May 12, 2025 • 35 mins
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Trade Deal with China:
- The podcast mentions progress towards a trade deal agreement with China, highlighting the media's skepticism and the positive developments in negotiations. It includes statements from officials about the substantial progress made and the potential impact on the U.S. trade deficit.
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Prescription Drug Costs:
- President Trump is set to sign an executive order to reduce prescription drug costs by 30 to 80 percent. The text includes his announcement and rationale, emphasizing the high costs of drugs in the U.S. compared to other countries and the expected benefits for American citizens.
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U.S.-China Trade Talks:
- Further details on the U.S.-China trade talks are provided, including statements from Treasury Secretary and other officials about the productive negotiations and the anticipated positive outcomes.
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Russia-Ukraine Conflict:
- We discuss President Trump's views on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, including his criticism of corruption in Ukraine and the potential for a ceasefire agreement. It also touches on the complexities of the situation and the impact on both countries.
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Hamas and Israel:
- There is a mention of Hamas claiming it will release an Israeli-American hostage, Eden Alexander, as part of steps towards a ceasefire. The text includes details about the hostage situation and the broader implications for the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, let's start with some really big news. Number one,
we are getting much closer to a trade deal agreement
with China, something that the media, in fact, I was
on CNN this past week said wasn't going to happen,
probably till later this year or next year. They wanted
to be doom and gloom. There was ridiculous conversations and
(00:25):
arguments and debates about if your daughter was going to
have how many be able to have more than two
dollars from China.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
This is where the media went.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Now, I'm going to get to this in a moment,
but there's something else that is happening right now that
all of you need to know about, and.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It's really big.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We are being told now that President Trump is going
to sign.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
An order Monday.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Afternoon cutting prescription drug costs thirty to eighty percent effective immediately.
Donald Trump announcing this in a truth social post.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Here is what he said. Quote.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
For many years, the world has wondered why prescription drugs
and pharmaceuticals in the United States of America were so
much higher in price than they were in any other nation,
sometimes being five to ten times more expensive than the
same drug manufactured in the exact same laboratory or plant
by the same company. It was always difficult to explain
(01:26):
and very embarrassing because in fact there was no correct
or rightful answer. The pharmaceutical drug companies would say for
years that it was research and development costs, and that
all of these costs were and would be for no
reason whatsoever, borne by the suckers, or i should say,
by the suckers of America alone. All capital letters, campaign
(01:48):
contributions can do wonders, but not with me, and not
with the Republican Party. We are going to do the
right thing, something that the Democrats have fought for, fought
for many years. Therefore, I'm pleased to announce that tomorrow
morning in the White House, I will sign one of
the most consequential executive orders in our country's history. Prescription
(02:13):
drug and pharmaceutical prices will be reduced almost immediately by
thirty to eighty percent.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
They will arise throughout the world.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
In order to equalize and for the first time in
many years, bring fairness to America. I will be instituting
a most Favored Nation policy, whereby the United States will
pay the same price as the nation that pays the lowest.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Price anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Our country will finally be treated fairly, and our citizens'
healthcare costs will be reduced by numbers never even thought
of before. Additionally, on top of everything else, the United
States will save trillions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Make America great again again, the President of United States
of America announcing this.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
This is going to have.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
A unbelievable impact on so many Americans that can't afford
the prescription drugs. Many of them go across the border
to get them. We have seen Americans have had to
fly literally around the world to go get drugs as
cheap as they possibly can, and other nations. I know
(03:26):
people personally that have gone to Canada, and I know
people that have gone to Mexico and to Europe to
pick up life saving prescription drugs because they had no
other choice because they couldn't afford them or they weren't
covered by their insurance in the United States. And this
is part of what he's talking about here, is that
it's time for us to stop being the suckers. I
(03:48):
also love the point that was made there when he
says we're going to have most Favored nation status being
look wherever the lowest price in.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
The world, that's what we're going to pay.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And we're not going to back down on from this
like this is this is exactly what we are going
to do.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
We are going to do this. We're proud that we're
going to do this.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
We're not going to stop doing this, and we are
going to have this most favored status. Now, America has
been a sucker for a long time. As he described it,
He's absolutely right. I could not agree with him more. Unfortunately,
when America and this is you go back to what
he was talking about. Look at the money that is
(04:29):
spent by the lobbyists and the pharmaceutical companies to influence terrible, okay,
absolutely terrible deals, I mean horrendous deals for the American
public that other people get incredible deals.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It's absolutely absurd.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And so what you're hearing now, I think is a
really an incredibly important point, and that is that you
have a saying I really don't care, like I just don't.
I do not care about the pharmaceutical companies. I do
(05:09):
not care about their money. I don't want their money.
I'm going around them, I'm going to fight them. I'm
going to do everything I can to put Americans first
yet again. And We're not gonna be suckered anymore. We're
not gonna be taken advantage of anymore. That is what
we are not going to do. And it's absolutely beautiful
to see this. It is amazing to see this happen
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and to take place in such a real way.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
We have this news, and I want to move to the.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Second thing, which is also going to have a huge
impact on every American, and that is the White House
announcing a quote substantial progress is made and the US
China trade talks. The Treasury Secretary Scott Descent on Sunday
said the Trump administration has made substantial progress to the
trade negotiation between the US and China. Here is what
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he had to say at the press conference in his
own words.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
And I think that led to a great deal of
the productivity we've seen. We will be giving details tomorrow,
but I can tell you that the talks were productive.
We had the Vice Premier, to vice.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Ministers who were integrally involved, Ambassador Jamison and myself and
I spoke to President Trump, as did Ambassador Jamison last night,
and he is fully informed of what is going on.
So there will be a complete briefing tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Morning, complete briefing on Monday.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Now, the US Trade Rep in Geneva, saying this about
the deal and how it was able to come together, say,
it really wasn't as far apart as many believed.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
I want to echo the Secretary's re marks respect to
the Swiss government. They've been so welcoming and they've posted
and everything has gone off flawlessly, and we appreciate that.
And again to the Chinese negotiators. Vice Premier Leohoa, Vice
Minister Lee Chandong, and Vice Minister Le Al men work
very diligently, and these are very tough negotiators. A couple
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of them I know from before and have had past
interactions with them. And this was, as the Secretary pointed out,
a very constructive two days. It's important to understand how
quickly we were able to come to agreement, which reflects
that perhaps the differences were not so large as maybe thought.
That being said, there was a lot of groundwork that
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went into these two days. Just remember why we're here
in the first place. If the United States has a
massive one point two trillion dollars trade deficit, so the
President declared a national emergency and imposed tariffs, and we're
confident that the deal we struck with our Chinese partners
will help us to resolve work towards resolving that national emergency.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You will get both of these men, and you'll get
both of these stories. I cannot overstate how big of
a deal this Executive Order on drugs is going to
be for American families, especially our seniors. Healthcare costs were
the number one driver, by the way, in Biden inflation,
and President Trump is like, I'm tackling this head on
(08:17):
for our seniors. And then the fact that the President
also comes out is like, oh yeah, by the way,
we're also getting the deal done with China, which which
the Left was hoping would not happen.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
We're confident that the that the deal we struck with
our Chinese partners will help us to work towards resolving
the trade deficit. I'm happy to report that we made
substantial progress and we will be giving details tomorrow aka
Monday afternoon. This is just amazing because no one in
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the press wants to report this or give credit. Everyone
in the press wants to act like this is a disaster.
They want to act like this Some terrible thing. They
want to act like that. This is like the worst
day ever in that the president was destroying the country.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
None of that happened.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
They wanted him to be a failure and they didn't
care if it hurt the American people. They wanted it
to be a failure. God bless America. This is incredible
and these are two of the biggest stories that happened
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have new news on what's happening with Russia and Ukraine,
and this is a little bit more complicated, and I
want to get you up to speed on it because
I think it's important. President Putin of Russia Donald Trump
(10:54):
put out in a true social post doesn't want to
have a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine, but brother wants to
meet on Thursday in Turkey to negotiate a possible end
to the bloodbath, and Ukraine should agree to this immediately.
At least they will be able to determine whether or
not a deal is possible, and if it is not,
(11:18):
European leaders in the US will know where everyone and
everything stands and can proceed accordingly. I'm sorry to doubt
that Ukraine will make a deal with Putin, who's too
busy celebrating the victory of World War Two, which could
not have been won, not even close, without the United
States of America have the meeting. Now, the President went
(11:39):
on to say, Now, this is an important point because
I think the fact that President's just calling it out publicly,
like he's just straight up calling this out, and he's saying,
you can't have it both ways. My worry has been,
and I've said this for a long time, is at
the level of corruption around the aid that the US
(12:01):
is giving to Ukraine is just unbelievable. We know for
a fact that Zelensky has said that fifty percent of
the funding that's gone to the UK they can't find.
He has had to fire people for corruption after they
were robusted by media, like an egregious corruption, like millions
and millions and millions of dollars. The other thing is,
(12:22):
if you know the history of Ukraine, Ukraine is even
more corrupt in many ways than Russia.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And that's saying something.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And Zolensky and all of his friends are still getting
rich off of this war. The other there's a third
part to this, and this is part of the conversation
that Donald Trump has had and again every time he
says this, the media is like, oh my gosh, he's
a Russian stude.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
He's backing Vladimir Putin. No, he's not.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
He's asking a real question. It's a question that we
should all be asking. Will Zolensky survive if there's a
cease fire that actually is real and this war ends.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Well, we don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Number One, they haven't had elections since the war broke
out a couple of years ago, and there's a real
worry that Zelensky is prolonging this because he doesn't want
to give up the presidency and he knows that the
people in Ukraine will vote him out of office once
they have free and fair elections again.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
So there is a real.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Question over the motives of Zelensky and all of his
friends who are getting rich that they'll lose their access
and the corruption will end if there is a free
and fair election there. There's no indication by the way
that Zelensky honestly would win.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I think it'd probably be a blowout. I think he
knows it.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
So you keep the war going so that you can
suspend elections, which is exactly what they've done in the
name of war.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That's what they've said.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
They've said in the name of war, we're suspending elections.
The number of people that are dying on both sides
of this is just horrific.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
It is.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
It is something that Donald Trump has also said, like
is completely avoidable, and it should be avoidable, and we
should be doing everything that we can to avoid it.
And I couldn't agree with Donald Trump more that this
needs to end. Now you go back to Putin saying
he wants to meet on Thursday in Turkey to negotiate
(14:16):
a possible into the blood bat. The fact that Trump
is even having the assolence give Ukraine to agree to
this immediately is also just kind of insane, Like this
is something they should all just be there for. Okay,
that's it, Like they should just be there for it.
This shouldn't be hard, It should be pretty easy. And
(14:40):
why would you not go if you're because you don't
have to agreet anything.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You just show up for the meeting.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
You show up, and you see what the other side saying,
what they're offering, and you call their bluff. Like if
you're in a war with somebody and they want to meet,
you should probably meet. And the fact that the US
is willing to facilitate the meeting is a good sign
that like, hey, we should really be there for this,
Like this is a no brainer for us.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
If Zelensky says no to this.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I do think there's a large part of this that
Donald Trump is getting right where he's saying, you got
to now worry about the motives of Zelensky.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Now, everything that I just said has nothing to do
with Putin. I want to be clear.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I think Putin's a scumbag, pos murderer.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I think he's a barbarian.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I think he's one of the worst people to walk
to face the earth, and.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I mean that sincerely.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
But at the end of the day, if Zelensky knows
that people are dying, he just wants to keep his power.
That's not a good look either, folks, Like that's really
not a good look. And both things can be real
at the same time. Both things can be true at
the same time, right Like you can say you stand
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with the people of Ukraine while also questioning the leader
in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Both things can be true.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
And I think that's part of what we need to understand,
is that you know, it's not about picking sides. It's look,
it's just about looking at the reality of the situation.
And if you look at the reality of the situation, okay,
then then hey, I mean you got to ask at
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this point, does Zelenski and his goons around him really
want this to end or not? Like, do they honestly
want it to end? And that is a question that
that should be asked. And if you ask that question,
it doesn't mean that you're supporting Vladimir Putin. It doesn't
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mean that you're supporting Russia. I think Russia the leadership
there are scumbags. I actually feel bad for the people
of Russia. They're being held hostage right now by and
and and so many of them been sent to die.
And and for me, that's really really really sad. Like
I it is tragic. It is absolutely lutely tragic. It's
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also not surprising. It's tragic, but it's not surprising. And
we we we should hope that they all come together.
We should we should pray that they all come together.
We should be advocating that they all come together. That's
the whole ballgame here. For me, that's like, that's it,
that's all of it. That is the whole ballgame. Let
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me get to another story real quick. That also is
really important Hamas has claimed it will release in Israeli
American hostage Eden Alexander.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
This is significant.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Hamas issued a statement claiming that it will release Aiden Alexander,
who is believed to be the last known living American
being held hostage by the terrorist group, according to several
reports that have.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Just come out.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
In his statements, in Your Hamas negotiator explained that Hamas
was affirming its readiness to immediately start intensive negotiations and
make serious effort to reach a final agreement to end
the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
This is coming from CNN. Quote.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
The movement affirms its readiness to immediately start intentsive negotiations
and make serious efforts to reach a final agreement to
stop the war, exchange prisoners in an agreed manner, and
manage the Gaza strip by an independent professional body. Per
the outlet, Hamas announced Alexander would be released quote as
part of these steps towards a ceasefire that will see
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the crossing into Gaza opened. Following the communication, TAMAS announced
it will release Alexander as part of the steps towards
the ceasefire, and we'll see the crossing into Gaza open
and humanitarian aid brought into Gaza following an Israeli blockade
that has lasted more than two months. And it's sad,
but this is what Israel had to do for the
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terrorists to finally work towards a deal now. The statement
issued by Hamas on Sunday evening also comes as President
Trump is set to visit the Middle East the upcoming days.
According to the Associated Press, Alexander, who was born in
Tel Aviv, Israel, and raised in New Jersey, went on
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to join the Israeli Defense Forces known as IDEF after
graduating high school. According to the local news reports, Yelle,
Alexander Eden's mom explained that at the time of Hamas's
October seventh, twenty twenty three attack on Israel, Eden had
been stationed on the Gaza border. On October seventh, Y'ao
was awakened around six point thirty am when she contacted
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and she contacted Eden. After the two spoke on the phone.
That was the last she heard from her son. On Friday,
the eve of the Samat Torah holiday, they spoke on
a video chat. He was cute and handsome, playing with
his hair the whole time. He said that people had
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brought them a holiday meal at the base, and then
he was going to because he had a guard shift
early in the morning. I joked and said, we'll come
with an armored vehicle tomorrow for Sabah. We'll bring you
to Lent, a slow simmering stew that Orthodox Jews eat
on sabat so they don't need to cook. He laughed
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and said they won't let you in. It's dangerous. I
went to bed at six point thirty in the morning.
My father woke me up to go out to the
stairwell because there was a siren. She immediately sent a
message to you to eat on and asked if everything
was okay. He replied that rockets were flying, but he
was in a safe place and she shouldn't worry. When
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the second siren went off, they went out to the
stairwell again, and this time it On didn't answer her messages,
but he called a few minutes later. This is incredible
that this is how long this has been going on.
The reports back in March was that Hamas claimed it
would release Alexander Wi Israeli Prime Mister Yahu's office cast
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quote doubt on Hamas's offer and accused the terrorists organization
of trying to manipulate talks underway in Qatar. Now, I
don't know if it is Trump going to the Middle East
that is having this type of impact. I think there's
a very good chance. So that's a large part of this,
I really do think. I think there's a very good
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chance that this could come down to actually that issue.
I also think some of this just deals with the
simple fact that the Middle East is on edge because
Donald Trump has made it clear he's willing to come
after Terrists, just like he went after Hesblon and Huthi's
and now they're just decimated.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
And the presence like I'm not.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Screwing around with Terrists, and and and by the way,
Israel shouldn't screw around the terraces either, Like you got
to defend yourself, you got to go you got to
go all out. And if you need to go out,
then go all out. And I think that's that this
is part of that. Hey, if we have to, we
will come after you. If we must, we will. And
if you think we won't, you're insane. We're not afraid
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to come after you. We are willing to come after you.
And we don't want to but if you force us to,
and you force our hand, then we're gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Time will tell if they actually do what they say
they're going to do. Okay, Like time will tell, we'll
just see. You don't know here, You really honestly don't know.
But what I will say is that the President does
seem hell bent on making sure that we hold these
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terrorists accountable and that we go after them, and that
we don't pause no matter what. So you look at
the last twenty four hours and you look at these
three big stories that we're talking about, it's incredible. It
is truly incredible. What has happened with prescription drugs. It's incredible.
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What we're hearing with China and the trade talks. It's incredible.
What we're hearing now with the President in Israel and
what's happening here and him going to Middle East. I mean,
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it is, how antiquated it is.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Sean Duffy went on meet the.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Press to talk about just how bad it is and
how it ever got to this point is beyond me.
But this is part of what he had to say
in the conversation about why we must overall this system.
And it's a system that was inherited by the trumpdministration
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to buy parts on eBay to keep it running.
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What can you tell us about this latest incident and
why does this keep happening?
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Well, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
The system is old, right, This is a system that's
twenty five at best, sometimes fifty years old. The Congress
and the country haven't paid attention to it, right, they
expect it to work. And so now I think the
lights are blinking, the sirens are turning, and they're saying, listen,
we have to fix this because what you see in
Newark is going to happen in other places across the country.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
It has to be fixed.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
And so what we're having is some telecom issues. We're
also having some glitches in our software as the information
comes in it's overloading some of our lines and the
system goes down. So I'll just tell you specifically a newark.
We believe we're going to have it up and running
in short order. We're gonna be able to fix that glitch,
and we feel a little more comfortable about our primary
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line that gets the data in on.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Radar, and our redundant line is up and rooking as well.
What can you tell us about I mean, you hear him.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
It's scary that we're even at this point where no
one was doing this, no one was fixing it. It's like,
what were we doing? What was happening? Like, how is
this even possible that it got this bad? Sean was
also again I mentioned eBay. This is how bad it is, y'all,
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And yet with all the money the government has, they
decide not to spend your money on having like top
of the notch air traffic control systems.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
I'm concerned about the whole airspace right the equipment that
we use, much of it. We can't buy parts for
new We have to go on eBay and buy parts.
If one part goes down, you're dealing with really old equipment.
We're dealing with copper wires, not fiber, not high speed fiber.
And so this is this is concerning is it safe. Yes,
we have redundancies. Multiple redundancy is in place to keep
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you safe and you fly. But we should also recognize
we're seeing we're seeing stress on an old network and
it's time to fix it. Bottom line, is it safe
to fly in the United States right now?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
We listen.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
We are the safest airspace for sure, and traveling by
air is way safer than any of the mode of transportation,
which is why I take it, my family takes it.
But again that doesn't mean you don't look over the
horizon and say, hey, if there is a major outage,
could that be a risk to life. Of course it
could be, which is why we fix it. I'm concerned
about the.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I mean this is you go back to Sean here,
the equipment that we use, much of it. We can't
buy parts for new We have to go on eBay
and buy parts, Like are we a third world country?
And no one was fixing this, Like no one was
working on this. And so he's like, look, we inherit it,
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but we're going to fix it, Like we're not going
to just kick the can down the road or buy
more parts on eBay.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
The problem we have is you can't snap your fingers
and fix it right. It takes time to build the infrastructure,
and it's I say, it's going to be three to
four years to build it all. But we're going to
focus on new work first. So we're gonna start to
see new work be far, far more resilient in the
near term. But air traffic controllers were three thousand short
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on air traffic control. I can't snap my fingers and
bring in these highly skilled air traffic controllers. All this
is going to take time. So the key here is
we have to start. We have to begin the process
of fixing the system. I can't say in two weeks
I can have it fixed. That's not the space that
we deal with. But I'm gonna tell you we are
going to begin, and you know, in the in the
in the months and years ahead, we're going to see
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real results.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
That's how broken the system is.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Like the way that Sean is described, this is how
bad it is now. He also dispelled a rumor of
the fake news and I want you to hear this.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
In the safety mission of the FAA, like air traffic controllers,
no one was cut we actually have staffed up. We've
hired more air traffic controllers during this time. There were
probationary workers that were let go. Those are employees who
were there less than a year unless and again we
excluded the safety positions.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Most of them have come back.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
So again to say a department, the FAA has forty
six thousand employees, and if you lost three hundred and fifty,
is this affecting our safety mission. There's a lot of
things the FAA does, but for us, safety is key.
So no, we've retained all those safety positions.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Again, another lie that was told by the media.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
They all lied to you, and they all told you
that this thing was a disaster, that it was just.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
All these people Quitting's not true, not accurate.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
And now the media, the same media that looked the
other way while Democrats were in charge, and while this
thing was because I'm me a disaster, what are they
now doing. They're like, oh, wow, we want to hold
Donald Trump and accountable for this, and he's.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Like, it's not that simple. He also went on CBS
this morning and was talking about this.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I want you to listen to the intro from CBS
this morning and how they described it.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Listen carefully to the propaganda.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Pretty airport from air traffic control problems.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
You've been hearing a lot about this.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
I've raised a lot of questions about the nationwide system.
Now safe it is to fly these days? Transportation Secretary
that's Sean Duffy announced plans yesterday to modernize air traffic control,
promising new software, updated equipment, and the first new ATC
centers since the nineteen sixties. Yes please, Secretary Duffy joins
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us now from Washington. Good morning to you, mister Secretary.
It's good to see you, and can I just say,
as a nervous flyer, it seems like you and your
team are all over this, so great appreciation for that,
because it seems you want to get it right and
get it right quickly. But let's start with Newark Airport
because that's top of mind for many people there are
certainly on the struggle bus. How long do you think
it'll take to get things right there and reassure people
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that it's okay to fly in and out of Newark?
Speaker 6 (32:09):
Well, first off, for you, Gale and Froll flyers, our
main mission is safety, and so if there's any concern
with safety, we slow down traffic and there might be
delayed there might be cancelations, and we take those precautions
to make sure that you get from your departure city
to your arrival city. But it's gonna take a little
bit of time. Now, the main line that feeds information
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into Newark that went down, the secondary line didn't stand up,
and so both lines.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Are now working.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
We have a little bit of issues with our air
traffic controllers. Some of them have stepped out of the tower.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
They were stressed.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
So we're training new individuals in the Philly Traycon which
services Newark, and we're building a whole new fiber driven
system down in Philly that does serve that Traycon or
the New York Airport. So it doesn't weren't a situation
where you know, it's gonna take us a little bit
of time. I hope i've summer, we're gonna be fully functioning.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
I was going to say, mister Duffie, what does that
mean when you say a little bit of time, you
say by the summer, because I'm thinking the problem with
Newark is when you hear the screens went down, and
no one seemed to be able to explain that You
don't think we have to worry about that happening again.
You think they've corrected that problem.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
Well, in Newark, both lines are working and so you know, listen, yes,
and if both lines do go down, there are emergency procedures,
backup procedures that we take to talk to airplanes to
make sure they stay separated. But Gail, I'm concerned. I
mean this system that we use many much of the
equipment you have to buy an ebait.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
No one makes it anymore.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
That's how old the system is that we fly on today,
which is why yesterday I called for a brand new
infrastructure plan to rebuild everything across the spectrum for air
traffic control. It is well overdue in America. And I
think what you've seen in Newark is you're having failings.
And when you have the failings, you take a look
at the whole system and could other parts, you know,
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have issues. Of course it could have issues. But that's
why it's a call to action to do this for
America so you always feel safe.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
In your flying gale.
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Yeah, you said you've basically said all hands on deck.
I think the figure you gave was twelve point five billion,
and you said it could exceed that that you're you're
hoping to get the money upfront from Congress.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
How is this going to play out? Do you think so?
Speaker 6 (34:17):
No? No, it's so the first trons the House has twelve
point five billion for me. This is gonna be much
bigger than that. This is an infrastructure, a bill that
will go across the country. Listen, air traffic control is
in all you know, all these major cities across the country.
So it's going to be more than twelve and a
half billion. It'll be you know, tens of billions of
dollars to do this.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
But the problem deal.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
Is, in the past there's been just partial funding for
air traffic control upgrades.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Partial upgrade funding.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Now the whole thing. Now, I we'll just do a
little bit here. This is how corrupt our government is.
They'll spend money on transgendered my studies, and they'll spend
money on Sesame Street in Iran or whatever the hell country.
But no, we're gonna make you buy computers parts on
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eBay for a forty to fifty year old system. That
is the world we're living in in our government. That's
how much they don't care about us. And thank goodness,
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Speaker 2 (35:38):
And I'll see you back here tomorrow.
Well, let's start with some really big news. Number one,
we are getting much closer to a trade deal agreement
with China, something that the media, in fact, I was
on CNN this past week said wasn't going to happen,
probably till later this year or next year. They wanted
to be doom and gloom. There was ridiculous conversations and
(00:25):
arguments and debates about if your daughter was going to
have how many be able to have more than two
dollars from China.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
This is where the media went.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Now, I'm going to get to this in a moment,
but there's something else that is happening right now that
all of you need to know about, and.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It's really big.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We are being told now that President Trump is going
to sign.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
An order Monday.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Afternoon cutting prescription drug costs thirty to eighty percent effective immediately.
Donald Trump announcing this in a truth social post.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Here is what he said. Quote.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
For many years, the world has wondered why prescription drugs
and pharmaceuticals in the United States of America were so
much higher in price than they were in any other nation,
sometimes being five to ten times more expensive than the
same drug manufactured in the exact same laboratory or plant
by the same company. It was always difficult to explain
(01:26):
and very embarrassing because in fact there was no correct
or rightful answer. The pharmaceutical drug companies would say for
years that it was research and development costs, and that
all of these costs were and would be for no
reason whatsoever, borne by the suckers, or i should say,
by the suckers of America alone. All capital letters, campaign
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contributions can do wonders, but not with me, and not
with the Republican Party. We are going to do the
right thing, something that the Democrats have fought for, fought
for many years. Therefore, I'm pleased to announce that tomorrow
morning in the White House, I will sign one of
the most consequential executive orders in our country's history. Prescription
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drug and pharmaceutical prices will be reduced almost immediately by
thirty to eighty percent.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
They will arise throughout the world.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
In order to equalize and for the first time in
many years, bring fairness to America. I will be instituting
a most Favored Nation policy, whereby the United States will
pay the same price as the nation that pays the lowest.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Price anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Our country will finally be treated fairly, and our citizens'
healthcare costs will be reduced by numbers never even thought
of before. Additionally, on top of everything else, the United
States will save trillions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Make America great again again, the President of United States
of America announcing this.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
This is going to have.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
A unbelievable impact on so many Americans that can't afford
the prescription drugs. Many of them go across the border
to get them. We have seen Americans have had to
fly literally around the world to go get drugs as
cheap as they possibly can, and other nations. I know
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people personally that have gone to Canada, and I know
people that have gone to Mexico and to Europe to
pick up life saving prescription drugs because they had no
other choice because they couldn't afford them or they weren't
covered by their insurance in the United States. And this
is part of what he's talking about here, is that
it's time for us to stop being the suckers. I
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also love the point that was made there when he
says we're going to have most Favored nation status being
look wherever the lowest price in.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
The world, that's what we're going to pay.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And we're not going to back down on from this
like this is this is exactly what we are going
to do.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
We are going to do this. We're proud that we're
going to do this.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
We're not going to stop doing this, and we are
going to have this most favored status. Now, America has
been a sucker for a long time. As he described it,
He's absolutely right. I could not agree with him more. Unfortunately,
when America and this is you go back to what
he was talking about. Look at the money that is
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spent by the lobbyists and the pharmaceutical companies to influence terrible, okay,
absolutely terrible deals, I mean horrendous deals for the American
public that other people get incredible deals.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It's absolutely absurd.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And so what you're hearing now, I think is a
really an incredibly important point, and that is that you
have a saying I really don't care, like I just don't.
I do not care about the pharmaceutical companies. I do
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not care about their money. I don't want their money.
I'm going around them, I'm going to fight them. I'm
going to do everything I can to put Americans first
yet again. And We're not gonna be suckered anymore. We're
not gonna be taken advantage of anymore. That is what
we are not going to do. And it's absolutely beautiful
to see this. It is amazing to see this happen
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and to take place in such a real way.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
We have this news, and I want to move to the.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Second thing, which is also going to have a huge
impact on every American, and that is the White House
announcing a quote substantial progress is made and the US
China trade talks. The Treasury Secretary Scott Descent on Sunday
said the Trump administration has made substantial progress to the
trade negotiation between the US and China. Here is what
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he had to say at the press conference in his
own words.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
And I think that led to a great deal of
the productivity we've seen. We will be giving details tomorrow,
but I can tell you that the talks were productive.
We had the Vice Premier, to vice.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Ministers who were integrally involved, Ambassador Jamison and myself and
I spoke to President Trump, as did Ambassador Jamison last night,
and he is fully informed of what is going on.
So there will be a complete briefing tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Morning, complete briefing on Monday.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Now, the US Trade Rep in Geneva, saying this about
the deal and how it was able to come together, say,
it really wasn't as far apart as many believed.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
I want to echo the Secretary's re marks respect to
the Swiss government. They've been so welcoming and they've posted
and everything has gone off flawlessly, and we appreciate that.
And again to the Chinese negotiators. Vice Premier Leohoa, Vice
Minister Lee Chandong, and Vice Minister Le Al men work
very diligently, and these are very tough negotiators. A couple
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of them I know from before and have had past
interactions with them. And this was, as the Secretary pointed out,
a very constructive two days. It's important to understand how
quickly we were able to come to agreement, which reflects
that perhaps the differences were not so large as maybe thought.
That being said, there was a lot of groundwork that
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went into these two days. Just remember why we're here
in the first place. If the United States has a
massive one point two trillion dollars trade deficit, so the
President declared a national emergency and imposed tariffs, and we're
confident that the deal we struck with our Chinese partners
will help us to resolve work towards resolving that national emergency.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You will get both of these men, and you'll get
both of these stories. I cannot overstate how big of
a deal this Executive Order on drugs is going to
be for American families, especially our seniors. Healthcare costs were
the number one driver, by the way, in Biden inflation,
and President Trump is like, I'm tackling this head on
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for our seniors. And then the fact that the President
also comes out is like, oh yeah, by the way,
we're also getting the deal done with China, which which
the Left was hoping would not happen.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
We're confident that the that the deal we struck with
our Chinese partners will help us to work towards resolving
the trade deficit. I'm happy to report that we made
substantial progress and we will be giving details tomorrow aka
Monday afternoon. This is just amazing because no one in
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the press wants to report this or give credit. Everyone
in the press wants to act like this is a disaster.
They want to act like this Some terrible thing. They
want to act like that. This is like the worst
day ever in that the president was destroying the country.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
None of that happened.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
They wanted him to be a failure and they didn't
care if it hurt the American people. They wanted it
to be a failure. God bless America. This is incredible
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have new news on what's happening with Russia and Ukraine,
and this is a little bit more complicated, and I
want to get you up to speed on it because
I think it's important. President Putin of Russia Donald Trump
(10:54):
put out in a true social post doesn't want to
have a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine, but brother wants to
meet on Thursday in Turkey to negotiate a possible end
to the bloodbath, and Ukraine should agree to this immediately.
At least they will be able to determine whether or
not a deal is possible, and if it is not,
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European leaders in the US will know where everyone and
everything stands and can proceed accordingly. I'm sorry to doubt
that Ukraine will make a deal with Putin, who's too
busy celebrating the victory of World War Two, which could
not have been won, not even close, without the United
States of America have the meeting. Now, the President went
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on to say, Now, this is an important point because
I think the fact that President's just calling it out publicly,
like he's just straight up calling this out, and he's saying,
you can't have it both ways. My worry has been,
and I've said this for a long time, is at
the level of corruption around the aid that the US
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is giving to Ukraine is just unbelievable. We know for
a fact that Zelensky has said that fifty percent of
the funding that's gone to the UK they can't find.
He has had to fire people for corruption after they
were robusted by media, like an egregious corruption, like millions
and millions and millions of dollars. The other thing is,
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if you know the history of Ukraine, Ukraine is even
more corrupt in many ways than Russia.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And that's saying something.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And Zolensky and all of his friends are still getting
rich off of this war. The other there's a third
part to this, and this is part of the conversation
that Donald Trump has had and again every time he
says this, the media is like, oh my gosh, he's
a Russian stude.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
He's backing Vladimir Putin. No, he's not.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
He's asking a real question. It's a question that we
should all be asking. Will Zolensky survive if there's a
cease fire that actually is real and this war ends.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Well, we don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Number One, they haven't had elections since the war broke
out a couple of years ago, and there's a real
worry that Zelensky is prolonging this because he doesn't want
to give up the presidency and he knows that the
people in Ukraine will vote him out of office once
they have free and fair elections again.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
So there is a real.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Question over the motives of Zelensky and all of his
friends who are getting rich that they'll lose their access
and the corruption will end if there is a free
and fair election there. There's no indication by the way
that Zelensky honestly would win.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I think it'd probably be a blowout. I think he
knows it.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
So you keep the war going so that you can
suspend elections, which is exactly what they've done in the
name of war.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That's what they've said.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
They've said in the name of war, we're suspending elections.
The number of people that are dying on both sides
of this is just horrific.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
It is.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
It is something that Donald Trump has also said, like
is completely avoidable, and it should be avoidable, and we
should be doing everything that we can to avoid it.
And I couldn't agree with Donald Trump more that this
needs to end. Now you go back to Putin saying
he wants to meet on Thursday in Turkey to negotiate
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a possible into the blood bat. The fact that Trump
is even having the assolence give Ukraine to agree to
this immediately is also just kind of insane, Like this
is something they should all just be there for. Okay,
that's it, Like they should just be there for it.
This shouldn't be hard, It should be pretty easy. And
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why would you not go if you're because you don't
have to agreet anything.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You just show up for the meeting.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
You show up, and you see what the other side saying,
what they're offering, and you call their bluff. Like if
you're in a war with somebody and they want to meet,
you should probably meet. And the fact that the US
is willing to facilitate the meeting is a good sign
that like, hey, we should really be there for this,
Like this is a no brainer for us.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
If Zelensky says no to this.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I do think there's a large part of this that
Donald Trump is getting right where he's saying, you got
to now worry about the motives of Zelensky.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Now, everything that I just said has nothing to do
with Putin. I want to be clear.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I think Putin's a scumbag, pos murderer.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I think he's a barbarian.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I think he's one of the worst people to walk
to face the earth, and.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I mean that sincerely.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
But at the end of the day, if Zelensky knows
that people are dying, he just wants to keep his power.
That's not a good look either, folks, Like that's really
not a good look. And both things can be real
at the same time. Both things can be true at
the same time, right Like you can say you stand
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with the people of Ukraine while also questioning the leader
in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Both things can be true.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
And I think that's part of what we need to understand,
is that you know, it's not about picking sides. It's look,
it's just about looking at the reality of the situation.
And if you look at the reality of the situation, okay,
then then hey, I mean you got to ask at
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this point, does Zelenski and his goons around him really
want this to end or not? Like, do they honestly
want it to end? And that is a question that
that should be asked. And if you ask that question,
it doesn't mean that you're supporting Vladimir Putin. It doesn't
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mean that you're supporting Russia. I think Russia the leadership
there are scumbags. I actually feel bad for the people
of Russia. They're being held hostage right now by and
and and so many of them been sent to die.
And and for me, that's really really really sad. Like
I it is tragic. It is absolutely lutely tragic. It's
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also not surprising. It's tragic, but it's not surprising. And
we we we should hope that they all come together.
We should we should pray that they all come together.
We should be advocating that they all come together. That's
the whole ballgame here. For me, that's like, that's it,
that's all of it. That is the whole ballgame. Let
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me get to another story real quick. That also is
really important Hamas has claimed it will release in Israeli
American hostage Eden Alexander.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
This is significant.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Hamas issued a statement claiming that it will release Aiden Alexander,
who is believed to be the last known living American
being held hostage by the terrorist group, according to several
reports that have.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Just come out.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
In his statements, in Your Hamas negotiator explained that Hamas
was affirming its readiness to immediately start intensive negotiations and
make serious effort to reach a final agreement to end
the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
This is coming from CNN. Quote.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
The movement affirms its readiness to immediately start intentsive negotiations
and make serious efforts to reach a final agreement to
stop the war, exchange prisoners in an agreed manner, and
manage the Gaza strip by an independent professional body. Per
the outlet, Hamas announced Alexander would be released quote as
part of these steps towards a ceasefire that will see
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the crossing into Gaza opened. Following the communication, TAMAS announced
it will release Alexander as part of the steps towards
the ceasefire, and we'll see the crossing into Gaza open
and humanitarian aid brought into Gaza following an Israeli blockade
that has lasted more than two months. And it's sad,
but this is what Israel had to do for the
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terrorists to finally work towards a deal now. The statement
issued by Hamas on Sunday evening also comes as President
Trump is set to visit the Middle East the upcoming days.
According to the Associated Press, Alexander, who was born in
Tel Aviv, Israel, and raised in New Jersey, went on
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to join the Israeli Defense Forces known as IDEF after
graduating high school. According to the local news reports, Yelle,
Alexander Eden's mom explained that at the time of Hamas's
October seventh, twenty twenty three attack on Israel, Eden had
been stationed on the Gaza border. On October seventh, Y'ao
was awakened around six point thirty am when she contacted
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and she contacted Eden. After the two spoke on the phone.
That was the last she heard from her son. On Friday,
the eve of the Samat Torah holiday, they spoke on
a video chat. He was cute and handsome, playing with
his hair the whole time. He said that people had
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brought them a holiday meal at the base, and then
he was going to because he had a guard shift
early in the morning. I joked and said, we'll come
with an armored vehicle tomorrow for Sabah. We'll bring you
to Lent, a slow simmering stew that Orthodox Jews eat
on sabat so they don't need to cook. He laughed
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and said they won't let you in. It's dangerous. I
went to bed at six point thirty in the morning.
My father woke me up to go out to the
stairwell because there was a siren. She immediately sent a
message to you to eat on and asked if everything
was okay. He replied that rockets were flying, but he
was in a safe place and she shouldn't worry. When
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the second siren went off, they went out to the
stairwell again, and this time it On didn't answer her messages,
but he called a few minutes later. This is incredible
that this is how long this has been going on.
The reports back in March was that Hamas claimed it
would release Alexander Wi Israeli Prime Mister Yahu's office cast
(21:01):
quote doubt on Hamas's offer and accused the terrorists organization
of trying to manipulate talks underway in Qatar. Now, I
don't know if it is Trump going to the Middle East
that is having this type of impact. I think there's
a very good chance. So that's a large part of this,
I really do think. I think there's a very good
(21:22):
chance that this could come down to actually that issue.
I also think some of this just deals with the
simple fact that the Middle East is on edge because
Donald Trump has made it clear he's willing to come
after Terrists, just like he went after Hesblon and Huthi's
and now they're just decimated.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
And the presence like I'm not.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Screwing around with Terrists, and and and by the way,
Israel shouldn't screw around the terraces either, Like you got
to defend yourself, you got to go you got to
go all out. And if you need to go out,
then go all out. And I think that's that this
is part of that. Hey, if we have to, we
will come after you. If we must, we will. And
if you think we won't, you're insane. We're not afraid
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to come after you. We are willing to come after you.
And we don't want to but if you force us to,
and you force our hand, then we're gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Time will tell if they actually do what they say
they're going to do. Okay, Like time will tell, we'll
just see. You don't know here, You really honestly don't know.
But what I will say is that the President does
seem hell bent on making sure that we hold these
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terrorists accountable and that we go after them, and that
we don't pause no matter what. So you look at
the last twenty four hours and you look at these
three big stories that we're talking about, it's incredible. It
is truly incredible. What has happened with prescription drugs. It's incredible.
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What we're hearing with China and the trade talks. It's incredible.
What we're hearing now with the President in Israel and
what's happening here and him going to Middle East. I mean,
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you may not realize is happening, and that is just
how bad off we are right now when it comes
to our air traffic control system, how out of date
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it is, how antiquated it is.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Sean Duffy went on meet the.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Press to talk about just how bad it is and
how it ever got to this point is beyond me.
But this is part of what he had to say
in the conversation about why we must overall this system.
And it's a system that was inherited by the trumpdministration
that is running on actual floppy discs where they're having
to buy parts on eBay to keep it running.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
What can you tell us about this latest incident and
why does this keep happening?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Well, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
The system is old, right, This is a system that's
twenty five at best, sometimes fifty years old. The Congress
and the country haven't paid attention to it, right, they
expect it to work. And so now I think the
lights are blinking, the sirens are turning, and they're saying, listen,
we have to fix this because what you see in
Newark is going to happen in other places across the country.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
It has to be fixed.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
And so what we're having is some telecom issues. We're
also having some glitches in our software as the information
comes in it's overloading some of our lines and the
system goes down. So I'll just tell you specifically a newark.
We believe we're going to have it up and running
in short order. We're gonna be able to fix that glitch,
and we feel a little more comfortable about our primary
(27:11):
line that gets the data in on.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Radar, and our redundant line is up and rooking as well.
What can you tell us about I mean, you hear him.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
It's scary that we're even at this point where no
one was doing this, no one was fixing it. It's like,
what were we doing? What was happening? Like, how is
this even possible that it got this bad? Sean was
also again I mentioned eBay. This is how bad it is, y'all,
(27:42):
And yet with all the money the government has, they
decide not to spend your money on having like top
of the notch air traffic control systems.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
I'm concerned about the whole airspace right the equipment that
we use, much of it. We can't buy parts for
new We have to go on eBay and buy parts.
If one part goes down, you're dealing with really old equipment.
We're dealing with copper wires, not fiber, not high speed fiber.
And so this is this is concerning is it safe. Yes,
we have redundancies. Multiple redundancy is in place to keep
(28:12):
you safe and you fly. But we should also recognize
we're seeing we're seeing stress on an old network and
it's time to fix it. Bottom line, is it safe
to fly in the United States right now?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
We listen.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
We are the safest airspace for sure, and traveling by
air is way safer than any of the mode of transportation,
which is why I take it, my family takes it.
But again that doesn't mean you don't look over the
horizon and say, hey, if there is a major outage,
could that be a risk to life. Of course it
could be, which is why we fix it. I'm concerned
about the.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I mean this is you go back to Sean here,
the equipment that we use, much of it. We can't
buy parts for new We have to go on eBay
and buy parts, Like are we a third world country?
And no one was fixing this, Like no one was
working on this. And so he's like, look, we inherit it,
(29:06):
but we're going to fix it, Like we're not going
to just kick the can down the road or buy
more parts on eBay.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
The problem we have is you can't snap your fingers
and fix it right. It takes time to build the infrastructure,
and it's I say, it's going to be three to
four years to build it all. But we're going to
focus on new work first. So we're gonna start to
see new work be far, far more resilient in the
near term. But air traffic controllers were three thousand short
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on air traffic control. I can't snap my fingers and
bring in these highly skilled air traffic controllers. All this
is going to take time. So the key here is
we have to start. We have to begin the process
of fixing the system. I can't say in two weeks
I can have it fixed. That's not the space that
we deal with. But I'm gonna tell you we are
going to begin, and you know, in the in the
in the months and years ahead, we're going to see
(29:54):
real results.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
That's how broken the system is.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Like the way that Sean is described, this is how
bad it is now. He also dispelled a rumor of
the fake news and I want you to hear this.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
In the safety mission of the FAA, like air traffic controllers,
no one was cut we actually have staffed up. We've
hired more air traffic controllers during this time. There were
probationary workers that were let go. Those are employees who
were there less than a year unless and again we
excluded the safety positions.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Most of them have come back.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
So again to say a department, the FAA has forty
six thousand employees, and if you lost three hundred and fifty,
is this affecting our safety mission. There's a lot of
things the FAA does, but for us, safety is key.
So no, we've retained all those safety positions.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Again, another lie that was told by the media.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
They all lied to you, and they all told you
that this thing was a disaster, that it was just.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
All these people Quitting's not true, not accurate.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
And now the media, the same media that looked the
other way while Democrats were in charge, and while this
thing was because I'm me a disaster, what are they
now doing. They're like, oh, wow, we want to hold
Donald Trump and accountable for this, and he's.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Like, it's not that simple. He also went on CBS
this morning and was talking about this.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I want you to listen to the intro from CBS
this morning and how they described it.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Listen carefully to the propaganda.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Pretty airport from air traffic control problems.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
You've been hearing a lot about this.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
I've raised a lot of questions about the nationwide system.
Now safe it is to fly these days? Transportation Secretary
that's Sean Duffy announced plans yesterday to modernize air traffic control,
promising new software, updated equipment, and the first new ATC
centers since the nineteen sixties. Yes please, Secretary Duffy joins
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us now from Washington. Good morning to you, mister Secretary.
It's good to see you, and can I just say,
as a nervous flyer, it seems like you and your
team are all over this, so great appreciation for that,
because it seems you want to get it right and
get it right quickly. But let's start with Newark Airport
because that's top of mind for many people there are
certainly on the struggle bus. How long do you think
it'll take to get things right there and reassure people
(32:06):
that it's okay to fly in and out of Newark?
Speaker 6 (32:09):
Well, first off, for you, Gale and Froll flyers, our
main mission is safety, and so if there's any concern
with safety, we slow down traffic and there might be
delayed there might be cancelations, and we take those precautions
to make sure that you get from your departure city
to your arrival city. But it's gonna take a little
bit of time. Now, the main line that feeds information
(32:31):
into Newark that went down, the secondary line didn't stand up,
and so both lines.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Are now working.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
We have a little bit of issues with our air
traffic controllers. Some of them have stepped out of the tower.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
They were stressed.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
So we're training new individuals in the Philly Traycon which
services Newark, and we're building a whole new fiber driven
system down in Philly that does serve that Traycon or
the New York Airport. So it doesn't weren't a situation
where you know, it's gonna take us a little bit
of time. I hope i've summer, we're gonna be fully functioning.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
I was going to say, mister Duffie, what does that
mean when you say a little bit of time, you
say by the summer, because I'm thinking the problem with
Newark is when you hear the screens went down, and
no one seemed to be able to explain that You
don't think we have to worry about that happening again.
You think they've corrected that problem.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
Well, in Newark, both lines are working and so you know, listen, yes,
and if both lines do go down, there are emergency procedures,
backup procedures that we take to talk to airplanes to
make sure they stay separated. But Gail, I'm concerned. I
mean this system that we use many much of the
equipment you have to buy an ebait.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
No one makes it anymore.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
That's how old the system is that we fly on today,
which is why yesterday I called for a brand new
infrastructure plan to rebuild everything across the spectrum for air
traffic control. It is well overdue in America. And I
think what you've seen in Newark is you're having failings.
And when you have the failings, you take a look
at the whole system and could other parts, you know,
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have issues. Of course it could have issues. But that's
why it's a call to action to do this for
America so you always feel safe.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
In your flying gale.
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Yeah, you said you've basically said all hands on deck.
I think the figure you gave was twelve point five billion,
and you said it could exceed that that you're you're
hoping to get the money upfront from Congress.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
How is this going to play out? Do you think so?
Speaker 6 (34:17):
No? No, it's so the first trons the House has twelve
point five billion for me. This is gonna be much
bigger than that. This is an infrastructure, a bill that
will go across the country. Listen, air traffic control is
in all you know, all these major cities across the country.
So it's going to be more than twelve and a
half billion. It'll be you know, tens of billions of
dollars to do this.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
But the problem deal.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
Is, in the past there's been just partial funding for
air traffic control upgrades.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Partial upgrade funding.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Now the whole thing. Now, I we'll just do a
little bit here. This is how corrupt our government is.
They'll spend money on transgendered my studies, and they'll spend
money on Sesame Street in Iran or whatever the hell country.
But no, we're gonna make you buy computers parts on
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eBay for a forty to fifty year old system. That
is the world we're living in in our government. That's
how much they don't care about us. And thank goodness,
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