President Trump put a deadline of February 1 on tariffs for Mexico. Will they happen on Saturday? National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL has the details and the latest on the investigation into the helicopter/Jet collision in Washington.
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Investigators are working around the clock to retrieve the wreckage
of the two aircraft that collide and mid collided in
mid air over the Potomac River. A preliminary FAA report
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revealed that staffing at the air traffic control tower was
not normal, with one air traffic controller working two different
positions at the same time and at the time of
the crash. President Trump says, in competence may have been
to blame for the crash. Meanwhile, the president also announced
a twenty five percent tariff on both Canada and Mexico,
and the deadline is Saturday. Rory O'Neil is covering both
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of our top stories. Let's start with the latest on
the investigation. You don't worry. We kind of both ended
yesterday's show saying, well, don't expect a lot from the NTSB.
I mean, you might get a preliminary report in a month,
but you don't get final, conclusive cause for a year
or more. I was kind of shocked at how much
we did learn yesterday. But what do you have as
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the latest that we need to know in concerning this investigation.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yeah, well, they're about to resume the recovery of the
bodies that are still missing. We think they got about
fifty human remains recovered so far, so that would leave
about seventeen roughly.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
We'll expect an update soon on that.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
But they were also able to recover the two black
boxes from the jet. Now, there was not an equipment
and in the helicopter, and there's a lot of attention
being focused now on exactly what altitude that helicopter was
flying at. At the time of the collision and whether
or not it was flying too high at the time.
And then now you say, well that was that a
pilot error, Was that a mechanical error that forced the
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helicopter to go too high? Was it an instrument error
that didn't have the proper information?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Again? All that determined, Yeah by the end. So what's
the difference with the helicopter that. First of all, nobody
has a black box. They're all usually what orange now, right,
But they don't have.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
That in the helicopter, right, No, they don't have the
same kind of recording system with or recording the transmissions necessarily.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So where were they get that information from? They wouldn't
have it. Oh, they won't have it, Okay. So because
that there appeared to be a two hundred foot ceiling
that they exceeded. You know, we said it this way yesterday, Rory.
It's kind of like a jigsaw puzzle. We have all
the pieces in our hand, and the NTSP will put
them in the right places and paint the conclusive picture.
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But I feel like we had all the pieces and
I had brought up several One was the late switch
from runway one to thirty three, which is not uncommon,
but it is a switch, and you know throughout the
day hearing pilots that have landed there multiple times. When
you make that switch, you got to make a turn
to get into runway thirty three. How late they were
given the change is, I mean, the pilot prefers to
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get it earlier, but it wasn't perceived by any of
the pilots. It's too late to do it. But that
would force you to go to the right of the
river to make the turn. And then we find out
late in the day that perhaps not just were they
was the helicopter above two hundred feet ceiling and it
also was off trajectory in terms of the river. In
other words, that switching to runway thirty three might have
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played a role in this as well.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Right again part of the NTSB review. And also we
got word a similar or rather the day before. One
day before, Yeah, you're mesaging approaching jet had to wave
off because of a helicopter that was in the area.
So it's obviously a bigger issue. So not only will
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they have to really get to the bottom of what
happened on Wednesday, but then take a bigger look at
exactly how they improve safety at Reagan National.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, and that's I think a lot of Americans. I
don't know that anybody really addressed that. But this whole
you got helicopters regularly doing things as planes are landing.
Why and why in such proximity, I'm sure, But that's
what the NTSP is to give cause to find out why,
so that they can take the actions necessary to ensure
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it doesn't happen again. I think that one may end
up on the list after all that. It's probably not
a good idea to have two different worlds happening at
the same time at that airport every night in lights
with night vision goggles or whether they were wearing them
or I is. I know what I told Decker. I
want you to flying out of Baltimore, Washington or Dulles Boom.
That's how I handle the people I care about. That
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sounds like a circus going on. Don't maybe go to BWI.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
No, I get it, but it is a lot to orchestrate,
and it's a delicate dance. But one of the issues
is the members of Congress love Reagan National because it's
so close.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Oh, I get it all right. On the tariffs, I
was just watching and of course I do this and
look for a living like you. And the deadline is Saturday,
February first, that kind of tomorrow. So that kind of
makes it feel like unless something is there, an unless,
or is it just coming? You know? It's Donald Trump.
Is this the art of the deal? Right?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
He said it just last night when in the Oval Office,
when asked by reporters, he said, the twenty five percent
tariffs are coming because Mexico and Canada have not controlled
their borders. They're letting the fentanyl in. Those are the
two big metrics. But you know, look at the calendar,
it's February first, is close, but it's not February, not
February first yet, as it's the Art of the Deal.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Rory's gonna be back in about forty five minutes. I
know you got to run, all right, it's eleven minutes
after the hour on your morning show time. I don't
know how many of these we can get in. We
have to break it into two segments, but we do
have Sounds of the Day. Oh I need to interrupt, Okay.
I had a listener, I think it was Kathy in
Ohio said I love Sounds of the Day, but we
need to get a new open because she was really
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looking forward to never hearing Kamala Harris or Joe Biden's voice. Okay,
and I thought, I thought, you know what, that's kind
of a legitimate. As I continue with the introduction, you're
going to get smoked.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
He stopped.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
I really don't know what he said at the end
of this sentence.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I don't think he knows what he said either. It's
got to be a big bit of understanding. I'm going
I'm going in that is, how do you like my garbage?
But you know, yesterday really could be split into two sections.
The confirmation hearings, which, by the way, like all confirmation hearings,
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the more you watch them, the more you feel good
about the nominees, and you feel like, maybe we just
start having confirmation hearings to confirm voters results, because the
senators just look incompetent and the nominee ease looked competent.
But it was very partisan. It was very attacking. We're
going to do that in part two. Part one, let's
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start with the tragedy over the Potomac with the President
in this statement, nothing.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Worse on behalf of the first lady myself and three
hundred and forty million Americans. Our hearts are shattered alongside yours,
and our prayers are with you now and in the
days to come. We'll be working very, very diligently. In
the days to come. We're here for you to wipe
away the tears and to offer you our devotion, our love,
and our support. There's great support in moments like this.
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The differences between Americans pade to nothing compared to the
bonds of affection and loyalty that unite us all, both
as Americans and even as nations. We are one family,
and today we are all heartbroken.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
We're all searching for answers.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
That icy Potomac was a cold, cold night, cold water.
We're all overcome with the grief for many who have
so tragically perished will no longer be with us together.
We take solace in the knowledge at their journey ended
not in the cold waters of the Potomac, but in
the warm embrace of a loving God.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
We did not know what led.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
To this crash, but we have some very strong opinions
and ideas, and I think we'll probably state those opinions
now because over the years I've watched as things like
this happen and they say, well, we're always investigating, and
then the investigation.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Three years later they announced it.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
We think we have some pretty good ideas, but we'll
find out how this disaster occurred and will ensure.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I played that clip for two reasons. One, I want
you to hear the empathy, the compassion, the sympathy, it
was all there. He also at the end there gives
you a clue of why he did the rest of
what he did yesterday, because we often just this is
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one thing I do like about Donald Trump. I'm not
big on victimhood. That's what we do very well and
have done very well since nine to eleven in America victimhood.
Something bad happens and we're victims, and then we all
mourn together, and then we're Boston strong, or we're New
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York strong, or we're Los Angeles strong. No, I believe
in being victorious. There's something to be learned from all
of this, necessary to ensure it doesn't happen again or
over and over again. That was a pivot for Donald Trump.
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I'm sick and tired of this. We'll get to the
bottom of it. Then you don't get to the bottom
of it. For three years, and by the time it happens,
four others have happened since then nobody even cares about
the findings. This gets back to my theory of the day,
which is, I think this president had heg seth on
on a screen. I think he had the NTSB across
from him, the FAA director across from him. Hey, look,
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I know what I saw last night that didn't look right.
And then he starts getting debriefed, and it doesn't look
like an accident, an unexplainable accident. It looks like an
accident that was waiting to happen, and he got a
pretty clear vision of the incompetence that led to it.
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And I think what the president is suggesting is I
can't follow the normal course of etiquette because there are
planes full of mothers and fathers and sons and daughters
and husbands and wives taken off and landing all day
to day, by the tens of thousands. I don't have
time to wait for this. Then we played this other
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clip from the NTSB which tells me this came later
in the afternoon, And here is a reporter trying to
throw the president under the bus. How dare he jump
to a assumption of DEI this early when we have
no facts, and watch the NTSB's response. Unfortunately I didn't
hear the remarks.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
I was briefing House and Senate numbers at a belief chair,
which activated.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
As part of any investigation, we look at the human,
the machine, and the environment. So we will look at
all the humans that were involved in this accident. Again,
we will look at the aircraft, we will look at
the helicopter, we will look at the environment in which
they were operating in. That is part of that is
standard in any part of our investigation.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Notice she didn't say she didn't agree. She didn't even
give us a lecture on jumping to conclusions prematurely. And
I was watching it, I thought to myself, because you
were part of who briefed them. The reason the president's
on a rampage and is so angry is because of
the things that you were sharing. Perhaps the military was
sharing about what's been going on in these control towers
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two years no training because of COVID. Then all that
we played these clips for you earlier, But the DEI
focus has all been on diversity and not necessarily the
highest qualified. This was a FAA recruitment video that kind
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of shows you where their minds have been for quite
some time. Listen, this was Biden's FAA just two years ago.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
We need a diverse group of air traffic controllers to
bring distinct perspectives to handle the ever changing aerospace landscape.
I'm calling on students and alumni from HBCU's Hispanic serving
institutions and tribal collegists to apply.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Now, I don't care who applies from what, as long
as you meet the intelligence level, the psychological level. You
know that. This is what the President was saying all day,
but that didn't happen. In fact, there were lawsuits, and
you know, the President was briefed on this. Qualified people
applying for jobs and air traffic control towers denied jobs
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because they didn't meet diversity qualifications, not job qualifications. And
when it came to DEI, they only met one percent
of their goals anyway, so they filled it both competence
and political correctness. My guess is the President was briefed
on all of that. We also talked about the black
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boxes being recovered, that audio is not nearly as necessary.
This one tower staffing is. Listen, that's right.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
So the Reagan Airport air Traffic Control tower usually assigns
one controller to handle planes, another controller to handle helicopter traffic.
We are told by sources with knowledge that last night
they did not have two controllers able to do that,
so they had one controller handling both planes and shoppers.
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That is allowed under the FAA standards, but it's not ideal,
and so that would potentially open up the questions about
were they properly staffed given the volume of traffic last
night here at the Reagan Airport operating zone and specifically
with helicopter traffic as it was.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
You know, Red said it this way. We're not talking
about flipping burgers and dropping fries. Some one of the
most stressful jobs on planet Earth, one of the most
mind taxing jobs. I'm planned that they literally die young.
You got one guy doing two on two different frequencies. Now,
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you know. The President of the United States then turned
to the NTSB, into the FAA or you said, what's
the deal with this? Why why are we so understaffed. Oh,
that's not just a DCA, sir. We have understaffing across
across the country. I got more kids in the air
and it's dangerous. I got more mothers and fathers in
the air, and it's dangerous. Now in the world of
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the matrix leapt versus right narrative over reality, the attacks
will be on the president jump into DEI conclusions. I
think he jumped to anything. I think his heart was
broken and when he met with leaders found out this
wasn't an accident. This was an accident waiting to happen,
and he knew the exact reasons. And he doesn't have
the time to wait.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
It's your morning show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Some of your talkbacks from the talkback line. Wants your
voice to be heard on your morning show. And then
we'll get to sounds to day part two, the confirmation hearings.
If you're just waking up. Investigators working around the clock
to retrieve the wreckage of the two aircraft that collided
over the Potomac River. A preliminary FAA report revealed that
staffing at the air traffic control tower was not normal,
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with one air traffic controller working two different tower positions
at the time of the crash. Wonder President Trump is
pointing to incompetence as part of the blame. I mean,
while the President says a twenty five percent tariff on
Canada and Mexico's coming as soon as tomorrow. The un
less part a little more vague, and I've never seen
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a simple episode, but this will mean something to perhaps
millennials out there listening. Netflix is greenlit a reboot of
Little House on the Prairie. Never did see an episode
of that. Oh half finds back. But yeah, I'm Jim
Schultz in Tampa, and my morning show is your Morning
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Show with Michael Giljana Hey.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
It's Michael reminding you that your morning show can be
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Speaker 2 (17:02):
Work with you.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
But better late than never.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
We're grateful you're here. Now, enjoy the podcast. CNN has
just released probably the most conclusive video yet. Like the
other videos, much closer, making it even more difficult to watch,
but a lot more revealing about angles. We'll get to
that in a second. Can't have your morning show without
your voice, right, Let's start with Perry. Perry listening on
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WLAC in Nashville. Hey, Michael Perry here again.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
If you haven't already seen it, go check out what
that liberal idiot hack, Phil Williams that used Channel five
had to say about what occurred in President Trump with
this tragic accident.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
You show, buddy, keep it up, thank you. You know, obviously,
if you're outraged that the President brought up d DEI
because you think that was premature and presumptive, aren't you
being premature and presumptive assuming you know more than the
President of the United States. That's what looked ridiculous to me.
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Does Phil Williams know about what happened? How does Phil
Williams know? It isn't DEI? The President of the United
States was up all night getting to the bottom of
this because he didn't like the way the video looked,
and then dealing with his Secretary of Defense, dealing at
the Pentagon, with the military getting to the bottom of
what happened on their end, then with the FAA chair,
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and then with the NTSB. He gets all this information.
He might know more than you. I think that played
out yesterday. I think the president's day started with how
the hell did this happen? And I think it ended
with it's a miracle it didn't happen sooner. That's how
I think his day went. And he doesn't have the
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luxury of waiting months or years, not with all of
us taking off and landing every day, and so I
think he sees the moment. I think he was emotionally
very upset at the loss of life. I get it.
I was looking at pictures of these kids' faces early
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yesterday morning before I could even report them. It's very,
very upsetting. The president was very emotionally raw. And then
I think he was infuriated when he started getting answers
and you got one of two choices. Let it play
out because the facts are going to lead to that.
I said, the most turning point of my day. I
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read a text earlier I literally shared to something. I
don't know what the President's doing. I wouldn't have gone here,
but by the end of the day I was there.
And when I watched the NTSB as the leftist meeting
was trying to throw the president under the bus stand
by the president, I was like, oh my gosh, they're
the ones that brief the president. Their protocols don't allow
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him to say anything. The President's saying it. And now
look at where we're at today. A day before a
jet aircraft had to abort landing to avoid a helicopter.
Air traffic staffing already the NTSB is announced was at
an abnormal level bottom line shortage bottom bottom line one
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traffic controller, not two, handling helicopters and planes on two
different frequencies. The Blackhawk itself was above its two hundred
foot ceiling. Problem one, Problem two was off course. And
when you changed that flight to land on thirty three
instead of one, it's got to go to the right
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of the river, and it's got to make a sharp
turn to the left to land on thirty three, which
is right where the helicopter was. Now, the new angle
that CNN released five minutes ago really tough to watch.
You're close and you're watching this plane in a deep
descenteconds before making landing, and you just watching this helicopter
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rise right up into it, night goggles, off course, above ceiling.
I don't know what. I've never flown a black Hawk.
I don't know how you don't see a plane you're
flying directly into. I don't care what goggles you're wearing.
It's right in front of them. I don't know how
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the pilots couldn't see they were flying right into a helicopter.
I mean they literally were face to face. That'll be
tough for you to watch. My observation. Neither made any movement,
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neither was warned, neither noticed and made any sudden movement
to try to avoid They just go right into each other.
Very difficult to watch. So in light of all that,
who care is with some investigative reporter way out of
his league is commenting on it a national story? All right?
Next up is James. Good morning, Michael and Crewe.
Speaker 10 (22:09):
These confirmation hearings have nothing to do with the candidates.
They're all about the Democrats twenty twenty eight presidential aspirations.
They're trying to get out their soundbites that they can
use for their campaigns.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
That's why they're making fools of themselves.
Speaker 10 (22:23):
They have no common sense and they have nothing else
to run on, so all they want to do is
just make their talking points.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Hopefully they can get on the top of the ticket.
Keep up the work, Michael. They're definitely playing their talking
points and narratives in opposition. I don't think it's going
to work. On any of them, and I think they
all got upstaged. That's really been the reality, the quality
of these nominees to stand up to these games. It's
so obvious to the naked eye, these are not Americans.
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I mean, my gosh, don't you want to get all
the cabinet members approved? Didn't yesterday prove prove we got
a lot of work to do. America needs this leadership
in place more than ever for the good of the
country and the safety of its people. And they're playing
these games. I don't think Bernie Andrews is running for presidents.
I want to accuse him of what you're saying. But
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does he look as smart as RFK Junior on a
particular topic hardly.
Speaker 11 (23:25):
If we want to make America healthy, will you assure
the American people that you will fight to do what
every other major country on Earth does guarantee healthcare?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Do every single American?
Speaker 12 (23:39):
I'm going to make America healthier than other countries in
the world right now.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
Will you guarantee do what every other major country does.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
It's a simple question.
Speaker 12 (23:48):
And by the way, Bernie, you know, the problem of
corruption is not just in the federal agents, is in Congress.
To almost all the members of this panel are except
including yourself, or accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh, no, protecting their interests. Oh, I thought that that
would go. No. Know, I ran for president like you.
Speaker 11 (24:13):
I got millions, millions of contributions. They did not come
from the executives, not one nickel of pack money from
the pharmaceutical leaders.
Speaker 12 (24:23):
They came to work twenty twenty. In twenty twenty, you
were the single largest.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
Because I received a pharmaceutic from minations from workers all
over this country.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
We need a confirmation hearing from Bernie Sanders. So, oh,
it didn't come from the CEO. It came from the workers.
As if packs don't know, as if CEOs don't know
how to use worker contributions and promotion of worker counter
I mean, I know Bernie was ninety years ago, but
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the rest of us weren't born yesterday. Cash Betel, I
got to settle down for this earlier because I said
that this guy shows up at my door with sandals.
It says follow me. I leave my family and follow him.
There is no one, no one we need more, no
one I want more than Cash Battel, the head the FBI,
and we've watched I mean, Hexath played a cool and
(25:16):
classy Pam BONDI went out swinging cash. Battel was like
the perfect balance of both. If you wanted to be intelligent,
if you wanted to have some class, he'd have a conversation.
You wanted to be an idiot, he'd slap you right back.
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And if you're looking for an idiot to slap, you
never have to look much further than Amy Kobajar. Here
we go. He shut down. Mister deserve an answer to
that question.
Speaker 13 (25:45):
He asked me to be head of the FBI, and
he said that their headquarters should be shut down.
Speaker 12 (25:50):
Mister Chair Parliamentary Inquiry, You got anything you want to say,
mister Pattel before I go on to center early.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Oh, I could listen to these kinds of responses all
day this.
Speaker 14 (26:04):
If the best attacks on me are going to be
false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations. The only thing this body
is doing is defeating the credibility of.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
The men and women at the FBI.
Speaker 14 (26:14):
I stood with them here in this country, in every
theater of war we have.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I was on the ground in service of.
Speaker 15 (26:20):
This nation and any accusations leveled against me that I
would somehow put political buyas before the Constitution are grotesquely unfair.
And I will have you reminded that I have been
endorsed by over three hundred thousand law enforcement officers to
become the next director of the FBI.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Let's ask them. Mister an Indian from Uganda who's been
in theater of war as three hundred thousand law enforcement endorsements,
they're trying to portray him as racist and anti cop.
We could go wrong there, Chairman.
Speaker 13 (26:57):
I am quoting his own words alone from September of
twenty twenty four. It is his own words. It is
not some conspiracy. It is what mister Pateel actually said.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Himself, completely out of context. I don't know where her
one hundred and one dulmatis are, but Tulsey Gabbart appeared,
I thought in her opening remarks this was chilling.
Speaker 16 (27:21):
Listen now, before I close, I want to warn the
American people who are watching at home. You may hear
lies and smears in this hearing that will challenge my
loyalty to and my love for our country. Those who
oppose my nomination imply that I am loyal to something
or someone other than God, my own conscience, and the
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Constitution of the United States, accusing me of being Trump's puppet,
Putin's puppet, Assad's puppet, a Guru's puppet, Mody's puppet, not
recognizing the absurdity of simultaneously being the puppet of five
different puppet masters. The same tactic was used against President
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Trump and failed. The American people elected President Trump with
a decisive victory and mandate for change. The fact is
what truly unsettles my political opponents is I refuse to
be their puppet.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Oooh, How brilliant isn't it to acknowledge what they're about
to do before they do it? How brilliant is it
to reveal what they really fear most about all of
these candidates, That's tough for the American people to decide.
I don't know that any of them are going to
have any problem getting confirmed. I guess you would probably
(28:38):
point to Tulsa Gabbard as being the closest call, but
Collins seems to be the deciding vote, and she seemed
pretty pleased with how the questioning went between her and
Telsa Gabbard. No sign of the Dalmatians but again another
impressive performance by all the nominees. Another discussing display, a
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partisan attack by partisan senators. Listen, I hope you made
a New Year's resolution to prioritize your safety. I hope
you realize you're the first line of defense, that you
have a constitutional right to protect yourself and your family
and your property, and I hope you take it seriously.
I'm a gun owner. I take it seriously. I can
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tell you when my kids were young, I was uncomfortable
with those guns being around, and I went to great
lens to make sure no one had access to them,
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morning show with Michael del Chorna. What a tragic day
for the skating world between the mid air collision and
crash in DC and the passing of dig But Scott
Hamilton OLYMPICOD medal still join us next half hour to
talk about the loss to the skating world. Meanwhile, investigators
working around the clock to retrieve the wreckage. Two new
(31:12):
pieces of footage have come forward much closer, a much
more vivid view of the angles and the collision mid air. Meanwhile,
a preliminary FAA report revealed that staffing at the air
traffic control tower was not normal, understaffed, with one traffic
controller working two different tower positions at the same time
(31:33):
of the crash. President Trump saying incompetence may be to
blame for the crash. Meanwhile, at twenty five percent tariff
on Canada and Mexico is looming tomorrow. Unless Rory O'Neill
is our national correspondent joining us covering these two top stories,
is there a none less for Canada well, and for Mexico.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
There's still time and maybe a deal can be hammered
out before we impose these tariffs.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Twenty tariffs on Mexico and Canada that could.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Really cause the prices of fruits and vegetables to go up.
Liquor good luck getting tequila cheap, right, depending on how
things go here?
Speaker 2 (32:11):
But is this just a bargaining tactic.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
President Trump has said he wants Canada and Mexico to
do more to stop the flow of illegal immigrants into
the US and to stop the flow of drugs like ventanyl.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
He also did make it I don't know if you
were watching. I think you know, no matter who you are,
you gotta love that this president's at work every day.
You may not like what he's saying, depending on your
partisan view, but he's definitely at work every day. There's
no mystery as to where this guy is and what
he's doing. But I noticed in when he brought the
press in as he was signing the memorandum on the
air traffic control as well as other things, he made
(32:47):
a comment specifically about China and cheap China vehicles coming
in from Mexico. You and I think I think it
was you or me and Decker. We had talked about this.
I think that's a hot button. The fentanyl has an mad.
I think the allowing illegals in to the South and
the North has them mad. And I think that on
(33:08):
the back burner is those Chinese cheap electric vehicles. I
think I know what his motives are. I don't know
what he expects them to do to cave well.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Right, because there are big tariffs. I think tariffs on
Chinese electric vehicles coming into the US.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
That's the current rule that was under Biden.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
And the concern is China is building our plants in Mexico.
To skirt that tariff, and maybe that's the strategy. Maybe
he's trying to stop that again, maybe that's just part
of the negotiation, because yes, the tariffs are supposed to
be implemented tomorrow, but it's a long time between now
and then.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
You brainstorm tequila pretty fast. That one comes to mind.
I was shocked. I want to ask, and I want
to shut up, and I'm gonna hear your answer. Were
you shocked at how much we did learn yesterday? Because
that was a lot.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
It's unbelievable we knew so much an hour after it happened.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
I was shocked. No.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
And then the fact that the weather conditions were pretty
good other than being cold, but not as bad coals
that had been. You know, they were able to recover
a lot of the bodies in about eight feet of
water there in the Potomac icy Potomac. I shouldn't mention no, So,
I mean, the response has been pretty incredible to be
able to get this much information so quickly. But you know,
(34:28):
let's let's try to end the speculation at this point.
As we heard from the NTSP, this is going to
be a long, slow investigation.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
They're orange, but they call them black boxes. The two
black boxes from the plane have been retrieved. There is
no such technology in the helicopter. And the NTSP came
out and did say that that there was an understaffing issue,
and in particular one person handling you know, both helicopters
and planes on two different frequencies at once. This is
(34:56):
is possible, but not ideal by any stretch, and I
still think we need Have you seen these new angles
that CNN just released. That's that's a pretty vivid view
of what exactly happened, but it makes it harder to understand, Yeah,
how they didn't see how did that happen?
Speaker 4 (35:12):
You know, and especially with the new video, like wait,
how did you not see that?
Speaker 2 (35:17):
It's yeah, and then I get back to the changing
to runway thirty three as well. All right, well, if
that's how much we learned surprisingly yesterday, what might we
know throughout the day. We're all in this together. This
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
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Investigators are working around the clock to retrieve the wreckage
of the two aircraft that collide and mid collided in
mid air over the Potomac River. A preliminary FAA report
(00:53):
revealed that staffing at the air traffic control tower was
not normal, with one air traffic controller working two different
positions at the same time and at the time of
the crash. President Trump says, in competence may have been
to blame for the crash. Meanwhile, the president also announced
a twenty five percent tariff on both Canada and Mexico,
and the deadline is Saturday. Rory O'Neil is covering both
(01:18):
of our top stories. Let's start with the latest on
the investigation. You don't worry. We kind of both ended
yesterday's show saying, well, don't expect a lot from the NTSB.
I mean, you might get a preliminary report in a month,
but you don't get final, conclusive cause for a year
or more. I was kind of shocked at how much
we did learn yesterday. But what do you have as
(01:38):
the latest that we need to know in concerning this investigation.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yeah, well, they're about to resume the recovery of the
bodies that are still missing. We think they got about
fifty human remains recovered so far, so that would leave
about seventeen roughly.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
We'll expect an update soon on that.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
But they were also able to recover the two black
boxes from the jet. Now, there was not an equipment
and in the helicopter, and there's a lot of attention
being focused now on exactly what altitude that helicopter was
flying at. At the time of the collision and whether
or not it was flying too high at the time.
And then now you say, well that was that a
pilot error, Was that a mechanical error that forced the
(02:15):
helicopter to go too high? Was it an instrument error
that didn't have the proper information?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Again? All that determined, Yeah by the end. So what's
the difference with the helicopter that. First of all, nobody
has a black box. They're all usually what orange now, right,
But they don't have.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
That in the helicopter, right, No, they don't have the
same kind of recording system with or recording the transmissions necessarily.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So where were they get that information from? They wouldn't
have it. Oh, they won't have it, Okay. So because
that there appeared to be a two hundred foot ceiling
that they exceeded. You know, we said it this way yesterday, Rory.
It's kind of like a jigsaw puzzle. We have all
the pieces in our hand, and the NTSP will put
them in the right places and paint the conclusive picture.
(02:59):
But I feel like we had all the pieces and
I had brought up several One was the late switch
from runway one to thirty three, which is not uncommon,
but it is a switch, and you know throughout the
day hearing pilots that have landed there multiple times. When
you make that switch, you got to make a turn
to get into runway thirty three. How late they were
given the change is, I mean, the pilot prefers to
(03:21):
get it earlier, but it wasn't perceived by any of
the pilots. It's too late to do it. But that
would force you to go to the right of the
river to make the turn. And then we find out
late in the day that perhaps not just were they
was the helicopter above two hundred feet ceiling and it
also was off trajectory in terms of the river. In
other words, that switching to runway thirty three might have
(03:42):
played a role in this as well.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Right again part of the NTSB review. And also we
got word a similar or rather the day before. One
day before, Yeah, you're mesaging approaching jet had to wave
off because of a helicopter that was in the area.
So it's obviously a bigger issue. So not only will
(04:04):
they have to really get to the bottom of what
happened on Wednesday, but then take a bigger look at
exactly how they improve safety at Reagan National.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, and that's I think a lot of Americans. I
don't know that anybody really addressed that. But this whole
you got helicopters regularly doing things as planes are landing.
Why and why in such proximity, I'm sure, But that's
what the NTSP is to give cause to find out why,
so that they can take the actions necessary to ensure
(04:33):
it doesn't happen again. I think that one may end
up on the list after all that. It's probably not
a good idea to have two different worlds happening at
the same time at that airport every night in lights
with night vision goggles or whether they were wearing them
or I is. I know what I told Decker. I
want you to flying out of Baltimore, Washington or Dulles Boom.
That's how I handle the people I care about. That
(04:54):
sounds like a circus going on. Don't maybe go to BWI.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
No, I get it, but it is a lot to orchestrate,
and it's a delicate dance. But one of the issues
is the members of Congress love Reagan National because it's
so close.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Oh, I get it all right. On the tariffs, I
was just watching and of course I do this and
look for a living like you. And the deadline is Saturday,
February first, that kind of tomorrow. So that kind of
makes it feel like unless something is there, an unless,
or is it just coming? You know? It's Donald Trump.
Is this the art of the deal? Right?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
He said it just last night when in the Oval Office,
when asked by reporters, he said, the twenty five percent
tariffs are coming because Mexico and Canada have not controlled
their borders. They're letting the fentanyl in. Those are the
two big metrics. But you know, look at the calendar,
it's February first, is close, but it's not February, not
February first yet, as it's the Art of the Deal.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Rory's gonna be back in about forty five minutes. I
know you got to run, all right, it's eleven minutes
after the hour on your morning show time. I don't
know how many of these we can get in. We
have to break it into two segments, but we do
have Sounds of the Day. Oh I need to interrupt, Okay.
I had a listener, I think it was Kathy in
Ohio said I love Sounds of the Day, but we
need to get a new open because she was really
(06:11):
looking forward to never hearing Kamala Harris or Joe Biden's voice. Okay,
and I thought, I thought, you know what, that's kind
of a legitimate. As I continue with the introduction, you're
going to get smoked.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
He stopped.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
I really don't know what he said at the end
of this sentence.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I don't think he knows what he said either. It's
got to be a big bit of understanding. I'm going
I'm going in that is, how do you like my garbage?
But you know, yesterday really could be split into two sections.
The confirmation hearings, which, by the way, like all confirmation hearings,
(06:46):
the more you watch them, the more you feel good
about the nominees, and you feel like, maybe we just
start having confirmation hearings to confirm voters results, because the
senators just look incompetent and the nominee ease looked competent.
But it was very partisan. It was very attacking. We're
going to do that in part two. Part one, let's
(07:06):
start with the tragedy over the Potomac with the President
in this statement, nothing.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Worse on behalf of the first lady myself and three
hundred and forty million Americans. Our hearts are shattered alongside yours,
and our prayers are with you now and in the
days to come. We'll be working very, very diligently. In
the days to come. We're here for you to wipe
away the tears and to offer you our devotion, our love,
and our support. There's great support in moments like this.
(07:34):
The differences between Americans pade to nothing compared to the
bonds of affection and loyalty that unite us all, both
as Americans and even as nations. We are one family,
and today we are all heartbroken.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
We're all searching for answers.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
That icy Potomac was a cold, cold night, cold water.
We're all overcome with the grief for many who have
so tragically perished will no longer be with us together.
We take solace in the knowledge at their journey ended
not in the cold waters of the Potomac, but in
the warm embrace of a loving God.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
We did not know what led.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
To this crash, but we have some very strong opinions
and ideas, and I think we'll probably state those opinions
now because over the years I've watched as things like
this happen and they say, well, we're always investigating, and
then the investigation.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Three years later they announced it.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
We think we have some pretty good ideas, but we'll
find out how this disaster occurred and will ensure.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I played that clip for two reasons. One, I want
you to hear the empathy, the compassion, the sympathy, it
was all there. He also at the end there gives
you a clue of why he did the rest of
what he did yesterday, because we often just this is
(09:04):
one thing I do like about Donald Trump. I'm not
big on victimhood. That's what we do very well and
have done very well since nine to eleven in America victimhood.
Something bad happens and we're victims, and then we all
mourn together, and then we're Boston strong, or we're New
(09:24):
York strong, or we're Los Angeles strong. No, I believe
in being victorious. There's something to be learned from all
of this, necessary to ensure it doesn't happen again or
over and over again. That was a pivot for Donald Trump.
(09:45):
I'm sick and tired of this. We'll get to the
bottom of it. Then you don't get to the bottom
of it. For three years, and by the time it happens,
four others have happened since then nobody even cares about
the findings. This gets back to my theory of the day,
which is, I think this president had heg seth on
on a screen. I think he had the NTSB across
from him, the FAA director across from him. Hey, look,
(10:06):
I know what I saw last night that didn't look right.
And then he starts getting debriefed, and it doesn't look
like an accident, an unexplainable accident. It looks like an
accident that was waiting to happen, and he got a
pretty clear vision of the incompetence that led to it.
(10:28):
And I think what the president is suggesting is I
can't follow the normal course of etiquette because there are
planes full of mothers and fathers and sons and daughters
and husbands and wives taken off and landing all day
to day, by the tens of thousands. I don't have
time to wait for this. Then we played this other
(10:49):
clip from the NTSB which tells me this came later
in the afternoon, And here is a reporter trying to
throw the president under the bus. How dare he jump
to a assumption of DEI this early when we have
no facts, and watch the NTSB's response. Unfortunately I didn't
hear the remarks.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
I was briefing House and Senate numbers at a belief chair,
which activated.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
As part of any investigation, we look at the human,
the machine, and the environment. So we will look at
all the humans that were involved in this accident. Again,
we will look at the aircraft, we will look at
the helicopter, we will look at the environment in which
they were operating in. That is part of that is
standard in any part of our investigation.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Notice she didn't say she didn't agree. She didn't even
give us a lecture on jumping to conclusions prematurely. And
I was watching it, I thought to myself, because you
were part of who briefed them. The reason the president's
on a rampage and is so angry is because of
the things that you were sharing. Perhaps the military was
sharing about what's been going on in these control towers
(11:58):
two years no training because of COVID. Then all that
we played these clips for you earlier, But the DEI
focus has all been on diversity and not necessarily the
highest qualified. This was a FAA recruitment video that kind
(12:24):
of shows you where their minds have been for quite
some time. Listen, this was Biden's FAA just two years ago.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
We need a diverse group of air traffic controllers to
bring distinct perspectives to handle the ever changing aerospace landscape.
I'm calling on students and alumni from HBCU's Hispanic serving
institutions and tribal collegists to apply.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Now, I don't care who applies from what, as long
as you meet the intelligence level, the psychological level. You
know that. This is what the President was saying all day,
but that didn't happen. In fact, there were lawsuits, and
you know, the President was briefed on this. Qualified people
applying for jobs and air traffic control towers denied jobs
(13:15):
because they didn't meet diversity qualifications, not job qualifications. And
when it came to DEI, they only met one percent
of their goals anyway, so they filled it both competence
and political correctness. My guess is the President was briefed
on all of that. We also talked about the black
(13:37):
boxes being recovered, that audio is not nearly as necessary.
This one tower staffing is. Listen, that's right.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
So the Reagan Airport air Traffic Control tower usually assigns
one controller to handle planes, another controller to handle helicopter traffic.
We are told by sources with knowledge that last night
they did not have two controllers able to do that,
so they had one controller handling both planes and shoppers.
(14:06):
That is allowed under the FAA standards, but it's not ideal,
and so that would potentially open up the questions about
were they properly staffed given the volume of traffic last
night here at the Reagan Airport operating zone and specifically
with helicopter traffic as it was.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
You know, Red said it this way. We're not talking
about flipping burgers and dropping fries. Some one of the
most stressful jobs on planet Earth, one of the most
mind taxing jobs. I'm planned that they literally die young.
You got one guy doing two on two different frequencies. Now,
(14:49):
you know. The President of the United States then turned
to the NTSB, into the FAA or you said, what's
the deal with this? Why why are we so understaffed. Oh,
that's not just a DCA, sir. We have understaffing across
across the country. I got more kids in the air
and it's dangerous. I got more mothers and fathers in
the air, and it's dangerous. Now in the world of
(15:11):
the matrix leapt versus right narrative over reality, the attacks
will be on the president jump into DEI conclusions. I
think he jumped to anything. I think his heart was
broken and when he met with leaders found out this
wasn't an accident. This was an accident waiting to happen,
and he knew the exact reasons. And he doesn't have
the time to wait.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
It's your morning show with Michael del Journo.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Some of your talkbacks from the talkback line. Wants your
voice to be heard on your morning show. And then
we'll get to sounds to day part two, the confirmation hearings.
If you're just waking up. Investigators working around the clock
to retrieve the wreckage of the two aircraft that collided
over the Potomac River. A preliminary FAA report revealed that
staffing at the air traffic control tower was not normal,
(15:57):
with one air traffic controller working two different tower positions
at the time of the crash. Wonder President Trump is
pointing to incompetence as part of the blame. I mean,
while the President says a twenty five percent tariff on
Canada and Mexico's coming as soon as tomorrow. The un
less part a little more vague, and I've never seen
(16:19):
a simple episode, but this will mean something to perhaps
millennials out there listening. Netflix is greenlit a reboot of
Little House on the Prairie. Never did see an episode
of that. Oh half finds back. But yeah, I'm Jim
Schultz in Tampa, and my morning show is your Morning
(16:40):
Show with Michael Giljana Hey.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
It's Michael reminding you that your morning show can be
heard live each weekday morning five to eighth Central, six
to nine Eastern in great cities like Nashville, Tennessee two below,
Mississippi and Sacramento, California. Love to be a part of
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Speaker 2 (17:02):
Work with you.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
But better late than never.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
We're grateful you're here. Now, enjoy the podcast. CNN has
just released probably the most conclusive video yet. Like the
other videos, much closer, making it even more difficult to watch,
but a lot more revealing about angles. We'll get to
that in a second. Can't have your morning show without
your voice, right, Let's start with Perry. Perry listening on
(17:27):
WLAC in Nashville. Hey, Michael Perry here again.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
If you haven't already seen it, go check out what
that liberal idiot hack, Phil Williams that used Channel five
had to say about what occurred in President Trump with
this tragic accident.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
You show, buddy, keep it up, thank you. You know, obviously,
if you're outraged that the President brought up d DEI
because you think that was premature and presumptive, aren't you
being premature and presumptive assuming you know more than the
President of the United States. That's what looked ridiculous to me.
(18:04):
Does Phil Williams know about what happened? How does Phil
Williams know? It isn't DEI? The President of the United
States was up all night getting to the bottom of
this because he didn't like the way the video looked,
and then dealing with his Secretary of Defense, dealing at
the Pentagon, with the military getting to the bottom of
what happened on their end, then with the FAA chair,
(18:26):
and then with the NTSB. He gets all this information.
He might know more than you. I think that played
out yesterday. I think the president's day started with how
the hell did this happen? And I think it ended
with it's a miracle it didn't happen sooner. That's how
I think his day went. And he doesn't have the
(18:47):
luxury of waiting months or years, not with all of
us taking off and landing every day, and so I
think he sees the moment. I think he was emotionally
very upset at the loss of life. I get it.
I was looking at pictures of these kids' faces early
(19:08):
yesterday morning before I could even report them. It's very,
very upsetting. The president was very emotionally raw. And then
I think he was infuriated when he started getting answers
and you got one of two choices. Let it play
out because the facts are going to lead to that.
I said, the most turning point of my day. I
(19:29):
read a text earlier I literally shared to something. I
don't know what the President's doing. I wouldn't have gone here,
but by the end of the day I was there.
And when I watched the NTSB as the leftist meeting
was trying to throw the president under the bus stand
by the president, I was like, oh my gosh, they're
the ones that brief the president. Their protocols don't allow
(19:52):
him to say anything. The President's saying it. And now
look at where we're at today. A day before a
jet aircraft had to abort landing to avoid a helicopter.
Air traffic staffing already the NTSB is announced was at
an abnormal level bottom line shortage bottom bottom line one
(20:19):
traffic controller, not two, handling helicopters and planes on two
different frequencies. The Blackhawk itself was above its two hundred
foot ceiling. Problem one, Problem two was off course. And
when you changed that flight to land on thirty three
instead of one, it's got to go to the right
(20:40):
of the river, and it's got to make a sharp
turn to the left to land on thirty three, which
is right where the helicopter was. Now, the new angle
that CNN released five minutes ago really tough to watch.
You're close and you're watching this plane in a deep
descenteconds before making landing, and you just watching this helicopter
(21:03):
rise right up into it, night goggles, off course, above ceiling.
I don't know what. I've never flown a black Hawk.
I don't know how you don't see a plane you're
flying directly into. I don't care what goggles you're wearing.
It's right in front of them. I don't know how
(21:25):
the pilots couldn't see they were flying right into a helicopter.
I mean they literally were face to face. That'll be
tough for you to watch. My observation. Neither made any movement,
(21:46):
neither was warned, neither noticed and made any sudden movement
to try to avoid They just go right into each other.
Very difficult to watch. So in light of all that,
who care is with some investigative reporter way out of
his league is commenting on it a national story? All right?
Next up is James. Good morning, Michael and Crewe.
Speaker 10 (22:09):
These confirmation hearings have nothing to do with the candidates.
They're all about the Democrats twenty twenty eight presidential aspirations.
They're trying to get out their soundbites that they can
use for their campaigns.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
That's why they're making fools of themselves.
Speaker 10 (22:23):
They have no common sense and they have nothing else
to run on, so all they want to do is
just make their talking points.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Hopefully they can get on the top of the ticket.
Keep up the work, Michael. They're definitely playing their talking
points and narratives in opposition. I don't think it's going
to work. On any of them, and I think they
all got upstaged. That's really been the reality, the quality
of these nominees to stand up to these games. It's
so obvious to the naked eye, these are not Americans.
(22:57):
I mean, my gosh, don't you want to get all
the cabinet members approved? Didn't yesterday prove prove we got
a lot of work to do. America needs this leadership
in place more than ever for the good of the
country and the safety of its people. And they're playing
these games. I don't think Bernie Andrews is running for presidents.
I want to accuse him of what you're saying. But
(23:19):
does he look as smart as RFK Junior on a
particular topic hardly.
Speaker 11 (23:25):
If we want to make America healthy, will you assure
the American people that you will fight to do what
every other major country on Earth does guarantee healthcare?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Do every single American?
Speaker 12 (23:39):
I'm going to make America healthier than other countries in
the world right now.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
Will you guarantee do what every other major country does.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
It's a simple question.
Speaker 12 (23:48):
And by the way, Bernie, you know, the problem of
corruption is not just in the federal agents, is in Congress.
To almost all the members of this panel are except
including yourself, or accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh, no, protecting their interests. Oh, I thought that that
would go. No. Know, I ran for president like you.
Speaker 11 (24:13):
I got millions, millions of contributions. They did not come
from the executives, not one nickel of pack money from
the pharmaceutical leaders.
Speaker 12 (24:23):
They came to work twenty twenty. In twenty twenty, you
were the single largest.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
Because I received a pharmaceutic from minations from workers all
over this country.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
We need a confirmation hearing from Bernie Sanders. So, oh,
it didn't come from the CEO. It came from the workers.
As if packs don't know, as if CEOs don't know
how to use worker contributions and promotion of worker counter
I mean, I know Bernie was ninety years ago, but
(24:55):
the rest of us weren't born yesterday. Cash Betel, I
got to settle down for this earlier because I said
that this guy shows up at my door with sandals.
It says follow me. I leave my family and follow him.
There is no one, no one we need more, no
one I want more than Cash Battel, the head the FBI,
and we've watched I mean, Hexath played a cool and
(25:16):
classy Pam BONDI went out swinging cash. Battel was like
the perfect balance of both. If you wanted to be intelligent,
if you wanted to have some class, he'd have a conversation.
You wanted to be an idiot, he'd slap you right back.
(25:36):
And if you're looking for an idiot to slap, you
never have to look much further than Amy Kobajar. Here
we go. He shut down. Mister deserve an answer to
that question.
Speaker 13 (25:45):
He asked me to be head of the FBI, and
he said that their headquarters should be shut down.
Speaker 12 (25:50):
Mister Chair Parliamentary Inquiry, You got anything you want to say,
mister Pattel before I go on to center early.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Oh, I could listen to these kinds of responses all
day this.
Speaker 14 (26:04):
If the best attacks on me are going to be
false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations. The only thing this body
is doing is defeating the credibility of.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
The men and women at the FBI.
Speaker 14 (26:14):
I stood with them here in this country, in every
theater of war we have.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I was on the ground in service of.
Speaker 15 (26:20):
This nation and any accusations leveled against me that I
would somehow put political buyas before the Constitution are grotesquely unfair.
And I will have you reminded that I have been
endorsed by over three hundred thousand law enforcement officers to
become the next director of the FBI.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Let's ask them. Mister an Indian from Uganda who's been
in theater of war as three hundred thousand law enforcement endorsements,
they're trying to portray him as racist and anti cop.
We could go wrong there, Chairman.
Speaker 13 (26:57):
I am quoting his own words alone from September of
twenty twenty four. It is his own words. It is
not some conspiracy. It is what mister Pateel actually said.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Himself, completely out of context. I don't know where her
one hundred and one dulmatis are, but Tulsey Gabbart appeared,
I thought in her opening remarks this was chilling.
Speaker 16 (27:21):
Listen now, before I close, I want to warn the
American people who are watching at home. You may hear
lies and smears in this hearing that will challenge my
loyalty to and my love for our country. Those who
oppose my nomination imply that I am loyal to something
or someone other than God, my own conscience, and the
(27:42):
Constitution of the United States, accusing me of being Trump's puppet,
Putin's puppet, Assad's puppet, a Guru's puppet, Mody's puppet, not
recognizing the absurdity of simultaneously being the puppet of five
different puppet masters. The same tactic was used against President
(28:02):
Trump and failed. The American people elected President Trump with
a decisive victory and mandate for change. The fact is
what truly unsettles my political opponents is I refuse to
be their puppet.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Oooh, How brilliant isn't it to acknowledge what they're about
to do before they do it? How brilliant is it
to reveal what they really fear most about all of
these candidates, That's tough for the American people to decide.
I don't know that any of them are going to
have any problem getting confirmed. I guess you would probably
(28:38):
point to Tulsa Gabbard as being the closest call, but
Collins seems to be the deciding vote, and she seemed
pretty pleased with how the questioning went between her and
Telsa Gabbard. No sign of the Dalmatians but again another
impressive performance by all the nominees. Another discussing display, a
(29:01):
partisan attack by partisan senators. Listen, I hope you made
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(30:50):
morning show with Michael del Chorna. What a tragic day
for the skating world between the mid air collision and
crash in DC and the passing of dig But Scott
Hamilton OLYMPICOD medal still join us next half hour to
talk about the loss to the skating world. Meanwhile, investigators
working around the clock to retrieve the wreckage. Two new
(31:12):
pieces of footage have come forward much closer, a much
more vivid view of the angles and the collision mid air. Meanwhile,
a preliminary FAA report revealed that staffing at the air
traffic control tower was not normal, understaffed, with one traffic
controller working two different tower positions at the same time
(31:33):
of the crash. President Trump saying incompetence may be to
blame for the crash. Meanwhile, at twenty five percent tariff
on Canada and Mexico is looming tomorrow. Unless Rory O'Neill
is our national correspondent joining us covering these two top stories,
is there a none less for Canada well, and for Mexico.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
There's still time and maybe a deal can be hammered
out before we impose these tariffs.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Twenty tariffs on Mexico and Canada that could.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Really cause the prices of fruits and vegetables to go up.
Liquor good luck getting tequila cheap, right, depending on how
things go here?
Speaker 2 (32:11):
But is this just a bargaining tactic.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
President Trump has said he wants Canada and Mexico to
do more to stop the flow of illegal immigrants into
the US and to stop the flow of drugs like ventanyl.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
He also did make it I don't know if you
were watching. I think you know, no matter who you are,
you gotta love that this president's at work every day.
You may not like what he's saying, depending on your
partisan view, but he's definitely at work every day. There's
no mystery as to where this guy is and what
he's doing. But I noticed in when he brought the
press in as he was signing the memorandum on the
air traffic control as well as other things, he made
(32:47):
a comment specifically about China and cheap China vehicles coming
in from Mexico. You and I think I think it
was you or me and Decker. We had talked about this.
I think that's a hot button. The fentanyl has an mad.
I think the allowing illegals in to the South and
the North has them mad. And I think that on
(33:08):
the back burner is those Chinese cheap electric vehicles. I
think I know what his motives are. I don't know
what he expects them to do to cave well.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Right, because there are big tariffs. I think tariffs on
Chinese electric vehicles coming into the US.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
That's the current rule that was under Biden.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
And the concern is China is building our plants in Mexico.
To skirt that tariff, and maybe that's the strategy. Maybe
he's trying to stop that again, maybe that's just part
of the negotiation, because yes, the tariffs are supposed to
be implemented tomorrow, but it's a long time between now
and then.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
You brainstorm tequila pretty fast. That one comes to mind.
I was shocked. I want to ask, and I want
to shut up, and I'm gonna hear your answer. Were
you shocked at how much we did learn yesterday? Because
that was a lot.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
It's unbelievable we knew so much an hour after it happened.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
I was shocked. No.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
And then the fact that the weather conditions were pretty
good other than being cold, but not as bad coals
that had been. You know, they were able to recover
a lot of the bodies in about eight feet of
water there in the Potomac icy Potomac. I shouldn't mention no, So,
I mean, the response has been pretty incredible to be
able to get this much information so quickly. But you know,
(34:28):
let's let's try to end the speculation at this point.
As we heard from the NTSP, this is going to
be a long, slow investigation.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
They're orange, but they call them black boxes. The two
black boxes from the plane have been retrieved. There is
no such technology in the helicopter. And the NTSP came
out and did say that that there was an understaffing issue,
and in particular one person handling you know, both helicopters
and planes on two different frequencies at once. This is
(34:56):
is possible, but not ideal by any stretch, and I
still think we need Have you seen these new angles
that CNN just released. That's that's a pretty vivid view
of what exactly happened, but it makes it harder to understand, Yeah,
how they didn't see how did that happen?
Speaker 4 (35:12):
You know, and especially with the new video, like wait,
how did you not see that?
Speaker 2 (35:17):
It's yeah, and then I get back to the changing
to runway thirty three as well. All right, well, if
that's how much we learned surprisingly yesterday, what might we
know throughout the day. We're all in this together. This
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