67 people were killed when a Blackhawk helicopter carrying soldiers and an American Airlines jet collided near Reagan National Airport, near Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night. What could be the cause of such a close encounter between a military helicopter and a passenger jet?
00:00:00.000Questions continue to abound in this horrifying tragedy outside Reagan National Airport where an American Airlines flight coming from Wichita, Kansas was struck by a Blackhawk helicopter.
00:00:08.000By the way, Blackhawk helicopters are not small helicopters.
00:00:11.000I'm not talking about like a news helicopter.
00:00:15.000It typically carries VIP guests and such.
00:00:18.000And apparently, the helicopter was swirling at possibly above 200 feet, which is usually the limit where they are testing in terms of the height, and struck basically in the side.
00:00:35.000Flight 5342, a bombardier CRJ-700 had 60 passengers and four crew members on board.
00:00:41.000The three troops on board the helicopter were apparently conducting a training flight and likely wore night vision goggles.
00:00:45.000That may be relevant because if you're wearing night vision goggles, this could mean that perhaps your vision to the sides is not nearly as good.
00:00:53.000Was this an air traffic control problem?
00:00:57.000All of that is still very much up in the air.
00:01:00.000There have been near misses in the past.
00:01:01.000And the first question I think that a lot of people are asking is, why the hell are Black Hawk helicopters operating at night in an area where passenger jets are coming in?
00:01:12.000And there are some strange oddities about this particular flight path, because it turns out that normally, apparently, Runway 1 is the one that is typically used to accept incoming flights into Reagan National.
00:01:23.000Air traffic control had called this flight, the CRJ, and told them that you should instead take runway 33, which brought them across the Potomac, and then the helicopter struck them as they were coming across the Potomac.
00:01:33.000But apparently near misses of this sort tend to happen a lot more often than expected.
00:01:38.000According to Reuters, U.S. commercial pilot Rick Redfern was preparing to land at Reagan Washington National Airport about a decade ago when he spotted a bright red Coast Guard helicopter hovering about 50 feet above the Potomac River.
00:01:47.000Air traffic control promptly warned the helicopter pilot to stay clear.
00:01:50.000Redfern said he used evasive maneuvers to avoid it and avert a potential disaster.
00:01:54.000That was in daytime when visibility was clearer.
00:01:56.000And it's almost unthinkable that this happened considering how sophisticated the machinery is, how sophisticated our ability to see planes in the air even at night is now.
00:02:06.000But to attribute it to anything other than accident at this point would be to move beyond the available evidence for sure.
00:02:13.000A collision on Wednesday night between the Black Hawk military helicopter and American Airlines subsidiary CRJ 700 regional jet has stirred haunting memories for Redfern and other pilots who have faced challenges at landing at Washington Airport.
00:02:24.000Apparently, planes approaching the airport must navigate a precise and narrow flight path to avoid restricted airspace around the nearby White House and Pentagon.
00:02:31.000That turn from the eastern side along the river to turn into runway 33 is very, very tight, said Redfern.
00:02:38.000Apparently the black boxes have indeed been recovered, so we'll have a better window into what was going on aboard the two aircraft before they collided.
00:02:45.000Seven pilots told Reuters the landing at Reagan Airport is unique due to the congested space, along with the inability to communicate directly with military aircraft, which actually operate on different radio frequencies.
00:02:55.000The airport also has shorter runways, including Runway 33, that is generally reserved for smaller aircraft.
00:03:00.000That means traversing narrow airspace because planes can't cross the eastern shoreline of the Potomac because that airport is also regularly used by the military for training.
00:03:08.000So, again, this is a horrifying accident.
00:03:11.000That appears to be the story at this point.
00:03:15.000Now, air traffic control was perfectly aware that these aircraft were in proximity with one another.
00:03:21.000We know this because they're recordings of an air traffic controller heard asking the Army helicopter to pass behind the regional jet.
00:03:30.000Commercial aircraft use very high-frequency radios to communicate.
00:03:33.000Military aircraft operate on ultra-high-frequency channels, so they can't actually directly communicate.
00:03:39.000But Army Secretary nominee Daniel Driscoll said during a Senate hearing the crash may prompt the military to reconsider conducting training operations near the Washington, D.C. airspace.
00:03:48.000Well, yes, that would seem to be the obvious solution to all of this.
00:03:56.000There's an entire family that was wiped out in this plane crash.
00:03:59.000Obviously, everybody who's involved is innocent.
00:04:01.000It's horrifying on every possible level.
00:04:05.000Brad Bowman, military analyst with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former Black Hawk pilot said, quote, Initial indications suggest this may have been a checkride or periodic evaluation by an experienced instructor pilot of a less experienced pilot.
00:04:16.000A checkride, as opposed to a normal training flight, creates some unique dynamics in the cockpit.
00:04:20.000In a checkride, the less experienced pilot can be nervous and eager to not make mistakes, while the instructor pilot is watching to see how other pilot responds to different developments.
00:04:28.000Sometimes, an instructor pilot will test the less experienced aviator to see how they respond, but such a technique would have been unusual and inadvisable in that location, given the reduced margin for error.
00:04:37.000Apparently, the instructor pilot had 1,000 hours of flight time, that's considered high.
00:04:41.000The co-pilot had 500 hours, according to NPR, which is considered average, although there have been some accusations that 500 hours in the air is actually considered sort of below average.
00:04:50.000Apparently, it was a male pilot and a female co-pilot.
00:04:54.000The Pentagon has not yet released the names of those who were on board.
00:04:57.000They are still apparently notifying next of kin.
00:04:59.000Officials tell NPR the Blackhawk was supposed to be flying at a maximum of 200 feet.
00:05:03.000Sources say it was flying at least 100 feet higher.
00:05:06.000So, at the very least, what you're looking at here is significant pilot error.
00:05:11.000All sorts of controversy broke out yesterday when President came forward to do a press conference on this particular issue.
00:05:18.000And he blamed the crash, at least in part.
00:05:21.000A group within the FAA, another story, determined that the workforce was too white, that they had concerted efforts to get the administration to change that and to change it immediately.
00:05:42.000This was in the Obama administration just prior to my getting there.
00:06:20.000I mean, all those details are unclear.
00:06:21.000It is, however, true that the FAA in particular, the Federal Aviation Administration, has been direly affected by DEI protocols and procedures over the course of the last decade.
00:06:32.000I mean, truly in negative and horrifying ways.
00:06:37.000Years before Wednesday's fatal collision between a military helicopter and a passenger jet approaching Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, critics warned that the Obama and Biden administrations had jeopardized safety by prioritizing DEI at the Federal Aviation Administration.
00:06:51.000Now, the suggestion of such, of course, has made Democrats insane.
00:06:56.000Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, he said, It's one thing for Internet pundits to spew up conspiracy theories.
00:07:00.000It's another for the President of the United States to throw idle speculation, even as victims are still being recovered and families are still being notified.
00:07:07.000So, is the criticism of Trump's timing or is the criticism of Trump's content?
00:07:29.000Systems designed to put people who are unqualified in positions of high authority.
00:07:34.000Democrats tend to think that sort of stuff is good.
00:07:36.000Of course, it pervaded every aspect of the Biden administration, according to Joe Biden.
00:07:41.000Critics warned, according to the Washington Times, that the FDA's focus on DEI diverted time and resources from air travel safety.
00:07:47.000It hobbled the agency as it grappled with air traffic controller shortages, antiquated monitoring equipment, and an increase in near misses on crowded airport runways.
00:07:54.000An unidentified source told the Associated Press on Thursday the air traffic controller in charge of monitoring the airspace at the time of the fatal collision was performing the work of two people.
00:08:02.000So, in other words, because they couldn't get enough, quote-unquote, diverse members of the FAA, they were simply under-hiring for the FAA, and that meant that they were short-staffed during critical times.
00:08:12.000Air safety concerns, according to the Washington Times, prompted 11 Republican attorneys general to write the FAA administrator, Michael Whitaker, last year to question the administration's hiring practices and priorities.
00:08:23.000They said, quote, unfortunately, the Biden FAA, under your administration, appears to prioritize virtue-signaling diversity efforts over aviation experience.
00:08:30.000And this calls into question the agency's commitment to safety.
00:08:36.000It is true that the Obama and Biden administrations prioritized DEI over safety.
00:08:43.000The Biden-era FAA website said, quote, quote, the FAA's mission involves securing the skies of a diverse nation.
00:08:48.000It only makes sense the workforce responsible for that mission reflect the nation.
00:08:51.000In 2022, the FAA pledged to diversify its workforce by rethinking its hiring practices.
00:08:57.000Administration officials assigned long-term goals to amplify diversity, accessibility, and LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign issues.
00:09:05.000A 2022 performance target required the agency, quote, host a national symposium with internal and external stakeholders to socialize efforts on the use of gender-neutral language at the FAA. In 2013, under Barack Obama, the FAA started using a biographical assessment to increase the hiring of preferred minority racial groups at air traffic control centers.
00:09:25.000The assessment asked applicants about their participation in school sports.
00:09:28.000In fact, some of the documents from the FAA, according to one reporter named Trace Woodgrains, one of the documents that was asked, one of the questionnaires that was put forward by the FAA, and this was revealed in a lawsuit, a class-action lawsuit, called Brigida v.
00:09:45.000Apparently, the questionnaire awarded points for factors like lowest grade in high school is science, which is psychotic.
00:09:53.000If a questionnaire awards points for you're bad at science, and therefore you get some sort of affirmative action appointment at the FAA, it seems to me you want the people who are explicitly good at science at the FAA. Call me crazy, but that's insane.
00:10:07.000Well, President Trump, for precisely that reason, slammed Pete Buttigieg on his handling of the Department of Transportation.
00:10:13.000The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
00:10:54.000Well, the president was asked, well, how do you know this had anything to do with DEI? And here was the president of the United States answering that question.
00:11:02.000On DEI and the claims that you've made, are you saying this crash was somehow caused and the result of diversity hiring?
00:11:09.000And what evidence have you seen to support these claims?
00:11:46.000We're going to look into that, and we're going to see.
00:11:49.000Certainly for an air traffic controller, we want the brightest, the smartest, the sharpest.
00:11:54.000We want somebody that's psychologically superior, and that's what we're going to have.
00:12:01.000As Steve Hilton points out, Pete Buttigieg's FAA got a scathing Inspector General report just in June of 2023. Quote, 77% of critical facilities are staffed below threshold.
00:12:11.000Quote, lacks a plan to address staffing challenges, posing a risk to continuity of air traffic operations.
00:12:16.000Quote, FAA cannot ensure it will successfully train enough controllers in the short term.
00:12:21.000So, again, the details are still emerging.
00:12:23.000We don't know exactly what led to this crash.
00:12:26.000There is a lot of heartburn on the left because Trump is suggesting that DEI had something to do with this.
00:12:32.000Unfortunately, this is the way that politics now operates.
00:12:35.000And I can't name the number of times that Joe Biden came forth after some sort of school shooting before any of the evidence was available to discuss how gun control was obviously the solution.
00:12:45.000For where the gun came from, or who had sold it, or who operated it, or what the psychological status of the person who actually did the shooting was, any of that, you just come forth and immediately declare that his sort of all-purpose solution was the one in question.
00:13:02.000The FAA has been run along DEI lines for a very long time.
00:13:05.000And regardless as to whether this crash was a result of DEI or whether it wasn't a result of DEI, there is a reason why the blowback is coming in that form.
00:13:15.000President Trump was pushed on this by Caitlin Collins of CNN, and he didn't have a lot of time for it.
00:13:23.000We don't even yet know the names of the 67 people who were killed.
00:13:26.000And you are blaming Democrats and DEI policies and air traffic control and seemingly the member of the U.S. military who was flying that Black Hawk helicopter.
00:13:35.000Don't you think you're getting ahead of the investigation right now?
00:14:04.000Well, then Trump was asked a smarter question by our own Mary Margaret Olihan, which was, it seems kind of important, given the fact that so many of these agents, their short staffs, actually get confirmed the nominees.
00:14:17.000Mr. President, is it helpful to have your Secretary of Transportation confirmed, and does this intensify your interest in getting other nominees confirmed quickly?
00:14:26.000Is it helpful to have your Secretary of Transportation confirmed, and does this intensify your interest in getting other nominees confirmed quickly as well?
00:15:18.000Well, I mean, he's not wrong about that.
00:15:23.000Well, J.D. Vance, the Vice President of the United States, he was also talking about air traffic control and DEI standards.
00:15:28.000Here's what the Vice President of the United States had to say.
00:15:31.000Something the president said that I think bears reemphasizing, which is that when you don't have the best standards in who you're hiring, it means, on the one hand, you're not getting the best people in government, but on the other hand, it puts stresses on the people who are already there.
00:15:46.000And I think that is a core part of what President Trump is going to bring and has already brought to Washington, D.C., is we want to hire the best people because we want the best people at air traffic control.
00:15:57.000And we want to make sure we have enough people at air traffic control who are actually competent to do the job.
00:16:02.000If you go back to just some of the headlines over the past 10 years, you have many hundreds of people suing the government because they would like to be air traffic controllers, but they were turned away because of the color of their skin.
00:16:12.000That policy ends under Donald Trump's leadership because safety is the first priority of our aviation industry.
00:16:28.000We are going to wait for all the information to come in from this vantage point, but to back up what the president said, what I've seen so far, do I think this was preventable?
00:16:41.000So, we'll have to see again what exactly is the cause of this particular plane crash.
00:16:47.000It is certainly the case that the procedures have to change, which is why yesterday President Trump took executive action on aviation DEI, signing a memorandum to end DEI practices in the aviation sector and to assess aviation safety, as well as an executive order to appoint a new head of the FAA.
00:17:04.000Trump's new executive actions come in the wake of that deadly midair collision near Ronald Reagan National Airport.
00:17:09.000The memorandum on DEI orders for newly minted Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and newly appointed acting FAA Commissioner Christopher Rochelow to ensure the undue practices that may have been in place during the Biden administration around hiring.
00:17:16.000to ensure they undo practices that may have been in place during the Biden administration around hiring.
00:17:24.000So, you know, those procedures do have to change regardless of exactly what led to this crash.
00:17:28.000And again, we'll bring you all the information as it emerges on what did lead to the crash, what all the procedures were, who did what wrong, because obviously something went very, very wrong.
00:17:38.000Meanwhile, speaking of President Trump's nominees, three of them were on the Hill yesterday in contentious hearings.
00:17:43.000All three of them had significantly contentious hearings.
00:17:46.000RFK Jr.'s hearings continued yesterday.
00:17:49.000And those hearings, again, went pretty well for RFK Jr.
00:17:53.000There's one particular exchange that he had with Bernie Sanders in which Sanders was going after RFK Jr.
00:17:58.000And RFK Jr. was like, listen, you've been taking a lot of pharma money, I've noticed.
00:18:01.000*Fucked* By the way, Bernie, you know, the problem of corruption is not just in the federal agencies.
00:18:12.000Almost all the members of this panel are accepting, including yourself, are accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry and protecting their interests.
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00:21:30.000Fact that RFK Jr. will attempt to marshal with regard to such a linkage has to do with a type of mercury that is no longer found in vaccines at all.
00:21:41.000In any case, the studies that link autism with vaccines have been debunked, at least the major one that originally suggested it, was completely withdrawn eventually.
00:21:50.000Bernie Sanders questioned RFK Jr. about this.
00:21:53.000There have been, as I understand it, dozens of studies done all over the world.
00:22:00.000That make it very clear that vaccines do not cause autism.
00:22:05.000Now, you just said, if I heard correctly, well, if the evidence is there.
00:23:12.000Cassidy was troubled by that because he suggested, well, I mean, the overwhelming evidence is what the overwhelming evidence is.
00:23:18.000Cassidy showed, can a 71-year-old man who spent decades criticizing vaccines, who's financially vested in finding fault with vaccines, can he change his attitudes and approach now that he'll have the most important position influencing vaccine policy in the United States?
00:23:29.000I've got to figure that out for my vote.
00:23:30.000And that is, in fact, a fair question from Senator Cassidy.
00:23:33.000That is not, in fact, a crazy question or an oppositional question.
00:23:37.000Cassidy is a strong supporter of President Trump.
00:23:40.000And, you know, Kirin lies one of the sort of issues with some of the Trump nominees.
00:23:44.000I support Bobby Kennedy for HHS. One of the problems is there are vulnerabilities for some of these nominees and many of the things that they've said in the past that could cause the Senate to use its advice and consent procedures to find fault with the nominees.
00:23:56.000For example, Tim Kaine, Democrat senator from Virginia, long forgotten, former vice presidential candidate for Hillary Clinton, he asked Bobby Kennedy about conspiracy theories about 9-11.
00:24:07.000Because you say, you go on to say, I won't take sides.
00:24:13.000As president, I won't take sides on 9-11.
00:26:26.000He was not willing to take any prisoners in this hearing.
00:26:30.000In this hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee, they tried to go after him about past comments, praising people who were there January 6th of 2021, or his promise to go after current and former DOJ and FBI officials that he put on a list of corrupt actors.
00:26:44.000But again, the reason he's being put in this position is to clear out the FBI of any of those corrupt actors.
00:26:50.000So here was Kash Patel in his opening statement saying due process matters.
00:26:55.000For the first eight years after law school, I served as a public defender.
00:26:59.000First for Miami-Dade County and later for the Southern District of Florida.
00:27:03.000During that time, I represented some pretty awful human beings charged with some pretty heinous crimes.
00:27:10.000But what I learned there was the core value that has been enshrined in me since.
00:27:14.000That due process must be provided without bias to all Americans.
00:27:20.000And if we cannot provide due process to the worst, then there can be no due process for anyone.
00:27:30.000Now again, all of that should be wildly uncontroversial and Patel points out that he's been a victim of weaponized government, which of course is true.
00:27:38.000Senator, this may be one of the scenarios that most uniquely qualifies me to take command at the FBI. Having been the victim of government overreach and a weaponized system of justice and law enforcement.
00:27:52.000I know what it feels like to have the full weight of the United States government barreling down on you.
00:27:58.000And as the Biden Inspector General determined those activities by the FBI and DOJ were wholly improper and not predicated upon law and facts, I will ensure, if confirmed, that no American is subjected to that kind of torment, to that kind of cost, financially and personally.
00:28:17.000And most importantly, I will make sure that no American is subjected to death threats like I was and subjected to moving their residences like I was because of government overreach, because of leaks of information about my personal status.
00:28:32.000If confirmed as FBI Director, Mr. Chairman, you have my commitment that no one in this country will feel that pain.
00:28:39.000So Patel was tapped in 2017 by then House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes to join the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to investigate the origins of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
00:28:50.000That was the Trump-Russia investigation.
00:28:52.000And in the process of that happening, he himself was dragged into Crossfire Hurricane.
00:29:00.000He himself, his records were secretly subpoenaed, apparently, in this process.
00:29:09.000And that is what he refers to when he says he doesn't want that to happen to anybody else.
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00:29:20.000He says, this has affected you personally, you along with even members of my staff, are the victims of FBI overreach when they secretly subpoenaed your records during the investigation into Crossfire Hurricane.
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00:32:34.000Amy Klobuchar was trying to get him on a comment that he made about closing FBI headquarters and instead building a monument to FBI overreach, which of course is a bit of rhetoric.
00:32:51.000Before I call on Senator Lee, could he just answer the question if he said that the FBI headquarters where they investigate cybercrime and terrorism should be shut down and open as a deep state, as a museum?
00:33:03.000Did he say that the headquarters should be shut down?
00:33:21.000If the best attacks on me are going to be false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations, the only thing this body is doing is defeating the credibility of the men and women at the FBI. I stood with them here in this country.
00:33:33.000In every theater of war we have, I was on the ground in service of this nation and any.
00:33:39.000Accusations leveled against me that I would somehow put political bias before the Constitution are grotesquely unfair.
00:33:46.000And I will have you reminded that I have been endorsed by over 300,000 law enforcement officers to become the next director of the FBI. Let's ask them.
00:33:55.000Mr. Chairman, I am quoting his own words from September of 2024. It is his own words.
00:34:19.000Again, this is not a great look for Amy Klobuchar.
00:34:22.000It also is not a good look for Sheldon Whitehouse, who is, again, one of the dumber members of the United States Senate.
00:34:28.000He went after Kash Patel, and it didn't go well for him either.
00:34:33.000The only thing that will matter if I'm confirmed as a director of the FBI is a de-weaponized, de-politicized system of law enforcement completely devoted to rigorous obedience of the Constitution and a singular standard of justice.
00:34:55.000He was asked by Democratic senators about President Trump's pardons of some of the people who attack cops on January 6th.
00:35:01.000And Patel, who is in fact like a Trump loyalist to Trump loyalist, totally loyal to the MAGA agenda for sure.
00:35:07.000Cash Patel said, listen, if it were me, I wouldn't have done it.
00:35:09.000I don't think that we should pardon people who attack cops.
00:35:13.000As we discussed in our private meeting, Senator, I have always rejected any violence against law enforcement, and I have, including in that group, specifically addressed any violence against law enforcement on January 6th, and I do not agree with the commutation of any sentence of specifically addressed any violence against law enforcement on January 6th, and I do not agree with the commutation
00:35:35.000So do you think that America is safer because these 1,600 people have been given an opportunity to come out of serving their sentences and live in our communities again?
00:35:46.000Senator, I have not looked at all 1,600 individual cases.
00:35:52.000I have always advocated for imprisoning those that cause harm to our law enforcement and civilian communities.
00:36:01.000So, again, Kash Patel, I think, really, really outshone yesterday.
00:36:07.000I thought he was terrific yesterday in his Senate Judiciary hearing.
00:36:10.000Meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard, of course, is the other major controversial nominees.
00:36:14.000There were three controversial nominees.
00:36:16.000RFK, I thought, performed admirably, although there are still open questions about his positions on everything from vaccines to abortion.
00:36:22.000I thought that Kash Patel was just absolutely terrific yesterday in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:36:27.000Tulsi Gabbard had some ups and she had some downs.
00:36:30.000So Tulsi is, of course, the nominee to head the Directorate of National Intelligence, which is basically the oversight body for the CIA and the FBI. It's more of a ceremonial position in many ways, but she does sort of determine what intelligence hits the president's desk, although the truth is that President Trump can get intelligence from wherever he wants.
00:36:47.000He's sort of famous for having various back channels inside his own administration.
00:36:51.000One of the reasons that he nominated Tulsi Gabbard is, of course, because she's been a longtime opponent of the sort of overweening surveillance state.
00:36:57.000Here she was talking about that yesterday.
00:37:00.000Before I close, I want to warn the American people who are watching at home.
00:37:04.000You may hear lies and smears in this hearing that will challenge my loyalty to and my love for our country.
00:37:11.000Those who oppose my nomination imply that I am loyal to something or someone other than God, my own conscience, and the Constitution of the United States.
00:37:23.000Accusing me of being Trump's puppet, Putin's puppet, Assad's puppet, a guru's puppet, Modi's puppet, not recognizing the absurdity of simultaneously being the puppet of five different puppet masters.
00:37:37.000The same tactic was used against President Trump and failed.
00:37:43.000The American people elected President Trump with a decisive victory and mandate for change.
00:37:49.000The fact is what truly unsettles my political opponents is I refuse to be their puppet.
00:37:55.000Now, again, I think that this is a very smart play by Tulsi.
00:38:01.000Tulsi is incredibly bright, obviously.
00:38:03.000A former congresswoman from Hawaii and, of course, a former military officer as well.
00:38:08.000And there are many things that she would do as head of the DNI that I think would be absolutely terrific.
00:38:15.000I mean, one of the things that she did that was really excellent yesterday is she lists examples of weaponization of the intelligence agencies, which is a major issue.
00:38:22.000Title I of FISA was used illegally to obtain a warrant to spy on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.
00:38:33.000Biden campaign advisor Tony Blinken was the impetus for the 51 former senior intelligence officials letter dismissing Hunter Biden's laptop as disinformation specifically to help Biden win the election.
00:38:48.000Former DNI James Clapper lied to this committee in 2013, denying the existence of programs that facilitated the mass collection of millions of Americans' phone and Internet records, yet was never held accountable.
00:39:02.000Under John Brennan's leadership, the CIA abused its power to spy on Congress, to dodge oversight, lied about doing it until he was caught, and yet has never been held responsible.
00:39:13.000Under Biden, the FBI abused its power for political reasons to try to surveil Catholics who attend traditional Latin Mass, labeling them as quote-unquote radical traditionalist Catholics.
00:39:26.000Personally, just 24 hours after I criticized Kamala Harris and her nomination, I was placed on a secret domestic terror watch list called Quiet Skies.
00:39:42.000Now, again, she's right about all of this.
00:39:44.000Now, she did make trouble for herself in this hearing.
00:39:47.000Again, sort of like RFK answering questions on vaccines.
00:39:50.000The reality is whoever Trump nominates for these positions is going to do the work of President Trump, which is the reason why I support the nominations.
00:39:56.000I think that Chelsea Gabbard is going to work for President Trump.
00:39:59.000Bobby Kennedy is going to work for President Trump.
00:40:01.000So I have qualms about many of Bobby's positions on some of these issues, but in the end, he's working for Trump, which means that Trump's agenda is going to be the one that pushes forward or Trump will fire him.
00:40:10.000The same thing is going to be true of Tulsi Gabbard.
00:40:12.000That doesn't mean that in the Senate advice and consent procedures and protocols, they don't have to go through some of these questions.
00:40:17.000So, we'll get to, in a moment, Tulsi Gabbard running to some headwinds inside her Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.
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00:40:49.000Well, as I say, Tulsi Gabbard, she's in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
00:40:52.000She did some amazing things yesterday that were really pretty terrific.
00:40:56.000And she had a bit of a problem when it came to Edward Snowden.
00:40:59.000So, Edward Snowden, of course, one of the most famous leakers slash whistleblowers slash traitors in American history.
00:41:05.000One of the open questions for those who are very skeptical of our intelligence services for a very long time is whether Edward Snowden was a traitor.
00:41:11.000Now, as I've said since literally the very beginning with regard to Edward Snowden, who revealed all sorts of information on the extent to which the American intelligence apparatus was gathering metadata on American citizens and such.
00:41:26.000As I've said from the beginning, two things can be true at once.
00:41:29.000The information that we found out from Edward Snowden is really important for the American public to know, and two, Edward Snowden is a traitor.
00:41:42.000So, as we mentioned, Kash Patel used to work for Devin Nunes.
00:41:46.000Devin Nunes is a very skeptical person when it comes to the intelligence apparatus because he was actually targeted by, well, in September of 2016, he presided over a report on Edward Snowden that found, without a doubt, That Snowden had in fact committed treason.
00:42:01.000That Snowden did not do any of the things that would be necessary in order to qualify as a whistleblower.
00:42:06.000So there are actual procedures that are set up as a whistleblower that you can go through in order to ensure that you receive legal protection.
00:42:13.000Those procedures are there for a reason.
00:42:15.000They are there in order to prevent, for example, the dissemination of information that is incredibly damaging to American sources of information abroad, for example, or that uncovers information to America's enemies that ought not be uncovered.
00:42:29.000The Intelligence Committee found at the time that Snowden caused tremendous damage to national security, and the vast majority of the documents he stole have nothing to do with the programs impacting individual privacy interests.
00:42:38.000They instead pertained to military defense and intelligence programs of great interest to America's adversaries.
00:42:44.000Snowden insists he has not shared the full cache of 1.5 million classified documents with anybody, but in June 2016, the deputy chairman of Russia's Parliament's Defense and Security Committee publicly conceded that Snowden did share intelligence with his government.
00:42:59.000The full scope of the damage inflicted by Snowden remains unknown.
00:43:01.000Again, this is according to the Republican House Intelligence Committee reporting on Snowden back in 2016. Snowden, according to this report, was not a whistleblower.
00:43:09.000Under the law, publicly revealing classified information does not qualify somebody as a whistleblower.
00:43:14.000Disclosing classified information that shows fraud, waste, abuse, or other illegal activity to the appropriate law enforcement or oversight personnel, including to Congress, makes somebody a whistleblower and affords them critical protections.
00:43:24.000Contrary to public claims, As Snowden notified numerous NSA officials about what he believed to be illegal intelligence collection, the committee found zero evidence Snowden took any official effort to express concern about U.S. intelligence activities to any oversight officials within the U.S. government, despite numerous avenues for him to do so.
00:43:43.000despite snowden's later public claim he would have faced retribution for voicing concerns about activities the committee found laws and regulations in effect at the time of snowden's actions afforded him protections nor did snowden remain in the u.s to face the legal consequences of his actions contrary to the tradition of civil disobedience he professed to embrace instead he fled to china and then to russia to gather the files he took with him when he left the country for hong kong snowden infringed on the privacy of thousands of government employees and contractors
00:44:07.000he obtained his colleagues security credentials through misleading means abused his access as a systems administrator and removed the personally identifiable identifiable information of thousands of ic employees and contractors from hong kong he then went to russia where he remained a guest of the kremlin Thank you.
00:44:23.000Two weeks before Snowden began those mass downloads, he was reprimanded after engaging in a workplace spat with NSA managers.
00:44:31.000The committee found that Snowden was and remains a serial exaggerator and fabricator.
00:44:35.000So, again, the pretty obvious implication here is that, yeah, again, you may like to know, and I like to know, some of the stuff that Snowden uncovered.
00:44:44.000However, that is not the extent of what he uncovered, and that's not the extent of what he passed on to Russian intelligence services.
00:45:28.000Do you believe, as the chairman of this committee believes, as the vast majority of members of our intelligence agencies believe, that Edward Snowden was a traitor to the United States of America?
00:45:42.000Senator, if confirmed as Director of National Intelligence, I will work with you to make sure that there is not another Snowden-like league.
00:45:50.000This is not a moment for social media.
00:45:51.000It's not a moment to propagate theories, conspiracy theories, or attacks on journalism in the United States.
00:46:00.000This is when you need to answer the questions of the people whose votes you're asking for to be confirmed as the...
00:46:10.000Chief intelligence officer of this nation.
00:46:14.000Is Edward Snowden a traitor to the United States of America?
00:46:20.000That is not a hard question to answer when the stakes are this high.
00:46:27.000Senator, as someone who has served in your reform...
00:46:30.000Your answer, yes or no, is Edward Snowden a traitor to the United States of America?
00:46:37.000As someone who has worn our uniform in combat, I understand how critical our national security is.
00:46:48.000In 2020, she had, in fact, pushed a resolution alongside Representative Matt Gaetz, calling for the feds to completely drop charges against Snowden, even though, again, the charges were not just with regard to the stuff that we all wish that we knew and are glad that Snowden actually talked about.
00:47:00.000They're with regard to all the other stuff that Snowden certainly should not have revealed to America's enemies.
00:47:05.000Again, this is not to say that Tulsi should not be confirmed.
00:47:07.000If I were on the committee, I'd vote to confirm her.
00:47:09.000Because she's going to be doing the work of President Trump.
00:47:11.000And again, I think that the president is generally entitled to his nominees.
00:47:15.000But if you are a Republican senator and you're a thing of not voting for Tulsi, this is going to give you enough of a hook to not vote for Tulsi Gabbard, presumably.
00:47:23.000Now, with that said, many of the people who are the most hawkish on the Senate Intelligence Committee are defenders of Tulsi Gabbard.
00:47:27.000That includes Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas.
00:47:30.000Here he was, slapping down accusations that Tulsi is a Russian agent, which of course she's not.
00:47:35.000I'm dismayed by the attacks on Miss Gabbard's patriotism and her loyalty to our country.
00:47:43.000For instance, Hillary Clinton has smeared Miss Gabbard, calling her an asset of a foreign nation.
00:47:51.000Let me remind everyone that Miss Gabbard has served in our army for more than two decades.
00:47:56.000She has multiple combat tours, and she still wears the uniform to this day.
00:48:04.000She has undergone five FBI background checks.
00:48:08.000I spent more than two hours last week reviewing the latest, putting eyes on more than 300 pages.
00:48:44.000So last night there was on MSNBC a candidate forum to lead the DNC. So basically everybody who wants to lead the Democratic National Committee.
00:48:53.000The Chairman's Forum, they had this event over at MSNBC. And Jonathan Capehart asked, everyone on stage, raise your hand if you believe that Kamala Harris lost because of racism and misogyny.
00:49:06.000Now, a normie might be like, no, she lost because she was a bad candidate.
00:49:17.000You have to keep going in the intersectional direction.
00:49:19.000You have to keep claiming the American people are sexist and racist.
00:49:22.000So literally every person on the stage, the vast bulk of whom are white, raises their hand when asked if Kamala Harris lost because of racism and sexism.
00:49:32.000Five minutes left in this round, so I'm going to have a show of hands.
00:49:40.000How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played a role in Vice President Harris's defeat?
00:50:47.000to found an institution at Boston University called the Ibram X. Kendi Center on Anti-Racism, in which he was going to do research on anti-racism.
00:50:56.000Ten million dollars later, there was zero, zero research that had emerged from the Center for Anti-Racist Research.
00:51:03.000Boston University has now confirmed that Kendi will be departing and said the Center for Anti-Racist Research would close June 30th.
00:51:09.000The Center and Kendi came under scrutiny in 2023 for alleged financial mismanagement.
00:51:14.000Gloria Waters, the university's provost and chief academic officer, said, quote, We thank Dr. Kendi and the center's staff and affiliated faculty for their contributions in advancing scholarship, teaching, and policymaking.
00:51:24.000The university wishes Dr. Kendi well on his next chapter.
00:51:30.000Well, he then promptly fell into a featherbed over at Howard University, which, of course, is the same university, a historically black college university, that accepted the execrable Nicole Hannah-Jones.
00:51:42.000When she fell out of favor at the University of North Carolina.
00:51:45.000So Kendi is going to start at Howard this summer as a history professor and director of the tentatively named Howard University Institute for Advanced Research, who will also bring with him The Emancipator, a digital magazine focused on racial inequity that was founded with the Boston Globe, but has since gone independent.
00:52:01.000And nobody has ever seen, heard from, read anything remotely like that.
00:52:11.000Honestly, if you're a grifter and you can take all of these pathetic fools who believe that affirmative action and racial consciousness and all this ought to be at the top of the list of American priorities as opposed to being counterproductive and truly racist in their essence, if you can take all those people for a ride, more power to you, Ibram.
00:52:28.000And good luck over at Howard University.
00:52:31.000Speaking of the demise of DEI, joining us on the line is Christopher Ruffo.
00:52:35.000There is no activist who's had more impact on America in terms of...
00:52:43.000Chris, I have to say, you know, as probably the most successful activist of our generation in terms of actually fostering political change in places like Florida on DEI or pushing government cuts, what do you make of the Trump administration really, I would say, taking your advice, moving fast and breaking things here?
00:53:04.000And, you know, we've been working on this campaign to abolish DEI, to reform higher education.
00:53:09.000To get rid of trans ideology in America's institutions for five years.
00:53:13.000And it feels like a point of culmination.
00:53:16.000And I spent the interim, after the president's electoral victory, before he took office, trying to talk to people, trying to get organized, trying to set the stage for reform.
00:53:26.000And they've taken everything to the next level.
00:53:30.000I mean, the sheer scope and scale of what the president has done and what his cabinet members have done.
00:53:36.000This is a totally different administration than Trump 1.0.
00:53:40.000It's probably the most effective first week of a presidency in my lifetime.
00:53:44.000And I know for a fact that there's more to come.
00:53:47.000So, Chris, when we look at the stuff that they are doing right now...
00:53:50.000Executive orders can be done and undone, but some of the things that they are doing right now, ripping out, for example, affirmative action by the roots, ripping out DEI. By the way, this has been a longtime crusade of yours.
00:54:00.000Obviously, when it comes to trans politics and trans ideology, that's something that Daily Wire, I mean, we've been fighting this thing since the initiation of our company in 2015. You say it's the culmination.
00:54:08.000It really is, but it takes more than that.
00:54:11.000It takes systemic know-how, and this is something where you have been really an indispensable force.
00:54:21.000And I think this has been a learning process for me and for the right as a movement.
00:54:25.000I think it started with President Trump's executive order banning critical race theory in late 2020. Then the shift of politics went to Florida.
00:54:34.000Governor DeSantis really took anti-woke ideas and figured out how to turn them into anti-woke policies and administration.
00:54:41.000And then this learning over the last four years has prepared Trump's team.
00:54:46.000And look, these are people who have spent the last few years waiting for this day, waiting for this moment.
00:54:52.000I was in policy planning sessions three years ago where they were talking about slicing Lyndon Johnson's Executive Order 11246 on affirmative action.
00:55:04.000So we're now in the implementation phase.
00:55:06.000And I think that this is just the beginning.
00:55:08.000And while, yes, executive orders can come and go, I think there will be a legislative component coming in the next few months to try to entrench some of these ideas, entrench some of these policies through the legislature, through Congress, so that they're perhaps more permanent and certainly more difficult so that they're perhaps more permanent and certainly more difficult to overturn in the future.
00:55:27.000So, Chris, one of the things that you've talked about for a long time and that obviously the administration has taken to heart is the idea that the policy is the personnel and the personnel is the policy.
00:55:35.000And the Trump administration, one, had no idea about this.
00:55:39.000There are a huge number of people in the executive branch.
00:55:41.000They just figured those are, you know, apolitical people who are just going to do their jobs when they're told to do their jobs.
00:55:46.000Obviously, they learned the hard way that wasn't true during not only Trump 1, but also during the Biden administration when many of those people were activated against Trump even when he was out of office.
00:55:54.000And now they are coming in and they're recognizing that a huge number of the people that they've called deep staters need to go.
00:56:01.000And so some of the moves that they are making right now...
00:56:03.000For example, offering a buyout to anybody who basically doesn't want to participate in the changing of the country under the sort of MAGA emblem.
00:56:12.000Yeah, it's really good executive management.
00:56:15.000I think that story in particular, this idea that you could send an email to all federal employees saying, respond to this email with resign in the subject line and you're gone, is something that was unimaginable, not just in Trump's first term, but really in the first term of any previous president.
00:56:35.000This is the kind of thing that Elon Musk demonstrated when he took over Twitter.
00:56:39.000He fired 80% of the staff and improved the product.
00:56:42.000They're taking that ethos into the Oval Office and into the White House.
00:56:47.000This is part of the new right coalition.
00:56:50.000They've brought in some of the tech leaders.
00:56:53.000There's, of course, squabbling on issues.
00:56:55.000Tech leaders want concessions on, for example, H-1B visas.
00:56:58.000But on the bright side of this partnership where we can all agree is A kind of ruthless administration, downsizing the government, going after the deep state, dismantling the permanent bureaucracy.
00:57:10.000And that's something that I think really requires an audacious kind of leadership that Musk has demonstrated and now Trump has learned from and is demonstrating in government.
00:57:20.000So, of course, one of the issues that seems to be rearing its ugly head is what people have called malicious compliance, which is people who are embedded in the executive branch who have decided that the way to, quote-unquote, apply President Trump's executive orders is to do things that earn him bad headlines.
00:57:33.000So the best example of this that I've seen over the course of the past couple of weeks is Pete Hegsat, the new Secretary of Defense, promulgates an order to the Department of Defense to get rid of DEI in the Department of Defense, and some schmuck lower down says, well, this means that now we can no longer teach about the Tuskegee Airmen.
00:57:49.000And Hegseth immediately says, well, obviously that's not true.
00:57:51.000And so we are going to make sure that people are still taught about the Tuskegee Airmen.
00:57:54.000But this is constantly a reminder that, again, the personnel are the policy.
00:57:59.000I think one thing that people have to keep in mind is that when you actually go and you change policy in the way that Trump is doing right now, there are going to, it's a trial and error process.
00:58:07.000Things are going to break and then you have to fix them in the same way that when Elon came in, a bunch of things broke at Twitter and then they had to get fixed on the fly.
00:58:15.000And I watched this up close in Florida.
00:58:18.000As we were doing some reforms in K-12 schools and higher education in Florida, there were so many instances of malicious compliance from school administrators, school librarians, university officials.
00:58:29.000And I think that Governor DeSantis developed a pretty strong formula.
00:58:34.000It was to reiterate the principle, to have his rapid response communications team rebut the errors and lies and manipulations in real time, and then really just bulldoze through.
00:58:46.000Because, you know, he told me something very interesting one time as we were reforming one of the universities.
00:58:51.000He said, look, you're going to get a thousand negative news articles and I have your back.
00:59:06.000And I think his model of how to handle malicious compliance is the right one.
00:59:10.000I would only add one small addition that I think could be relevant to the Trump administration.
00:59:15.000Find the individuals who are responsible for malicious compliance, terminate their employment, and make them an example so that you disincentivize malicious compliance further down the line.
00:59:26.000This is important because the federal government is so large, even a single instance of malicious compliance can deal damage, and you need to really reset the incentives so that people not only follow the executive orders, but they do so in good faith.
00:59:41.000So, Chris, you obviously have been at the forefront of fighting things like critical race theory, which has become just poison to the public mind, or radical gender ideology, which, again, has now been sort of ripped out by the roots.
00:59:54.000Because it seems like Democrats are in retreat in a lot of areas, but they always come back.
00:59:58.000What is the next thing that you've got your eye on?
01:00:00.000Yeah, I think, look, I think the president has made incredible progress on DEI. He's going to be opening up investigations.
01:00:08.000Into discriminatory DEI programs at companies, school districts, universities.
01:00:13.000And so I think that the abolished DEI movement is in really good shape.
01:00:17.000Where I think we can make sustained progress that will require more than an executive order is in higher education reform.
01:00:24.000Look, America spends billions of dollars a year subsidizing monolithically left-wing universities that produce these ideologies.
01:00:32.000And so I think that we need to have the Department of Education team, once we have the confirmation of Secretary of command, I think we really need to start working together to reform higher education, to put pressure on these institutions, not only through policy, but financial pressure and pressure on how status and prestige are distributed within the higher education world.
01:00:54.000We have to incentivize scholarship, disincentivize left-wing activism.
01:00:58.000And I think that we can do this through the various carrots and sticks that the Secretary of Education has available.
01:01:03.000This is something I'm going to be working on moving forward.
01:01:06.000And I think the time and the moment is right.
01:01:20.000Well, it's been a long time since I did things I like, but it's the end of January, and I was doing a lot of travel, which meant I got to actually enjoy some culture on the airplanes.
01:01:28.000And so I want to recommend a couple of things that I like.
01:01:30.000I want to make this a regular feature.
01:01:53.000Okay, it's not as good as Gladiator 1 by any stretch of the imagination.
01:01:56.000But I don't really understand the extraordinary anger directed At Gladiator 2. Gladiator 2, sure, there weren't actual sharks in the Coliseum, but there were giant water battles in the Coliseum.
01:02:07.000That's an actual thing that actually happened.
01:02:09.000And sure, it's not historically accurate or anything, but it's Denzel at his most Denzel.
01:03:34.000Okay, so super historically inaccurate in terms of the actual emperors, the Roman emperors, right?
01:03:45.000There were emperors with the names of these people, and there was another emperor who did take over for them, but that's pretty much all that's historically accurate in this piece.
01:03:53.000The end of the movie is basically the Roman Empire is restored under the great democratic power of Lucius.
01:03:58.000Yeah, that never happened, but it's fun anyway.
01:04:01.000Denzel is extremely Denzel, like audacious and loud and all the rest.
01:04:07.000Pedro Pascal plays himself, basically.
01:05:52.000It could be they're setting up all these mysteries and they have no actual solves for the mysteries and the whole thing just falls apart.
01:05:57.000I always hope when a writer takes me a place where I'm not expecting that they know where they're going.
01:06:02.000Because I want to be along for the ride.
01:06:03.000I've seen so much TV and so many movies at this point that it is very difficult for me not to predict the ending of pretty much every show or movie within the first 15 minutes of the movie.
01:08:30.000Tom Holland and I, we have some conflicting politics, I would assume, but he's a really, really good writer, a terrific writer, very evocative.
01:08:37.000He takes seriously religious claims, not that to the truth of the actual seriousness with which religious people take religious claims.
01:08:44.000He doesn't mock them, which would be the easy way out for so many historians, especially writing about Judaism or Christianity.
01:08:49.000What Tom Holland does instead is he tries to view history through the lens of the people who are living it, such that they actually take seriously the claims of miracles in Tours, for example.
01:08:59.000Or take seriously the claims of Jesus' miracles in Dominion.
01:09:02.000So basically the entire premise of the book is that pretty much everything in our lives is shaped by the Christian world, which of course is absolutely true.
01:09:09.000I make much the same claim in my own book about the history of Western philosophy, The Right Side of History, which came out a few years ago.
01:09:16.000Dominion is specifically about Christian philosophy and it is a history of church.
01:09:20.000It's a history of the church going all the way back to the time of Jesus and forward through the so-called Dark Ages, which were not actually Dark Ages.
01:09:27.000Forward into the medieval era, through the Reformation, and all the rest.
01:09:42.000I've said this a thousand times in debates, whether it's with, you know, atheists like Alex O'Connor, or whether it is with people who are sort of just secular liberals.
01:09:51.000The values that the left perceives, that the secular left perceives to be their values.
01:09:56.000Our values that are rooted in Judeo-Christian tradition.
01:09:59.000I say Judeo-Christian because, of course, half of the Bible is the Old Testament, which is Jewish in origin.
01:10:06.000And again, even Christians have rejected the Marcion heresy, which suggests, of course, a complete divide between Jesus and Judaism.
01:10:13.000In any case, Christianity is the single greatest shaping factor in the history of the world in terms of how the world has been shaped politically.
01:10:29.000The way that markets are done in China is a reaction to Christianity.
01:10:34.000Marxism is a reaction to Christianity.
01:10:35.000So many things that we take for granted as sort of just secular ideals or secular ideas.
01:10:42.000So many of those things are either reactions to or perversions of or quiet adoptions of Christian principles.
01:10:50.000And this is the point that Holland makes.
01:10:51.000So he goes through the history of the 20th century, and really the only anti-Christian movement that he notes is the Nazi movement, which was overtly directed against Christianity.
01:11:00.000He says that the Soviet Union was, of course, anti-Christian as well, but the point that he makes is that many of the roots of Marxism actually lie in sort of early church writings, meaning that Marxism ends up being a rejection of religion while trying to embody a sort of utopian viewpoint on what the world should look like in the best of all possible world.
01:11:19.000I think he takes the argument too far.
01:11:21.000Sometimes I, for example, think that communism is an outright rejection of Christianity as opposed to a perversion of it.
01:11:27.000But those are sort of arguable sentiments.
01:11:30.000What is really fascinating about Dominion is tracing these lines of argument all the way through Christian history.
01:11:37.000And so that's why the book has become very popular in Christian circles, even though Tom Holland isn't by any stretch of the imagination like a right-wing Christian or anything like that.
01:11:54.000All right, so, the worst song in probably human history has now been released.
01:12:00.000It is titled, I kid you not, Fat, Juicy, and Wet.
01:12:06.000It is not, in fact, about a solid hamburger.
01:12:11.000uh it is uh it is in fact about what you would think that it would be about because it's a perverse rap slash pop song by bruno mars has to be some excuse for why he would deign to do a number with sexy red she of the twice chlamydia who has on offer the lyrical genius of the colors of her anus i'm not kidding That's how she got famous.
01:12:34.000And that right there is a near rhyme that must at some point appear in one of her songs, Anus and Famous.
01:12:47.000Bruno Mars decides to go along with all of this.
01:12:52.000So instead of the sort of soft romance that Bruno Mars is more typically known for, instead, the collab features some of the worst lyrics in human history that I would not even deign to actually explain.
01:13:43.000I'm going to play you like 10 seconds of it, just so that you understand how bad it is.
01:13:48.000Because this is what our pop culture has come to.
01:13:51.000from the Gershwin brothers to Sexy Red and Bruno Mars in just a couple of generations.
01:13:57.000I don't, so I've been asked by a producer to explain how much worse they can, so I've been asked by a producer to explain how much So I've been asked by a producer to explain how much worse they can get.
01:14:42.000But it just demonstrates that if you are a woman willing to sexualize yourself for money, then apparently the money's just waiting for you, and so is fame around the corner.
01:14:50.000I can't imagine why our culture is in such serious trouble.
01:14:53.000I swear to God, I cannot even read you these lyrics.
01:14:55.000It's not possible to read you these lyrics.
01:14:59.000They make Penthouse Forum look like Pilgrim's Progress.