Bannon's War Room - Episode 4233： Tragedy Over The Potomac; Kash, Tulsi, And RFK Hearings Cont.

00:00:00.000 is not only illogical, but completely devoid of any evidence in the record.

00:00:05.900 That's from a judge.

00:00:09.920 This is a dangerous time, and I ask all my colleagues to consider

00:00:14.980 whether these plain comments by this person

00:00:19.660 and by his own Trump administration colleagues

00:00:24.720 should be given a blind eye, just overlooked.

00:00:30.000 Or whether, like the warnings of pardoning violent January 6th offenders,

00:00:37.540 there are warnings to be heeded.

00:00:39.940 There is an unfathomable difference

00:00:43.360 between a seeming facade being constructed around this nominee here today

00:00:50.440 and what he has actually done and said in real life

00:00:55.440 when left to his own devices.

00:00:58.400 Conduct shows character, and if you look at history,

00:01:08.560 you see the danger of security chiefs in authoritarian regimes

00:01:17.700 becoming the tools of political power.

00:01:21.400 The characteristics that they often show are that they are vengeful,

00:01:27.780 that they are grandiose,

00:01:31.260 that they are intemperate,

00:01:34.820 that they are partisan and blindly loyal,

00:01:39.700 and that they are servile and won't say no.

00:01:48.340 I'm afraid that the history of this nominee's conduct raises those warnings.

00:01:57.620 And I yield my one second back.

00:02:01.360 Before, Senator Cornyn, you said you'd like to explain something.

00:02:06.920 I forget the point he made.

00:02:09.080 You can do that now if you want to.

00:02:10.940 Simply this, Senator.

00:02:14.900 In the collective, all of those statements are taken out of grotesque context,

00:02:21.100 and anyone that thinks my 16 years of service is an exemplary

00:02:25.640 on how I would proceed if confirmed as FBI

00:02:28.540 is intentionally putting false information into the public ether

00:02:32.740 and creating more public discourse.

00:02:35.560 The only thing that will matter if I'm confirmed as a director of the FBI

00:02:39.180 is a de-weaponized, de-politicized system of law enforcement

00:02:43.340 completely devoted to rigorous obedience of the Constitution

00:02:47.480 and a singular standard of justice.

00:02:49.460 Before I call on Senator Cornyn,

00:02:54.840 I'd like to say that we've heard about the January 6th pardons.

00:03:03.400 I think it's important that we remind people at the same time

00:03:07.820 of some pardons by the previous administration.

00:03:11.080 Thomas Sanders, a kidnapper who murdered a 12-year-old girl named Lexus

00:03:16.460 and her mother, Swell and Roberts,

00:03:20.320 Adrian Peeler, a Connecticut drug kingpin

00:03:24.560 who was convicted in the death of an 8-year-old boy

00:03:28.200 and his mother, Leonard Peltier,

00:03:32.420 that's already been referred to that murdered two FBI agents,

00:03:39.740 and even Director Wray, at that time former Director Wray,

00:03:47.220 said that that shouldn't have happened

00:03:49.080 and Judge Michael Conahan, who took kickbacks

00:03:53.420 for wrongly sending juveniles for profit detention centers

00:03:58.380 and Alex Saab, who laundered illicit proceeds

00:04:03.300 for narcotics terrorists,

00:04:05.240 Nicholas Madero, and was a key connection

00:04:09.040 between Venezuela and Iran

00:04:12.060 and five family members of his own family.

00:04:16.100 President Biden did that.

00:04:18.120 Senator.

00:04:21.040 Welcome, Mr. Patel.

00:04:23.420 Do you believe America is an exceptional nation?

00:04:27.140 It's the greatest nation.

00:04:29.040 Your family went through a lot to get here.

00:04:31.760 They sure did.

00:04:32.420 And your life story is, I think,

00:04:36.140 a great example of people pursuing the American dream.

00:04:40.560 Do you believe what a large part of what makes America

00:04:43.800 an exceptional nation is the rule of law?

00:04:46.680 It is one of the fundamental precepts that determines that.

00:04:49.980 And why is that?

00:04:51.260 Because without a singular application of a rule of law,

00:04:54.240 we go back to the Uganda that my father fled in Idi Amin.

00:04:58.180 20 trusted studies?

00:04:59.640 It depends what the...

00:05:01.820 What's your number?

00:05:03.440 It completely depends on the kind of study you're talking about,

00:05:06.520 randomized studies or observational studies.

00:05:08.780 Is it safe to assume that 100 studies

00:05:11.200 that are replicable and peer-reviewed is enough?

00:05:14.460 Well, it could be one study

00:05:16.220 if it was a powerful enough study.

00:05:18.360 The most widely used medication abortion drug,

00:05:21.680 mifepristone,

00:05:22.680 has been FDA-approved for nearly 25 years.

00:05:26.600 More than 100 studies have confirmed

00:05:28.760 that 99% of patients who took the abortion pill

00:05:32.860 had no complications.

00:05:34.700 So with all of that,

00:05:36.340 I can only conclude that you would commit

00:05:38.600 to keep this science-backed and proven medication

00:05:41.940 on the market and accessible for women.

00:05:44.560 Is that correct?

00:05:45.180 I'm going to, with mifepristone,

00:05:48.720 President Trump has not chosen a policy,

00:05:52.620 and I will implement his policy.

00:05:57.820 So regardless of the studies,

00:06:01.600 regardless of the data,

00:06:02.880 regardless of the science,

00:06:04.080 you've been talking about show me the data,

00:06:05.940 show me the studies.

00:06:07.860 Well, if you...

00:06:09.180 You would have that policy

00:06:10.560 regardless of what the science says.

00:06:13.240 The senator, the devil is in the details.

00:06:15.740 If you're telling me 99% of women did okay, 0.99

00:06:18.780 but 1% died,

00:06:20.020 I would say that is not a beneficial risk profile.

00:06:23.700 That is not what the studies show.

00:06:25.280 I know, but you're not showing me

00:06:26.560 I need those details from the study

00:06:28.460 before I can't buy a pig and a poke.

00:06:31.500 Show me what the study says.

00:06:33.380 Let's move on.

00:06:35.680 Next, it would be Senator Mullen.

00:06:40.500 Thank you, Mr. Kennedy, for being here.

00:06:43.240 You know, we have...

00:06:45.040 Going to Tulsi Gabbard,

00:06:46.160 being grilled by Warner.

00:06:49.580 Remember, the 702 is critical

00:06:51.220 to our national security,

00:06:52.080 60% of the president's daily brief,

00:06:54.900 60% of the information

00:06:55.980 President Trump gets every day

00:06:57.760 in a PDB will come from this.

00:07:00.520 You've had a long history

00:07:02.080 of opposing 702.

00:07:03.900 Many members of Congress have.

00:07:05.800 But one of the things you've actually done

00:07:07.200 that not many have

00:07:08.200 is not to reform it,

00:07:09.340 but you actually said

00:07:10.780 you wanted to repeal it.

00:07:12.580 But now, whether it's, you know,

00:07:14.900 confirmation conversion

00:07:16.080 or whatever you call 702 vital,

00:07:19.580 and I'm quoting,

00:07:21.420 because of significant Pfizer reforms

00:07:23.200 have been enacted

00:07:23.800 since you left Congress.

00:07:25.780 Ms. Gabbard, what are the reforms

00:07:27.360 that have led you

00:07:28.520 to now support 702?

00:07:30.620 In the short time that I have, Senator,

00:07:33.160 I will just note that

00:07:34.920 my actions in legislation

00:07:37.040 in Congress were done

00:07:38.660 to draw attention

00:07:39.560 to the egregious civil liberties violations

00:07:41.720 that were occurring at that time.

00:07:44.240 Ms. Gabbard, you said...

00:07:45.060 Some of the...

00:07:45.440 Ms. Gabbard, I ask you a question.

00:07:47.140 Please give me the courtesy of responding.

00:07:49.020 You said the reforms

00:07:50.300 now make you supportive.

00:07:52.260 What...

00:07:52.640 Can you cite?

00:07:53.160 Which reforms?

00:07:53.920 There are a number of reforms

00:07:55.220 to include...

00:07:56.160 In the new law, right?

00:07:56.840 In the new law, right?

00:07:57.720 That all of you and your wisdom...

00:07:59.240 Ms. Gabbard, my time is getting short.

00:08:02.000 But I got to just tell you,

00:08:03.380 after the reforms

00:08:05.740 were passed into law

00:08:07.460 in April of 24,

00:08:10.780 you went on Joe Rogan's podcast

00:08:14.300 in May.

00:08:16.160 The bill is now law.

00:08:18.560 And you said, quote,

00:08:21.140 this bill took an already bad problem

00:08:23.580 and made it many, many times worse.

00:08:28.420 Again, in my mind,

00:08:30.560 this is a question of judgment.

00:08:31.740 702 is critical.

00:08:34.840 I appreciate this late conversion,

00:08:36.860 but I'm not sure I'd buy it

00:08:38.680 because you've had such

00:08:39.620 a consistent position.

00:08:42.560 Again, I know my colleagues

00:08:43.920 are going to raise these,

00:08:44.640 but rather than standing up

00:08:46.120 to dictators like Putin and Assad,

00:08:48.980 you know, you've sometimes

00:08:50.100 amplified his talking points.

00:08:52.140 I mean, I just do not understand

00:08:53.720 how you can blame NATO

00:08:55.380 for Putin's brutal invasion

00:08:57.340 of Ukraine.

00:08:59.180 And when Assad used chemical weapons

00:09:02.540 against his own people, 0.81

00:09:05.480 he didn't condemn him.

00:09:06.240 I can go through all the quotes.

00:09:08.180 He actually questioned

00:09:08.940 Americans' intelligence.

00:09:10.840 Now, you mentioned a lot

00:09:12.520 about trust.

00:09:14.900 You know, and one of the things

00:09:15.660 that I'm so proud

00:09:16.240 on this committee is

00:09:17.040 my friend Senator Burr said,

00:09:20.140 we always follow the truth.

00:09:21.040 I say on this committee,

00:09:24.200 the most valuable work

00:09:25.060 I do in this,

00:09:25.520 and we have a bipartisan

00:09:26.800 approach to intelligence.

00:09:28.080 I think we have worked

00:09:29.140 to try to keep

00:09:29.680 the intelligence community

00:09:30.580 and earn their trust

00:09:31.480 and frankly, earn the trust

00:09:32.500 of the American people.

00:09:34.940 But I respectfully,

00:09:38.620 ma'am, I just don't believe

00:09:39.940 on your judgment

00:09:42.000 and credibility issues

00:09:43.320 that this is the appropriate role

00:09:45.860 that you should take going forward.

00:09:47.700 Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

00:09:48.500 Senator Collins.

00:09:49.840 Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

00:09:51.220 Ms. Gabbard,

00:09:53.340 Edward Snowden does stand out

00:09:56.040 as having done particularly grave harm

00:09:59.580 to our national security

00:10:01.420 by revealing top-secret information,

00:10:05.920 including sensitive sources

00:10:08.560 and methods,

00:10:10.280 thus jeopardizing agents

00:10:12.540 in the field.

00:10:14.100 So let me ask you a question.

00:10:16.920 If confirmed,

00:10:19.240 would you support

00:10:21.020 or recommend

00:10:22.840 a pardon

00:10:24.440 or any kind of clemency

00:10:27.760 for Edward Snowden?

00:10:30.640 Thank you for the question,

00:10:32.500 Senator Collins.

00:10:33.420 If confirmed as the Director

00:10:34.620 of National Intelligence,

00:10:35.960 my responsibility would be

00:10:37.420 to ensure the security

00:10:39.460 of our nation's secrets

00:10:41.000 and would not take actions

00:10:42.820 to advocate for any actions

00:10:44.720 related to Snowden.

00:10:46.060 So the answer is no.

00:10:48.980 Is that correct?

00:10:51.020 In 2020,

00:10:52.900 you introduced

00:10:54.040 the Protect Brave Whistleblowers Act,

00:10:56.700 which would amend

00:10:58.080 the Espionage Act

00:11:00.240 to make it more difficult

00:11:02.540 to prosecute individuals

00:11:05.080 who reveal classified information.

00:11:08.880 In particular,

00:11:10.400 the bill would allow individuals

00:11:12.980 to disclose even top-secret information

00:11:17.540 as long as it's not done

00:11:20.600 with the specific intent

00:11:22.960 to injure the United States

00:11:25.240 or advantage any foreign nation.

00:11:27.940 Your bill would also have created

00:11:31.180 an affirmative defense

00:11:32.900 if public disclosure

00:11:35.020 of classified information

00:11:36.740 were made for several reasons,

00:11:39.140 one of which was

00:11:40.300 to expose gross waste of funds.

00:11:44.100 I strongly oppose this legislation,

00:11:48.000 which would hamper our ability

00:11:50.760 to prosecute people

00:11:52.540 who give our adversaries

00:11:55.700 classified information.

00:11:57.640 So let me ask you this.

00:12:00.560 Ms. Gabbard,

00:12:01.380 do you still support

00:12:03.340 providing individuals

00:12:05.440 who have access

00:12:06.960 to top-secret information

00:12:09.440 with the ability

00:12:10.980 to make their own decisions

00:12:13.440 regarding whether

00:12:15.200 that information

00:12:16.360 should be publicly disclosed,

00:12:19.080 even though disclosure

00:12:21.120 may cause tremendous harm

00:12:23.600 to our country

00:12:24.680 or our allies?

00:12:27.140 Senator,

00:12:27.940 we cannot and should not

00:12:29.600 have individual vigilantes

00:12:31.600 within the intelligence community

00:12:33.380 making their own decisions

00:12:34.940 about how and where and when

00:12:36.640 to expose our nation's secrets.

00:12:39.280 The intent of the legislation

00:12:40.980 that you have pointed out

00:12:43.040 was pointed towards

00:12:44.900 ensuring due process

00:12:46.100 for those who are charged

00:12:47.560 under the Espionage Act.

00:12:49.080 ...on the record.

00:12:50.600 These claims

00:12:51.760 made in that statement

00:12:53.540 were rejected by courts,

00:12:55.400 including by Republican judges.

00:12:57.160 Is that correct?

00:12:58.780 I don't have enough

00:12:59.840 of the facts in front of me

00:13:00.780 to make that assessment.

00:13:01.600 I will put that statement

00:13:02.380 on the record,

00:13:03.020 but I think everyone

00:13:03.860 in this committee,

00:13:05.020 including the Republican members,

00:13:06.540 knows that these statements

00:13:07.560 were rejected by courts.

00:13:09.980 You were asked about

00:13:10.820 the police officers

00:13:12.340 in the Capitol

00:13:13.240 who testified

00:13:15.120 in the January 6 hearings

00:13:16.880 and you accused them of lying.

00:13:18.920 Is that correct

00:13:19.720 or not correct?

00:13:20.800 I don't think that's accurate.

00:13:21.860 Okay, Joe Peck's podcast,

00:13:24.360 March 2024.

00:13:25.880 We'll put it on the record.

00:13:27.580 I was there.

00:13:28.480 The police officers

00:13:29.440 were heroes that day.

00:13:31.580 Yes.

00:13:31.820 Did you post

00:13:32.860 on your personal

00:13:34.060 social media account

00:13:35.240 in May of 2024,

00:13:37.560 January 6,

00:13:38.920 never an insurrection,

00:13:40.660 cowards in uniforms exposed?

00:13:42.880 They broke the chain of command.

00:13:45.900 I believe you're referencing

00:13:47.340 a post that was shown

00:13:48.520 in part earlier.

00:13:49.640 I don't have it in front of me.

00:13:50.780 You posted it

00:13:53.420 and it was on your account

00:13:54.820 and we will again

00:13:56.400 put that out there

00:13:57.520 once more

00:13:58.500 as we go on.

00:14:00.440 I don't want to lose

00:14:01.080 any more time on this,

00:14:02.100 but every one of these,

00:14:03.140 there's a record of it

00:14:04.280 and you haven't answered.

00:14:07.280 You promoted

00:14:08.220 a COVID vaccine reversal

00:14:10.000 or detox supplement.

00:14:11.960 One scientist said,

00:14:13.020 I quote,

00:14:13.720 none of these substances

00:14:14.840 in any form

00:14:15.980 would minimize side effects

00:14:17.760 from a COVID-19 vaccine.

00:14:19.360 that is preying

00:14:20.360 on innocent people.

00:14:21.720 Did you perform

00:14:22.600 clinical trials

00:14:23.640 before you made that claim?

00:14:26.740 I'm not a doctor,

00:14:27.920 so no.

00:14:28.560 But you did promote

00:14:29.460 this supplement

00:14:30.180 and told people

00:14:30.980 that it would reverse

00:14:31.920 or mitigate

00:14:32.840 the side effects

00:14:35.220 from COVID vaccine.

00:14:37.080 Did I give people

00:14:37.820 an opportunity

00:14:38.340 to make an independent choice

00:14:39.580 for what's best

00:14:40.180 for their families?

00:14:40.980 Yes.

00:14:41.400 You did that last year,

00:14:42.560 correct?

00:14:43.180 I don't have it

00:14:43.880 in front of me.

00:14:44.420 Again, Senator?

00:14:44.960 Mr. Patel,

00:14:46.960 the FBI tackles

00:14:47.860 some of the most

00:14:48.500 complex threats

00:14:49.580 that we face.

00:14:50.440 Terrorists,

00:14:51.220 hostile foreign powers, 1.00

00:14:52.560 violent gangs,

00:14:53.680 fentanyl,

00:14:54.200 criminal organizations.

00:14:56.460 Your mission, though,

00:14:57.700 has been to go after people.

00:14:59.680 I've looked at it.

00:15:00.500 I've read this stuff.

00:15:02.480 Yes or no?

00:15:03.580 When Trump wins,

00:15:04.580 did you say this?

00:15:05.380 When Trump wins

00:15:06.240 in 2024

00:15:07.100 and is in power

00:15:08.560 in 2025,

00:15:09.960 we can prosecute them,

00:15:11.900 referring to

00:15:12.780 Justice Department officials

00:15:14.260 for an actual

00:15:15.560 RICO statute violation

00:15:16.980 for criminally organizing

00:15:18.620 the United States government

00:15:19.840 to break the law

00:15:20.700 to rig presidential elections.

00:15:22.940 Did you say that,

00:15:23.700 yes or no?

00:15:24.400 Again, Senator,

00:15:24.980 you're reading

00:15:25.360 a partial statement,

00:15:26.420 so I'm unable

00:15:27.000 to fully respond.

00:15:28.440 Okay, again,

00:15:29.100 we'll put it on the record.

00:15:30.280 X-22 Report Podcast 20.

00:15:34.960 That is from

00:15:35.880 I'll Get You the Date

00:15:36.760 about a year ago.

00:15:38.720 One of the names

00:15:39.620 on your list

00:15:40.180 was Bill Barr.

00:15:41.000 Chairman Grassley

00:15:44.220 has called him

00:15:44.980 one of the most capable

00:15:46.120 cabinet officials

00:15:47.060 I've ever been able

00:15:47.880 to vote for.

00:15:48.920 Senator Graham has said,

00:15:50.020 I have nothing

00:15:50.420 but total respect

00:15:51.440 and admiration

00:15:52.380 for the job done

00:15:53.420 by William Barr

00:15:54.300 as Attorney General

00:15:55.540 of the United States.

00:15:58.000 Is Bill Barr

00:15:59.340 on your list

00:16:00.200 of whatever you want

00:16:00.920 to call them,

00:16:01.760 you know,

00:16:03.020 been referred to

00:16:04.080 as an enemy's list?

00:16:05.340 You've called them

00:16:05.920 Deep State

00:16:06.580 after serving his country

00:16:08.540 as the Attorney General

00:16:09.760 of the United States.

00:16:11.080 Is he on your list

00:16:12.080 because of a personal vendetta?

00:16:13.980 Well, it's not

00:16:14.620 whatever we want

00:16:15.280 to call it,

00:16:15.880 Senator,

00:16:16.100 with all due respect.

00:16:16.960 It's not an enemy's list.

00:16:18.520 That is a total

00:16:19.380 mischaracterization.

00:16:20.600 I ask you,

00:16:21.620 I actually use

00:16:23.260 the words you use

00:16:24.160 for the list,

00:16:25.200 which was Deep State,

00:16:26.320 right?

00:16:26.620 That's what you put

00:16:27.220 at the time.

00:16:27.380 It is a glossary

00:16:28.200 against the Attorney General

00:16:29.260 of the United States.

00:16:30.780 Is it because

00:16:31.620 of a personal vendetta

00:16:32.660 that he's on the list?

00:16:33.740 You're under oath.

00:16:34.560 I have no personal

00:16:35.440 vendetta against Bill Barr.

00:16:36.140 Okay, he said about you,

00:16:37.400 you would never be able

00:16:38.320 to command the respect

00:16:39.460 necessary to run

00:16:40.380 the day-to-day operations

00:16:41.480 of the Bureau.

00:16:42.280 That was actually

00:16:43.120 in writing in his book.

00:16:44.440 He had virtually,

00:16:45.320 about you,

00:16:45.880 no experience

00:16:46.660 that would qualify you

00:16:47.700 to serve at the highest level

00:16:49.340 of the world's preeminent

00:16:50.380 law enforcement agency,

00:16:51.860 and that your appointment,

00:16:53.160 as noted by Senator Durbin

00:16:54.820 as Deputy Director

00:16:56.000 to the FBI,

00:16:57.280 would happen over his dead body.

00:16:59.580 Is it, yes or no,

00:17:00.640 why you would put him

00:17:01.440 on the list of Deep State

00:17:02.660 as a former Attorney General,

00:17:04.020 Trump Attorney General

00:17:04.880 of the United States?

00:17:05.960 Because he wouldn't break

00:17:07.240 the law for Donald Trump.

00:17:08.540 Is that why?

00:17:09.360 Absolutely not.

00:17:10.840 As you know,

00:17:11.440 he repeatedly told the president

00:17:13.100 in no uncertain terms

00:17:14.460 that he did not see evidence

00:17:15.960 of fraud that would have affected

00:17:17.400 the outcome of the election.

00:17:19.600 Did you say in February of 2021

00:17:21.680 that the election stuff

00:17:23.080 was never my job,

00:17:24.600 and I state all of it all

00:17:25.900 I state out of that stuff?

00:17:28.020 Again, I don't know

00:17:28.840 what comment you're referring to,

00:17:30.000 but I'm sure you're reading

00:17:30.700 a piece of something.

00:17:31.340 You said it on pushback

00:17:33.980 on a podcast.

00:17:35.480 Is it true, though,

00:17:36.400 that in December of 2020,

00:17:38.140 you reached out

00:17:39.100 to the Trump acting

00:17:40.400 Deputy Attorney General

00:17:41.640 and asked him

00:17:42.620 to investigate

00:17:43.360 a conspiracy theory

00:17:44.680 claiming that people

00:17:45.760 in Italy

00:17:46.400 had used military technology

00:17:48.440 and satellites

00:17:49.180 to remotely tamper

00:17:50.260 with voting machines

00:17:51.420 in the U.S.

00:17:52.120 and switch votes

00:17:53.260 for Trump

00:17:54.280 from Biden

00:17:55.960 to from Trump

00:17:57.240 to Biden.

00:17:58.100 Is that true?

00:17:58.820 What was the date?

00:18:00.300 That was out

00:18:01.360 of December of 2020.

00:18:03.360 I was chief of staff

00:18:04.240 to the Department of Defense,

00:18:05.600 so I don't believe

00:18:06.400 that's accurate in any way.

00:18:07.460 That came out

00:18:07.980 of testimony

00:18:08.540 before Congress.

00:18:09.740 I will give it to you.

00:18:12.800 Have you referred

00:18:13.840 to the media

00:18:14.500 as the most powerful

00:18:15.700 enemy of the United States

00:18:17.240 that they have ever seen?

00:18:18.500 Is that right?

00:18:19.580 Again,

00:18:19.980 you're reading a quote.

00:18:20.860 I take that you're reading

00:18:22.480 it accurately.

00:18:23.360 H-2-C-PAC-223-24.

00:18:25.800 You said we're going

00:18:26.580 to come after

00:18:27.140 the people in the media

00:18:28.180 who lied about

00:18:29.000 American citizens

00:18:29.940 who helped Joe Biden

00:18:31.300 rig the elections.

00:18:32.680 We're going to come

00:18:33.780 after you whether

00:18:34.440 it's criminally

00:18:35.220 or civilly.

00:18:36.800 Is that something

00:18:37.440 you said?

00:18:38.280 That's a partial statement

00:18:39.440 of what I said.

00:18:40.340 Steve Bannon's podcast.

00:18:42.800 You also said

00:18:43.760 you would put

00:18:44.200 the entire fake news

00:18:45.340 mafia press corps

00:18:46.420 on your list.

00:18:47.420 Is that correct?

00:18:48.940 Is that what you said?

00:18:49.700 I don't have that

00:18:51.020 in front of me.

00:18:51.480 Benny Johnson's podcast

00:18:52.780 8-21-23.

00:18:55.000 You have said

00:18:56.120 that the FBI,

00:18:57.920 including today,

00:19:00.080 you said that

00:19:01.200 they remain utterly corrupt.

00:19:02.740 This is an agency

00:19:03.560 with agents

00:19:05.160 who have taken down

00:19:06.220 terrorists, 0.70

00:19:06.960 taken down bank robbers,

00:19:09.180 taken down crime.

00:19:10.660 And you wrote

00:19:11.540 that the FBI

00:19:12.240 has become so thoroughly

00:19:13.520 compromised

00:19:14.080 that it will remain

00:19:14.960 a threat to the people

00:19:16.100 unless drastic measures

00:19:17.680 are taken.

00:19:18.300 Do you know

00:19:19.900 that under

00:19:20.440 Chris Wray's leadership

00:19:21.460 he took over

00:19:22.220 at a very difficult time,

00:19:23.560 we all know that,

00:19:24.340 appointed by President Trump,

00:19:26.420 that during his tenure

00:19:28.920 the applications

00:19:29.820 to the FBI

00:19:30.900 has in fact tripled.

00:19:33.940 Do you think

00:19:34.340 people would be applying

00:19:35.260 to that agency

00:19:36.040 like in those numbers

00:19:37.240 if they thought

00:19:37.880 it was so corrupt?

00:19:39.720 The American public's

00:19:40.720 trust in it

00:19:41.280 is at 40%.

00:19:42.260 That's an all-time low.

00:19:43.460 Did you say

00:19:44.940 that the FBI headquarters

00:19:46.560 should be shut down

00:19:47.920 and reopened

00:19:48.660 as a museum

00:19:49.440 of the deep state?

00:19:51.180 Mr. Chairman,

00:19:51.720 are we allowed

00:19:52.100 to go in extra time?

00:19:53.480 Let's see.

00:19:54.620 You get a second round.

00:19:57.060 Before I call

00:19:57.720 on Senator Leahy.

00:19:58.460 Could he just

00:19:59.100 answer the question

00:20:00.000 if he said

00:20:00.980 that the FBI headquarters

00:20:02.520 where they investigate

00:20:03.700 cybercrime

00:20:04.560 and terrorism

00:20:05.260 should be shut down

00:20:06.460 and open

00:20:06.900 as a deep state?

00:20:07.680 Mr. Chair.

00:20:08.180 As a museum.

00:20:09.180 Did he say

00:20:09.780 that the headquarters

00:20:10.980 should be shut down?

00:20:11.940 I deserve an answer

00:20:13.460 to that question.

00:20:14.560 He is asking

00:20:15.280 to be head of the FBI

00:20:16.780 and he said

00:20:17.720 that their headquarters

00:20:18.500 should be shut down.

00:20:19.660 Mr. Chair,

00:20:20.260 parliamentary inquiry.

00:20:21.500 You got anything

00:20:22.140 you want to say,

00:20:22.960 Mr. Patel,

00:20:24.000 before I go on

00:20:24.780 to Senator Lee?

00:20:25.780 Simply this.

00:20:27.220 If the best attacks

00:20:28.120 on me are going

00:20:28.700 to be false accusations

00:20:29.720 and grotesque

00:20:30.480 mischaracterizations,

00:20:31.540 the only thing

00:20:32.120 this body is doing

00:20:33.100 is defeating

00:20:34.020 the credibility

00:20:35.120 of the men and women

00:20:35.860 at the FBI.

00:20:37.140 I stood with them

00:20:38.100 here in this country

00:20:39.320 in every theater

00:20:40.340 of war we have.

00:20:41.420 I was on the ground

00:20:42.280 in service

00:20:42.760 of this nation

00:20:43.580 and any accusations

00:20:45.540 leveled against me

00:20:46.620 that I would somehow

00:20:47.660 put political bias

00:20:48.860 before the Constitution

00:20:49.940 or grotesquely unfair

00:20:51.200 and I will have you

00:20:53.100 reminded that I have

00:20:54.260 been endorsed

00:20:54.820 by over 300,000

00:20:56.720 law enforcement officers

00:20:58.320 to become the next

00:20:59.320 director of the FBI.

00:21:00.460 Let's ask them.

00:21:01.380 Mr. Chairman,

00:21:02.220 I am quoting

00:21:02.980 his own words

00:21:04.560 from September

00:21:05.660 of 2024.

00:21:07.340 It is his own words.

00:21:08.820 It is not

00:21:09.600 some conspiracy.

00:21:10.760 It is what

00:21:12.180 Mr. Patel

00:21:13.000 actually said

00:21:14.260 himself.

00:21:15.420 Facts matter.

00:21:16.820 You forget

00:21:17.340 that you had

00:21:18.240 three minutes

00:21:19.000 in the next round

00:21:19.960 to say what you just said.

00:21:21.500 Okay, I'll say them again.

00:21:23.100 Okay.

00:21:24.120 Before I call Lee.

00:21:25.580 Mr. Chair,

00:21:26.300 just parliamentary inquiry

00:21:27.820 and it was on time.

00:21:28.720 It wasn't disputing

00:21:29.580 any of the debate

00:21:30.300 but I intend to keep

00:21:31.420 to my seven minutes

00:21:32.440 and I appreciate

00:21:33.100 you keeping everyone

00:21:33.960 to it.

00:21:34.760 If we go over,

00:21:35.820 can we have that decrement

00:21:36.840 against the time

00:21:37.680 in the second round?

00:21:39.940 If a member goes over.

00:21:41.920 That was actually

00:21:43.100 ten minutes,

00:21:43.760 Mr. Chair.

00:21:44.320 I'm not sure

00:21:45.120 that I want to.

00:21:46.840 Sometimes it's faster

00:21:48.200 to get things done here

00:21:49.520 just letting people

00:21:50.720 shout

00:21:51.340 than it does

00:21:53.680 to shut them up.

00:21:54.280 Mr. Chairman.

00:21:54.840 You're a wise man,

00:21:55.720 Mr. Chair.

00:21:56.080 Thank you.

00:21:56.680 Mr. Chairman.

00:21:57.800 Mr. Chairman.

00:21:58.620 Before we go to Lee.

00:21:59.580 Mr. Chairman.

00:22:00.960 Yes,

00:22:01.460 what do you want?

00:22:02.100 I love this guy.

00:22:08.940 Mr. Chairman,

00:22:10.060 I'm like Senator Tellis.

00:22:11.740 I mean,

00:22:11.940 if we're going to start this,

00:22:13.800 I don't,

00:22:14.780 I want an extra

00:22:15.820 three minutes.

00:22:17.140 Now my friend

00:22:18.120 Senator Kovachar

00:22:19.380 with three minutes over.

00:22:20.720 So here what you're saying

00:22:22.740 is the chairman

00:22:23.500 wasn't a very good chairman

00:22:25.080 by not shutting her up

00:22:26.380 but I've gone through

00:22:27.380 this before

00:22:28.160 and I think

00:22:29.740 I know how to handle it

00:22:31.180 and get this done.

00:22:31.360 Well, I think you're,

00:22:32.000 I think you're

00:22:32.700 a star-spangled awesome chairman.

00:22:34.600 I just want to say that

00:22:35.580 for the record

00:22:36.180 but if you're going to let

00:22:37.560 somebody over there

00:22:38.520 go three minutes over,

00:22:39.640 I want my extra three minutes.

00:22:41.080 Well, let's see,

00:22:41.820 let's see if it's abused

00:22:43.080 by anybody else

00:22:44.180 before we make that decision.

00:22:45.580 I'm just telling you

00:22:46.320 I'm going to abuse it.

00:22:48.660 Well, I'm not going

00:22:49.620 to let you abuse it.

00:22:51.840 You're a good man,

00:22:52.680 Mr. Chairman.

00:22:53.520 Before I go to Lee,

00:22:54.720 I want to put a record,

00:22:56.020 a statement in the record

00:22:57.500 from 56 former FBI agents

00:23:00.900 wrote to this committee

00:23:02.600 to support this nominee.

00:23:04.920 Quote,

00:23:05.360 never has the FBI

00:23:06.720 faced such an urgent

00:23:08.380 and compelling need

00:23:09.840 for comprehensive reform

00:23:11.880 as it does today.

00:23:13.580 Mr. Patel has proven

00:23:15.180 he possesses

00:23:16.480 the breadth of experience

00:23:18.640 required to address

00:23:19.860 these challenges.

00:23:21.320 You said you never said that.

00:23:22.940 Now, I'm not asking you

00:23:23.600 to explain what you said.

00:23:24.460 I didn't say I'd never said that.

00:23:26.120 You didn't say that.

00:23:27.060 Senator Warnock.

00:23:27.220 I did not say

00:23:28.120 that I hadn't said that,

00:23:29.340 Senator.

00:23:29.640 I said the other question

00:23:31.640 he asked me about

00:23:32.440 Nazi death camps.

00:23:33.620 That's fine.

00:23:33.960 You're doubling down on that.

00:23:35.320 You said,

00:23:36.460 Senator Warnock

00:23:37.100 also asked you

00:23:38.340 if you compared

00:23:39.140 America's vaccine campaign

00:23:40.560 to the Nazi death camps

00:23:41.900 and the Holocaust.

00:23:43.740 Again, you said yesterday

00:23:44.960 you didn't say that.

00:23:46.220 I did not say that.

00:23:47.300 You did not say that.

00:23:48.620 Senator Bennett asked you

00:23:50.240 if you had made

00:23:52.580 an allegation

00:23:53.440 that AIDS 0.86

00:23:54.900 is a different disease

00:23:56.940 in Africa

00:23:57.740 than it is in America.

00:23:59.700 On that one,

00:24:00.200 you said you didn't recall.

00:24:01.640 Having had a day

00:24:02.720 to think about it,

00:24:04.000 do you recall

00:24:05.700 saying that AIDS

00:24:07.740 is a different disease

00:24:09.100 in Africa

00:24:09.960 than it is in the United States?

00:24:11.320 I looked up that passage

00:24:12.880 in my book

00:24:13.960 and found that indeed

00:24:16.400 the diagnostics

00:24:19.320 diagnostics

00:24:19.960 for AIDS

00:24:20.840 are very different

00:24:21.600 in Africa

00:24:22.180 than in the United States

00:24:24.020 that the list of symptoms

00:24:26.540 is almost completely different.

00:24:29.120 So let me just,

00:24:30.740 I'll submit this

00:24:31.440 for the record,

00:24:32.220 but having denied

00:24:33.820 the first two statements,

00:24:35.020 let me just read

00:24:35.740 what you said.

00:24:37.700 You said in 2013,

00:24:41.040 is it hyperbole

00:24:42.300 to say that the people

00:24:43.540 who run our vaccine programs

00:24:45.160 should be in jail?

00:24:45.920 They should be in jail.

00:24:47.500 To me,

00:24:48.940 this is like

00:24:50.560 Nazi death camps.

00:24:53.000 Look at what it does

00:24:53.820 to the families

00:24:54.480 who participate

00:24:55.100 in the vaccine program.

00:24:56.360 I can't tell why somebody

00:24:57.620 would do something like that.

00:24:58.700 I can't tell you

00:24:59.480 why ordinary Germans 1.00

00:25:00.960 participated in the Holocaust.

00:25:04.500 I can't tell you

00:25:05.640 what was going on

00:25:06.460 in their minds.

00:25:07.840 With respect

00:25:08.720 to the pedophilia scandal,

00:25:12.080 you said

00:25:12.700 the pedophilia scandal

00:25:14.880 in the Catholic Church

00:25:15.620 is a perfect metaphor

00:25:17.580 for what's happening

00:25:18.460 in the United States.

00:25:20.040 The vaccine program,

00:25:21.480 it's the same reason

00:25:22.280 we had a pedophilia scandal

00:25:23.620 in the Catholic Church,

00:25:24.620 because people

00:25:25.320 were able to convince themselves

00:25:26.900 that the institution

00:25:27.680 of the Church

00:25:28.140 was more important

00:25:28.980 than these little boys

00:25:30.280 and girls

00:25:30.780 who were being raped.

00:25:32.720 I don't disagree 0.95

00:25:33.640 with Senator Mullen.

00:25:34.520 I don't want

00:25:35.420 an HHS secretary

00:25:36.340 that's not going

00:25:37.060 to question science.

00:25:38.420 I think it's important

00:25:39.100 to question science.

00:25:39.960 But you're not

00:25:41.720 questioning science.

00:25:43.080 You've made up your mind.

00:25:45.340 You have spent

00:25:45.900 your entire career

00:25:47.940 undermining

00:25:49.700 America's vaccine program.

00:25:51.660 You make these

00:25:52.300 purposeful comparisons

00:25:53.840 to those that

00:25:56.300 are administering

00:25:57.820 the vaccine program

00:25:59.260 to the Nazi executioners,

00:26:01.580 to the people

00:26:02.380 who covered up

00:26:03.240 the Catholic Church's

00:26:05.100 pedophilia scandal,

00:26:06.060 because you have

00:26:07.100 made a decision

00:26:07.900 that there is

00:26:09.640 a comparison

00:26:10.500 that there is

00:26:12.320 evil

00:26:13.280 in the vaccine program

00:26:15.080 as there was evil

00:26:16.140 in the pedophilia scandal

00:26:17.240 and the Nazi death camps.

00:26:18.880 You aren't

00:26:19.420 exploring science.

00:26:21.080 You have

00:26:21.340 made up your mind.

00:26:23.060 You've spent

00:26:23.460 your entire career

00:26:24.720 trying to undermine

00:26:25.820 these programs.

00:26:26.900 The reason that

00:26:27.640 these statements,

00:26:28.520 these incredibly aggressive,

00:26:30.080 over-the-top statements,

00:26:31.400 matter to us

00:26:32.200 is because

00:26:33.400 it just isn't believable

00:26:34.600 that when you

00:26:35.940 become secretary,

00:26:37.760 you are all of a sudden

00:26:38.920 going to be

00:26:39.740 consistent with science.

00:26:42.460 People who have

00:26:43.220 spent their career

00:26:44.260 saying these kinds

00:26:45.920 of things,

00:26:46.580 running the kinds

00:26:47.300 of campaigns

00:26:47.920 that you have run,

00:26:48.840 don't all of a sudden

00:26:50.100 change their stripes.

00:26:51.420 And so,

00:26:51.680 Mr. Chairman,

00:26:52.100 I will submit

00:26:53.640 these statements.

00:26:55.520 Can I respond to that,

00:26:56.860 Senator?

00:26:57.140 With an objection.

00:26:57.780 My statement

00:27:01.040 about the Catholic Church

00:27:01.960 is almost identical.

00:27:03.920 The findings

00:27:04.720 of the Government

00:27:05.360 Oversight Investigation

00:27:07.200 Committee

00:27:08.060 had investigated

00:27:09.940 CDC's vaccine program

00:27:11.800 in 2003.

00:27:13.180 Senator Burton

00:27:13.780 was chairman

00:27:14.320 of that committee.

00:27:15.880 And he said

00:27:16.740 that certain individuals

00:27:19.020 in that program

00:27:20.040 had written off

00:27:21.640 a generation of kids

00:27:22.820 because of

00:27:24.500 misplaced

00:27:26.200 institutional loyalty

00:27:27.700 to the CDC

00:27:28.460 and because of

00:27:30.380 entanglements

00:27:31.000 with the drug companies.

00:27:32.220 Let me finish

00:27:33.420 what I'm saying.

00:27:35.300 You made some

00:27:36.140 grave accusations.

00:27:37.300 Did you equate

00:27:37.640 pedophilia

00:27:38.000 to the administration

00:27:40.560 of vaccines?

00:27:41.560 No,

00:27:42.020 it wasn't pedophilia.

00:27:43.960 So it was a perfect metaphor.

00:27:45.640 Well,

00:27:45.820 if you have one

00:27:46.340 in 36 kids

00:27:47.600 who has neurological

00:27:48.560 injuries,

00:27:49.480 and if that is

00:27:51.980 linked,

00:27:53.400 that's something

00:27:53.800 that we should study.

00:27:55.120 Is it a perfect metaphor?

00:27:56.380 It's not a perfect metaphor,

00:27:57.560 but there's no

00:27:58.380 metaphor that's perfect.

00:27:59.820 But I am pro-vaccine.

00:28:01.440 I am going to support

00:28:02.560 the vaccine program.

00:28:03.840 I want kids

00:28:04.540 to be healthy.

00:28:06.020 And I'm coming in here

00:28:07.200 to get rid of the

00:28:07.940 conflicts of interest.

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00:32:18.260 Thank you.

00:32:19.100 Senator Hawley.

00:32:21.760 Thank you very much,

00:32:22.620 Mr. Chairman.

00:32:23.320 Mr. Kennedy, welcome.

00:32:24.700 I enjoyed our conversation

00:32:26.200 last month in our office.

00:32:27.940 And thank you for

00:32:28.880 remembering as you did.

00:32:29.960 I met with people

00:32:31.600 We're going to cut

00:32:32.280 to the White House

00:32:32.920 briefing room.

00:32:33.620 President Trump is coming

00:32:34.780 out, give brief remarks

00:32:35.780 about the tragedy

00:32:37.860 last night.

00:32:38.540 But then I think

00:32:39.120 he's going to take

00:32:39.540 questions.

00:32:40.040 This could be a wild one.

00:32:41.300 We're going to go

00:32:41.680 to the White House,

00:32:42.300 President of the United States.

00:32:45.260 Their families, please.

00:33:03.620 Thank you very much.

00:33:14.300 I speak to you this morning

00:33:16.000 in an hour of anguish

00:33:17.720 for a nation.

00:33:20.480 Just before 9 p.m.

00:33:22.600 last night,

00:33:23.220 an American Airlines

00:33:24.220 regional jet carrying

00:33:25.420 60 passengers

00:33:26.420 and four crew

00:33:27.260 collided with an Army

00:33:29.280 Black Hawk helicopter

00:33:30.660 carrying three military

00:33:31.860 service members

00:33:32.660 over the Potomac River

00:33:34.020 in Washington, D.C.,

00:33:36.200 while on final approach

00:33:37.500 to Reagan National Airport.

00:33:40.220 Both aircraft crashed

00:33:41.460 instantly

00:33:42.060 and were immediately

00:33:43.080 submerged into the icy

00:33:44.780 waters of the Potomac.

00:33:46.840 Real tragedy.

00:33:48.680 The massive search

00:33:49.620 and rescue mission

00:33:50.420 was underway

00:33:51.320 throughout the night,

00:33:52.900 leveraging every asset

00:33:54.100 at our disposal.

00:33:55.160 and I have to say

00:33:56.120 the local, state,

00:33:57.380 federal, military,

00:33:59.100 including the United States

00:34:01.140 Coast Guard in particular,

00:34:02.600 they've done a phenomenal job.

00:34:04.960 So quick, so fast.

00:34:06.460 It was mobilized immediately.

00:34:10.380 The work has now shifted

00:34:11.860 to a recovery mission.

00:34:15.760 Sadly, there are no survivors.

00:34:18.900 This was a dark

00:34:20.020 and excruciating night

00:34:21.260 in our nation's capital

00:34:22.840 and in our nation's history.

00:34:24.520 And a tragedy

00:34:26.060 of terrible proportions.

00:34:28.440 As one nation,

00:34:29.780 we grieve for every

00:34:30.860 precious soul

00:34:32.780 that has been taken

00:34:33.640 from us so suddenly.

00:34:36.440 And we are a country

00:34:37.880 of really,

00:34:39.580 we are in mourning.

00:34:40.960 This is really shaking

00:34:42.600 a lot of people,

00:34:43.700 including people,

00:34:44.680 very sadly,

00:34:45.240 from other nations

00:34:46.420 who were on the flight.

00:34:48.280 For the family members

00:34:49.880 back in Wichita, Kansas,

00:34:51.480 here in Washington, D.C.,

00:34:52.900 and throughout

00:34:53.260 the United States

00:34:54.240 and in Russia.

00:34:56.680 We have a Russia contingent,

00:34:59.360 some very talented people.

00:35:00.680 Unfortunately,

00:35:01.440 we're on that plane.

00:35:02.380 Very, very, very sorry

00:35:03.620 about that.

00:35:04.680 Whose loved ones

00:35:05.500 were aboard the passenger jet.

00:35:07.680 We can only begin

00:35:08.800 to imagine the agony

00:35:10.400 that you're all feeling.

00:35:12.600 Nothing worse.

00:35:13.320 On behalf of the First Lady,

00:35:15.920 myself,

00:35:16.460 and 340 million Americans,

00:35:18.360 our hearts are shattered

00:35:19.320 alongside yours,

00:35:20.480 and our prayers

00:35:21.100 are with you now

00:35:22.140 and in the days to come.

00:35:24.740 We'll be working

00:35:25.520 very, very diligently

00:35:26.640 in the days to come.

00:35:27.900 We're here

00:35:28.300 for you to wipe away

00:35:30.040 the tears

00:35:30.540 and to offer you

00:35:31.680 our devotion,

00:35:32.480 our love,

00:35:32.820 and our support.

00:35:33.980 There's great support.

00:35:35.660 In moments like this,

00:35:36.920 the differences

00:35:38.440 between Americans

00:35:39.540 fade to nothing

00:35:40.740 compared to the bonds

00:35:42.000 of affection

00:35:42.580 and loyalty

00:35:43.200 that unite us all,

00:35:44.860 both as Americans

00:35:45.820 and even as nations.

00:35:47.900 We are one family,

00:35:49.600 and today we are

00:35:50.600 all heartbroken.

00:35:51.900 We're all searching

00:35:53.420 for answers.

00:35:54.200 that icy, icy Potomac.

00:35:57.600 It was a cold,

00:35:58.700 cold night,

00:36:00.680 cold water.

00:36:02.180 We're all overcome

00:36:03.600 with the grief

00:36:04.480 for many who have

00:36:05.620 so tragically perished

00:36:07.000 will no longer

00:36:07.760 be with us.

00:36:09.040 Together we take solace

00:36:10.480 in the knowledge

00:36:11.140 that their journey

00:36:11.920 ended not in the cold

00:36:13.400 waters of the Potomac,

00:36:14.660 but in the warm embrace

00:36:15.940 of a loving God.

00:36:17.740 We do not know

00:36:19.060 what led to this crash,

00:36:20.960 but we have some

00:36:21.520 very strong opinions

00:36:22.800 and ideas

00:36:23.960 and I think we'll

00:36:24.560 probably state

00:36:25.280 those opinions now

00:36:26.400 because over the years

00:36:28.260 I've watched

00:36:28.800 as things like this happen

00:36:30.220 and they say,

00:36:30.960 well, we're always

00:36:31.880 investigating

00:36:32.580 and then the investigation

00:36:33.800 three years later

00:36:34.640 they announce it.

00:36:35.440 We think we have

00:36:36.560 some pretty good ideas,

00:36:37.820 but we'll find out

00:36:39.420 how this disaster occurred

00:36:40.760 and we'll ensure

00:36:41.720 that nothing like this

00:36:43.960 ever happens again.

00:36:45.580 The FAA

00:36:46.200 and the NTSB

00:36:47.920 and the U.S. military

00:36:49.000 will be carrying out

00:36:50.020 a systematic

00:36:51.280 and comprehensive investigation

00:36:53.180 our new Secretary

00:36:54.340 of Transportation,

00:36:55.900 Sean Duffy,

00:36:57.300 his second day

00:36:58.800 on the job

00:36:59.360 when that happened.

00:37:01.440 It's a rough one.

00:37:04.700 We'll be working tirelessly.

00:37:06.180 He's a great gentleman.

00:37:07.220 The whole group

00:37:08.140 is these are great people

00:37:09.560 and they are working tirelessly

00:37:11.860 to figure out

00:37:13.120 exactly what happened.

00:37:14.920 We will state

00:37:15.880 certain opinions, however.

00:37:17.040 I'm also immediately appointing

00:37:19.420 an acting commissioner

00:37:20.500 to the FAA,

00:37:22.140 Christopher Rochelieu,

00:37:24.220 a 22-year veteran

00:37:26.160 of the agency,

00:37:27.000 highly respected.

00:37:29.040 Christopher,

00:37:29.720 thank you very much.

00:37:30.700 Appreciate it.

00:37:32.160 We must have only

00:37:32.960 the highest standards

00:37:33.920 for those who work

00:37:34.740 in our aviation system.

00:37:36.160 I changed

00:37:36.860 the Obama standards

00:37:39.040 from very mediocre

00:37:40.700 at best

00:37:41.280 to extraordinary.

00:37:42.060 you remember that.

00:37:44.720 Only the highest aptitude,

00:37:47.940 they have to be

00:37:48.760 the highest intellect

00:37:50.800 and psychologically

00:37:52.120 superior people

00:37:53.340 were allowed to qualify

00:37:55.360 for air traffic controllers.

00:37:57.100 That was not so prior

00:37:59.520 to getting there

00:38:01.620 when I arrived

00:38:02.720 in 2016.

00:38:04.460 I made that change

00:38:05.280 very early on

00:38:06.140 because I always felt

00:38:07.060 this was a job that

00:38:08.180 and other jobs too,

00:38:09.620 but this was a job

00:38:10.600 that had to be

00:38:11.360 superior intelligence

00:38:13.020 and we didn't really

00:38:15.580 have that

00:38:16.080 and we had it.

00:38:17.460 And then when I left office

00:38:19.700 and Biden took over,

00:38:21.660 he changed them back

00:38:22.940 to lower

00:38:23.780 than ever before.

00:38:26.160 I put safety first.

00:38:28.960 Obama, Biden

00:38:29.800 and the Democrats

00:38:30.640 put policy first

00:38:31.800 and they put politics

00:38:34.480 at a level

00:38:35.980 that nobody's ever seen

00:38:39.000 because this was

00:38:39.940 the lowest level.

00:38:41.440 Their policy was horrible

00:38:43.060 and their politics

00:38:44.600 was even worse.

00:38:46.680 So as you know,

00:38:47.320 last week,

00:38:47.940 long before the crash,

00:38:49.120 I signed an executive order

00:38:50.480 restoring our highest standards

00:38:52.840 for air traffic controllers

00:38:54.420 and other important jobs

00:38:55.700 throughout the country.

00:38:56.560 So it was very interesting.

00:38:58.060 About a week ago,

00:39:00.040 almost upon entering office,

00:39:03.920 I signed something last week

00:39:06.000 that was an executive order,

00:39:09.340 very powerful one,

00:39:10.220 restoring the highest standards

00:39:11.340 of air traffic controllers

00:39:12.620 and others, by the way.

00:39:14.560 And my administration

00:39:16.580 will set the highest possible bar

00:39:18.480 for aviation safety.

00:39:19.900 We have to have

00:39:20.320 our smartest people.

00:39:22.160 It doesn't matter

00:39:22.780 what they look like,

00:39:24.560 how they speak,

00:39:25.580 who they are.

00:39:26.160 It matters intellect,

00:39:27.760 talent,

00:39:28.460 the word talent.

00:39:29.840 You have to be talented,

00:39:31.060 naturally talented geniuses.

00:39:34.120 You can't have regular people

00:39:35.600 doing that job.

00:39:36.480 They won't be able to do it.

00:39:37.820 But we'll restore faith

00:39:39.900 in American air travel.

00:39:41.180 I'll have more to say about that.

00:39:43.240 I do want to point out

00:39:44.640 that various articles

00:39:46.720 that appeared prior

00:39:49.180 to my entering office,

00:39:51.180 and here's one,

00:39:53.260 the FAA's diversity push

00:39:55.040 includes focus on hiring people

00:39:57.080 with severe intellectual

00:39:59.180 and psychiatric disabilities.

00:40:01.060 That is amazing.

00:40:04.700 And then it says,

00:40:05.360 FAA saves people

00:40:07.100 with severe disabilities,

00:40:08.440 the most underrepresented segment

00:40:11.000 of the workforce,

00:40:11.960 and they want them in

00:40:12.680 and they want them,

00:40:14.400 they can be air traffic controllers.

00:40:16.420 I don't think so.

00:40:17.740 This was on January 14th,

00:40:21.000 so that was a week

00:40:23.140 before I entered office.

00:40:24.480 They put a big push

00:40:25.360 to put diversity

00:40:27.160 into the FAA's program.

00:40:29.420 And then another article,

00:40:33.460 the Federal Aviation Administration,

00:40:35.320 this was before I got to office,

00:40:38.940 recently, second term.

00:40:41.540 The FAA is actively recruiting workers

00:40:44.400 who suffer severe intellectual disabilities,

00:40:48.780 psychiatric problems,

00:40:50.080 and other mental and physical conditions

00:40:51.840 under a diversity

00:40:52.860 and inclusion hiring initiative

00:40:54.740 spelled out on the agency's website.

00:40:57.760 Can you imagine?

00:40:58.520 These are people

00:40:59.480 that are,

00:41:02.040 I mean, actually,

00:41:03.020 their lives are shortened

00:41:04.280 because of the stress

00:41:05.540 that they have.

00:41:08.440 Brilliant people

00:41:09.460 have to be in those positions.

00:41:11.840 And their lives

00:41:12.340 are actually shortened,

00:41:13.560 very substantially shortened,

00:41:14.800 because of the stress

00:41:15.720 where you have many,

00:41:17.180 many planes coming in

00:41:18.180 to one target.

00:41:18.880 And you need a very special talent

00:41:23.260 and a very special genius

00:41:24.540 to be able to do it.

00:41:26.580 Targeted disabilities

00:41:27.700 are those disabilities

00:41:28.800 that the federal government,

00:41:30.280 as a matter of policy,

00:41:31.380 has identified

00:41:32.000 for special emphasis

00:41:33.220 in recruitment and hiring.

00:41:34.720 The FAA's website states,

00:41:37.060 they include hearing,

00:41:39.260 vision,

00:41:40.080 missing extremities,

00:41:42.140 partial paralysis,

00:41:43.560 complete paralysis,

00:41:44.880 epilepsy,

00:41:45.660 severe intellectual disability,

00:41:48.060 psychiatric disability,

00:41:49.780 and dwarfism

00:41:50.520 all qualify

00:41:51.920 for the position

00:41:54.080 of a controller

00:41:56.640 of airplanes

00:41:57.780 pouring into our country,

00:41:59.220 pouring into

00:41:59.800 a little spot,

00:42:01.160 a little dot on the map,

00:42:02.320 a little runway.

00:42:02.980 The initiative is part

00:42:06.560 of the FAA's

00:42:07.660 Diversity and Inclusion

00:42:09.020 Hiring Plan.

00:42:09.840 Think of that.

00:42:10.420 The initiative is part

00:42:11.700 of the FAA's

00:42:13.660 Diversity and Inclusion

00:42:14.860 Hiring Plan,

00:42:15.740 which says diversity

00:42:16.580 is integral

00:42:18.160 to achieving FAA's

00:42:19.480 mission of ensuring

00:42:20.400 safe and efficient travel.

00:42:21.900 I don't think so.

00:42:22.920 I don't think so.

00:42:23.500 I think it's just the opposite.

00:42:25.760 The FAA website

00:42:26.900 shows that the agency's

00:42:28.980 guidance on diversity hiring

00:42:30.440 were last updated

00:42:32.080 on March 23rd of 22.

00:42:34.600 They wanted to make it

00:42:35.340 even more so.

00:42:36.960 And then I came in,

00:42:38.400 and I assume maybe

00:42:39.260 this is the reason,

00:42:41.220 the FAA,

00:42:42.920 which is overseen

00:42:43.900 by Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

00:42:46.920 A real winner.

00:42:48.000 That guy's a real winner.

00:42:49.040 Do you know how badly

00:42:49.720 everything's run

00:42:50.580 since he's run

00:42:51.380 the Department of Transportation?

00:42:53.480 He's a disaster.

00:42:55.740 He was a disaster as a mayor.

00:42:58.000 He ran his city

00:43:00.000 into the ground,

00:43:00.740 and he's a disaster now. 0.74

00:43:02.200 He's just got a good line

00:43:03.100 of bullshit.

00:43:05.240 The Department of Transportation,

00:43:07.920 his government agency

00:43:09.340 charged with regulating

00:43:10.580 civil aviation.

00:43:11.720 Well, he runs it,

00:43:13.120 45,000 people,

00:43:14.540 and he's run it right

00:43:15.300 into the ground

00:43:16.040 with his diversity.

00:43:18.160 So I had to say

00:43:20.340 that it's terrible.

00:43:22.060 Then it's a group

00:43:23.940 within the FAA,

00:43:24.980 another story,

00:43:26.080 determined that the workforce

00:43:27.180 was too white

00:43:28.700 that they had concerted efforts

00:43:31.340 to get the administration

00:43:34.860 to change that

00:43:35.880 and to change it immediately.

00:43:38.440 This was in the Obama administration

00:43:40.480 just prior to my getting there.

00:43:43.160 And we took care of African Americans,

00:43:45.980 Hispanic Americans.

00:43:47.200 We took care of everybody

00:43:48.520 at levels that nobody's ever seen before.

00:43:50.580 It's one of the reasons I won.

00:43:51.760 But they actually came out

00:43:53.760 with a directive to white.

00:43:56.180 And we want the people

00:43:58.960 that are competent.

00:44:00.280 But now we mourn

00:44:01.400 and we pray

00:44:02.060 and would like to ask

00:44:03.900 all Americans to join me

00:44:05.340 in a moment of silence

00:44:06.420 as we ask God

00:44:07.300 to watch over those

00:44:08.280 who have lost their lives

00:44:09.400 and bring comfort

00:44:11.040 to the loved ones.

00:44:12.820 And I just want to say

00:44:15.040 God bless everyone in this room.

00:44:16.480 This has been a terrible,

00:44:18.920 very short period of time.

00:44:21.520 We'll get to the bottom of it.

00:44:23.940 So we all saw the same thing.

00:44:26.260 We've seen it many times.

00:44:27.320 I've had the honor of hearing tapes.

00:44:31.520 Tapes are scary.

00:44:33.460 Very scary tapes.

00:44:36.140 You had an airliner coming in,

00:44:40.220 American Airlines.

00:44:41.600 He was doing everything right.

00:44:43.540 He was on track.

00:44:44.360 He was the same track

00:44:45.360 as everybody else that came in.

00:44:46.860 It's probably the same track

00:44:48.180 as they've had for 25 years or more.

00:44:50.800 He's coming in the path.

00:44:53.180 And for some reason,

00:44:56.100 he had a helicopter

00:44:56.960 that was at the same height,

00:45:01.200 obviously when they hit,

00:45:02.880 but pretty much the same height,

00:45:04.780 and going at an angle

00:45:06.940 that was unbelievably bad

00:45:09.700 when the air traffic controller

00:45:12.200 said, do you see?

00:45:14.780 He was talking about,

00:45:15.880 do you see him?

00:45:16.600 But there was very little time left

00:45:18.620 when that was stated.

00:45:20.540 And then also,

00:45:21.640 he said, follow him in.

00:45:22.980 And then almost immediately after that,

00:45:26.480 you know, seconds after that,

00:45:28.620 there was the crash that took place.

00:45:30.480 Well, you follow him in.

00:45:31.780 That means like everything's fine.

00:45:33.220 Follow him in.

00:45:33.860 You had a pilot problem

00:45:38.740 from the standpoint of the helicopter.

00:45:42.520 I mean, because it was visual.

00:45:44.080 It was a very clear night.

00:45:46.280 It was cold,

00:45:47.980 but clear and clear as you could be.

00:45:51.060 The American Airlines plane

00:45:54.120 had lights blazing.

00:45:55.700 They had all their landing lights on.

00:45:57.640 I could see it from the Kennedy Center tape.

00:46:00.180 We had a tape up on the Kennedy Center.

00:46:02.900 That seems to be the primary.

00:46:04.300 Thus far, I'm sure we'll see other tapes

00:46:05.600 because it's such an area

00:46:07.980 where there are a lot of cameras,

00:46:09.420 a lot of cameras looking up

00:46:10.660 into the air, into space.

00:46:13.580 So we'll probably see many other shots of it

00:46:15.920 before too much time goes by.

00:46:18.420 But we had a situation

00:46:21.800 where you had a helicopter

00:46:24.180 that had the ability to stop.

00:46:26.080 I have helicopters.

00:46:27.520 You can stop a helicopter very quickly.

00:46:30.360 It had the ability to go up or down.

00:46:32.540 It had the ability to turn.

00:46:35.780 And the turn it made

00:46:37.160 was not the correct turn, obviously.

00:46:40.840 And it did somewhat the opposite

00:46:43.780 of what it was told.

00:46:45.160 We don't know that

00:46:45.820 that would have been the difference

00:46:46.760 because the timing was so tight.

00:46:48.840 It was so little.

00:46:51.200 There was so little time to think.

00:46:52.900 But what you did have

00:46:54.280 is you had vision.

00:46:56.420 The helicopter had vision of the plane

00:46:58.820 because you had vision of it

00:47:00.680 all the way,

00:47:01.260 perfect vision of it

00:47:02.200 all the way from at Kennedy Center

00:47:04.600 where the tape was taken.

00:47:06.980 And for some reason,

00:47:08.860 there weren't adjustments made.

00:47:10.460 Again, you could have slowed down

00:47:12.260 the helicopter substantially.

00:47:13.740 You could have stopped the helicopter.

00:47:15.120 You could have gone up.

00:47:15.940 You could have gone down.

00:47:16.860 You could have gone straight up,

00:47:18.020 straight down.

00:47:18.620 You could have turned.

00:47:19.340 You could have done

00:47:19.840 a million different maneuvers.

00:47:22.220 For some reason,

00:47:24.260 it just kept going

00:47:26.240 and then made a slight turn

00:47:29.300 at the very end.

00:47:31.560 And by that time,

00:47:32.580 it was too late.

00:47:35.200 They shouldn't have been

00:47:36.120 at the same height

00:47:37.200 because if it was at the same height,

00:47:39.740 you could have gone under it

00:47:40.860 or over it.

00:47:41.860 And nobody realized

00:47:43.940 or they didn't say

00:47:44.980 that it's at the same height.

00:47:46.760 At the same height,

00:47:47.980 it still wouldn't have been great,

00:47:49.540 but you would have missed it

00:47:50.440 by quite a bit.

00:47:51.180 It could have been

00:47:52.000 a thousand feet higher.

00:47:53.120 It could have been

00:47:53.500 200 feet lower,

00:47:54.760 but it was exactly

00:47:56.220 at the same height

00:47:57.060 and somebody should have been

00:47:58.000 able to point that out.

00:47:59.600 So all of this

00:48:00.460 is going to be studied,

00:48:01.640 but it just seems to me

00:48:02.800 from a couple of words

00:48:05.420 that I like to use,

00:48:06.200 the words common sense,

00:48:07.440 some really bad things happened

00:48:11.820 and some things happened

00:48:14.100 that shouldn't have happened.

00:48:16.100 So you had a helicopter

00:48:17.200 going in identical direction.

00:48:20.900 You had a helicopter

00:48:22.060 that was at the exact same height

00:48:24.240 as somebody going

00:48:25.240 in essentially

00:48:25.820 the opposite direction.

00:48:27.760 You had a plane

00:48:28.680 that was following a track,

00:48:30.020 which is a track

00:48:30.660 that every other plane followed.

00:48:31.960 And I don't imagine,

00:48:35.080 I know I've heard today

00:48:36.300 that they might have been

00:48:37.380 following the preceding plane,

00:48:38.660 which was pretty close,

00:48:39.720 but not that close,

00:48:41.520 the preceding plane.

00:48:42.780 But you wouldn't have even

00:48:43.640 been able to see that

00:48:44.540 because of the direction

00:48:45.500 that the helicopter

00:48:46.360 was coming in at.

00:48:47.460 So you had a confluence

00:48:49.900 of bad decisions

00:48:52.380 that were made.

00:48:53.180 And you have people

00:48:57.000 that lost their lives,

00:48:58.780 violently lost their lives.

00:49:02.340 We're going to take

00:49:03.220 a few questions.

00:49:04.080 I'd like to ask

00:49:04.720 our new Secretary of Transportation

00:49:06.940 to say a few words,

00:49:08.500 Sean Duffy,

00:49:09.320 a great gentleman,

00:49:10.320 just started.

00:49:11.680 It's not your fault,

00:49:14.580 and I know you agree

00:49:15.300 with me very strongly

00:49:16.280 on intellect

00:49:17.000 and even psychological well-being

00:49:20.320 of the air traffic control.

00:49:22.140 It's such an important position,

00:49:23.660 and I think I can't

00:49:24.960 emphasize stronger.

00:49:26.580 I changed it

00:49:27.980 when I first ran in 2016.

00:49:30.760 I changed it.

00:49:31.780 We had the highest standard

00:49:33.020 that you could have.

00:49:34.560 And then they changed it back.

00:49:38.100 That was Biden

00:49:38.740 to a standard you just,

00:49:41.180 I read it to you.

00:49:41.820 That was from one of your papers.

00:49:44.280 One of the people in this room

00:49:45.840 actually wrote that.

00:49:47.780 And then I changed it back

00:49:49.360 a few days ago.

00:49:50.240 And unfortunately,

00:49:55.180 that was, we'll see.

00:49:57.560 We don't know that necessarily

00:49:58.920 it's even the controller's fault.

00:50:00.720 But one thing we do know,

00:50:01.840 there was a lot of vision,

00:50:03.120 and people should have been able

00:50:04.300 to see that, you know,

00:50:05.920 at what point do you stop?

00:50:07.180 At what point do you say,

00:50:08.100 wow, that plane's getting

00:50:08.980 a little bit close?

00:50:10.160 So this is a tragedy

00:50:11.300 that should not have happened.

00:50:13.500 Please, Sean.

00:50:14.100 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:50:18.160 And I would just note

00:50:19.420 the President's leadership

00:50:20.820 has been remarkable

00:50:22.380 during this crisis.

00:50:24.060 We have had a whole

00:50:25.060 of government response,

00:50:26.780 local, state, federal.

00:50:29.040 And when you see

00:50:30.000 that kind of cooperation,

00:50:32.440 it begins with the leadership

00:50:34.020 in this body.

00:50:35.040 So thank you for that,

00:50:35.880 Mr. President.

00:50:36.440 you make our jobs

00:50:37.840 a lot easier.

00:50:39.320 You made an important point

00:50:40.860 that when we deal with safety,

00:50:43.760 we can only accept

00:50:45.580 the best and the brightest

00:50:46.900 in positions of safety

00:50:49.340 that impact the lives

00:50:51.100 of our loved ones,

00:50:52.520 our family members.

00:50:53.580 And I think you make

00:50:54.480 a really important point

00:50:55.280 on that, Mr. President.

00:50:56.120 That is the motto

00:50:56.980 of your presidency,

00:50:58.340 the best and the brightest,

00:50:59.820 the most intelligent

00:51:00.720 coming into these spaces.

00:51:02.380 I want to take a moment

00:51:03.440 and extend my condolences

00:51:05.160 to the families

00:51:06.500 of the loved ones.

00:51:08.300 We commit to them

00:51:09.720 that we are going to get

00:51:11.320 to the bottom

00:51:11.880 of this investigation,

00:51:13.660 not in three years,

00:51:14.900 not in four years,

00:51:15.660 but as quickly as possible

00:51:16.880 with the NTSB

00:51:18.320 who is here today

00:51:19.100 as well as the FAA.

00:51:20.920 What happened yesterday

00:51:22.180 shouldn't have happened.

00:51:24.160 It should not have happened.

00:51:25.900 And when Americans

00:51:26.840 take off in airplanes,

00:51:28.720 they should expect to land

00:51:30.380 at their destination.

00:51:32.180 That didn't happen yesterday.

00:51:33.920 That's unacceptable.

00:51:35.580 And so we will not

00:51:36.860 accept excuses.

00:51:38.440 We will not accept

00:51:39.700 passing the buck.

00:51:42.680 We are going to take

00:51:43.600 responsibility at the Department

00:51:45.680 of Transportation

00:51:46.320 and the FAA

00:51:47.480 to make sure we have

00:51:48.620 the reforms that have been

00:51:49.720 dictated by President Trump

00:51:51.140 in place to make sure

00:51:53.060 that these mistakes

00:51:54.280 do not happen again.

00:51:55.960 And again, I want to thank

00:51:56.580 you for your leadership,

00:51:57.200 Mr. President.

00:51:58.320 And I appreciate the confidence

00:52:01.580 you've placed in me.

00:52:02.280 Thank you very much.

00:52:04.380 Pete, would you like to say,

00:52:05.580 Senator, please?

00:52:09.400 Well, thank you,

00:52:10.040 Mr. President.

00:52:11.120 Again, I want to echo

00:52:12.220 what the Transportation

00:52:13.000 Secretary said about

00:52:14.100 your leadership.

00:52:15.260 From the moment

00:52:16.260 we found out about this,

00:52:17.360 we were in contact

00:52:17.980 with the White House

00:52:18.640 trying to determine

00:52:19.240 exactly what happened.

00:52:21.000 I would echo it as well.

00:52:22.180 No excuses.

00:52:22.880 We're going to get

00:52:23.200 to the bottom of this.

00:52:26.020 We first and foremost

00:52:27.160 from the Defense Department

00:52:28.160 want to pass our condolences

00:52:29.320 to the 64 souls

00:52:30.720 and their families

00:52:32.620 that were affected

00:52:33.600 by this

00:52:34.220 never should happen.

00:52:36.460 And certainly

00:52:37.280 the three service members,

00:52:38.340 the three soldiers,

00:52:39.640 a young captain,

00:52:41.980 staff sergeant,

00:52:42.880 and a CW-2,

00:52:43.920 chief warrant officer.

00:52:45.060 Honor.

00:52:45.660 Routine annual retraining

00:52:47.520 of night flights

00:52:48.580 on a standard corridor

00:52:49.960 for a continuity

00:52:52.380 of government mission.

00:52:54.100 The military does

00:52:55.080 dangerous things.

00:52:55.860 It does routine things

00:52:56.820 on the regular basis.

00:52:58.840 Tragically, last night,

00:53:00.220 a mistake was made.

00:53:01.440 And I think the President

00:53:02.080 is right.

00:53:03.260 There was some sort

00:53:05.300 of an elevation issue

00:53:06.260 that we have immediately

00:53:07.880 begun investigating

00:53:08.780 at the DOD

00:53:09.500 and Army level.

00:53:10.940 Army CID

00:53:11.720 is on the ground

00:53:12.580 investigating.

00:53:13.460 Top-tier aviation assets

00:53:15.520 inside the DOD

00:53:16.640 are investigating, sir,

00:53:17.800 to get to the bottom of it

00:53:19.040 so that it does not happen again

00:53:20.560 because it's absolutely

00:53:21.660 unacceptable.

00:53:22.400 But I want to echo

00:53:22.940 what the Transportation Secretary

00:53:25.340 and you, Mr. President,

00:53:26.400 said because it pertains

00:53:27.960 to the DOD as well.

00:53:29.720 We will have the best

00:53:30.920 and brightest

00:53:31.360 in every position possible.

00:53:33.580 As you said

00:53:34.300 in your inaugural,

00:53:35.060 it is colorblind

00:53:36.500 and merit-based.

00:53:38.440 The best leaders possible,

00:53:40.520 whether it's flying Blackhawks

00:53:41.720 and flying airplanes,

00:53:43.380 leading platoons,

00:53:44.200 or in government.

00:53:45.720 The era of DEI

00:53:48.080 is gone

00:53:49.240 at the Defense Department

00:53:50.240 and we need the best

00:53:51.640 and brightest

00:53:51.980 whether it's in

00:53:52.660 our air traffic control

00:53:53.880 or whether it's

00:53:54.900 in our generals

00:53:55.860 or whether it's

00:53:56.940 throughout government.

00:53:57.780 So thank you

00:53:58.200 for your leadership

00:53:58.700 and courage on that, sir,

00:53:59.880 and we'll stand by you on it.

00:54:01.140 Thank you very much.

00:54:02.700 J.D., please.

00:54:07.220 Well, thank you,

00:54:08.460 Mr. President,

00:54:08.940 for your leadership.

00:54:09.700 I just want to reemphasize

00:54:10.660 something the President said

00:54:11.800 and you've heard

00:54:12.400 from the Secretary

00:54:13.080 of Transportation

00:54:13.800 and of Defense.

00:54:15.160 There really was

00:54:15.620 a whole-of-government response.

00:54:16.760 We were all on the phone.

00:54:17.700 We were all communicating yesterday,

00:54:18.940 trying to get to the bottom

00:54:19.660 of this immediately,

00:54:20.460 but also try to communicate

00:54:22.700 with the American people

00:54:23.560 about what happened.

00:54:25.020 Something the President said

00:54:26.100 that I think bears reemphasizing,

00:54:28.660 which is that

00:54:29.100 when you don't have

00:54:29.860 the best standards

00:54:30.940 in who you're hiring,

00:54:32.700 it means, on the one hand,

00:54:34.140 you're not getting

00:54:34.520 the best people in government,

00:54:35.920 but on the other hand,

00:54:37.100 it puts stresses

00:54:38.040 on the people

00:54:38.720 who are already there.

00:54:40.220 And I think that is

00:54:41.160 a core part

00:54:41.960 of what President Trump

00:54:43.040 is going to bring

00:54:43.700 and has already brought

00:54:44.600 to Washington, D.C.

00:54:46.020 is we want to hire

00:54:47.440 the best people

00:54:48.180 because we want

00:54:48.800 the best people

00:54:49.440 at air traffic control,

00:54:50.540 and we want to make sure

00:54:51.200 we have enough people

00:54:52.340 at air traffic control

00:54:53.300 who are actually competent

00:54:54.660 to do the job.

00:54:55.760 If you go back

00:54:56.420 to just some of the headlines

00:54:57.320 over the past 10 years,

00:54:58.780 you have many hundreds

00:55:00.040 of people suing the government

00:55:01.580 because they would like

00:55:02.360 to be air traffic controllers,

00:55:03.500 but they were turned away

00:55:04.360 because of the color

00:55:05.180 of their skin.

00:55:06.280 That policy ends

00:55:07.580 under Donald Trump's leadership

00:55:08.700 because safety

00:55:09.600 is the first priority

00:55:10.840 of our aviation industry.

00:55:12.100 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:55:12.800 On DEI and the claims

00:55:17.800 that you've made,

00:55:18.380 are you saying

00:55:18.960 this crash

00:55:19.620 was somehow caused

00:55:21.300 and the result

00:55:22.020 of diversity hiring?

00:55:23.320 And what evidence

00:55:24.280 have you seen

00:55:25.220 to support these claims?

00:55:26.520 It just could have been.

00:55:27.680 We have a high standard.

00:55:28.920 We've had a much higher standard

00:55:30.460 than anybody else.

00:55:32.280 And there are things

00:55:33.120 where you have to go

00:55:34.120 by brain power.

00:55:35.060 You have to go

00:55:35.560 by psychological quality.

00:55:39.680 And psychological quality

00:55:41.060 is a very important element of it.

00:55:42.920 These are various,

00:55:44.120 very powerful tests

00:55:45.040 that we put to use

00:55:45.900 and they were terminated

00:55:46.820 by Biden.

00:55:47.980 And Biden went by a standard

00:55:49.360 that's the exact opposite.

00:55:51.560 So we don't know,

00:55:52.500 but we do know

00:55:53.180 that you had two planes

00:55:54.420 at the same level.

00:55:55.540 You had a helicopter

00:55:56.560 and a plane.

00:55:57.400 That shouldn't have happened.

00:55:58.340 And we'll see.

00:56:00.100 We're going to look into that

00:56:01.100 and we're going to see.

00:56:01.820 But certainly for an air traffic controller,

00:56:05.580 we want the brightest,

00:56:06.760 the smartest,

00:56:07.440 the sharpest.

00:56:08.200 We want somebody

00:56:08.860 that's psychologically superior.

00:56:12.440 And that's what we're going to have.

00:56:13.800 Yeah.

00:56:15.640 Yeah, please.

00:56:16.520 Go ahead.

00:56:16.780 Mr. President,

00:56:17.460 you mentioned

00:56:17.980 at the top of the briefing

00:56:19.040 that there were several

00:56:20.100 Russian nationals on the flight.

00:56:22.620 Yes.

00:56:22.980 Will the U.S. government

00:56:23.940 be willing to facilitate

00:56:26.840 the transfer of their remains

00:56:28.960 considering the fact

00:56:30.080 there is no direct air travel

00:56:32.100 between the two countries?

00:56:33.040 We've already been in contact

00:56:34.260 with Russia

00:56:34.920 and the answer is yes,

00:56:36.080 we will facilitate.

00:56:37.520 Yes.

00:56:39.740 Please, go ahead.

00:56:41.000 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:56:43.600 The situation

00:56:44.680 in the Democratic Republic

00:56:46.240 of the Congo

00:56:46.880 is getting worse.

00:56:48.180 Even though President

00:56:49.040 John Lorenzo

00:56:49.840 has been mediating

00:56:51.400 the conflict

00:56:52.420 between Rwanda

00:56:53.540 and the Democrat

00:56:54.300 Republic of the Congo

00:56:55.060 because he wants

00:56:55.580 to bring peace

00:56:56.520 and stability,

00:56:57.940 the situation

00:56:58.580 is really bad right now.

00:57:00.100 I want to hear

00:57:00.860 from Mr. President

00:57:01.660 if you have any plan

00:57:03.040 in the future

00:57:03.860 to bring peace

00:57:04.940 in the Democrat

00:57:05.820 Republic of the Congo.

00:57:06.780 Well, there is going to be

00:57:08.200 a question about Rwanda

00:57:08.940 and it is a very serious problem.

00:57:09.080 I agree,

00:57:09.480 but I don't think

00:57:10.040 it's appropriate right now

00:57:11.040 to talk about it,

00:57:11.860 but it is a very serious problem.

00:57:13.180 Mr. President,

00:57:14.360 we haven't yet know

00:57:15.140 the names

00:57:15.660 of the 67 people

00:57:16.800 who were killed

00:57:17.500 and you are blaming

00:57:18.860 Democrats

00:57:19.360 and DEI policies

00:57:20.880 and air traffic control

00:57:22.160 and seemingly

00:57:22.680 the member

00:57:23.600 of the U.S. military

00:57:24.300 who was flying

00:57:24.940 that Blackhawk helicopter.

00:57:26.300 Don't you think

00:57:26.720 you're getting ahead

00:57:27.280 of the investigation

00:57:27.920 right now?

00:57:28.600 No, I don't think

00:57:29.080 so at all.

00:57:29.700 I don't think

00:57:30.220 where the names

00:57:30.940 of the people,

00:57:31.580 you mean the names

00:57:32.220 of the people

00:57:33.140 that are on the plane,

00:57:34.720 you think that's

00:57:35.980 going to make a difference?

00:57:36.900 Does it comfort

00:57:37.360 their families

00:57:37.860 or are you blaming

00:57:38.560 DEI policies?

00:57:38.900 They are a group of people

00:57:39.260 that have lost their lives.

00:57:40.940 If you want a list

00:57:41.860 of the names,

00:57:42.500 we can give you that.

00:57:43.320 We'll be giving that

00:57:44.080 very soon.

00:57:44.720 We're in coordination

00:57:45.540 with American Airlines.

00:57:46.960 We're in coordination

00:57:47.920 very strongly,

00:57:48.740 obviously,

00:57:49.180 with the military.

00:57:49.760 But I think that's

00:57:51.460 not a very smart question.

00:57:52.720 I'm surprised

00:57:53.620 coming from you.

00:57:54.280 Are you blaming

00:57:54.660 your time?

00:57:55.380 Please.

00:57:56.400 Thank you.

00:57:56.820 Thank you, President Trump.

00:57:57.860 Thank you for being here.

00:57:58.940 Based on your analysis

00:58:00.200 so far,

00:58:00.780 do you have a sense

00:58:01.600 of who was at fault

00:58:03.120 if it was the plane,

00:58:04.160 the helicopter,

00:58:05.100 air traffic control?

00:58:06.120 And can you assure people

00:58:07.160 that it is safe

00:58:08.120 to fly in and out of D.C.?

00:58:09.720 Well, I've given

00:58:10.420 you the analysis

00:58:11.220 and the analysis

00:58:12.080 was based on vision.

00:58:15.360 You had a lot of people

00:58:17.860 that saw what was happening.

00:58:19.580 You had some people

00:58:20.440 that knew what was happening.

00:58:22.640 There were some warnings,

00:58:24.160 but the warnings

00:58:24.620 were given very, very late.

00:58:25.980 You know,

00:58:26.200 those warnings

00:58:26.740 were given very late.

00:58:27.740 It was almost

00:58:28.860 as they were given

00:58:29.680 a few seconds later

00:58:30.640 there was the crash.

00:58:32.140 It should have been

00:58:32.960 brought up earlier.

00:58:35.220 But the people

00:58:37.200 in the helicopter

00:58:38.040 should have seen

00:58:39.140 where they were going.

00:58:41.300 I can't imagine

00:58:42.520 people with 20-20 vision

00:58:46.180 not seeing, you know,

00:58:48.300 what's happening up there.

00:58:50.480 Again, they shouldn't

00:58:51.420 have been at the same height.

00:58:53.060 You're going in reverse directions

00:58:55.400 or sideway directions.

00:58:57.760 Obviously, you want

00:58:58.640 to be at different heights.

00:58:59.780 I see it all the time

00:59:00.700 when I'm flying.

00:59:01.460 I have planes going

00:59:02.560 in the opposite.

00:59:03.280 They're always lower.

00:59:04.300 We're higher.

00:59:06.240 So if somehow

00:59:07.740 there's a screw-up,

00:59:09.580 there's not going

00:59:10.340 to be a tragedy.

00:59:11.180 It'll be close.

00:59:11.900 But, you know,

00:59:12.520 there's never going

00:59:13.080 to be a tragedy

00:59:13.720 if you're at

00:59:14.160 a different elevation.

00:59:15.400 For whatever reason,

00:59:16.660 they were at

00:59:16.960 the same elevation.

00:59:18.420 And also,

00:59:19.580 from the American

00:59:20.920 Airlines Center,

00:59:21.700 he's along the track

00:59:22.860 that every plane

00:59:23.920 is along.

00:59:25.760 You say,

00:59:26.140 what was a helicopter

00:59:27.800 doing in that track?

00:59:29.460 It's very sad.

00:59:30.560 But visually,

00:59:31.820 somebody should have

00:59:32.540 been able to see

00:59:33.300 and taken that helicopter

00:59:34.940 out of play.

00:59:36.040 And they should have

00:59:36.880 been at a different height.

00:59:37.940 All right.

00:59:40.140 Thank you, sir.

00:59:40.920 You mentioned the Russians

00:59:42.620 that were on board

00:59:43.320 that plane.

00:59:44.220 What other nationalities

00:59:45.180 were on board

00:59:45.740 that are passing

00:59:46.320 there were a couple

00:59:47.020 of others.

00:59:47.520 We're going to be

00:59:47.860 announcing it in about

00:59:48.800 an hour.

00:59:49.300 We have some very

00:59:50.160 specific information.

00:59:52.740 We're calling the 0.86

00:59:53.640 countries.

00:59:54.140 We've spoken to most

00:59:54.980 of them,

00:59:55.400 but there were some

00:59:56.100 other countries

00:59:56.800 represented.

00:59:57.420 Have I spoken

00:59:59.260 to President Putin?

01:00:00.880 I have not,

01:00:01.520 no.

01:00:02.020 Not about this.

01:00:04.160 On your executive order,

01:00:05.840 you've already issued

01:00:06.560 an executive order

01:00:07.120 that you say will

01:00:07.700 restore aviation safety.

01:00:09.860 This crash happened

01:00:10.600 after that.

01:00:12.060 Was the executive order

01:00:12.780 successful,

01:00:13.600 and what more do you

01:00:14.580 need to change

01:00:15.040 to keep people safe?

01:00:15.860 Well, you know,

01:00:16.600 we issued it three days

01:00:17.700 ago, and we're in the

01:00:19.180 process of making

01:00:19.980 those changes.

01:00:20.820 This is something

01:00:23.720 that should have been

01:00:25.160 done a long time ago.

01:00:26.080 Actually, my original order

01:00:27.700 should have never been

01:00:28.460 changed, and I think

01:00:29.340 maybe you wouldn't

01:00:29.920 have had this problem.

01:00:30.940 Maybe.

01:00:32.800 Yeah, please.

01:00:33.560 Go ahead.

01:00:33.780 Yes, thank you.

01:00:34.900 We see, like, everyday life

01:00:36.240 that very often

01:00:37.340 those diversity hires

01:00:39.260 cause sometimes issues,

01:00:41.460 as you just mentioned.

01:00:43.020 So, what plan do you have?

01:00:45.240 Are we going to see

01:00:45.880 some fire?

01:00:46.660 Are you going to fire

01:00:47.360 some of those diversity

01:00:48.840 hires in the federal

01:00:49.700 government?

01:00:50.400 What plan do you have?

01:00:52.000 I would say the answer

01:00:52.780 is yes.

01:00:53.260 If we find that people

01:00:54.360 aren't mentally competent, 0.66

01:00:56.780 you see the language.

01:00:58.300 The language is put out

01:00:59.400 by them.

01:01:00.780 And if you see that,

01:01:02.560 I'm not going to bore you

01:01:04.180 by reading it again,

01:01:05.160 but these are not people

01:01:06.560 that should be doing

01:01:07.680 this particular job.

01:01:08.900 They'd be very good

01:01:09.560 for certain jobs,

01:01:10.420 but not people that

01:01:11.240 should be doing

01:01:11.700 this particular job.

01:01:14.720 Mr. President,

01:01:15.640 you have today blamed

01:01:18.340 the diversity elements,

01:01:19.640 but then told us

01:01:20.760 that you weren't sure

01:01:22.780 that the controllers

01:01:24.140 made any mistakes.

01:01:25.420 You then said

01:01:26.100 perhaps the helicopter pilots

01:01:28.180 were the ones

01:01:29.260 who made the mistake.

01:01:30.820 It's all under investigation.

01:01:32.120 I understand that.

01:01:33.380 That's why I'm trying

01:01:34.240 to figure out

01:01:34.900 how you can come

01:01:35.960 to the conclusion

01:01:36.580 right now that diversity

01:01:37.860 had something to do

01:01:39.000 with this crash.

01:01:40.100 Because I have

01:01:40.600 common sense, okay?

01:01:42.740 And unfortunately,

01:01:44.320 a lot of people don't.

01:01:46.260 We want brilliant

01:01:47.320 people doing this.

01:01:48.300 This is a major chess game

01:01:49.900 at the highest level.

01:01:51.420 When you have 60 planes

01:01:53.980 coming in during

01:01:54.840 a short period of time,

01:01:56.080 and they're all coming

01:01:56.740 in different directions,

01:01:57.660 and you're dealing

01:01:58.820 with very high-level

01:01:59.740 computer work

01:02:02.620 and very complex computers.

01:02:05.220 And one of the other things

01:02:06.100 I will tell you

01:02:06.820 is that the systems

01:02:08.340 that were built,

01:02:09.740 I was going to rebuild

01:02:10.740 the entire system,

01:02:12.460 and then we had an election

01:02:13.560 that didn't turn out

01:02:14.500 the way it should have.

01:02:15.900 But they didn't build

01:02:17.440 the systems properly.

01:02:18.720 They spent a lot of money

01:02:19.840 renovating a system,

01:02:21.200 spending much more money

01:02:22.300 than they would have spent

01:02:23.520 if they bought a new system

01:02:24.640 for air traffic controllers,

01:02:26.080 meaning the computerized systems.

01:02:28.500 There are certain companies

01:02:30.040 that do a very good job.

01:02:31.320 They didn't use those companies.

01:02:32.580 They used companies

01:02:33.300 that should not

01:02:34.340 have been doing it.

01:02:35.560 No, I think it's very important

01:02:37.660 to understand that

01:02:38.420 for some jobs,

01:02:40.020 and not only this,

01:02:41.040 but air traffic controllers,

01:02:42.680 they have to be

01:02:43.440 at the highest level

01:02:45.120 of genius.

01:02:46.800 Okay.

01:02:48.380 I want to ask you

01:02:50.060 about the ice skaters

01:02:50.680 in a moment

01:02:51.140 because the U.S.

01:02:51.800 ice skating community

01:02:52.480 was affected.

01:02:52.980 But first, if I can,

01:02:54.000 the cited FAA text

01:02:55.200 that you read is real,

01:02:56.740 but the implication

01:02:57.360 that this policy is new

01:02:58.720 or that it stems

01:02:59.280 from efforts that began

01:03:00.520 under President Biden

01:03:01.460 or the Transportation Secretary

01:03:02.900 Pete Buttigieg

01:03:03.940 is demonstrably false.

01:03:05.320 It's been on the FAA's website.

01:03:06.500 Who said that, you?

01:03:07.140 No, it's on the website.

01:03:08.340 The FAA's website.

01:03:09.060 It was there in 2013.

01:03:10.500 It was there for the entirety.

01:03:11.300 Take a look at what I read.

01:03:12.200 It was there for the entirety

01:03:13.160 of your administration, too.

01:03:14.600 So my question is,

01:03:15.380 why didn't you change the policy

01:03:16.740 during your first administration?

01:03:18.060 I did change it.

01:03:18.900 I changed the Obama policy,

01:03:20.900 and we had a very good policy.

01:03:22.240 And then Biden came in,

01:03:23.620 and he changed it.

01:03:24.860 And then when I came in,

01:03:26.420 two days, three days ago,

01:03:27.500 I signed a new order

01:03:28.400 bringing it to the highest level

01:03:30.400 of intelligence.

01:03:31.600 Okay.

01:03:31.800 It was on the website.

01:03:33.300 Please.

01:03:34.200 Quiet.

01:03:35.580 Quiet.

01:03:35.640 Thank you, Mr. President.

01:03:36.020 You mentioned that a vision

01:03:39.480 was probably the problem

01:03:41.820 that was at issue in this crash.

01:03:44.140 There's been some reports

01:03:45.020 that one of the pilots

01:03:46.260 in a helicopter

01:03:47.500 may have been using

01:03:48.180 night vision equipment.

01:03:49.140 Was there any indication?

01:03:50.080 I heard that.

01:03:50.140 We don't know.

01:03:50.840 We're going to know that pretty soon.

01:03:52.920 It may change your view plane

01:03:55.280 if you do have the night vision.

01:03:56.780 So it's very possible

01:03:58.140 that could have happened.

01:03:58.920 That would be maybe a reason

01:04:01.800 why you wouldn't actually see

01:04:03.360 as well as on a clear night.

01:04:05.480 You can see sometimes

01:04:06.200 better without it.

01:04:08.600 I'll have a couple of more.

01:04:10.640 Mr. President,

01:04:11.900 is it helpful to have

01:04:12.660 your Secretary of Transportation

01:04:13.840 confirmed,

01:04:14.720 and does this intensify

01:04:15.760 your interest in getting

01:04:16.720 other nominees confirmed quickly?

01:04:18.160 Go ahead.

01:04:18.580 Go ahead.

01:04:19.160 What?

01:04:19.760 Is it helpful to have

01:04:20.580 your Secretary of Transportation

01:04:21.860 confirmed,

01:04:22.860 and does this intensify

01:04:23.840 your interest in getting

01:04:24.880 other nominees confirmed

01:04:25.840 quickly as well?

01:04:26.560 Well, sure.

01:04:26.900 We want fast confirmations,

01:04:28.600 and the Democrats,

01:04:30.520 as you know,

01:04:30.940 are doing everything

01:04:31.780 they can to delay them.

01:04:32.940 They've taken too long.

01:04:35.040 We're struggling

01:04:36.900 to get very good people

01:04:38.300 that everybody knows

01:04:39.140 are going to be confirmed,

01:04:40.640 but we're struggling

01:04:41.420 to get them out faster.

01:04:43.980 We want them out faster.

01:04:45.000 It's a good question, actually.

01:04:47.860 We've been pushing Sean.

01:04:49.340 Everyone knows Sean

01:04:51.140 for a long time.

01:04:51.940 He got many, many Democrat votes,

01:04:53.520 but they want to take

01:04:54.820 as long as they can.

01:04:55.880 They ask questions

01:04:56.640 like some of the questions

01:04:58.000 that Peter would ask

01:04:59.540 that were totally irrelevant

01:05:01.440 and not very good questions,

01:05:02.920 but they want to just

01:05:03.740 keep it going.

01:05:04.500 They want to keep it going

01:05:05.340 as long as possible.

01:05:06.440 I was very honored, actually,

01:05:08.640 that you got so many

01:05:09.460 Democrat votes.

01:05:10.280 That was really good.

01:05:11.840 That was really good.

01:05:12.440 when I applied to meet with the families

01:05:19.580 and second question,

01:05:20.980 is it your impression

01:05:21.800 that military training

01:05:23.400 that was done during that time?

01:05:25.240 The what?

01:05:25.660 The training that the helicopter

01:05:27.740 was involved in.

01:05:29.060 Is it anything you can tell us about that?

01:05:30.460 You don't know.

01:05:31.180 These are the things

01:05:31.860 that will come up

01:05:32.600 with the investigation.

01:05:33.720 You don't know,

01:05:34.280 but the helicopter

01:05:35.220 obviously was in the wrong place

01:05:37.320 at the wrong time

01:05:38.300 and a tragedy occurred.

01:05:40.580 Please.

01:05:41.540 Thank you, Mr. President.

01:05:42.520 I've got a question about the office.

01:05:43.740 No, go ahead.

01:05:44.360 Thank you, Mr. President.

01:05:46.360 You've been critical

01:05:47.520 of the current regulations

01:05:49.620 and you've called

01:05:50.300 for big reforms at FAA.

01:05:53.660 I'm curious, sir,

01:05:54.940 what is your message?

01:05:55.340 Well, I made the reforms, actually.

01:05:56.540 What is your message?

01:05:57.200 Three days ago, I made the reforms.

01:05:58.140 Yes, sir.

01:05:58.520 What is your message, then,

01:05:59.520 to the American public

01:06:00.260 in the weeks and months ahead?

01:06:01.480 Should they feel hesitant to fly?

01:06:04.900 And if you could clarify,

01:06:06.920 perhaps, something

01:06:07.360 that the Defense Secretary said

01:06:08.880 when he said

01:06:09.360 that this helicopter

01:06:10.420 was on a continuity

01:06:11.780 of government mission?

01:06:13.680 I don't know what that refers to,

01:06:16.920 but they were practicing.

01:06:19.220 They do that.

01:06:20.320 They call it practicing

01:06:21.180 and that's something

01:06:23.900 that should be done.

01:06:26.140 It's only continuity

01:06:27.140 in the sense

01:06:27.740 that we want to have

01:06:28.420 very good people

01:06:29.200 and that has to be in continuity

01:06:31.800 and that's what they refer to.

01:06:33.420 But it was basically practice

01:06:35.800 and it was a practice

01:06:36.800 that worked out

01:06:37.460 very, very badly.

01:06:39.180 Okay?

01:06:42.320 On his question,

01:06:45.800 the first question,

01:06:47.040 should people be hesitant

01:06:48.320 to fly right now?

01:06:49.320 No, not at all.

01:06:50.700 I do not hesitate to fly.

01:06:52.380 This is something

01:06:53.200 that it's been many years

01:06:55.340 that something like this

01:06:56.540 has happened

01:06:57.040 and the collision

01:06:59.780 is just something

01:07:01.460 that we don't expect

01:07:03.240 ever to happen again.

01:07:04.120 We are going to have

01:07:04.740 the highest level people.

01:07:07.320 We've already hired

01:07:08.020 some of the people

01:07:09.280 that you've already hired

01:07:10.480 for that position

01:07:11.240 long before we knew about this.

01:07:12.780 I mean, long before,

01:07:13.980 from the time I came in,

01:07:15.260 we started going out

01:07:16.300 and getting the best people

01:07:17.780 because I said

01:07:18.500 it's not appropriate

01:07:20.520 what they're doing.

01:07:21.460 I think it's a tremendous mistake.

01:07:23.060 You know,

01:07:23.680 they like to do things

01:07:25.060 and they like to take them too far

01:07:26.440 and this is sometimes

01:07:27.340 what ends up happening.

01:07:28.460 Now, with that,

01:07:29.380 I'm not blaming the controller.

01:07:32.480 I'm saying there are things

01:07:33.600 that you could question

01:07:34.760 like the height of the helicopter

01:07:36.440 and the height of the plane

01:07:37.280 being at the same level

01:07:38.260 and going in opposite directions.

01:07:39.840 It's not a positive.

01:07:41.820 But, no,

01:07:42.500 we're already hiring people.

01:07:44.060 No, flying is very safe.

01:07:45.660 We have the safest

01:07:46.340 flying anywhere in the world

01:07:47.720 and we'll keep it that way.

01:07:48.780 Thank you all very much.

01:07:51.520 Thank you very much.

01:07:52.560 Okay, welcome back.

01:07:58.400 The President of the United States

01:08:00.060 with a just absolutely

01:08:01.120 incredible press conference

01:08:02.220 about this tragedy last night

01:08:03.720 kind of threw down hard.

01:08:05.660 His theories of the case

01:08:06.820 of what happened

01:08:07.620 looked like he's got questions

01:08:09.020 about air traffic controllers.

01:08:10.600 Also has a question

01:08:11.340 about why the night vision training

01:08:13.760 by the United States Army

01:08:14.800 and the Apache helicopter.

01:08:16.680 We have Brian Glens there.

01:08:18.320 Natalie Winters

01:08:19.060 were there for the briefing.

01:08:21.360 Also, let's go back.

01:08:22.240 We're going to punch out here

01:08:23.720 in a couple of minutes

01:08:24.920 with the War Room.

01:08:27.560 Hopefully, we've got

01:08:28.320 different channels.

01:08:29.160 Go to Grayson.

01:08:29.820 We've got the Rumble channel,

01:08:30.780 the Ghetto channel.

01:08:31.460 We're going to try to show

01:08:32.660 as much of the hearings

01:08:34.780 as possible.

01:08:35.460 The President was there

01:08:36.240 approximately for 35 minutes

01:08:38.040 at the press briefing.

01:08:39.600 He had Secretary of Transportation

01:08:40.960 Duffy,

01:08:41.620 head of the Pentagon,

01:08:43.580 Pete Hegseth.

01:08:44.580 He had the Vice President

01:08:45.260 of the United States,

01:08:45.820 J.D. Vance.

01:08:46.880 I'll step up,

01:08:47.620 say a few words,

01:08:48.660 and then took questions

01:08:49.960 after his statement.

01:08:50.700 You saw the press

01:08:52.320 is back into the feeding frenzy

01:08:54.180 of President Trump's first term.

01:08:56.320 You saw it right there.

01:08:58.240 The hand-to-hand combat,

01:09:00.660 let's be brutally frank

01:09:01.680 about what's going on

01:09:02.540 at Capitol Hill

01:09:03.100 on the Senate side.

01:09:04.820 Cash Patel,

01:09:05.720 they're coming at Cash hard.

01:09:07.380 They're coming at Bobby Kennedy hard.

01:09:08.940 They're coming at Tulsi Gabbard hard.

01:09:11.320 The Democrats right here

01:09:12.280 are trying to do two things.

01:09:13.420 Number one,

01:09:14.480 they hope to knock down

01:09:15.820 these appointments

01:09:16.660 because they don't want

01:09:17.280 President Trump

01:09:17.780 to have his team,

01:09:18.500 and particularly a team

01:09:19.420 of disruptors,

01:09:20.440 which all three of these

01:09:21.380 are today.

01:09:22.100 But remember,

01:09:23.720 what they're also trying to do

01:09:24.560 is get them on the record

01:09:25.500 of certain policies

01:09:26.220 to basically make sure

01:09:27.480 they've constrained

01:09:28.780 what these folks can do

01:09:30.680 when they take over

01:09:31.220 the departments.

01:09:31.940 They don't want Bobby Kennedy

01:09:32.980 doing what Bobby Kennedy

01:09:34.320 has done historically.

01:09:35.900 They don't want Tulsi Gabbard

01:09:36.940 with kind of her opinions

01:09:38.100 and thoughts

01:09:38.740 about intelligence

01:09:40.000 and deconstructing

01:09:41.020 the intelligence community.

01:09:42.660 They don't want

01:09:43.140 Cash Patel

01:09:43.800 with what he feels

01:09:44.820 has to be done

01:09:45.420 with the FBI.

01:09:46.700 So it's a two-pronged approach.

01:09:48.820 Number one,

01:09:49.880 to ding them up enough

01:09:51.040 to get them

01:09:51.520 to actually get

01:09:53.000 what I call

01:09:53.740 the fourth Republican

01:09:55.880 to bail,

01:09:56.660 and that came very close

01:09:57.440 to Pete.

01:09:58.020 The inside story

01:09:58.660 in that was very close.

01:10:00.820 They're going to try

01:10:01.520 to do that

01:10:01.980 because they feel

01:10:02.400 they've got Murkowski,

01:10:03.420 they've got Collins,

01:10:04.100 they've got McConnell.

01:10:04.760 All they need is one more.

01:10:05.880 They get one more J.D.'s vote.

01:10:08.100 Vice President Vance's vote

01:10:09.520 cannot change it.

01:10:12.580 The second thing

01:10:13.600 they're trying to do

01:10:14.120 is make sure

01:10:14.600 they limit the field

01:10:15.680 of action

01:10:16.600 that these cabinet

01:10:17.840 sectors can take

01:10:19.260 if and when

01:10:20.400 they are confirmed.

01:10:21.840 You saw him try

01:10:22.320 to do that

01:10:22.760 with Pete Hegsett

01:10:24.160 and Scott Besant

01:10:25.340 and Russ Vought.

01:10:27.020 President Trump

01:10:27.560 right there

01:10:27.980 saying he,

01:10:28.740 asked John Thune,

01:10:29.820 he needs his cabinet

01:10:30.900 sectors.

01:10:31.460 I think this tragedy

01:10:32.240 last night shows

01:10:33.240 we need to get a process

01:10:34.580 where you get people

01:10:35.580 in there quicker.

01:10:37.600 President Trump

01:10:38.520 on offense right there

01:10:39.800 talking about

01:10:40.840 what his policies were.

01:10:42.720 Okay,

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Bannon's War Room - January 30, 2025

Episode 4233： Tragedy Over The Potomac; Kash, Tulsi, And RFK Hearings Cont.

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