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investigation is deepening about the deadly crash between and american airlines commuter jet and army helicopter and who was working inside the air traffic control tower. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." different looks from the midair collision near reagan national airport in d.c. the we see the explosion on flight 5342 and the blackhawk helicopter crashing into each other. you've got that circled and lit up for you. federal investigators are working to determine the cause and say it could take some time. growing images and the public thinks it can get transparency faster under the trump administration. we're getting to see that. look at the pictures on your screen there. national transportation safety board has the data recorders from the plane. >> we are starting the process of not only opening those up but

to begin the extraction of the data, which is a good start to being able to put together one of the many pieces of this puzzle. the preliminary report will be out in 30 days. in the cases of these major investigations it will take a year if not more for us to come to a final probable cause. we make recommendations so we don't have tragedies like this again in the future. >> harris: while we wait for them to do their jobs and find the answers we learn more about the people who perished from this unthinkable tragedy. three soldiers inside the blackhawk helicopter. 64 passengers on crew on the computer jet flown under american eagle. a newly engaged pilot union member student, all figure skarts, coaches and families who had been at a camp in wichita, kansas, tight night community there is in morning. >> they have such a drive and passion for the sport and they really loved what they did.

>> it has been nothing short of just unbelievable devastation. >> we just wish them well and the families, the courage and strength to make the next steps. i don't know how, you look at people go through tragedies and wonder how they do it. it will take time. look beside you, there is somebody that cares and tell people around you that you love them because you just never know. >> harris: we'll get into the investigation obviously. fox team coverage on the developing story. the human element in all of this is so important. cb cotton is with me on the victims in a moment. first mark meredith reporting from d.c. mark. >> good morning to you. we're waiting to find out if and when we get another update from the ntsb and other investigators. they are meeting with the families of the victims we were just talking about today and likely they will provide an update after ward and a lot of moving pieces. whether or not there was adequate staffing in the control

tower. that's one piece of the puzzle. also looking at so many other factors. president trump has been weighing in in realtime to this disaster including a post on truth social earlier today he said the blackhawk helicopter was flying too high bay lot. far above the 200 foot limit. not too complicated to understand, is it? thursday the president appointed a new head of the faa directing the government to review all federal aviation hiring decisions. more video evidence continues to come in to understand how it unfolded. overnight there were two key pieces of evidence from the jet. the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder now at a government lab for evaluation. our understanding there is an effort to retrieve the black box from the military helicopter that they know where it is but you can imagine it is difficult to reach given the situation.

capitol hill lawmakers are talking about holding hearings to determine what happened and what can be done to prevent it. some lawmakers argue the skies over washington, d.c. are far too crowded. >> there was an effort to add more flights into an already over burdened runway we fought very hard against and we brought up our concern that an event like this would happen. and when i got the news last night, i don't know, i haven't been as angry as i've been in a very long time. >> certainly a lot of emotions from everyone involved including here down in the d.c. area. for folks on the water today it is a tough day to be out there. weather behind me is brutal. winds picking up. heavy rain and could complicate efforts to get the debris out of there. it is a process they're trying to get done to allow the airport to get back to regular operations and give families clash. >> harris: i have heard you reporting and knew it would be

the case as the weather moves in. some of the debris is moving from the original location. it will be much harder under those conditions. mark meredith, thank you. learning more about the 67 people who were killed in this terrible tragedy. cb cotton is here with more on the human side of all this. their story. >> which is so important. this midair collision was one of the deadliest crashes for our country in decades. some victims were just starting adult lives. others mothers and fathers and many were children or teenagers. here are just some of the 67 victims. you can see some of them are crew members of the american airlines flight. other ohs figure skaters and their family members who had just attended the national figure skating championship and development camp in wichita, kansas. other returning from family, business or school trips. two of the people here were army soldiers piloting the blackhawk helicopter. the skating club of boston spoke

out about their young skaters and coaches who perished including spencer lane who posted this photo showing the wing of the american airlines flight on the tarmac before the flight took off. two sisters from another skate club both of them and their parents died. wendy schaefer leaves behind two children just one and three years old. her husband telling fox she was the best wife, mother, and friend anyone could ever hope for. kaya was a law professor at howard university. her friends posting on social media with so many memories about her time in the miss kansas pageant. learning more about ryan o'hara one of the blackhawk pilots whose former military instructor is still stunned. >> immediately reached out to

the parents and -- sat and stared at a blank tv screen all yesterday morning. >> this tragedy touches every corner of our country. a kansas based hunting club posted about seven of its members who died in the crash. it seems we're learning more about the victims every single hour. we'll bring it to our viewers. >> harris: some of it we see play out on social media especially among that tight ice skating community. great job, thank you very much for bringing that human element. it's important. in "focus" now retired navy captain, a search and rescue expert. if you could tell me what it means today to get even one of those black boxes. what is on them? >> good morning, harris, certainly this is an awful tragedy. it is hitting hard back home. the black boxes are a wealth of information and you won't just be looking at the last ten, 15, 20 seconds of flight.

you will look all the way from engine startup. even things that you may not think might be a condition of this mishap but were the engines operating normally, was the gps operating normally, were all displays working. the last control inputs the pilots did. all this information will break down and the ntsb, faa will build in a very detailed second by second picture of the trajectories of both of these aircraft using that and also the tapes and information from air traffic control and the tower to build a full picture of what exactly happened and then get down to it. those black boxes will be vital to prevent this from happening again. >> harris: i am wondering about the notice that people on board, particularly that passenger jet, would have had, what they could have seen. i know that from your many hours in the sky it is sometimes hard to make out what you are looking

at. there were lights on both those aircraft. >> certainly. if you look at the perspective of the aircraft coming down it is hard to determine from the video the dark light video that we actually see, but your vision will be shielded seeing that helicopter coming down. the aircraft moved into where the helicopter was. whose fault it was we have to figure that out. and from the helicopter's flight crew perspective even though they have basically a head of them and above them so they can see out the aircraft i doubt they would have seen the american airlines aircraft even looking in the right direction until a few seconds before the mishap occurred. i don't see how the pilots could have seen the helicopter below them considering the aspect of the nose of the aircraft. >> harris: i know you mentioned your own personal connection with all of this as well. being a pilot your other

personal connection with all this and professional one is the the potomac too busy? when i was there just days ago for the inauguration, when you fly in that is a really particularly crowded airspace and i fly out of new york on a regular basis. >> at first glance it might seem to be too busy. with the advances of technology that we have with gps computer and flight control systems in the aircraft you can pack more aircraft into a smaller piece -- the same amount of airspace safely. i would submit to you that air travel today is safer than it was 30 or 40 years ago. it is very precise. you would be amazed what can be done today. the amount of air traffic -- >> harris: i was going to say it does depend on the human element in all of this. i have to let you go. before i do. the air traffic control palm

opponentent of this. what a fantastic job those people do in the towers and there are never enough of them. they do so much. that would matter in this, too, i imagine. >> a shortage of air traffic controllers. they are retiring too early. that needs to be changed. very valuable research. if you want a job there the road is clear for you to take that job. >> harris: i have time to say which contract was that? >> the patco contract. >> harris: terrific. thank you for your time and we'll bring you back. political drama and intense questioning during confirmation hearings for three of trump's most controversial cabinet picks. did kash patel, rfk, jr. and tulsi gabbard do enough to get across the line? they were doing a lot. democrats had their hands full. a new era of immigration enforcement has arrived. >> the president promised the american people he was going to

do this. they gave him a mandate. now he is doing it. that's how democratic politics in this country works and thank god for that. >> harris: immigration customs enforcement raids keep rounding up illegal immigrants across the country. looking to boot out the worst first, violent criminals. those who have been deported, they want to get them out. more democrat sanctuary city mayors say they will not cooperate with president trump's administration. paul mauro in "focus" next. inez, let me ask you, you're using head and shoulders, right? only when i see flakes. then i switch back to my regular shampoo. you should use it every wash, otherwise the flakes will come back. —he's right, you know. is that tiny troy? the ingredients in head and shoulders keep the microbes that cause flakes at bay. microbes, really? they're always on your scalp... but good news, there's no itchiness, dryness or flakes down here! i love tiny troy. and his tiny gorgeous hair. make every wash count! and for stubborn dandruff, try head & shoulders clinical strength.

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>> harris: president trump's promise to arrest and deport the worst of us who broke into our nation. the big challenge working with

democrats with the job of deporting the worst first. who would do that? they are. customs and enforcement, immigration on the job from new york to chicago, denver to los angeles. ice reporting making more than 1,000 arrests on wednesday of this week alone. new york city mayor eric adams signaled he will play ball with the enforcement actions. he appears to be the lone exception among so many sanctuary city mayors. >> our police officers will not be cooperating with federal law enforcement around federal immigration law. >> federal government can implement their laws and we are not forced to participate in their actions. >> what this administration is attempting to do, he is attempting to get us to surrender our humanity and we're not going to do that in chicago. >> harris: we want you to turn over the criminals. two different things.

acting deputy attorney general beau fired back. we'll use all available tools to address obstruction and other unlawful impediments to our efforts to protect the homeland. most importantly we will not rest until the work is done. in "focus" now paul mauro, fox news contributor, attorney and retired nypd inspector. look, this is now going on in the very backyard that you used to protect. how important is it that these mayors work with the administration? >> vitally important. of course the obstruction is what you really can't countenance here and bold is saying we'll use every tool. i see two ways they can go with this. one is a little more coercive than the other. task forces. we have offer 200 task forces in america including over joint terrorist tasks forces. why does that matter? when you federalize a local task force he becomes a federal agent. this goes on all the time.

even here in new york city which by statute is a sanctuary city and when adams says he will cooperate he is somewhat constrained. it is the law in new york city. he can only do so much. that said there is a carve-out for task force members, local cops on the task force can enforce federal law. donald trump in some of his rallies, with tom homan they will be setting up task forces, the local cops can do it by law. if they don't go along with it. if you don't help us on task forces we won't help you. you are only your own for terrorism and other issues. you have a lit leverage. the other thing if you obstruct federal law has supremacy overstate law. in some instances we're getting into areas of obstruction. some officials have talked about helping illegals change their names to avoid, etc. you can do things like detainer might not be enough.

warrants, start working the courts. go in, get a warrant from a federal judge. you go into the locals and say you have this guy in jail and we want him. they don't produce him, they are defying that warrant. now all of a sudden you are in a situation where officials at the local level may start to get locked up for obstruction. these are the kinds of things the feds are talking about. i hate to see it come to this but it might. >> harris: "new york post" writes dems scream racism but minorities scream okay. what these americans actually want is safer neighborhoods and less crime. we found that out on november 5th. >> we did. that's why so much of the blue constituency shifted to the left, every vote -- shift evidence to the right. every voting demographic on the left shifted to the right. i know people on that raid.

that story is not sen stationalized. the locals were very happy to see these people rounded up for deportation. these are not -- these are people who are child traffickers, murderers, rapist. worst of the worst. many are organized. they have a structure behind them from the mexican cartels and tren de aragua. you want that in your neighborhood? of course you don't. what is happy with it are the people who don't have to deal with it. >> harris: the part we drilled down on those people living as migrants in this country, who are wanting citizenship and want to go through the right way of doing it are the first place where these illegals go, the bad criminals go because they can press on that and out some people. they know that some of those people crossed the border illegally and aren't committing crimes, what tom homan and president trump want now are the worst first. they will turn on their own people. we know about the torturing that

has been going on. >> that's right. look what happens inside the migrant shelters. who runs them in many instances? migrant gangs. they target the most vulnerable, women and children. why there are 300,000 kids m.i.a. someplace in this country thanks to this trafficking and why prostitution run right out of the human trafficking running right out of the migrant centers that we're funding. that's why it is such a problem and tda, a prison gang and know how to do this stuff. the only people i saw doing this kind of work was nypd was breasting on this. where the federal government was for four years i would like to know. homan and the rest of the gang are not standing for this. >> harris: neither are you. i'm glad you stopped by. you are connected to these communities as a former leader in many ways, and current leader. president trump tackling the issues in our nation's education system head on. three executive orders this week

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>> harris: president trump wants to overhaul our nation's education system and deliver this week with three executive

orders. one of them is all about school choice and the white house will host a round table on the hot button issue less than an hour from now. some participants in today's round table are governors from texas, louisiana, tennessee, virginia and arkansas. arkansas governor sarah sanders is in "focus" now. first of all, welcome and i want to know how you were anticipating this would happen? did you envision it would come by executive order? >> you know, when it comes to working with president trump, you don't always know how it will happen but you know he will get the job done. couldn't be more excited to be back here, have somebody in this building, in this white house that believes in our country, is willing to fight for our country and do what is necessary to shake things up and get some real transformational change brought about from coast to coast and exactly what we've seen from donald trump since he stepped in just a few days ago. >> harris: these numbers i want to run by you. you know them well.

40% of fourth graders in our nation read below a basic level. 33% of eighth graders reading below a basic level. with all of those years in between them, they are not learning much more. we are not succeeding with our children. >> you know, we've seen a significant decline. in fact, if you look at some of the test scores that were released in the last couple of days, often referred to as the nation's report card for the first time in two decades we've seen a decline in student test scores. i think there are several things that are at play. i think one unrestricted access to smartphones and social media has had a tremendous impact on our students. and certainly our youngest students. one of the reasons that we have been talking about and trying to raise awareness of that. one of the other things is we know i'm a mom, i have three kids. they all three learn differently. i know that they each need different things in order to be

successful. so trying to shove someone size fits all down everybody's throat will never work. you see so many states around the country start to open up parental choice, universal school choice. it got passed in tennessee yesterday. something we did in the first few months of my administration. when donald trump took office there wasn't a single state in the country that had school choice. now there are more than a dozen and growing by the day because he is empowering states and empowering parents to take control of their kids' education again. >> harris: we have on our screen right now and we can come back to this. i want to go back to what the governor was just mentioning. we have a map. 12 states with universal school choice. montana, indiana, oaf owe, west vir virginia, oklahoma, alabama have at least one private school choice program that is

universally accessible k-12 students in that states. state on their own have had to ignite this necessarily. >> unfortunately it has been left to the states but that is not the case anymore. we saw president trump sign an executive order, convened people from all over the country at the white house today. we now have somebody who is going to champion american families and do so by empowering parents to make the best decision possible about where and how they can be educated. republican governors have had to have that fight on their own for the last four years. we no longer have to do that by ourselves. we have somebody in the white house that not only is going to fight by us but lead the charge and help make sure we get the job done in the best and most important beneficiaries will be students and kids across the country. >> harris: when you talk with people in large urban areas like new york city or my county in new jersey, which is huge, when you talk to parents who are

financially struggling, they will say everybody thinks we don't want choice and we'll take whatever they give us. they don't feel that way. they like the idea of okay, can i have access? that accessibility and let me figure out how i get my child to this place or that place. >> no child should ever be trapped in a failing school simply because of their zip code. that's exactly what this president is doing. he is removing those barriers and making sure that every kid in america has a pathway to prosperity by giving parents a choice about where their kids go to school. they will finally have all the tools and resources they need to the pave their own path. it doesn't matter where you start in america, you get to decide where you will finish. we have a president now who understands that and fight for it and make everybody has the opportunity to experience it. >> harris: that's what true equality is. one more set of numbers and also i want to hear from someone. american federation of teachers

president randi weingarten is going after trump's school choice order saying this plan is a direct attack on all that parents and families hold dear. it is a hand fisted recycled and likely illegal scheme to diminish choice and deny classroom resources to have tax cuts for billionaires. the number in low proverb insee in reading and math. what is she watching? the only people at war are from the left fighting to protect a failed broken system and the status quo. why would our numbers continue to go down and keep putting money into something that clearly isn't working? thankfully this is a president who is not going to do that. we see that in every action he has taken since stepping back into this white house is he is going to shake things up. he is certainly not going to do business as usual. that's a good thing for our country. it is what we needed. it is why he got elected and why

there is so much optimism in the country right now. >> harris: as moms, we know the power of telling our children all things are possible. and now you have to put some might behind that and show that the whole country values these kids. all right, good to see you, governor. you have the round table coming up. thank you for stopping by to "focus." >> thanks for having me. >> harris: the search for answers continues in the devastating midair crash over washington, d.c. a civilian airline colliding with a military helicopter. a closer look from the pentagon side of this. plus three of president trump's most controversial cabinet picks are facing confirmation hearings. it played out much of it yesterday and it was pretty intense at points. >> i want you to turn around. there are capitol police officer behind you. >> that's a lie and you know it. i have never, never, ever accepted violence against law enforcement.

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>> harris: we know from mark meredith reporting now that rain and clouds and windy conditions have moved in over the potomac river. the search continues. this is after wednesday's midair collision of an army helicopter and american eagle flight 5342. that's an american airlines commuter flight. the uh-60 blackhawk was on a

routine night training flight from a for the 20 miles from d.c. the pilot had more than 500 hours of flight time and she was training with an instructor who had more than 1,000 hours. it is said that the route they were on was familiar and routine. president trump and defense secretary pete hegseth both say they believe the helicopter may have been flying at too high an altitude. retired four star general jack keane. >> another airplane has no business flying into the landing path of an aircraft at an airfield. that's obvious. listen, i have a lot of faith in the ntsb and military accident investigation. i spent almost four decades involved with aviation accidents. they get to the bottom of this and understand what happened. the second thing that is very valuable is they do make sound recommendations on how to

mitigate this in the future. >> harris: the general nailed it as he always done. we have to keep this from happening again. senior national correspondent rich edson is at the pentagon. >> that process is ongoing at the pentagon as well with the investigation ongoing, president trump posted on social media this morning quote, the blackhawk helicopter was flying too high by a lot. it was far above the 200 foot limit. that's not really too complicated to understand, is it? defense secretary pete hegseth says investigators are looking into if the blackhawk was too high or off course. right now they don't quite know. the pentagon described tuesday's blackhawk flight as part of routine nighttime training taking the pilot through airspace they would have to fly as part of their job. >> there are many things that happen in and around the capital that insure in an emergency our government is able to continue to operate. what happened in this particular instance was one of those types

of flights. you need to tan as you fight and rehears in ways to reflect a real world scenario. >> hegseth says the pentagon has paused this specific exercise. in his con mirmation hearing yesterday the president's nominee for army secretary dan driscoll suggests the military should examine whether to move the training flights away from d.c.'s commercial airspace. chief warrant officer andrew eaves was aboard the hawk, his wife confirmed that. an instructor with 1,000 hours of flight time. fox atlanta says staff sergeant ryan o'hara was the crew chief, marched and had a 1-year-old son. we're still waiting on confirmation of the third soldier aboard that blackhawk. back to you. >> harris: the female pilot. yes, rich, thank you.

florida republican congressman brian mast chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. i'm curious because of your military background. so much you can bring to us with that perspective now, what you are particularly watching for. >> i am curious about how many were supposed to be on board that blackhawk as well in their normal training conditions or normal operating conditions. when you think about the question of how many people were in the air traffic control tower rick it matters how many were in that bird. everybody in the birds are not just along for the ride. they are sensors to what is going on. what other traffic in the area constantly looking around for anything that might be in their pattern whether a bird or another aircraft or something that indicates they were flying too low that the pilot didn't see. another question to me as well how many were in the bird and how many were in the tower. >> harris: we know three were inside that helicopter. what does that teal tell you? >> it was a little light. i would have expected there would have been a crew of four

to five. >> harris: wow. let's get to this. more from defense secretary pete hegseth who was on with our "fox & friends" crew this morning talking about military training. >> we're not going to stop training. there is a pause on this unit on this exercise, an important one and we should have that pause until we get to the bottom of this. we have to train. there are ways to do that that mitigate risk and our job at the defense department to make sure we are mitigating rift. train as robustly and safely as possible to insure, if unfortunately there were a real world event where things needed to happen, we could respond to it. >> harris: so chairman mast, it is interesting that you bring up the point did you have the right amount of people inside the helicopter. hegseth brings up the point were they doing training the way it needed to be done. all of this is painting what

picture as we go forward in terms of collecting information for the investigation? >> it is. we are going to have all these questions until we can put the puzzle pieces together from audio reportings from the blackhawk and from the tower and from the airliner on any visual surveillance that may have taken place anywhere in the flight paths from cameras that would have been in the flight paths. until we get all the puzzle pieces together we have to keep asking the questions. ntsb will do that. in the house of representatives i sit on the transportation infrastructure committee as well. that will be doing oversight of this and you can believe the armed services committee will have oversights. we have americans and american soldiers killed. >> harris: moving forward an the airspace issue. not the only place where you see military and civilian aircraft sharing airspace around the

airport. wherever they're stationed. sometimes you will see the big national guard planes off to the right as you are landing or the left, wherever the hangars are. this is not uncommon. does that change in the future? >> i don't know it changes. we don't want the civilian space to be treated like a battlefield training ground necessarily. that's not a danger that civilians need to be put in. for those in service we deal with taking small arms and large arms fire from the ground, air to air combat in different ways that could take place in the real combat scenarios. it doesn't mean the civilian population needs to be exposed to that. it has talked about that the particular approach to dca in washington, d.c. is a little bit hairier than others when you consider that those aircraft can't fly over the white house or the pentagon or the capitol or other places. it is a very unique approach compared to many airports out there. >> harris: you always get right to the point. i love that and i totally get

what you are saying. that's important. >> you're in focus. >> harris: my dad used to say the same thing how close you were to the potomac when he was flying in and out when he was at the pentagon. it was difficult then for that airspace and you add now more traffic, more people decades later and it certainly is now. i want to talk to you about some of the stuff that happened on capitol hill yesterday. it got really dramatic. three of president trump's most controversial cabinet choices had confirmation hearings as you know, rfk, jr., f.b.i. director nominee kash patel and tulsi gabbard for director of national intelligence. a taste. >> the problem of corruption is not just in the federal ag agencies, it is in congress, too. >> no, no, no, i thought that would -- no, no, no i ran for president like you. >> in 2020 you were the single largest --

>> because i had >> largest sever of pharmaceutical money. >> workers, not a nickel from corporate. >> you were the single largest accepter of pharmaceutical dollars. >> i want you to turn around. capitol police officers behind you. proud you raised money out of people that assaulted their colleagues, that pepper sprayed them. that beat them with polls. >> that's an abject lie and you know it. i have never, never, ever accepted violence against law enforcement. i have worked with these men and women and you know my entire life. >> this is not a moment for social media, it is not a moment to propagate theories. is edwin snowden a traitor to the united states of america. i will go on. >> i understand how critical our national security is. >> apparently you don't.

>> democrat shouts. vice president vance gave sean hannity this prediction. >> i believe they will get across the finish line and fight for each one. president trump is willing to listen no marco rubio and pete hegseth and bobby kennedy and tulsi gabbard. we can't say you won't get confirmed because we disagree with you on one issue. >> harris: anybody on the bubble after yesterday that you can see? >> there is no question that i've heard there are a few on the bubble. i won't speak to specific names. they have to come to it with this focus. if they will quit on one. quitting is a disease, cancer. if they quit on one of president trump's nominees they'll find excuses to go on three, four or five in the future. let's throw in pete hegseth.

you see agents of change. people saying i don't accept the status quo of washington, d.c. and for that reason i think every cubicle, law office and high rise in washington, d.c. is absolutely against these non-establishment picks. >> harris: i love that. great messaging for everybody. don't quit, it is america. thank you for joining me, chairman mast. all right. we're watching so much today and have this week. just taking a quick check of some of the things coming up. we do know that the dc fire department along with ntsb are going to give a briefing at some point this afternoon. perhaps coming up in the next hour or two. we want to be ready for that and we're watching for that. we also know that because we took sarah sanders, governor sanders from arkansas that there will be three executive orders having to do with education in the united states and yes, president trump as a candidate had promised that these topics would come along, particularly

school choice and so that will be one of those executive orders. you know he likes to sign things for everybody to see. he did it on inauguration day and that continues at the white house today. so coming up in the next little while the next six or seven minutes you saw governor sanders of arkansas head into the white house after she spoke with me on "focus" and they will start that and they have several other governors there who will talk about this issue. there are 12 states who have at least one private school option accessible to all k-12 through a choice program and what governor sanders was pointing out is you can't just have it done state by state. you need it from a top-down level and that is what president trump is doing to keep the promise of changing education in this country. thank you so much for watching "the faulkner focus." "outnumbered" after the break. z.

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