaker 2: but probably pretty uneventful. And it is crashed collided with
Speaker 2: a black Hawk helicopter apparently US military helicopter, as this
Speaker 2: plane was on approach to Reagan National Airport in Washington.
Speaker 2: So we can only follow that and we will have
Speaker 2: you know, late news on this throughout throughout the night
Speaker 2: here on Night Side. But I'd like to talk about
Speaker 2: the hearing today in Washington. So you have Robert F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy Junior, one of the heroes of the Democratic Party
Speaker 2: whose life sadly was cut short by the assassin's bullet
Speaker 2: of the night that he had won the California primary
Speaker 2: in June of nineteen sixty eight, passed away the next day. Ironically,
Speaker 2: last night we had talked about the decision by President
Speaker 2: Trump to release all of the information in possession of
Speaker 2: the government about the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy,
Speaker 2: and Martin Luther King. So today Robert Kennedy appears in
Speaker 2: Washington at his one of the Senate committees that he
Speaker 2: will be hearing that we'll hear from him. This is
Speaker 2: the US Senate Finance Committee. And they were on that committee,
Speaker 2: amongst others, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and it got
Speaker 2: a little heated. This is Bernie Sanders. He's basically talking
Speaker 2: all of you know what onesies are. Those are the
Speaker 2: little kind of like you know, one piece almost looked
Speaker 2: like one piece bathing suits that babies infants wear, and
Speaker 2: you can on those, of course, buy them in a
Speaker 2: variety of different places. And apparently some of them were
Speaker 2: being sold by a company that Kennedy founded, no longer
Speaker 2: has control over the company. And there was some sayings
Speaker 2: on the company dealing with vaccinations or not to vaccinate,
Speaker 2: and Bernie Sanders was using pictures of these onesies as
Speaker 2: and with an anti VAXX message in an effort to
Speaker 2: embarrass Kennedy, and Kennedy would have none of it. And
Speaker 2: let's listen. This is about a minute exchange, a little
Speaker 2: bit more than a minute between Bernie Sanders, Senator from
Speaker 2: Vermont and RFK Junior cut twenty three rub.
Speaker 9: They are selling what's called onesies. These are little things
Speaker 9: clothing for babies. One of them is diled on facts unafraid.
Speaker 9: Next one of the sould for twenty six bucks a piece.
Speaker 9: By the way, next one is no vax No problem.
Speaker 10: Now you're coming before this committee and you say you
Speaker 10: are pro vaccine, just want to ask some questions, and
Speaker 10: yet your organization is making money selling a child's product
Speaker 10: to parents for twenty six bucks, which cast fundamental.
Speaker 9: Doubt on ut on the usefulness of vaccines. Can you
Speaker 9: tell us now that you will, now that you are
Speaker 9: pro vaccine, that you're.
Speaker 10: Going to have your organization take these products off the market.
Speaker 4: Senator, I have no power over that organization, not you
Speaker 4: hard of it, resigned from the board that was.
Speaker 1: Just a few months ago. You founded that you certainly
Speaker 1: have power you could make that. How are you supportive
Speaker 1: of this?
Speaker 4: I have had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1: You supportive of these onesies?
Speaker 4: I'm supportive of vaccines.
Speaker 2: Are you supportive of these.
Speaker 10: This clothing which is militantly anti vaccines?
Speaker 4: I am supportive of vaccines. Well, I want good science
Speaker 4: and I want to PreTect.
Speaker 9: But you will not tell the organization you founded not
Speaker 9: to continue selling that product.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mischi.
Speaker 2: One of the great quotes from Washington, DC. Can you
Speaker 2: tell us if you support the onesies and as bad
Speaker 2: as Bernie Sanders was? And I thought that was, I mean,
Speaker 2: just stupid, stupid. Ask him questions if you want. But
Speaker 2: this is an organization that Kennedy apparently no longer is
Speaker 2: a part of. He may have founded the organizations. The
Speaker 2: organization happens to have a point of view about vaccines
Speaker 2: that Bernie Sanders disagrees with, which is fine, Which is fine.
Speaker 2: In the old days, it would have been people on
Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders' side of isle who would be skeptical about
Speaker 2: anything the government was going to try to sticking to
Speaker 2: your arms. But now because it was it was being
Speaker 2: done under a democratic presidency. It's just so interesting. Elizabeth Warren,
Speaker 2: I mean, this is an exchange that I think borders
Speaker 2: on insanity from the senior senator from Massachusetts. And I've
Speaker 2: never heard her more flustered, heard her flustered many times,
Speaker 2: and it's almost as if she's in over her head.
Speaker 2: This has cut number twenty five a listen carefully, folks,
Speaker 2: to this one.
Speaker 7: And I'm asking you to commit right now that you
Speaker 7: will not take a financial stake in every one of
Speaker 7: those lawsuits, so that what you do as secretary will
Speaker 7: also benefit you financially down the line.
Speaker 4: I'll go with all the ethical gods, that's not the question.
Speaker 7: You and I.
Speaker 2: You have seen your You're asking vaccine.
Speaker 4: Company h you are, That's exactly right you're doing.
Speaker 7: He Look, no one should be fooled here, trom of HHS.
Speaker 7: Robert Kennedy will have the power to undercut vaccines and
Speaker 7: vaccine manufacturing across our country. And for all of his
Speaker 7: talk about follow the science and his promise that he
Speaker 7: won't interfere with those of us who want to vaccinate
Speaker 7: his kids, the bottom line is the same. Kennedy can
Speaker 7: kill off access to vaccines and make millions.
Speaker 2: Of dollars while he does it.
Speaker 7: Kids might die, but Robert Kennedy can keep cashing in.
Speaker 2: So we have Massachusetts Senior Senator Elizabeth Warren eviscerating or
Speaker 2: attempting to eviserate. Didn't particularly do a great job, as
Speaker 2: far as I'm concerned. Robert F. Kennedy, the nephew of
Speaker 2: Edward Kennedy, whose seat was once held by Ted Kennedy.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's it's just fascinating. Now. Kennedy is
Speaker 2: a controversial figure. He has said some things that have
Speaker 2: raised people's eyebrows, but he's a nominee from a candidate
Speaker 2: that's just won the presidency. He has some concerns over
Speaker 2: American diets and what we're ingesting. He is no friend
Speaker 2: of big food corporations. He's looking to eliminate a lot
Speaker 2: of the food additives that, as I understand it, sometimes
Speaker 2: are the things that really hook people onto the foot,
Speaker 2: onto particular food red dye. I do not know as
Speaker 2: much about this issue as the senators that I hope
Speaker 2: were questioning today questioning him today, nor the candidate, the
Speaker 2: nominee himself. But it seems to me that the squabble
Speaker 2: that has gone on today and they were frustrated that
Speaker 2: he was not answering their yes and no questions, it
Speaker 2: was a pathetic performance by the United States senators. It
Speaker 2: seems to me for Bernie Sanders to be up there
Speaker 2: yelling about a message that was on a onesie, I mean,
Speaker 2: it doesn't get any funnier than that. I would hope
Speaker 2: that Saturday Night Live was watching both of them, and
Speaker 2: in terms of Warren, who just seemed to want to
Speaker 2: scream at Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Now, again, they have staff.
Speaker 2: They could have had a series of questions which could
Speaker 2: have been posed, and they could have set it up
Speaker 2: and said, mister Kennedy would like to ask you some questions.
Speaker 2: And there was some effort by some of the Democrats
Speaker 2: to say, you said this at this date, do you
Speaker 2: stand by that statement? And we would ask you to
Speaker 2: limit your answer to know more than a minute because
Speaker 2: all of these but they would ask questions will go
Speaker 2: on three or four minutes. And it clearly, it clearly
Speaker 2: was not an effort or an exercise to elicit information
Speaker 2: about this nominee. The minds were made up. Now, look,
Speaker 2: I do not believe that the fact that Robert F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy comes from a family of a line of Democrats,
Speaker 2: including his father who was assassinated, but he has his
Speaker 2: family members turning on him. I mean Carolyn Kennedy calling
Speaker 2: him a predator today. Look, I don't know Bobby Kennedy.
Speaker 2: I've never met Bobby Kennedy. I've thought he is a
Speaker 2: bit of a loose cannon. Freethink or whatever you want.
Speaker 1: To call it.
Speaker 2: But he's a nominee of Donald Trump. Uh. If he's
Speaker 2: as crazy as the Democrats think, they should probably be
Speaker 2: delighted vote against him and let the Republicans take responsibility
Speaker 2: for his crazy ideas. That would be one approach that
Speaker 2: the Democrats could take. I want to hear from you
Speaker 2: six one seven, two ten thirty six one seven, nine
Speaker 2: three one ten thirty. We're also following this plane crash
Speaker 2: in Washington, d C. And hopefully there will be survivors,
Speaker 2: hopefully every person on both the helicopter and the small plane.
Speaker 2: It's not a small plane in the sense of a
Speaker 2: it's it's a plane that they think they had about
Speaker 2: sixty passengers on. So feel free join the conversation, give
Speaker 2: us a call, We'll get you. We'll get you on.
Speaker 2: Like to talk about Bobby Kennedy, and I think some
Speaker 2: of us his ideas have merit uh And and I
Speaker 2: think that that if he we're dealing reasonably, if he
Speaker 2: were allowed to deal reasonably with Democrats and Republicans on
Speaker 2: this Senate panel, maybe there could be some progress. He
Speaker 2: quotes numbers about the health of American kids, and it's
Speaker 2: not good. Frankly, at this point, there are a lot
Speaker 2: of kids who have serious physical problems at at levels
Speaker 2: higher than any prior generation. And he's asking uncomfortable questions.
Speaker 2: And I don't think there's anything anything wrong with uncomfortable questions.
Speaker 2: I got a couple of lines open at six, one, seven, nine,
Speaker 2: ten thirty back on Night's Side, like to talk about this.
Speaker 2: There's nothing much we can do, uh in terms of
Speaker 2: the crash at Reagan National Airport, except offer a prayer
Speaker 2: for those who are either in the water and will
Speaker 2: be pulled out of the water or have have not
Speaker 2: made it. Either way, prayers are welcome. I believe in prayer.
Speaker 2: Will be back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Back to the phones we go. Let's go to Andrew
Speaker 2: in Rockland talking about the nomination hearing today for Robert F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy Junior. Andrew, welcome, How are you?
Speaker 5: I'm good, Dan, how are you doing great?
Speaker 2: Did you get a chance to watch any of that
Speaker 2: either during the day or in the evening news casts?
Speaker 5: I saw I saw some e clips of it, just uh.
Speaker 11: I thought it was funny that Pocahontas is upset over
Speaker 11: it all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she was. She was, really she was on the
Speaker 2: I hate to use this, but she was on the
Speaker 2: war path.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I agree. I think it just all comes down
Speaker 11: the money. She claiming he's gonna make money off of
Speaker 11: I feel like she's up at her Her gravy train
Speaker 11: is done, are you. I feel like all these people
Speaker 11: at back Doorda, and it's just that's why they're going
Speaker 11: after Trump so hot and everybody he's nominating, and they're
Speaker 11: just they're upset that they're losing their grip.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that there's a lot that's going on
Speaker 2: down there. Look, I don't know. I didn't quite understand
Speaker 2: the question, the line of questionings that she was asking
Speaker 2: him about. Do you pledge that you won't work after this?
Speaker 2: There are rules down there about, you know, officials who
Speaker 2: you cannot work for, corporations that you had any sort
Speaker 2: of control over for a certain period of time. There
Speaker 2: are rules in place, she was asking him, Can you
Speaker 2: will you promise that you will never work for some
Speaker 2: company that could have in some way I guess I
Speaker 2: have been in some form of fashion regulated by you.
Speaker 2: If you become the h h N s Secretary. It's pathetic.
Speaker 1: Understand that.
Speaker 5: I get that. I get that.
Speaker 11: You know, you don't want people that are, you know,
Speaker 11: making the rules but not having control and then making
Speaker 11: money off of it.
Speaker 2: Well, I agree with you, but I'm saying there were
Speaker 2: rules in place that right now say that you can't
Speaker 2: you know, leave the government and go to work for
Speaker 2: certain companies that you might have regulated. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, look if somebody were to hypothetically give a
Speaker 2: break to some company and then as a quid pro
Speaker 2: quo have a job offer available. People get indicted for
Speaker 2: stuff like that.
Speaker 11: It's Biden don't But yeah, you know, you have it
Speaker 11: both ways. You gotta if you're gonna if you're gonna
Speaker 11: post it on one party, you gotta you gotta do
Speaker 11: it the other age. That's why it's so absurd. These
Speaker 11: people are hypocrites.
Speaker 2: There's there's a lot of hypocrisy in Washington, There's no
Speaker 2: doubt about that. Andrew, great to hear, Great to hear
Speaker 2: your voice. Let me ask you, if you were on
Speaker 2: the Senate Finance Committee, if you were a United States Senator,
Speaker 2: would you like to see you know, he's a he's
Speaker 2: a bit of a loose Cannon. I mean, he's he's
Speaker 2: said some things over over time which have caught a
Speaker 2: lot of people's attention. Would you vote to confirm him
Speaker 2: or not?
Speaker 5: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: I would.
Speaker 11: I would because I feel like any any improvements on
Speaker 11: our health is a good thing. And that's strictly the
Speaker 11: reason why I would vote for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I also think I think that Trump nominated
Speaker 2: him because I think very simple, he's a disruptor.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 2: It'll be a different sort of secretariat if he if
Speaker 2: he's the secretary of a JH and S. Andrew, thank
Speaker 2: you for calling very much. I appreciate it. Thank you
Speaker 2: you too, my friend. Okay, well we're gonna go next here.
Speaker 2: You know what, let me go to Paul in Boston. Paul,
Speaker 2: you were next one night, saga, right ahead, get you
Speaker 2: good sir.
Speaker 5: The wine. The bottom line is, does Ron mc kennedy
Speaker 5: Junior have a background education or work experience in this field.
Speaker 5: I don't think he does, and I'd never both to
Speaker 5: confermament if I was a senator.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, let's let's let's let's pause on that for
Speaker 2: a second and let me just play Devil's advocate for
Speaker 2: a second. Harvard graduate I believe he got some sort
Speaker 2: of an economics degree I think at the London School
Speaker 2: of Economics. I could be wrong on this, but let
Speaker 2: me you know, don't hold me to it. But then
Speaker 2: he has a law degree from the University of Virginia,
Speaker 2: and he was very much involved in some environmental activity
Speaker 2: over over time. That's he's been an he's been an
Speaker 2: advocate over time. So I think he's probably as qualified.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's not a physician, he's not a doctor,
Speaker 2: Ben Carson or or you know, he doesn't have a
Speaker 2: medical degree. You're correct on that. I mean, does that
Speaker 2: disqualify him in your thoughts or.
Speaker 5: What is in my opinion is it should be somebody
Speaker 5: that's got a background in medicine or uh uh, health
Speaker 5: science something. But I don't think he has the qualifications done.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me let me ask you a question, just
Speaker 2: you know, having a little bit of fun with you
Speaker 2: here for a second. Let's assume that Trump nominated Anthony
Speaker 2: Faucif after after the debacle of COVID nineteen biz, there's
Speaker 2: a you know, individual with a medical degree. Would would
Speaker 2: he qualify?
Speaker 5: Oh, he is qualified, he's a medical doctor, but he's
Speaker 5: proven to be somewhat unreliable at this point.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fair, you know what.
Speaker 11: To be.
Speaker 2: Okay, So now my second level of question to you,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna we're gonna have a responsible conversation here.
Speaker 2: This is the nominee that the president who has just
Speaker 2: been elected once. How much discretion do you give to
Speaker 2: the president of the United States for the nominees that
Speaker 2: he or she selects.
Speaker 5: I don't know how to answer that. Let's tell you,
Speaker 5: I have no problem taking care of somebody that helped
Speaker 5: me as long as they're qualified. And the only one
Speaker 5: of Trump's nominees so far that I think it has
Speaker 5: been good is the Secretary of State at Rubio.
Speaker 2: The rest of them, five or six of them have
Speaker 2: been approved by votes of yes somewhere around seventy five
Speaker 2: to twenty five. I mean, you know that Hegseth was
Speaker 2: the one that was fifty one fifty and there were
Speaker 2: three Republicans that walked away. Six or seven of the
Speaker 2: cabinet nominees have won the support a vertuble of all
Speaker 2: the Republicans, even the Murkowski's and the Collinses of the world,
Speaker 2: as well then of several Democrats.
Speaker 5: I'm want to look at this education position that he
Speaker 5: wants to get to. Lynda McMahon, Yeah, well, turned Beck
Speaker 5: went okay. Under the first Trump administration, she was the
Speaker 5: Small Business Administrator Secretary. I believe now we want to
Speaker 5: give her a job in education. What experience does she
Speaker 5: have in education?
Speaker 2: I don't know, to be honest with you, but I
Speaker 2: also think that if you're running a department of education,
Speaker 2: you don't necessarily have to have experience. Uh, that's more
Speaker 2: of a management position. I think most people understand what
Speaker 2: what it's the concept of education is. It's not like
Speaker 2: a scientific position. If if if if you were appointing
Speaker 2: her as the administrator of NASA, I think you might say, gee,
Speaker 2: you should certainly have some some some experience in that field,
Speaker 2: or if you know, if you were pointing somebody the
Speaker 2: head of the FAA. I don't know. We'll have We'll
Speaker 2: have to see how it works out. Paul, look great call.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I really agree challenging call. You raised some
Speaker 2: absolutely legitimate questions. I appreciate you taking the time. Thank you,
Speaker 2: my friend. All Right, we'll take a quick break, be
Speaker 2: back on the other side of the eleven o'clock news,
Speaker 2: and again we're seeing ambulance is moving. Ambulances are moving,
Speaker 2: and I hope that those are ambulances that are taking
Speaker 2: people from medical treatment and not leaving the scene. If
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. Again, keep these folks in
Speaker 2: there in your prayers. We'll be back. And like to
Speaker 2: continue to talk about Robert F. Kennedy's confirmation hearing today
Speaker 2: in Washington.