67 confirmed dead in a crash between an American Airlines flight and a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter in the middle of the night on Wednesday, January 30th. Just a few miles down the road, Kash Patel was having a little bit of fun in a Senate confirmation hearing.
00:00:00.000Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, January 30th.
00:00:05.660Some sad news to report out of the nation's capital today.
00:00:08.94067 confirmed dead after that mid-air collision last night between that American Airlines CRJ-700 and that Army Blackhawk helicopter.
00:00:19.200The recovery mission is underway. Just over 30 bodies have been pulled so far from that frigid water.
00:00:24.940An internal preliminary FAA investigation report on Wednesday night's air disaster shows that Reagan National has been understaffed for many years with just 19 fully certified controllers as of September 2023.
00:00:38.780This is well below the target of the 30 that are supposed to be there.
00:00:42.860This is a truly tragic incident and we pray for the families of those three helicopter pilots and the 64 who have deceased on that American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas.
00:00:52.820Just a few miles down the road, Kash Patel was in a Senate confirmation hearing.
00:00:57.800He was having a little bit of fun, I guess we can say, not letting the Marxist Dems try to come after his character.
00:01:04.520Take a listen to Kash Patel going after the Marxist Dems, in particular, Amy Klobuchar.
00:01:10.000If the best attacks on me are going to be false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations,
00:01:14.360the only thing this body is doing is defeating the credibility of the men and women at the FBI.
00:01:19.360I stood with them here in this country, in every theater of war we have.
00:01:24.340I was on the ground in service of this nation and any accusations leveled against me that I would somehow put political bias before the Constitution or grotesquely unfair.
00:01:34.740And 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.