Patel: I also believe America is not safer because President Biden's commutation of a man who murdered two FBI agents.
Durbin: Leonard Peltier was imprisoned for forty-five years. He's eighty years old, and he was sentenced to home confinement, so he's not free as you just suggested.
Patel: He killed two FBI agents. That's unacceptable.
Patel is more qualified than Wray to be FBI director.
Whitehouse: You said FBI agents were responsible for the violence on January 6th, and I quote you, "beyond a reasonable doubt". Is that what you said?
Patel: That's completely incorrect, and I appreciate the opportunity ti address that.
Whitehouse: I''ll give you an opportunity in writing, but this is my time now.
Kash pointed out Klobuchar was over time, and Grassley stopped her; she continued. kek
Klobuchar appears hungover and is unglued.
President Trump: The work has now shifted to a recovery mission. Sadly, there are no survivors.
President Trump: Together, we take solace in the knowledge that their journey ended, not in the cold waters of the Potomac, but in the warm embrace of a loving God.
President Trump: Only the highest aptitude, to be the highest intellect, and psychologically superior people, were allowed to qualify for air traffic controllers, that was no so prior to getting there, when I arrived in 2016. I made that change very early on, because I always felt this was a job that had to be superior intelligence…and then when left office, and Biden took over, he changed them back to lower than ever before. I put safety first. Obama, Biden, and the democrats put policy first. And they put politics at a level that nobody's ever seen. Because this was the lowest level. Their policy was horrible, and their politics was even worse….I signed something last week that was an executive order, very powerful, and restored the high standards of air traffic controllers, and others, by the way.
President Trump: They put a big push to put diversity onto the FAA's program.
President Trump: Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring, the FAA's website states. They include, hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism, all qualified for the position of a controller of airplanes pouring into our country, pouring into a little spot, a little dot on the map, with a little runway. The initiative is part of the FAA's diversity and inclusion hiring plan.
President Trump: We don't know that necessarily it's even a controllers fault, but one thing we do know, there was a lot of vision, and people should have been able to see that; at what point to you stop it? At what point do you say wow, that plane is getting a little bit close?
President Trump: Routine, annual retraining of night flights, on a standard corridor, for a continuity of government mission.
Sorry- that was Secretary Hegseth.
Defense Secretary Hegseth: Routine, annual retraining of night flights, on a standard corridor, for a continuity of government mission.
President Trump: I've given you the analysis, and the analysis was, it was based on vision. You had a lot of people that saw what was happening, you had some people that knew what was happening. There was some warnings, but the warnings were given very, very late. Those warning were given very late. It was almost as they were given, a few seconds later, there was a crash…the people in the helicopter should have seen where they were going. I can't imagine people with twenty/twenty vision not seeing what's happening up there.
Reporter: I'm trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash.
President Trump: Because I have common sense, and unfortunately, a lot of people don't We want brilliant people doing this. This a major chessgame, at the highest level.