jeff johnson was h. r.ce. >> i did have some exit interviews that people complained of how nick talked to them. >> except the way nick talked to them was kind of what nick was being paid for. >> correct. >> which was, let's go. >> get the job done and get it done on time and on budget. >> he was brought in to sort of be the hammer. >> exactly right. >> but when you're hired to be a hammer, sometimes everything and everyone starts looking like a nail. feels to me like maybe there are a lot of people you might want to be talking to at the office. >> yes. the list was very long. >> a lot of them had petty grievances, like a safety inspector named james lapan. >> it's just we never got along is the thing. >> lapan told investigators nick had given him a hard time for parking his car in a restricted area and had accused him of using a personal tablet computer during working hours. >> anybody you know that wants to kick his ass? >> kick his ass? no. >> reporter: maybe not over a parking spot, but then detective g

jeff currie. from london, i'm guy johnson. alix steel on assignment now. she will be back in the next hour. welcome to bloomberg markets. our top story is very much what's happening in the u.s. flights now starting to resume after the faa outage that grounded departures across the country, looks as though it's been fixed. president biden addressing the failure earlier as he departing the white house, noting there is no evidence of a cyberattack. president biden: they don't know what the cause is. aircraft can still land safely. they cannot take off right now. they expected to be cleared within a couple of hours. we will respond at that time. . guy: apologies for the background noise but i think we heard what the president has to say, a positive note, hopefully things are getting back into the sky, passengers resuming their journeys. let's go to laguardia in queens where kriti gupta is standing by. chaos earlier. what is the latest? kriti: it was only a one to two-hour delay for these domestic flights. they were put back in the air right around 9:00 eastern. one of the takeaways as we are se

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