Jack, Tyler, and Blake join me to discuss the helicopter crash over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. and the search and recovery efforts for the missing Coast Guard helicopter involved in the crash.
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00:01:59.000And I was embedded with Secretary Noem and we went up to visit the border station in Vermont where the border agent was killed on Trump's inauguration day.
00:02:11.000Yeah, so tell us more about that, Jack.
00:02:21.000Kristi Noem has been off to a very, very quick start.
00:02:24.000So tell us what you saw and kind of walk us through that, flying up to Vermont for the day.
00:02:29.000Well, it was interesting, you know, so we, you know, Coast Guard flight, so Coast Guard is under the Department of Homeland Security.
00:02:36.000A lot of people think even though the Coasties are part of the military that they're under the DOD, but no, it's actually under Homeland Security.
00:02:42.000It kind of falls under the Border Patrol mission.
00:02:43.000It makes sense for them to work hand in hand.
00:02:45.000So got to participate in a sort of a back brief on the NTSB situation.
00:02:52.000Obviously, we flew from right next to where the NTSB was meeting, where they were having the...
00:03:00.000Well, what started as a recovery mission and then later turned to, or excuse me, started as a rescue mission and later turned to a recovery mission and got to be with the secretary while she met with the Coast Guard, met with the team that's in charge of that.
00:03:12.000Obviously, did not go as a lot of people had hoped and they were not able to recover any survivors, but still digging down.
00:03:36.000And then flying up to Vermont, people might not realize this, but that sector there between Montreal and New York City, that is the highest traffic sector on the entire northern border because that's your corridor to Boston and New York and so much of the Canadian population is there.
00:03:54.000And what people will do now is, because they think the southern border is more guarded, that you will have Mexicans, Chinese, sometimes even Iranians and Venezuelans that will fly into Canada and they can get this sort of temporary visa for Canada for like $7 through this ETA system.
00:04:11.000And then they'll come down through the northern border where, and I posted a video of this earlier, in some areas, it's completely unguarded.
00:04:19.000You could just drive a car across a field or drive a car from one road onto another.
00:04:24.000And then, boom, you're suddenly inside the United States.
00:04:27.000And this, of course, is where we had that.
00:04:30.000And the story is just kind of coming out now, but where apparently the suspect in the shooting of the Border Patrol agent last week has, and the New York Post has the headline, was a member of a transgender cult.
00:04:47.000And was possibly planning this as some sort of an attack rather than just being a random thing that's happened by chance.
00:05:53.000She's like, President Trump is really listening to Charlie Kirk.
00:05:56.000Yeah, so what Trump was doing with the press today, he was doing one of his classic Trump Free Association things where he was just like, you know, they've been talking to me about this.
00:08:02.000It was my favorite because every time I... It was after that, very poignantly, every pilot I ever came across would fist bump me coming off the plane while wearing my Turning Point gear.
00:09:07.000No, I've actually not spoken to the president about this topic.
00:09:10.000Other things I have spoken to him about, but not this thing.
00:09:13.000So you're wrong on this one, Joy, but keep guessing.
00:09:16.000Play cut 209. And so this idea that the current president would infer that DEI or that really anyone at this point, Joy, is to blame for this tragic mishap.
00:10:02.000It's wrong, it's irresponsible, and it's particularly shameful for the President of the United States to make it.
00:10:09.000It seems that he's listening to Charlie Kirk, right?
00:10:11.000Charlie Kirk back in 2024 said when he sees a black pilot, he wonders if they're even qualified at all.
00:10:16.000Donald Trump came out and essentially tried to blame diversity for this and throw it on their favorite DEI, which is their favorite little thing to beat all the time.
00:10:26.000For the record, the totality of my comments.
00:10:30.000We're that if you are going to hire based on race and not merit, it begs such lower questions that none of us like.
00:10:38.000And I even continued the sentence to say, that's not who I am.
00:11:04.000Jack, what do we know as of this conversation right now?
00:11:08.000So, as of this conversation right now, and by the way, I'm getting most of this from what's been released publicly.
00:11:15.000This has nothing to do with anything that I learned while on my trip with the Secretary today, but we are hearing some reports that it was in fact, so two pieces, right?
00:11:26.000One from one piece of the helicopter and then one piece of the air traffic control.
00:11:31.000And I believe it was the New York Times broke the story earlier and Fox had it as well that the air traffic control staffing was, quote, not normal for the...
00:11:42.000Time of day and the volume of traffic, which I take that to mean that staffing was low compared to the amount of traffic that they had going in and that it was understaffed and has been understaffed for years, by the way.
00:11:54.000There's a similar incident that happened last year, about just under a year ago.
00:11:59.000I think it was last April when something like this happened and became a huge viral video.
00:12:05.000And then with the helicopter itself, There was reporting that came out that the helicopter was on, and another report in front of me right now, but there was reporting that came out that said the helicopter itself was on a training flight, so that it was out of Fort Belvoir, which is right there.
00:12:32.000So this helicopter would have been out of, the Black Hawk would have been out of Belvoir.
00:12:38.000And that the pilot was conducting some training that may have included night vision training.
00:12:45.000So it was a situation where there was a trainer and there was a pilot and the trainer was essentially the main conductor of the flight, but it was the trainee who was getting the required flight hours.
00:13:01.000It's been reported that it's a female co-pilot and that she was training on some night vision nighttime training.
00:13:09.000So we do have this report here, and then I want to play some tape.
00:13:14.000It says, initial FAA report indicates staffing at air traffic control was not normal.
00:13:20.000Now, I remember back during our controversy last year, of which we are being proven correct, that we said that there were lots of near misses.
00:13:30.000So I want to play this from the Deputy Administrator for the FAA in 2023. And then, Blake, I want you to walk through how near misses has become a pattern.
00:13:38.000We've been talking about how at Chicago Air Airport that there's been tons of near misses, there's been whistleblowers about how ATC controllers are not qualified.
00:13:47.000Apparently, people who know what they're talking about are saying the ATC did not intervene nearly as aggressively or decisively as they should have when they saw this kind of potential collision.
00:13:58.000I can't speak to that, I'll be perfectly honest.
00:14:01.000I don't know what is normal or what is not.
00:14:05.000Let's play what the FAA has been hiring.
00:14:07.000This is the type of talent they have been trying to attract.
00:14:11.000Play Cut 180. Hi, I'm Brad Mims, Deputy Administrator at the Federal Aviation Administration.
00:14:17.000We are looking for the best and brightest to join us as air traffic controllers.
00:14:23.000We need a diverse group of air traffic controllers to bring distinct perspectives to handle the ever-changing aerospace landscape.
00:14:32.000I'm calling on students and alumni from HBCUs, Hispanic-serving institutions, and tribal colleges to apply now to become air traffic controllers.
00:14:44.000We need a diverse, next-generation air traffic workforce with people from all backgrounds.
00:14:54.000The air traffic controller thing, it's one of those things where once you start describing it, you get weird looks because it so much overwhelms people's understanding of how things should be that they're just creeped out.
00:15:06.000They reject the knowledge because this is all true.
00:15:13.000The Obama administration, what they did is we had an old meritocratic system where it was basically you went to an air traffic trainer And instead,
00:15:40.000we're going to adopt this biographical questionnaire, is what they called it.
00:15:43.000And they made this a massive part of hiring.
00:15:46.000And so biographical questionnaire, it's literally, they'd ask you questions about your life to sift your resume.
00:15:52.000And then what they did is, instead of wanting the answers that would indicate capability, I'm not making this up.
00:16:00.000They had it where the answers you wanted to give were basically the ones that would make it more likely you were a diverse candidate, as it were.
00:16:08.000So they would say, how many sports did you play in high school?
00:16:12.000And if you played a lot of sports in high school, you got...
00:16:16.000What does playing sports in high school have to do with being an air traffic controller?
00:17:21.000So did this actually cause what happened yesterday?
00:17:25.000Actually, almost certainly not, is my guess.
00:17:27.000It would be very difficult to draw a direct line.
00:17:30.000But what's so true with Trump all the time is Trump has that power to get at the big picture of what's going on.
00:17:38.000And what everyone's asking is, okay, why did we suddenly have the worst airplane crash in America in 20 years?
00:17:46.000Well, we should at least be talking about the fact that we have had a systematic effort.
00:17:51.000Four years under two Democrat presidents and under, frankly, some of it continued under Trump because these are the bureaucrats and they're all left wing.
00:18:00.000These people have done a systematic effort to downplay merit so that they can just hire people based on bogus BS diversity quota factors.
00:18:10.000And then they get mad at us when we say, gee, when you hire people based merely on skin color and not their ability.
00:18:18.000It makes me nervous to go on a plane and they're like, how can you say that?
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00:19:47.000So let's, whoever wants to take this, go ahead.
00:19:50.000But Donald, President Trump in that press conference kind of went after the state-run religion of DEI. And it wasn't just like tampering on the edges.
00:20:00.000It was like a full, metaphorical, political and cultural execution.
00:20:07.000Being like, this has no place in society.
00:20:11.000And by the way, in the very Trumpian way, it was awfully persuasive.
00:20:15.000He's like, you got 60 planes going and supercomputers.
00:20:18.000Do we have President Trump from the press conference?
00:20:21.000I thought he was awesome on this topic, to be honest with you.
00:20:24.000And because you could tell President Trump was mad, and he wasn't necessarily mad at any particular person.
00:20:33.000He was just mad that a system would put up with mediocrity, a system that would allow this to occur, a system that does not have merit.
00:20:42.000And he almost is kind of like a new CEO or new manager that comes into a company and something bad happens like a week and a half onto the job.
00:21:04.000Upon entering office, I signed something last week that was an executive order very powerful on restoring the highest standards of air traffic controllers and others, by the way.
00:21:18.000And my administration will set the highest possible bar for aviation safety.
00:21:53.000We'll cut 194. That's why I'm trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash.
00:22:09.000This is a major chess game at the highest level.
00:22:12.000When you have 60 planes coming in during a short period of time, and they're all coming in different directions, and you're dealing with very high-level computer...
00:22:26.000I love how everyone's speechless, too.
00:22:29.000When Trump talks about this stuff and it's like he goes off script and nobody's really expecting it and he keeps going and going.
00:22:38.000It's like everybody that's there is sitting there and the media is all just frozen because they don't know what to say because if they ask the wrong question, they're going to get destroyed, possibly fired.
00:22:50.000If they ask the wrong question and, you know, bring dishonor to their entire news network.
00:22:55.000And it's just so funny to watch because this is what we were missing for so long was Trump's not afraid to talk about it.
00:23:02.000he could be in the middle of you know you know reading books books to children in an elementary school and then go on like you know have his own inner monologue come out about whatever's going on and nobody's ready for it nobody can answer it it's it speaks directly to the american people and we've missed it for so long what's fascinating to me and stands out to me is i think if this were happening in 2017
00:23:29.000the lead shrieking hysterics all night on every cable channel or at least you know cnn msnbc and then the banners on new york times and all that it would be on trump's remarks where Trump goes on unhinged rant against minorities and jobs or something like that.
00:23:48.000Like, I can go, you go to CNN, and their angle is just, they have both black boxes found, and then they just have in a smaller article to the left, Trump jumps right to the blame game over deadly mid-air collision.
00:24:00.000Like, that's a pretty muted way of putting it, where they're just, they're doing the, oh, he's going too quickly.
00:24:06.000It's like the inverted version, you know, and if there's like a tragedy, like a mass shooting, where they would say, we can't talk about this.
00:24:45.000I think the best example was when Trump did his off-the-cuff thing about Kamala where she's not really black or whatever and everyone came unglued about that and then they found the people in the barbershops and stuff saying like, yeah, Trump's right!
00:25:01.000So I think they finally realized, wait, if we hyperventilate about this, it will just make more people raise their eyebrow and go, wait, wait, we've been hiring air traffic controllers for diversity reasons?
00:25:19.000That was also the same issue, if you remember, in the H-1B debate where the more people were talking about it, the more people were actually looking into how the program works.
00:25:31.000And it really just did not stand up to scrutiny.
00:25:35.000People were finding all sorts of stuff in there.
00:26:21.000It's only been a month since New Year's Eve, and we had the FBI agent with the nose ring, and we were going into Miranda Devine's reporting on the FBI trainees, and I think it was even worse, by the way, than the FAA one, where, you know, people were overweight, weight, they couldn't fill out an FD 302 form, they didn't have proper grammar, all these horrible things that were coming through.
00:26:45.000But if they were the right gender, the right race, or the right sexual orientation, Chris Ray's FBI was saying like, oh, yeah, that person needs to be put through.
00:26:54.000You're not allowed to fail them because we got to reach our quotas.
00:27:34.000We want the best of the best, and that's obviously what you were saying last year, Charlie, what we were saying here on this program, and it's clearly what President Trump is talking about today.
00:27:52.000I think when we're talking about individuals and allies of Donald Trump, I think that so many of the stories that we are looking at, including this one, come down to who is that nucleus around Donald Trump.
00:28:05.000And one other name that I would throw out there would be Charlie Kirk.
00:28:07.000And the reason I bring up Charlie Kirk is because one year ago, I, along with a few other NBC colleagues, reported a story in which Charlie Kirk, the right-wing provocateur and ally of Donald Trump, he had put out in the public sphere on a podcast.
00:28:21.000That he was concerned when he got on airplanes, when he saw a black pilot, because he questioned whether they were hired because of DEI hiring initiatives and not because they were qualified.
00:28:32.000And at that time, there were some allies of Donald Trump's, including RNC chairwoman Ron McDaniel, who went directly to then candidate Donald Trump with that specific remark.
00:28:43.000And they wanted to make sure that Donald Trump heard that because they thought that he would not want Charlie Kirk around him.
00:28:50.000Because of that suggestion that somehow black camp pilots were not qualified to be flying in America.
00:28:57.000And instead, one year later, when I heard those remarks from the White House, it took me back to that story one year ago, because instead of Donald Trump pushing Charlie Kirk away, he fundamentally embraced that very ideology of questioning the aviation industry and the extent to which individuals are in it, whether they be pilots or air traffic controllers or even members of the military, because of DEI. All of these things are amazing to me because they're always like...
00:29:25.000They completely get the causality backwards.
00:29:27.000Guys, our position is we should have the same hiring standard for everyone and then there will be no doubt about the qualifications of anyone to do any job because they will have passed the qualifications to do it.
00:29:41.000You guys are the ones who say in the name of diversity, in the name of this or that political goal...
00:29:49.000We should have different standards for different people.
00:29:52.000And then you have this dumb, surprised look on your face.
00:29:55.000Oh, people have noticed what's going on.
00:30:02.000They're so dumb, I bet they could pass that fake test that the Obama administration was giving the air traffic controllers.
00:30:10.000They would be like, yeah, I always found science really hard in school.
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00:33:56.000However, I did have the Reddit app on my phone only for R the Donald because during like 2017, 2018, 2019, before it got banned, that was like way better than Twitter for processing like based flow of information.
00:34:15.000As soon as they got rid of R the Donald, I got rid of Reddit on my phone.
00:34:18.000By the way, it's now patriots.win for anyone who's looking for it.
00:34:24.000If you go to patriots.win, they've sort of like some quasi-recreated R the Donald.
00:34:29.000Alright, so for those of you who have a life, what Reddit is, Reddit is an online discussion forum and it has things called subreddits on it that are on an infinite number of topics.
00:34:42.000So there's ones on the NFL, there's ones on cooking, there's ones on...
00:35:32.000Just every bad stereotype you could think of for them as like a kind of dim but very earnest liberal would apply to the media and Redditor.
00:36:49.000So if you created a subreddit, the mods of that subreddit could set whatever rules they wanted, and Reddit's position was basically anything goes, you can do your own thing.
00:36:58.000So there were basically, I'll be blunt, there were hate subreddits.
00:37:02.000So you would have a subreddit that would literally just have the N-word in it.
00:37:06.000And that was allowed on Reddit back in the day.
00:37:08.000And then what killed this, it's extremely funny what killed it, there was an extremely popular subreddit.
00:37:16.000Thousands and thousands of people on it that was called fat people hate.
00:37:20.000And they would post hatred of fat people and talk about all the fatties that they saw and all the problems they did and just relentless bashing.
00:37:29.000And this is what broke it because all the hate ones had been like obscure ones that no one was on.
00:37:33.000But this was one of the most popular pages on the site was bashing.
00:38:02.000The dam broke and they started banning all sorts of other stuff and that kind of it closed the Redditor mind and it just became a much more lib group drink site.
00:38:12.000The other thing that happened is transgender people became the mods of a bunch of subreddits and started policing things.
00:38:17.000Well so but but we have to we have to so just in the interest of time we All the insanity of Reddit.
00:38:23.000What is this Fed News subreddit that has now sort of like really come to massive prominence since Trump took office?
00:39:05.000And I actually think as people have gone on Twitter and X, and it's become more balanced, that all those liberal S posters are now just exclusively on Reddit.
00:39:20.000So Fed News is the federal workers subreddit.
00:39:25.000And what it's become is we had all those Trump What really happened is Trump issued the executive order that you have to go back to the office.
00:41:41.000Naturally, the way they express this is channel their rage into attacking ordinary people who have real jobs they have to go to during the day.
00:41:53.000How dare you make me leave my house because productivity has completely crashed down into the basement ever since we got permanent COVID mode four years ago.
00:43:53.000To my fellow feds, especially veterans, we are at war.
00:43:58.000We watched this goon try to overthrow the government on live TV four years ago.
00:44:04.000Now, we are witnessing him try to overthrow it from within.
00:44:09.000We are the last line of defense against fascism.
00:44:14.000If we leave, we will be replaced by loyalists.
00:44:19.000Read Project 2025, and for the love of God...
00:44:23.000Please believe what is written because that is what is happening.
00:44:27.000All the EOs are directly from that document.
00:44:31.000I didn't dedicate years of my life serving this country to be bullied into quitting my career by a bunch of fascists.
00:44:38.000We are being led by the same types of people our grandparents fought against in World War II. Which, guarantee, this person thinks that his grandparents are racist and shouldn't have been invited to Thanksgiving near the end of their lives.
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00:46:00.000I've got a friend who has a sort of, like, liberal side of the family, but he was, I'm just going to leave it at this, and he was telling me some of the stuff that they were saying to him recently just about how they all actually believe that, like, the, you know, the authoritarian fascist government has taken over.
00:46:21.000They're in full force, and it's their job to be the resistance.
00:46:24.000He said they were, like, sending messages of encouragement to each other.
00:46:43.000And here's the thing is, and, you know, Tyler, you had that one that you were showing me the other day of talking about, I'm not an activist, but, you know, and was that the one with the poem?
00:46:52.000I think that was the one with the poem, actually.
00:47:42.000You stood beneath a stolen flag a coward's grin behind your mask breaking glass like you broke your oath spilling blood spilling truth spilling Both.
00:47:55.000The Capitol stood like a sentinel of time until you tore it down.
00:51:59.000It is an administrative state modern fiction that we must live under this idea that all of these bureaucracies are like a super government over the executive branch and like the president can offer suggestions.
00:52:14.000And I think it's time for us to be an Article 2 absolutist.
00:53:14.000And restraining and reigning in the federal bureaucracy is one of the most important things that we can do to restore the founders' intent of Article 2. Yeah.
00:56:10.000Right now, Mexico's federal government, the Mexican Federal Consumer Protection Agency, is investigating because so many Mexicans saw this movie and they filed complaints against a theater chain, Sinopolis, because Sinopolis has a quality guarantee and people are calling their bluff and saying they want refunds after seeing this movie.
00:56:36.000And meanwhile, the Academy has nominated it for 13 Academy Awards.
00:56:40.000And I think it's a perfect sign of how quickly things change.
00:56:46.000What we are getting in theaters right now are the movies they greenlit for production in 2020 and 2021. They're like, alright, Floyd happened, Biden won, Trump is gone.
00:57:14.000It's gonna completely change the culture, and then, you know, events have passed them by a little bit, but we'll always have the musical number.
00:57:24.000Where they sing asking them to recite all the different sex change operation things.
00:57:30.000We didn't even have it in the clip we showed, but there's a part where they're literally going back and forth where they're like, Vaginoplasty, yes!
01:00:09.000When I go speak at a church, I'm going to play this in a church and say you have a moral obligation to vote for Republicans for the rest of your life because of this video.
01:00:20.000They're going to come after your children.