duffy. as a resident i will state myself i appreciate coming from rural wisconsin he knows the infrastructure needs and rural parts of the country are just ae important as those anywhere else. mr. president sean duffy will bring valuable experience to the transportation department. he has a proven track record to the public and democrats to deliver good f infrastructure fr the people we all serve. i look forward to working with him in this new role. i yield the floor i suggest the absence of a quorum. >> the clerk will call the roll. >> mr. president? >> senator from i was recognized. >> like my colleague. [inaudible] asked for the quorum call be lifted precook to that objection. cooks as the leader has joseph said, i come to the floor for the same purpose to talk about my vote in favor of mr. bessent to be secretary of treasury. this cabinet position is one of the most important positions in any administration. the secretary is the tip of the spear for presidents domestic economic agenda. m

duffy.nd as a resident of a rural state myself, i appreciate that coming from rural wisconsin, he knows the infrastructure needs in rural parts of the country are just as important as those anywhere else. mr. president, sean duffy will bring valuable experience and knowledge to the transportation department, and he has a proven track record of working with republicans and democrats to deliver good infrastructure for the people we all serve. i look forward to working with him in this new role. i look forward to confirming both mr. bessent and mr. duffy in the very near future. mr. president, i yield the floor, and i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the clerk: ms. alsobrooks. mr. grassley: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa is recognized. mr. grassley: like my colleague -- the presiding officer: we are in a quorum call. mr. grassley: i ask that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without th

sean, duffy. -- mr. sean duffy. i'm doing good. hey, i've got a question about the budget control act 2011. you know, where we try to um he was actually inspired by the president. now he doesn't want to follow that no more. but we have to understand something here. when we the people address these recourses that we try to follow and we are successful, and then we have nothing but the same actions with murray and ryan digging their hands into this money. then you're trying to outspend a problem that will never go away. host: and i will just add, we talked about this earlier, republicans want to lift the budget caps, the so-called sequestration, when it comes to defense and have done so in this budget deal that has gone to the floor this week in the house. guest: i used to do lumberjack sports. one of the best contests we used to have was in fresno, california, so i'm fond of fresno. listen, we have a great concern on the military front. again, you see isis beheading folks. we see iran on a pathway to getting a nuclear weapon, no mat

congressman duffy understands this. he is a five term congressman who reached across not just the aisle autocross chambers to bring home needed infrastructure to his district. to quote his home state senator, senator baldwin a democrat who spoke glowingly of congressman duffy, quote, sean is the right person for this job. i agree with senator baldwin. as a father of nine children congressman duffy told committee members that, quote, i think about transportation quite a bit and about transportation safety a lot. he understands what american families care about. making sure that when they get in their car or on a plane or with their families they know they will get to the destination safely. he embodies the, quote, revolution of common sense that president trump has called for. not only has congressman duffy earn the support of the entire commerce committee but there are over 60 stakeholders in support of his nomination. congressman duffy has received wide support from labor, from airlines, railroads, manufacturers, from

my heart goes out to sean duffy in this instance. i've known him for years and have confidence in him but he will have to hit the ground running. >> brian: tulsi gabbard is friends with meghan, your wife. i watched sean hannity during the week. how cool and composed and smart she is. and how prepared she will be. she should expect some heavy fire from the democrats, her former party, right? >> i absolutely think so, brian. i think her performance is critical today. we've seen now repeatedly strong performances in front of these committees by these nominees. she needs to have one today to allay a lot of concerns. i think the biggest concern is keeping her own party -- current party united. once she gets to the floor with the recommendation, i'm confident that tulsi gabbard will be approved. getting through that committee process makes this hearing today all the more critical for her. we understand it. my wife and i support her and we're looking forward to seeing her prove a lot of her critics wrong today. >> ainsley: i know you are fr

you mention sean duffy and the new defense secretary as well, pete hegseth.e have those gentlemen in place. what about for the ntsb and the faa? >> there are officials in place at the ntsb many holding over from the last administration. the active faa administrator resigned on january 20 when donald trump was sworn in. there is not someone who has been named in his place to this point. we heard that president trump was enacting a position for christopher rush low. that will put someone in that role for now. there will be a push i'm assuming. we heard the president alluded to it under question from a reporter about the actual confirmation process to make sure that ultimately an administrator is confirmed in an expert is just a matter by the u.s. senate which, this week, is preoccupied by other confirmation hearings and votes. there will be an effort to fill that road is the -- role as that is a crucial vacancy at a time a tragedy such as this has happened. sean duffy was sworn into office yesterday. it's his first full day on the job. he is be confirmed sworn

we've just listened to this this press conference where we heard sean duffy, the u.s. transportation secretary, say, look, this was a clear night. so it doesn't look like there was any weather issues. the helicopter was in a standard flight pattern, as was the aircraft in a standard pattern. but then you see this horrific crash that has now confirmed to have left 64 people dead. when you consider that on the aircraft and three in the helicopter, what are your questions? what is your main question about what happened here? a rare mid-flight collision. >> well. >> first of all, my my thoughts. >> are with. >> the families. >> of the. >> passengers and. >> we are praying for these families that. >> they can. >> get through this very, very terrible. >> situation. secondly. >> as has been. >> mentioned. >> this is one of the the most tricky, trickiest airports to fly in and out of because of the vectoring that has to take place to avoid monuments and the white house and, and, and other other places that the, the where the airport is located and then complicated by the fact

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transportation secretary shawn duffy, d.c. fire and ems chief john donnelly, american airlines ceo robert isom, metropolitan washington airport authority ceo jack carter, united states senator mark warner, united states senator tim kaine, u.s. representative don beyer, as well as the metropolitan police department, pamela smith, and we are joined by first responders from across the metropolitan washington region. i speak for all of us when i say, and certainly all washingtonians, how very sad we are for american airlines, for the united states department of defense, and for all americans for the loss of life that happened with the collision of these aircraft. we know that includes families from across our region as well as in kansas and across the country. this morning we all share a profound sense of grief. i do want to thank the first responders who acted quickly last night, who ran towards danger, went into a very frigid river, and have worked throughout the night. chief donnelly reported in last night's briefing that we ha

transportation secretary sean duffy. d.c.ire and ems chief john donnelly, american airlines ceo robert eisen. the washington metropolitan washington airport authority ceo jack carter. united states senator mark warner. united states senator tim kaine, u.s. representative don beyer as well as the chief of the metropolitan police department pamela smith, and we are joined by first responders from across the metropolitan washington region. i speak for all of us when i say, certainly all washingtonians how very sad we are for american airlines, for the united states department of defense, and for all americans for the loss of life that happened with the collision of these aircrafts we know that includes families from across our region as well as as in kansas and across the country we all share a profound sense of grief. i do want to thank the first responders who acted quickly last night, who ran towards danger, went into a very frigid river, and have worked throughout the night. chief donley reported last night's briefing that w

transportation secretary sean duffy, d.c.nelly, american airlines ceo, the washington metropolitan airport authority ceo, the united states senator mark warner, united states senator tim kaine, u.s. representative don buyer, as well as the chief of the metropolitan police department and we are joined by first responders from across the metropolitan washington region. i speak for all of us when i say come and certainly all washingtonians, how very sad we are for american airlines, for the united state department of defense, and for all americans for the loss of life that happened with the coalition of these aircraft. we know that includes families from across our region as well as in kansas and across the country. this morning, we all share a profound sense of grief. i do want to thank the first responders who acted quickly last night and ran toward danger , went into a very frigid river, and have worked throughout the night. chief donnelly reported last night that we have a strong mutual aid agreement in our region and those

. >> ainsley: sean duffy was confirmed yesterday and this happened last night. keep it on fox and we'll have a press conference out of kansas at 9:00 this morning. >> see you tomorrow. >> despite all efforts we're at a point where we're switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation. at this point we don't believe there are any survivors from this accident. >> bill: we're covering an american nightmare this morning. no survivors after a passenger jet collided with a blackhawk helicopter over washed. we expect another update any moment now out of wichita. i'm bill hemmer as our coverage continues from new york city. dana, good morning to you. >> dana: im dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." this is the first major airline disaster in more than 15 years. hundreds of first responders are wading into potomac river. >> bill: an american airlines flying out of wichita, can is a. 60 passengers on board in addition to four crew members. the plane collided with an h-60 blackhawk. three soldiers were on board that aircraft. >> dana: crews have recovere

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on tuesday, new transportation secretary sean duffy was sworn in. he rushed to the crash site to reagan national airport. there was a press conference with muriel bowser. this is located in arlington, virginia. no reports of survivors, many anxious family member upons waiting to hear about the fate of their loved ones. we have a press conference at 7:30. >> todd: when you hear the word sadly being used and senator marshall from kansas bemoaning the fact that so many kansans died. it has been approaching nine hours and does not look good. >> ashley: to make it worse, a lot of figure skaters were teenage and preteenage. as a parent, it is heartwrenching to hear that, put yourself in the shoes of the parents. >> todd: bring in captain mike cofield, aviation expert who ran the investigation into flight 800 crash. captain, with that kind of experience, a pilot and somebody who has had to ask tough questions leading an investigation, what questions do you have this morning? >> thank you very much, my prayers and our family prayers to the folks involved an

sean duffy. he has a lot to work on.he and i had a short conversation he said "wow, i tell you, people sitting on planes, boeing, the problems they've had, harris, there's a lot going on in transportation. might want to look at east palestine, ohio again." so much for him to jump into. sean duffy. we know him well. he will get the job done. this comes as some of president trump's more controversial cabinet picks are set to face senate hearings this week. the health and u.s. services pick robert f. kennedy jr.'s hearing before the senate finance committee is set for tomorrow. on thursday will hear charms pick for fbi director, and his choice for national intelligence director. a lot going on towards the end of the week. let's jump into it now. first of all, kennedy, your reaction to sean duffy. >> it's fantastic. he said he a lot a lot of desk out you said he had a lot of friends in d.c. most of them are his children. [laughter] i think is going to do it great job. he has seen the world through a different lens. being a f

rachel campos-duffy is here. we saw you and your beautiful family.ut the night and what it meant to you. >> rachel: it started at st. john's. the duffy's had to make a decision. we had enough tickets for our whole family. do we bring the kids? this is so incredible, one day they will be 80 and say, i was there. it was chaotic and the kids got aggressed up, felt like princesses of theul ba. ball. pictures of how it started and ended. that is how it started, lawrence, started good. there we are with kellyanne, loved seeing her. this is how it ended, had to carry the kids out. >> lawrence: big day. what an upgrade we are about to get. sean duffy, president expected to have big announcement for infrastructure. what do you expect presidency to put out today? >> rachel: he's said and sean echoed that, he wants to introduce new golden era of travel and infrastructure and everything crumbling because money has been spent is green new deal instead of hard, durable projects. that is their goal. it is going to be great. >> lawrence: getting back to common sense

new transportation secretary sean duffy had just been confirmed on tuesday and he spoke earlier and what fox just learned moments ago, on a different american airlines flight, former dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas was on a flight coming from new york's laguardia airport. that plane turned around 20 minutes before landing and mayorkas and member of his team were seen exiting that irka. that is what we know from outside reagan national airport. right now no reports of any survivors. 64 people aboard, three army soldiers aboard the black hawk. >> todd: lucas, based upon your significant years covering military, when you hear the word training, does that mean routine training for people well versed in this type of activity just keeping their skills up? or are they training a newbie, for lack of a better word, that has never done this before like new driver training? is it very experienced person or not experienced person? >> lucas: likely the former. any time u.s. military conducting flight operations, they call it a training flight. it is not clear who was piloting the black hawk or the e

we know sean duffy is on scene and we know that others are also on scene as we got information with the search-and-rescue teams have now confirmed that this aircraft broke into two pieces in the potomac and is now in 7'0 of water. the helicopter also landed upside down very unstable from the potomac following this crash. i do want to bring in the former army special operations flight surgeon. we do know that you know this aircraft very well having to get out of it when it comes to the water what can you tell us and what you know and when you see at 7'0 of water in the black hawk helicopters upside down. what do you think about the scenario? >> most of the time when an aircraft goes in the water the engines are on top we do training once a year to prepare for this and it is extremely difficult to get out of you pretty much need to memorize your way out of the aircraft it's nice and so this is exactly what i would expect 7'0 of water if you can't get out of the aircraft that is more than enough and getting out of the aircraft and hopefully they did. as it is a tragedy. and those nontraine

duffy: thank you mr. president and i would note the president's leadership has been remarkable during this crisis. we had a whole of government response. local, state, federal, and when you see that kind of cooperation, it begins with the leadership in this body so think for -- thank you for that, mr. president. you made an important point, when we deal with safety, we can only accept the best and brightest in positions of safety that impact the lives of our loved ones, our family members, and you make an important point, that is the motto of your presidency, the best and brightest, the most intelligent come into these spaces. i want to take a moment and extend my condolences to the families and loved ones. . we commit to them we will get to the bottom of this investigation not in three years, not four years but as quickly as possible within the ntsb, who is here today as well as the faa. what happened yesterday should not have happened. it should not have happened. when americans take off in airplanes, t

none of you should have voted for sean duffy for faa. voted for pete hegseth. and i know you did. not that no one should vote for the lake and riley act, which is going to authorize and open the door for immigrants to be sent to guantanamo. do you think that democrats ought to shift their strategy toward saying no to all of these nominees? >> so i think there's a difference between the nominees. and then, like you said, the lincoln riley act, which is actual legislation, proposed law. when it comes to the nominees, it's a simple majority vote. and that's what we're looking for. republicans with a backbone to stand up and push back against donald trump when it comes to legislation, as we've seen with at least one resolution this week, when democrats stand together, we can leverage that to keep bad things from happening. and yes, we should remain united, because if you look at the bills coming over from the house of representatives, it's divisive, it's reckless, and it's dangerous for our country. >> senator alex padilla of california, tha

we also heard sean duffy say that he expected the president would be back in the situation room this morning, to be continued to be briefed on what is happening with that midair collision and the latest on the ground here in the d.c. area. now, one thing that is also notable is we did see the president post just after midnight and saying that he believes from the information he has that this crash was likely preventable. of course, we are waiting to hear what more information he can share regarding that today. we did hear sean duffy, the transportation secretary, said that he absolutely agreed with donald trump, that he believed that the crash was preventable as well. but of course, we are still waiting to gather more information on this and hear what the white house is learning, but we are expected to hear, i'm told, from president donald trump himself at some point today. >> great reporting, elena. thank you so much for that. sara. >> all right. the confirmation hearing for president trump's pick for fbi director has begun. kash patel is a controversial pick because of conspiratori

departo transportation, sean duffy of wisconsin to be secretary.residing officer: the senator from south dakota. the question is on the motion. all in favor say aye. all opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. thune: mr. president, i move to proceed to excessive session to consider calendar number 8. the presiding officer: the question is on the motion. all in favor say aye. all opposed no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: nomination, environmental protection agency, lee zeldin of new york to be administrator. mr. thune: mr. president, i ask -- i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of lee zeldin of new york to be administrator of the environmental protection agency sig

three crew members who had a combined 1500 hours in the air, and the transportation secretary sean duffy recently confirmed said everything leading up to the crash was completely routine, and the flight conditions were also clear. it was breezy but nothing that commercial aircraft or army helicopter couldn't handle. >> what we do know, and pilots who are reminding anyone who has flown through the area before, this is an incredibly congested area and there is limited airspace to maneuver should there be a complicated situation. we have fox team coverage for you right now. john scott is here. he has his expert analysis, but first, lucas tomlinson, he is in alexandria, virginia for us right now, and what are you seeing now? >> sandra over the past few hours, we've seen numerous helicopter and the u.s. park police combing the shoreline of the potomac, and flights resumed at reagan national airport, but not the aviation brigade based at fort belvoir where the black hawk launched from and the ill-fated flight. we heard from president trump, and he seemed to be blaming the helicopter crew for t

in fact, us transportation sean duffy transportation secretary sean duffy said out �*the ordinary sslan—up eeie eeee'ee eee ee eee eee'eeee in run—up to crash. happened in the run—up to the crash. but there were at least two near misses at airport last year watch 7 watch as e watch as both 7 move alone, watch as both aircraft move over about a minute. closer together over about a minute. this people on board. and here, another passenger plane. it is very common for planes and helicopters to share air space in for planes and helicopters to share airspace in dc. in for planes and helicopters to share air space in dc. in fact, us transportation secretary sean duffy said nothing out of the ordinary happened in the run—up to the crash. but there were at least two near misses at the airport last year alone. watch as both aircraft move closer together over about a minute. this is the flight path, according to a tracking website. the helicopter came from the top in red, the plane arriving from the bottom in blue. it is 8:47pm local time, around 25 seconds before impact. we also have air traffi

in k, tom duffy was initially reluctant to speak about her childhood. but in the 19 ninety's, often the movie schindler's list was released. she decided to open up. i didn't want to speak to my children know whose pin they knew. but we didn't speak as you can see. i'm still breaking. but i've suddenly realized i had to do and i always felt east that that's why i should not have to speak because of to me. it's a history book that was in that she now works alongside the holocaust museum in cape town, conducting several talks each year. but it's especially important for her to talk to young people about this history. she sees so that it never happens again. okay. my idea is, 1st of all, to explain to children that every body's to say and you do not have hatred for you print next to you. you're going to get a job. he says, she knows a time on this, this is limited and she wants to use her remaining years to speak openly about the dangers of wool and extremist politics. professor katelyn stoughton is an ex bush on european jewish history and culture from the

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team, pam bondi for attorney general, marco rubio for secretary of state, john ratcliffe at cia, sean duffyt transportation, chris wright and russell vote for omb. we received this from marco rubio's opening statement. the post-war global order is not obsolete, it is now a weapon being used against us. this is a moment we must confront greatest risk of geo political instability in lifetime of anyone alive today. hads opening statement pete hegseth said politics should play no part in military, he vowed to keep standards equal not equitable, he wants to pick on merit. >> we won world war ii with seven four-star generals, today we have 44 four-star generals. this is verse relationship between the size of staffs and victory on the battlefield. we don't need more bureaucracy at top we need more war fighters at the bottom. >> pete hegseth faced tough questions. joni ernst told fox digital, she will back pete hegseth. americans deserve strong president of defense, i will work with pete to create the most lethal force. first is pam bondi, john ratcliffe and marco rubio at 10:00, guys. >> steve: qu

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live in our nation's capitol is will rachel campos-duffy and sarah gisht.l. >> hey, lawrence, it's so exciting. we are here at the 52nd march for life. i'm joined here by sarah gable. only pro-life company. she gave me a hat says make more babies. the logo for her company or the slogan for her company. i think it might be the slogan of my life. sarah, why are you so excited to be here? >> i am so excited to be here because this is an important time in our history. we are marching today to stand for every miraculous life because we know what every life every child is a gift from god. deserving of love. protection and celebration and the fight for life is not over road was overturned abortions happening every single day in america. you are hearing for inauguration a few days after he was inaugurated you see some things happening. not just the fact that j.d. is going to be here. donald trump is going to give a message from the oval office. but also the freeing of these prisoners, and the passing in the house of the infant protection worn alive act it's importa

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sean duffy. hey, thomas. how are you? i'm doing well. good, good. hey, i've got a question about the budget control act. does in 11. you know, where we try to it was actually inspired by the president. now he doesn't want to follow that no more. but we have to understand something here where we we the people address these these recourses that we try to follow and we are successful. and then we have nothing but the same actions with. justice murray and ryan's sticking their heads into this money, then you're trying to outspend the problems. they'll never go away. okay. not in terms of this ad. we talked about this a little earlier, but democrats i mean, republicans want to lift the budget caps, the so-called sequestration when it comes to defense and have done so in this budget deal. it's going to come to the floor this week in the house. yeah. and i guess, first of all, i guess with thomas, i used to do lumberjack sports, one of the best contests we used to have was in fresno, california. so fond of fresno. yeah. listen, we have a great concern on t

duffy met with some of the families that lost loved ones yesterday. >> we have to remember 67 peopletheir live, so last night when we started to meet with the family this have questions and concerns and we have hundreds of people on this investigation but the most important thing right now is so pertain and preserve any perishable evidence so when we come off scene we can analyze it. >> the ntsb has not yet recovered the data recorder from the black hawk helicopter but they nowhere it is but they have not rethieved it yet. they did bring in a black hawk pilot that flew in from alaska to serve as the expert for the ntsb as it relates to that part of the investigation involving the helicopter and hopefully more answers on that data recorder will happen once they get their hands on it. >> thank you. alright george p. you are a combat veteran. tell us your thoughts or the questions we should be asking on this horrific collision? >> first of all thoughts and prayers need to go to family members and those affected by this horrible tragedy. i think that's a nation we need to stand behind th

sean duffy. hey, thomas. how are you? i'm doing well. good, good. hey, i've got a question about the budget control act. does in 11. you know, where we try to it was actually inspired by the president. now he doesn't want to follow that no more. but we have to understand something here where we we the people address these these recourses that we try to follow and we are successful. and then we have nothing but the same actions with. justice murray and ryan's sticking their heads into this money, then you're trying to outspend the problems. they'll never go away. okay. not in terms of this ad. we talked about this a little earlier, but democrats i mean, republicans want to lift the budget caps, the so-called sequestration when it comes to defense and have done so in this budget deal. it's going to come to the floor this week in the house. yeah. and i guess, first of all, i guess with thomas, i used to do lumberjack sports, one of the best contests we used to have was in fresno, california. so fond of fresno. yeah. listen, we have a great concern on t

i also want to thank secretary sean duffy who i was communicating with early on after we first got wordf this tragedy. we have been working together throughout the day along with his team at the dot and within faa. i want to thank secretary pete hegseth also integral in working with us today. chris the acting administrator different from many members of congress on both sides of the aisle. i would sayot this is a tremends i will say once again a whole of government effort. i also want to thank a moment to thank the many, many responders that have been on scene. incredible effort. i will have a full list i will provide, we will provide tomorrow. i do look to thank them for all of their work. with that i'm going to turn it over for additional remarks. >> today is the first full day on scene. our investigative team will be on scene as long as it takes to obtain all the perishable evidence of the fact-finding that is needed to bring us to a conclusion of probable cause. our mission is to understand not just what happened but why it happened. and to recommend changes to keep it from happenin

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rachel campos-duffy will preview the big event. final hour of "fox and friends" st starts right now. defense secretary nominee, our friend pete hegseth, could be confirmed today after clearing a senate hurdle, not without something from democrats and a couple republicans. >> brian: aishah hasnie, you might have some weekend hours coming your way. >> ai >> ayesha: it will happen without the -- later tonight and looking at possibly two defections from the gop, that is main senator susan collins and senator murkowski, both voted no, that is good indication that is how they will vote today. collins cites lack of experience and murkowski says it is lack of experience and the allegations. john thune said it wasn't a big surprise to him. >> we will have more conversations with them. i tell senators, your vote is your vote, be with the team when you can, don't ever surprise us, don't tell us one thing and do something else. we try to make sure we have everybody pull together. we have a president came in with big mandate. >> ayesha: if demo

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figure skating championships held in wichita last week and new transportation secretary sean duffy whoad just been sworn in to office, he took part in that first press conference about 1:00 in the morning along with d.c. mayor muriel bowser. i expect them both back at reagan for the press conference at 7:30. also learning on a different flight. a diverted flight. a former dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas on another american airlines flight diverted before landing here that plane returned to new york. he was seen leaving first class with a member of the security detail. and that's the latest from here alongside the to tomorrow mac. along pa tomorrow mac. how unusual is it for a training mission 23409d uncommon, brian. anyone around the d.c. area knows black hawks are a common site. the pentagon is on the other side of reagan international airport. on a daily basis you have black hawks landing at the helipad at the pentagon. just driving on 395 it's not uncommon to see a pair of black hawks with external fuel tanks just streaming overhead. shut ling vips around. taking officials to vario

both president donald trump and transportation secretary sean duffy say >> the crash could have been avoided but wouldn't say why the american airlines crj 700 operated by psa airlines was on final approach to reagan national airport. the transportation secretary says a normal flight path. the military helicopters, secretary duffy, says was also flying a standard flight path and the helicopter new the passenger plane was there. the american airlines ceo says the commercial flight crew was experienced. we don't know why the military aircraft came into the past. the psa aircraft, secretary of defense pete headsets as the military crew was also experienced on a yearly nighttime training flight. we anticipate that the investigation will quickly be able to determine whether the aircraft was in the quarter and the right altitude. >> at the time of the incident, dc mayor muriel bowser says the ntsb is now leading the investigation. >> and southwest washington, d.c., police cruisers escorted the vance from the recovery site from a crash, dc fire officials believe nobody survived. these respo

duffy has to do something about this. we've messed around with air traffic control for 30 years. we have deaths in the potomac because of it. it is a wake-up call for the new administration which means fix the faa and fix it soon before more beam people die. maria: you are attributing this and putting the blame on air traffic control and the faa a. why? specifically, tell us what was wrong. >> we had two airplanes run, two flying machines run into each other over the potomac. that is the faa's job, to avoid those things. now, who knows in we have all kinds of human issues here, but the fact is we've had near miss of after near miss for the past umpteen years, now we've had a collision are. the collision is the responsibility of the faa and the air traffic control system. somebody failed. maria: tell me how it's possible that a blackhawk helicopter entered the air space or the path of a commercial airliner. >> they let it happen, number one. number two, the fact is we are dependent upon humans, and humans pick mistakes, there's no question about it -- mistake make -- make mistakes

we know the new transportation secretary, sean duffy, who was just sworn in a few hours ago, is on the ground. >> yeah. >> i don't have a whole lot to report from the administration. you're right to read the post, stef, that the president wrote or put out earlier, caroline leavitt, his press secretary, also addressed the issue a little bit earlier in the evening. right now, it looks like the president is already placing a little bit of blame, obviously, before the results of the investigation come out. and as you know, the crash site right behind me here is still being being worked on. >> ali, when you talk about jeff, stay with us. ali velshi is with you. when you think about the systems on a black hawk helicopter, and i know you're not a helicopter pilot versus a commercial aircraft, how different are they? >> well, to fly them, they're entirely different. the helicopter has an entirely different access. it's far more complicated to be a helicopter pilot than to be a fixed wing pilot. but one of your prior guests was talking about ads-b. all all modern aircraft have. it's a it's a si

transportation secretary sean duffy, d.c.ems chief john john donnelly, american airlines ceo robert isom, the mwaa, the washington metropolitan washington airports authority ceo jack carter, un united states senator. mark warner, united states senator tim kaine, u.s. representative don beyer, as well as the chief of the metropolitan police department, pamela smith. and we are joined by first responders from across the metropolitan washington region. i speak for all of us when i say, and certainly all washingtonians, how very sad we are for american airlines, for the united states department of defense, and for all americans, for the loss of life that happened with the collision of these aircrafts. we know that includes families from across our region, as well as in kansas and across the country. this morning, we all share in a profound sense of grief. i do want to thank the first responders who acted quickly last night, who ran towards danger, went into a very frigid river, and have worked throughout the night. chief donnelly

transportation secretary sean duffy was here earlier.said both aircraft were following standard flight paso. that's part of their investigation into exactly what happened. he also talked about the ongoing investigation and where things stand right now. let's take a listen. >> i know the president trump. his administration, the faa, the dot, we will not rest until we have answers for the families. and for the flying public. you should be assured that when you fly, you're safe. >> and the american airlines ceo was here earlier today. he also talked about level of experience on board the american airlines flight that crashed. he said the pilot of that aircraft had almost 6 years of experience. the copilot around 2 years of experience. officials would only say in terms of the blackhawk army helicopter that the pilot was experienced, as they said, but not going into any more detail beyond that at this point, the investigation gets taken over completely by the ntsb, the national transportation safety board. we're expecting some kind of an upda

this as a recovery effort, a newly sworn in secretary of transportation's sean duffy is on hand here at the airport. he spoke just a few minutes ago. this is what he had to say about the ongoing investigation. >> this is a time when when will have to join arms together. and and help each other out. we've been through things like this before through tornadoes and floods and things. but it's it's really hard when you lose, you'll probably over 60 cans and simultaneously. >> and my apologies, the who you heard from just there was senator roger marshall of that's the senator from kansas. he was overnight with the first responders getting updates on the situation there in terms of the investigation itself right now, this will all be taken over by the national transportation safety board. we understand they have a go team on the way here to the crash site. if they're not on the ground already and going forward. authorities tell us the ntsb is going to be handling any of the new information and updates that come out of this again. 27 bodies have been recovered, but authorities also say they