have a good super bowl weekend and, folks, don't miss transportation secretary sean duffy tonight, the bottom line 6:00 p.m. eastern on fox business. you got good news about what happens between, it's liz macdonald who's here to take you through the next hour. we had dinner last night. good to see you. that was a good dinner. liz: i'll send you the check, david. david: okay, you got it. liz: news coming in. welcome toll evening edit. i'm elizabeth macdonald. >> we're co coming in. we're coming in. >> do you have business here? >> we're members. liz: the action this hour, democrats new plan is backfiring. barging into the education department, the epa and treasury department. terrorizing government workers to protest president trump and elon musk's doge. they're trying to cut massive government corruption and waste and fraud. why are democrats planting a flag on that? so they can stay in power and over them and demand more spending and larry elder joining and yous fired up about this and whether hard working americans care about what they're doing and he'll talk to us about it. he'll ta

secretary duffy is saying look at that.dge collapse, train derails, the toxic train derailment in east palestine ohio. duffy is also saying that pete buttigieg setup slush funds for the green new scam, his words and environmental justice nonsense at the transportation department and that over 90% of the workforce under pete buttigieg's leadership worked from home. >> well not only that, liz but i'm old enough to remember during the covid era when secretary pete buttigieg took some time off when we had a supply chain crisis, but furthermore in these discussions, we also know that secretary pete buttigieg once made a claim that roads and bridges were in some way racist so again it was a large focus on dei and large focus on language and terminology during his tenure, as transportation secretary, but i think we need to wait for this particular investigation to play out. let's see what actually happened here before we place blame, but i have full faith and confidence insect duffy. he's going to get to the bottom and show up and

>> secretary duffy: there's a number of issues.d there was an issue where they shut down the academies, and then when the academies reopened, the class sizes were smaller. and even though our graduates from the academy got out, they couldn't get into a tower to train at. that happened for two years. so we saw a plummet of air traffic controllers. there is a mandatory retirement age for controllers, 55 years old. so every year we have people cycling out of the business. we need more young people coming in. again, you can't focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion when you try to hire air traffic controllers. you focus on the best and brightest. again, some people may like to have this conversation around equity, but if it is your pilots or your air traffic controllers, you want the best of the brightest protecting yourself and your family. that's what we are going to do at the department for every air traveler, getting great students to make sure our skies are safe. >> shannon: at this point, as you mention, they are very early on

duffy quick to point out an issue he says must be addressed. california doesn't have the money to complete the project. duffy making these remarks at downtown l a union station alongside california, republican members of congress and the legislature. he and other high speed rail. critics note when california voters first approved the project in 2008, they were told would cost about 45 billion dollars. but since then, new state estimates show the project's costs have ballooned to anywhere between 88 to 128 billion dollars. thus far. the state has spent a total of 10 billion and the federal government 3 and a half billion all as the project's completion date remains unclear. so the question becomes. what do we do? >> well, i can't make decision for the great state of california. but we do have to be responsible for the for the tax dollars that are spent from the federal government. that's why duffy officially announced the trump administration is launching a review that will investigate and determine whether to move forward with the biden adminis

this said, we want the -- duffy said, we want the safest skies using the best technology.iquated technology in the skies today and secretary duffy is going to change that, unlike the former secretary who changed the words from notice american airmen to notice to american missions, we have to change that. we have to do more than fluffy change words. sean duffy is the perfect person for the department of transportation, he's passionate about making our air space safe, the safest in the world and we're going to deliver that. when i was at the ntsb board briefing yesterday it was extremely s somber and they were still removing bodies from the fuselage and i think that in america when we know better, we can do better and it's going to be an investment and sean duffy is the exact person to be in that position. he's got support from the president. he's got support from doge. he's got support from congress, both the house and the senate. we are going to have, again, the safest skies we could possibly have using the technology, the 2 21st technology that's out there already. cheryl

sean duffy confirmed his transportation sector despite democrat protest votes.duffy was confirmed the day before that horrific accident in the potomac river. if he had not been confirmed it would not of had a transportation secretary would have hwould've had an acting transportation secretary. the vote was 77 -- 22. there was a culture effort what's a cloture effort? it is an effort to stop a filibuster or a potential filibuster against the nominee. the democrats, there had to be a cloture vote to prevent them from preventing sean duffy from getting a vote. got a buddy sworn in and day before this accident. republicans do that to have a bigger problem that. republicans don't do it like this. they don't do it like this and of the democrats are doing because the media have told us that at least some of the media. here's one from cbs news the other day. senate democrats work to delay speedy confirmation of trunk nominees senate republicans are trudging through the process to confirm president trump's picks for his cabot and top administration delays by democrats we

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what secretary duffy saying about that high speed rail project in california?be here at los angeles union station in about an hour and expecting secretary duffy to criticize the vow moving high speed rail project and potentially blasted as a waste of taxpayer dollars, not just in california but the entire u.s. population and it's a project facing years of delays and expected to cost billions and president trump criticized as worst managed project he's ever seen and the rail authority here in the golden state is defending it saying the project is creating jobs and will, once it's finished, boost the economy despite years and years of setbacks. we also expect duffy to answer questions about plans to update technology in air traffic control towers and increase controller stafferring after those two -- staffing after the two high profile crashes in his first month on the job. duffy posted on x, here are the facts, in bind's first month, there were 57 aviation incidents in the u.s. compared to 35 under trump. >> it's rich they come at this administration for the mis

>> reporter: improving the nation's air traffic control system is a priority for duffy. >> the systems that we use are so old. we should be the envy of the world. we have systems across our network that are run on floppy disks. >> reporter: how do you get that package of upgrades actually done and implemented? >> if we're going to do this, i need the congress to move faster with us. we can't wait four years, six years, ten years. we have to do it right now. >> reporter: he's enlisted the help of elon musk owner of rocket and spacecraft builder spacex. >> spacex has some of the brightest minds working for them. i've asked some of his bright minds at spacex to say, listen, what do you see are some simple, easy steps that we can take to upgrade our system. >> reporter: democratic lawmakers are demanding answers over duffy's decision to lay off hundreds of faa employees in the midst of the recent accidents. >> all the critical safety positions like air traffic controllers and inspectors, all of those positions have been protected. no one's been fired. we're hiring into these spaces. >> rep

>> reporter: democratic lawmakers are demanding answers for duffy's decision to lay off hundreds of faaes in the midst of the recent accidents. >> all of the critical safety positions like air traffic controllers and inspectors, all of those positions have been protected. no one has been fired, actually we are hiring into those spaces. so 352 cuts is .8% of the workforce. incredibly small. >> reporter: will there be future rounds of cuts? >> there could be. i'm not sure at the faa, but i think across government. >> maurice: and kris van cleave joins us now from reagan national in washington. as we mentioned, kris, secretary also talked about congestion pricing. what did he have to say about that? >> reporter: well, he felt it was unfair to working-class commuters, in part because new york didn't offer them a way to get through the congestion zone that didn't have a toll attached to it. he also took issue with the toll associated, the price, the $9. he said new york's governor didn't do adequate research to justify the price of the toll. he said it seemed like they picked a number to pay

>> reporter: democratic lawmakers are demanding answers over duffy's decision to lay off hundreds ofaa employees in the midst of recent accidents. >> all the critical positions like air traffic controllers and inspectors, all of those positions have been protected. actually we're hiring into those spaces. so 352 cuts is 0.8% of the workforce. incredibly small. >> reporter: because of the ongoing crash investigations, the secretary couldn't speak specifically about individual accidents, but says they are watching those investigations as updates come in. he says the department of transportation and faa will move to make changes to make flying even safer. kris van cleave, cbs news, washington's reagan national airport. >>> when "cbs news roundup" returns, we'll show you how some trump voters feel about his pardoning the january 6th reuters. we're with bridget, whose husband won't be home for months and whose daughter is due any day. we're with mike, who's leaving home to protect his family, and yours. we're with all service-members and their families who need community, connection, and

duffy quick to point out an issue he says must be addressed.

transportation secretary sean duffy is with us. well, like everybody, i mean, you know, it's all shock and awe. but when you go back to the dei policies and we didn't really the word woke was not a big part of the vernacular. even in donald trump's first term. but when they put in dei policies that would allow the hiring at the faa of people with intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. and i read that that was shock and awe to me. what was your reaction? >> well, you know, sean, i want to look at what was the focus of the department, right. the main focus back to the history was safety. the problem is they were focusing on, as you mentioned, the environment, evs, changing language for social justice. they want to be politically correct. and when you don't focus on your systems and your safety, bad things happen. and so i look at this last week. you haven't seen anyone drain the swamp more than donald trump has done in the last week. and when you do that, these swamp creatures raise their heads like hillary clinton has, and they

duffy quick to point out an issue he says must be addressed.o complete the project. duffy making these remarks at downtown l a union station alongside california, republican members of congress and the legislature. he and other high speed rail. critics note when california voters first approved the project in 2008, they were told would cost about 45 billion dollars. but since then, new state estimates show the project's costs have ballooned to anywhere between 88 to 128 billion dollars. thus far. the state has spent a total of 10 billion and the federal government 3 and a half billion all as the project's completion date remains unclear. so the question becomes. what do we do? >> well, i can't make decision for the great state of california. but we do have to be responsible for the for the tax dollars that are spent from the federal government. that's why duffy officially announced the trump administration is launching a review that will investigate and determine whether to move forward with the biden administration decision. >> to allocate an

this morning, transportation secretary sean duffy, announcing a plan to supercharge the hiring of air traffic controllers after a string of recent aviation accidents and close calls. >> these are hard jobs, and they're great jobs. >> facing a shortage of controllers, duffy says he's offering a salary increase of 30% and will reduce the current eight step hiring process to five steps. >> on average. air traffic controller, who leaves this school and is certified three years from now, makes $160,000 a year. the great paying jobs. >> his offer comes after that mid-air collision over washington last month that left 67 people dead, and this near miss this week at chicago's midway airport. the pilot, reportedly not following air traffic controller orders to stop. duffy says pilots not following controller orders should lose their licenses, saying this about the string of recent incidents. >> they're all very unique. but i do think in all of them and again, not not exclusively, not 100%, but a majority probably of the of the errors go to the pilots, right. there's some pilot error at play in

duffy quick to point out an issue he says must be addressed. california doesn't have the money to complete the project. duffy making these remarks at downtown l a union station alongside california, republican members of congress and the legislature. he and other high speed rail. critics note when california voters first approved the project in 2008, they were told would cost about 45 billion dollars. but since then, new state estimates show the project's costs have ballooned to anywhere between 88 to 128 billion dollars. thus far. the state has spent a total of 10 billion and the federal government 3 and a half billion all as the project's completion date remains unclear. so the question becomes. what do we do? >> well, i can't make decision for the great state of california. but we do have to be responsible for the for the tax dollars that are spent from the federal government. that's why duffy officially announced the trump administration is launching a review that will investigate and determine whether to move forward with the biden adminis

sean duffy blaming pete buttigieg for failing to update an outdated system and account for the shortagetraffic controllers, john cara joe. >> john: wow! it is extraordinary what is going on in terms of the blame game, grath, appreciate it. in terms of what was responsible for the crash difficult to know that clear from the video taken from the cockpit of the plane that crj--900lr came in too quickly and didn't look like a flare there to cut down on dissent rate and get the runway pretty hard. just is blame game started pretty quickly yesterday. still people making sure they are okay. you can imagine so many people on the plane in complete shock. but this is opening up the discussion at home. obviously, there is a debate to cut spending at the faa. we can ask karoline leavitt she will join us from the white house shortly about those concerns. and after the crash, are there concerns cutting funds to the faa and airline safety at home? we will put that to her and joe concha also joining us coming up on the dems blame game happening, time. >> john: looking forward to that. >> sandra: the de

duffy says the d.o.t.y with local transportation departments and other federal agencies to speed up this whole process. >> donald trump doesn't move at the speed of the prior administrations. he moves lightning quick. we want to go fast. we want to go cheap. we want to go safe. >> secretary duffy says part of the way they are going to do that is by using rock from a local river to restore the roads. duffy says construction material is typically brought in from about 20-50 miles away, but the u.s. forest service helped the d.o.t. get special use permit -- that to use that rock that is located about a mile away from the damaged road. the significant cut stone cost and time. they say the d.o.t. is not forgetting about smaller roads and bridges that helene damaged, and in those remote mountain terms. hopes to have an update on those in the structure, days after homeland security secretary kristi noem's visit to western north carolina. both she and the acting fema administrator say they are doing every thing th

duffy says he'll look to see if this project should be completed.some commuters to come in. and, you know, it's it looks like they're still waiting to come up from the south bay. it's a long trip. unless you get the express, then it's a great trip. we're live at fourth and king here in san francisco. jesse gary, ktvu, fox two news. pamela, back to you. across the bay in oakland. >> thank you. jesse. >> all right. our time is 634. democratic congressman mark desaulnier held a town hall last night about the first month of the trump administration and the reaction from his constituents. now, it was held at saint mary's college in moraga. hundreds of people from the 10th congressional district were there, and congressman desaulnier answered questions from the audience. some of them were not satisfied. >> over 300,000 missing migrant children. that's concerning. he didn't mention anything about that. he just went on about fighting trump rather than working with them. >> these are not normal times that we are staring down the barrel of our constitution be

duffy quick to point out an issue he says must be addressed.california doesn't have the money to complete the project. duffy making these remarks at downtown l a union station alongside california, republican members of congress and the legislature. he and other high speed rail. critics note when california voters first approved the project in 2008, they were told would cost about 45 billion dollars. but since then, new state estimates show the project's costs have ballooned to anywhere between 88 to 128 billion dollars. thus far. the state has spent a total of 10 billion and the federal government 3 and a half billion all as the project's completion date remains unclear. so the question becomes. what do we do? >> well, i can't make decision for the great state of california. but we do have to be responsible for the for the tax dollars that are spent from the federal government. that's why duffy officially announced the trump administration is launching a review that will investigate and determine whether to move forward with the biden administ

transportation secretary sean duffy says the faa needs to update its critical warning system used byafter an outage triggered widespread flight delays and cancellation. duffy also said is in favor of recruiting new air traffic controllers as a trump administration echoes the president's concerns over di in air traffic control. >> our mission since the start has been safety they have lost that mission. let's focus on safety and focus on social justice of the environment. bad things happen. it hasn't been busy we will have a fuller assessment of what happens in regard to dei and faa and dot. we will report that out. >> should investigate everything. let's just say the person at the controls did not have enough staffing around him or her because we were turning people away because of der right reasons. there is a very direct connection between the policies of the last administration and shorshortstaffed air traffic controllers. that has to stop t the quick ths comes as new details this morning on the actions the pilots on american airlines flight 5342 might have taken seconds before and

cheryl: sean duffy responded to hillary clinton after he enlisted the help to update air traffic controltems. all of this is a federal judge is limiting the cost cutting agencies access to the treasury department payment systems meta ceo mark zuckerberg at the white house thursday offering to help the trump administration defended advanced american tech leadership abroad. president trump telling gop congressional leaders to eliminate tax breaks for billionaire owners of sports teams in order to pass the tax cuts, they met at the white house for over four hours attempting to figure how to pass trump's massive policy bill the big beautiful bill as lawmakers struggle to find common ground on spending cuts, let's take a look at futures on your friday as you can see the dow slightly higher the nasdaq and s&p slightly lower. investors taken on amazon revenue numbers now look unfortunately we also have a look ahead to busy week of earnings next week today is the big day for jobs jobs data on top of the december jobs data 8:30 a.m. eastern we have the all hands on deck panel ready to go when tho

we do know that transportation secretary sean duffy has received an update from the n.t.s.b. and governor shapiro praised the interagency cooperation so it's all hands on deck right now sort of in the longer term to figure out exactly what went wrong on na plane and anyone who need to communicate with us, and to you the american people, how many people have been injured or killed. griff: quite a wide and dangerous debris field. nate, we'll check with you for more. thank you. let's bring in a part of the u.s. helicopter safety team, chris bauer. and you heard nate's report and we have a sound bite from philadelphia's mayor cherelle parker. here is what she said a few minutes ago. >> it was only afloat for a short period of time before something went terribly wrong and it crashed. griff: so, chris, obviously, shortly after takeoff and nate said it was less than a minute that this lear jet 55 crashed. what are your initial reactions to in? what do you suppose may have led to the trouble they got into in very short order? >> thanks for having me, what a tragedy. and my thoughts a

right now we know that there were six people on board according to secretary sean duffy.he new transportation secretary who is now dealing with two plane crashes within 48 hours here and the country. people have a lot of questions about what is going on. the plane was going to springfield airport in missouri. it was in the air for 30 seconds before this thing went into basically a fireball and came down. but again, this is a three-alarm fire. as we try to figure out why the plane went down, those questions are going to take a while from the faa but i think people in the ground are now dealing with all of this havoc. i mean it looks like explosions all over the place. i think the fires near the row homes are under control but it wasn't just the row homes, it was the cars in the parking lot and those are full of fuel as well. so that's why things are popping and causing small fires everywhere. so the fire department is working on it. >> jesse: it looks like a war zone out there in the northeast philadelphia. you said that they were able to evacuate people from these row hom

we'll keep an eye on that. >> transportation secretary sean duffy touring the faa academy as there areair traffic. grady, hello, from oklahoma city. >> transportation secretary sean duffy is here right now on that tour getting a firsthand look at some of the training that takes place here and some of the technology they use to train those air traffic controller students. we actually got a behind the scenes look at some of it as well here at the faa's air traffic controller academy. i want to show you some video. this was pretty cool. a simulator the students here use. i'm told the transportation secretary might actually give it a whirl himself today. this simulator plays out real world scenarios that controllers would encounter on the job. the head of training for the faa says the agency would like to invest more in this type of cutting-edge technology to get controllers trained faster but here is the thing. one of those simulators costs something like $750,000. another challenge that they are dealing with is that right now only about 65% of students actually make it through the academ

he is transportation secretary sean duffy he was joining us now.eat to see you, as you know, your boss our president is speaking right now and we are monitoring him from mara largo as we speak. i do want to start with some context. the number of plane crashes before trump, the number of plane crashes after trump. is that a fact? >> is not a fact. we have number so we look at it from the beginning of joe biden's presidency until today. there was 57 airplane accidents under president trump, there was 35. there has been more high-profile crashes with the dca and what happened in alaska and philadelphia and now up in canada but again air crashes have been, but the point here is, we want to get to a place where we have zero crashes. what i have done its focus on how to upgrade the system. you look at what is happening, the airspace around dca, that was allowed to stay open under the last administration. inspections that were done to the aircraft that was crash done under the last administration. which is which? that they would come at this administratio

now as alexis was talking about what is interesting about this case now that duffy has dispatched thejunction it will also take on an international component. we do not fully know what that will entail but as you mentioned earlier in this show this airline, this aircraft, this medevac service, apparently had some instances in the past, ntsb investigators will have to dive into that on the international level and see cooperation there. it comes after just earlier today here with the crash and washington happening wednesday just before 9:00, duffy posted on x the announcement he made in conjunction with the president in consultation with defense secretary pete hegseth he is a restricting helicopter flights and commercial air space around reagan national airport. that is in effect now for the foreseeable future, certainly until the investigation is done here. for a guy that had just been sworn in on wednesday shortly after the catastrophic midair collision in washington over the potomac river and now this in philly, sean duffy is among the busiest of the cabinet members. wait to see what

this will never work. >> duffy says that he's going to conduct a compliance review of funding for the california high-speed rail authority. currently some 171 miles of the system are being constructed and designed are said and bakersfield. project is expected to be done in 2033. >> alright, weather time as we get a live look here at sfo. >> lawrence is joining us now to talk about all that crazy weather that is is impacting the rest of the country. yeah. here we're talking about 70's around the bay area. some spring-like weather. they are in the grips of some unbelievably cold temperatures there. freeze watches and warnings all the way into the deep south. and of course, more snow. it has been a rough period here across much of the country. you see that snow making its way across the great lakes and eventually into the northeast where they're seeing some heavier amounts of snow. that lake effect snow picking up overnight tonight and its tomorrow morning. so the buffalo are expecting some heavier snow. there may be as much as 6 inches overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning behin

he was accompanied by his transportation secretary, sean duffy...ciate the confidence you placed in me. thank you. authority figures begin to turn their attention to what may have caused the collision. president donald trump held a news conference in the white house. he was accompanied by his transportation secretary, sean duffy... i appreciate the confidence you placed in me. thank you. ..and his defence secretary, pete hegseth. and in that press conference, donald trump did what one would expect a president to do. he expressed condolences with the loved ones. he talked about the tragedy, how this was a nation grieving together, how hearts had been shattered of the nation as they had been shattered in the families of those who had lost their loved ones. but then it took a different turn as president trump moved to politicise the events, which is not something one normally sees so soon after an event, in the first remarks given by a president. he sought to blame his predecessors, president obama and president biden. he also sought to lay the lay the

. >> reporter: transportation secretary sean duffy got a hands-on look at the high-stakes training to become a controller. >> runway 28 left clear to land. >> reporter: his visit comes as the ntsb and faa are investigating a string of aviation crashes and close calls. in washington, d.c., nome, alaska, toronto and this week's close call on the runway at chicago midway airport. >> 2504 going around. >> reporter: is there anything that connects them or is it the possibility of human error? >> they're all very unique. but i do think in all of them -- and again, not exclusively, not 100%, but a majority probably of the errors go to the pilots. right? there's some pilot error at play in each of these incidents. >> reporter: the ntsb chair says it appears the private jet pilot who taxied in front of a southwest plane had failed to follow controller instructions to hold and wait of the . flexjet, the owner of the company, says it's conducting its own investigation. "any action to rectify and ensure the highest safety standards will be taken." your message after the midway incident was if you

it's a stressful job but you need to contl your nerves. >> reporter: after hearing from students, duffy announced steps to attract what he calls the best and brightest. fast tracking students with the highest application test scores. accelerating the hiring process, and a 30% pay hike for academy students. >> 160 grand a year, three years after you graduate. come on, so young people, check it out. >> reporter: 1800 students came through here at the academy last year. 2,000 are expected this year. they would like to add more. the biggest problem is a shortage of controller instructors, all of whom are retired controllers. lester. >> all right, tom costell oh, thanks. >>> in 60 seconds, intrigue over influencer andrew tate, back in the u.s. after charging of sex trafficking overseas. why florida governor desantis is speaking out about it. if you have heart failure or chronic kidney disease, farxiga can help you keep living life, because there are places you'd like to be. (♪♪) serious side effects include increased ketones in blood or urine and bacterial infection between the anus and geni

and secretary duffy very respectfully and it was pointed out that it's so-called experienced d.c. her to let america to this point a crisis then causing her to blame donald trump he's an office a week with the recent traffic airline tragic airline crashes secretary duffy for a bit of a history lessen the department of transportation was so focused on woke nests and of the green new scam it never found time to update the nation's critical air traffic control system there were also way short staff according to the head of the air-traffic controllers union almost 4000 fewer air-traffic controllers then we should and that's on joe biden and on harris and pete and john solomon discovered that there been record numbers of near miss incidents airports around the country under biden and harris before donald trump took office and study warned about understaffing and outdated equipment and i know hillary is bitter that she lost in 2016 but she is irrelevant as a political figure at this point and there is safety issues that need to be dealt a smart way as the secretary said she should sit t

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secretary sean duffy, a former congressman from wisconsin. secretary duffy, thanks for joining us. so let's start with the news today. the faa warning system that sends alerts to pilots about conditions that could affect the safety of their flights. that system has been down since late last night. you say a backup system is being used. a similar outage two years ago temporarily forced a nationwide ground stop, leading to thousands of canceled and delayed flights. what is the latest on this specific incident and what impact is it having? >> yeah. >> so first, jake, i. >> want to send my condolences, my deepest condolences to the families who lost their loved ones during the air disasters this week. i also want to say thanks to the first responders who responded so quickly. they are patriots. they're heroes. i want to say thank you to them as well. but to the know tam system. your question, it went down last night. a backup system was activated. as of right now, the the the the the lead system is online and working. this is the system where pilots download their information, their fl

and sean duffy coming back and calling her basically a liar.upgrading the nation's air traffic control system most experts agree, that's what it needs. liz. liz: jeff flock, love you're doing the reporting out there in the cold. can see you're having fun with that last part. good stuff, jeff. great to see you again. good times for you. never a dull moment. thank you, jeff. now watch this. >> background and backup information for the 50 million in condoms to the taliban. $15 million to the taliban for condoms and contraceptives. liz: that was cnn jake tapper challenging congressman brian mast showing proof of $15 million worth of birth control going to the taliban. we showed you that the other night and it's a bigger number. let's welcome to the show from house judiciary. it's $45 million. 45 $45 million went to things for like condoms for the taliban and birth control in the middle east and much more waste spending on it and what do you make of the fight the media is trying to down play the waste that doge is finding at usaid and they're doing

>> first of all, secretary duffy absolutely nailed it.d very legitimate questions for why this is the way it was when it happened. i think he had been secretary for less than a week at that point and leading from the front. asking the questions about why was the airspace not conflicted? but again we have to think about the human lives that were lost. as we continue on going through this negotiation and -- this investigation, we'll continue to wrap our arms around the family members of both the army members and also the ones who lost commercial flight. american people operate in the safest airspace in the world but secretary duffy will go about how we improve our existing infrastructure in airspace and keep it free of foreign interference and how we make sure we have the most and best talent throughout our aviation sectors. the american people deserve to have zero doubt when they take off they will land safely. >> harris: it is interesting. you get to that point of merit. that's been part of the discussion brought on by an emotional presid

here's the advantage we have now, we have sean duffy, secretary duffy, that's going on the leading this investigation. i believe congress will probably defer to him at this point because we know we can trust this administration, we know we can trust secretary duffy, and we'll be briefed on this next week. once that briefing takes place, he'll tell us what his procedures are, what he's going to be doing moving down the road and then report back to us. i think it's premature to say we're going to do our own investigation. most of the time when we do our own investigation is when the administration isn't forth if coming with information, and we have to do it ourselves. many in this case, we, like i said fortunately, david, we have an administration we can trust, we have a president we can trust. and unless something comes up that forces us to move forward, we'll probably let them move and then take appropriate channels we need to to react either through legislation, through certain rulemaking or bringing in the faa themselves can and helping change the procedures. david: of course, that ha

sean duffy says none of those who were released were air traffic controllers.ay trump's nominee vowed if confirmed to keep safety a top priority. >> we cannot fall down on the job and these recent disasters are just a horrible reminder that we need to be constantly vigilant. we have a zero tolerance for commercial air disasters. >> zero tolerance. american public is paying attention. associated press polling people asking them what they think about the state of aviation right now. 28% saying very safe. when you combine it is very and somewhat safe 65%. democrats arguing public whats a right to be concerned. >> the skies are secure and safety is a top priority. sadly, i can't say that the actions we're seeing from this administration does any of that. >> we have seen the administration's officials including transportation secretary duffy push back quite a bit on that. in california meeting with air traffic controllers. later today looking to see if he responds. >> shannon: mark meredith at the house, joining me on the phone. a former navy pilot. thank you for yo

i have been struck tonight, sean, but the transportation secretary sean duffy. i know he is a former colleague but you have to give credit where credit is due, he has been incredible he active on social media, talking about breathing the president and governor shapiro from faa headquarters earlier in the night. he expressed everything that we knew at the time. a learjet crashed around 7:30, to parting from northeast philadelphia airport. i'm very familiar with the area. i have family in that area. this is a devastating circumstance and in particular on the heels of what has happened here and washington. and yet, thankfully we do have a government in this circumstance that is active, transparent and giving us the very latest. sean? >> sean: kevon will be getting back to you throughout the night. we do have a statement from the faa. a learjet crashed around 6:30 p.m. eastern time. after departing northeast, they said at the time that there were two people onboard. they are headed on route to springfield branson national airport missouri. the faa will investigate a

. >> transportation secretary sean duffy just posted on x moments ago he received an update from the n.t.s.b. right now it's all hands on deck. the f.a.a. also here with the a.t.f. investigating at the federal level. state authorities doing their thing and then philadelphia police as well, just about 50 yards to my right right now. we're waiting on that news conference, it was supposed to be at 9:00 and now it seems live nobody knows when it's going to happen, david, but we'll continue pushing for answers and hopefully we can get some soon. david: nate, thank you very much for that. appreciate it. former n.t.s.b. investigator charlie pereira on what they're looking for right now. i have to, the tragedy of this, a little girl who just finished medical treatment and so anxious to get back home, the mother was there. this is just such an awful, awful tragedy. where do you start to look? you saw the debris field, it's scattered everywhere and difficult it reconstruct exactly what happened, isn't it. >> the n.t.s.b., on the go team, would typically be out at a site, you know, close to d.c

on wednesday, duffy we did vote big news.to the coach came from a they are going to plug into help upgrade aviation system which so far, so good because let's face it, the aviation system isn't throwing up a perfect game lately, not exactly but hillary was on twitter, she had a few drinks and girls just want to have fun. [laughter] she only talks like that, she's how she talks, i met her. she tweets back to duffy complaining about the team, they have no relevant experience. most aren't even old enough to rent a car and you are going to let them mess with the airline safety authority deteriorated on your watch which by the way, that's one way to impact the boat. [laughter] you saw if you are not at least 25. [laughter] adam secretary with all due respect, experienced washington democrat bureaucrats, the reason our nation's infrastructure is crumbling need to sit this one out. [laughter] i really read that and was like my god, duffy talk to hilary about aviation the weight bill talks to her about sex. [laughter] madam secretary

maria: what mismanagement. >> you know, when secretary duffy talks about the whole program, he harkens highway administration built these roads and they were designed to be toll-free. you had to have a toll-free option. that's now being eliminated. you can't get in new york city without a toll-free option. he said that is anti-thetical as to why they invested in the infrastructure. this is going to be a fight for a long time because the mta has always really struggled and they have to find some kind of way and you know, duffy didn't say you couldn't charge anything. it had to be actually worked through what would be the number to reduce congestion. and that's not what it's -- it's tied to a fiscal target by the mta, what they need, not what it takes to reduce the amount of cars. >> looks like tolling on federally funded roads cannot happen without congressional approval. maria: that's a good point. okay. so she's overstepped. >> yeah. >> she's overstepped and she stopped curbing illegal immigration. we are paying more to pay for housing in new york city. who is paying? taxpayers and ot