Sean Duffy
Appearances
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
So again, there's redundancies in place that guarantee safe travel. And again, there was the DCA, there was Alaska, there was Canada. There was quite a few of them. All were very different. And we're learning from those. But I fly all the time and I do it safely. We're safer in a plane than we are in a car by far.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
I was, I brushed my teeth. I was going to bed, put my clothes back on and went down to the FAA where my whole team came in along with the FAA team. And listen, we were tracking the audio, watching what was happening with the recovery. and getting a lot of information flowing as to what the situation was and what had actually happened.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Listen, I'm going to give you a quick little history here. The cables that connect our telecoms are old copper wires. We need fiber, right? That should have been done years ago. We're using radar. It all works, but the newest radar we have is from the 80s, right? There's great new technology in radar. We're going to upgrade all of We're going to redo all of those.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
The control terminals that air traffic controllers use are old as old ghetto. Some of them use floppy disks. They have headphones on and plug-in jacks that they're moving from one jack to the next. So we are going to rip that stuff out, and we're going to rebuild it, and we're going to rebuild it quickly. It's going to be the best in the system.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And if it takes eight years or 10 years, it'll never get done. We have to do it in two years, phase one. Another year and a half after that, phase two has to be done. So three and a half years, this has to be completed. And that's where Elon's team has been really helpful, helping us think through, how do you do this kind of massive upgrade and do it fast?
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Southwest did this in their airlines as well. They did it in two years. So the best people who do this work are going to help us make it happen. But again, if there's a breakdown in the system that we use today, you don't fly. Yeah.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
It's hilarious how they lose their minds. This is one factor that we consider. This is not the end all be all when we award money, but it's a factor we should consider. And if you think about it, it makes complete sense.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
We're making investments in different communities and the communities that are going to grow, that are going to need the investments in infrastructure are the ones where people get married. And when they get married, they actually have kids. And that's how communities actually grow, not just in America, but throughout human history. And so we have to look at that and think about it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And if you get married and have kids in communities, we're probably going to need to invest some money in the infrastructure because I bet your community is going to grow. It's a really simple thing. But it goes to something else, Evita.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
it's they have there's an affront to their psychological liberalism that says families are bad marriage is evil kids aren't kids aren't good family creation is not a is not a societal benefit so don't invest in that sean duffy how dare you invest where people have kids and get married They should celebrate this and go, you know what? It's a national security issue.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
But to your point, it's my first 10 hours in the job and this happens. But again, if you've had life experiences and you know how to handle pressure and you know how to handle a crisis, you can step in and you can handle anything. And again, this was, I mean, this was horrific. 67 people lost their lives in this crash. And it shouldn't have happened.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
If you don't have enough kids in a society, your society is going to crumble. It's going to fail. So we should reward families and we should reward those who have children. And listen, I'm beyond the age, but I've done my part. I have nine kids. You're the oldest. I'm the 10th of 11. So my parents did their part. It's a beautiful, wonderful thing.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And let's support it in the communities where you do have that population growth coming from family information.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
But I think it goes to something else. If you hate America, then you hate the things that make it strong. And the things that make America strong or any society strong is having a strong family, a cohesive, strong family in strong communities to put together makes strong countries. That's that's common knowledge. That's basic.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And if you don't like your country, you go you have to attack the root of that strength, which is the family and those who support the family and investments in places where they have families. That's that's they got to stab you in the neck because they know that if they can get the family, they get the country. And we keep strong families, we get to keep our country, keep it strong.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
A lot of kids are on, but I can make one quick point. So Elon is not in the cabinet. So he- That's so true. You're right.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
In the cabinet, I still have the most. I can't cede the cabinet number one number of children to Elon. But listen, it's a group of people who do celebrate families, that value their families, and who, by the way, take time away from their families to serve their country. Because they want to make their country great, but they also think the service that they're giving, the time they're giving,
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
is going to make America better for their kids and their grandkids. And I think the point you're making is really important, Evita. There's something else that drives you in the decisions that you make. You're leaving something off for someone else, which is the people that you love that are in your family.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And I think you make better choices when that's what drives you, not some ideological left-wing progressive idea that the environment's gonna collapse if you have too many kids, which is what your mom and I are called environmental terrorists all the time, because we have so many kids. By the way, I wouldn't send any of you back. You've all been great.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And I think, but you know what, societally, Evita, too, great to hear your point on this. I do think it's important for us to show how great and how fun and how fulfilling families are. And you get more fulfilled with the more kids that you have. And mom and I always talk about it's because, listen, little kids can be hard. It's a lot of work. It's a lot of fun and a lot of work.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
There were error after error that took place in perfect timing for these two aircraft to collide. And it was a sign, though, that something else is wrong in the system. And this is the time that we have to take as Americans to fix a really outdated, antiquated system that is our air traffic control system.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
But what is it going to be 10 years or 20 years or or 30 years down the road? What is what is your Christmas or your Thanksgiving table going to look like if you only had one or two kids versus if you had eight or nine or 10 kids? You fill up your house and it's so much fun when you come home from from Florida doing the show and with all your siblings. It's a pretty raucous fun time.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
You and Mikey have a great time with all the kids. It's really enjoyable and provides great value, I think, not just for parents, but for kids themselves.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
So that might be a broad stroke of it. I do think there's people who don't have kids that have great hearts and great, great ideas on service. But I think the distortion I think about is the distorted left who comes up with these radical ideas that actually are going to hurt kids and hurt families. And they don't mind that because they don't have them.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Where I do think conservatives that might not have kids They still value the family. They still value the community and the families in that community and want to have policies that support them where the left want to destroy it. I think there's a big distinction between the childless conservative versus the childless liberal.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
No, he's not. That'd be a big problem if he did, because Tesla comes to my department. SpaceX comes to my department. Um, the boring company comes through my department. So yeah, if he ran it, that would be a major problem, uh, for the president, for me, for, for the Congress. But, um, here's what's happening though, Vita.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Um, there, there are substantial reform that has to happen in the American government, right? It's, it's, it's, it's, it's fat, it's bloated. There's, there's duplicative roles all over agencies and departments. Um, and it's really hard as a new cabinet secretary to see. the redundancies and the bloat. Elon and his team, I mean, this is what they do.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Like they're startups and they can see how efficiencies can be driven in any organization. And so as these two things, the startup set of ideas of Elon and his team, and also these cabinet secretaries who understand policy and politics, they're coming together and working together. And there's gonna be some bumps in the road as that happens.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
But as we figure it out, it's going to be a beautiful dance and a beautiful marriage on how the two of us can take the knowledge that each of us have and how we can come together and be smart about how we make this government more efficient. We're $36 trillion in debt.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
There's way too many government employees and way too many government employees who don't want to serve the president who was elected by the people, which is, by the way, anti-democracy. And so you got to get rid of those people. And you got to streamline your government. And again, if you can streamline it, make it more efficient and serve the president, that means we have more money
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
in our pockets, which means we don't have to borrow as much money. So again, there's been a bumpy road for sure. I think every cabinet member would tell you that. It's been imperfect, but this is new and we're figuring it out.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And again, I think talking to each other and working through the problems is going to put us in a place where we're going to be able to deliver for Donald Trump, who has a vision on what he wants to create for the country. And that's what we're doing.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Which one are you? I'm on the right, I think. So you have a steel core hemp rope, and little spurs in the tree. This is a 90-foot race. And so you're climbing straight up into the air, but when you hit the line, it's a free fall back to earth, which you see happens very quickly. And the first one back down is the victor.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
So what you see there in lumberjack sports, and if you watch ESPN6 at four o'clock in the morning, you might see these sports, right? So this is chopping, sawing, log rolling, tree climbing. And these are all skills that the old time lumberjacks used to use in the woods. And they've now come into this modern day sport.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And if you think of a lumberjack as a beer drinking, fat, hairy, you know, guy, that is not what this sport is. These are really great athletes who are engaging in these sports. And I listen as part of this is Americana. This is part of our history. And so as the lumberjacks came to the northern east and through the through the center of the country out to now to the West Coast,
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
They used all of these skills and as technology developed, you have now had these communities were created. Hayward where I was born and raised and you've spent a lot of time. You were actually born in the Hayward area and we moved on after that, but you go back every summer. This was a logging town and that's how it got its founding.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And so this big competition happens there every year and people from all over the world, and we'll say, well, who competes? it's Canada, the US, Australia, and New Zealand is where these sports are big. And people come in from all those places and there's this massive competition, but we're celebrating athletes, but we're celebrating America is what we are in America's great history.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And I would tell you that the speed climb is kind of like the bull riding of the rodeo. It's the most exciting sport. It's probably the most dangerous sport. You gotta be a little crazy to do it. Cause again, It's one thing to go up. It takes strength and speed and stamina. But you got to have, I'll use the word backbone, gumption. I could say something else, but I won't on your podcast.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
I don't want to get you in trouble. But you got to have that thing that lets you break loose and free fall back down to earth and get there first.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
So those who don't know Mikey, he's a he's a strong, big young man and he's a good athlete. And so but you're right, Avita. So log rolling kids, people start like if you take diving lessons or taekwondo and you're five years old, people go take these little kids go take log rolling lessons and they barely can move the log. Right. And they figure out how they keep their balance.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And it's almost like a tightrope walker has a pole. They look out down the wire and look at the wire as they walk. Log rolling is the same, and you have your arms out for balance, and you look down the log at your opponent's feet. And there's only one rule. You can't cross the center line, and you're doing all you can to get your opponent off. And it's a fast-paced, tough sport.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
But as you watch the professionals do it, the log is, in essence, flush with the water. And these guys or women are battling out, pushing and pulling this log, and running on it, and it almost looks magical. It's like, how can these people scan this log? It is a highly skilled sport, and especially when you get really good at it. You were log rolling when you were little.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
We moved away and it was harder for you to do it, but you see these young kids and it's a great pastime. And you know, when I was growing up, I would go do lumberjack competitions around the country, but then also do exhibitions. And so I traveled all over the country, log rolling, chopping, sawing, tree climbing. And I got to see all these fairs and festivals.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
It's good to be here, Evita. Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. First time. My debut on the Early Edition, so thanks for having me.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
I got to see the kind of the greatest parts of this country when I was young doing these shows that helped me then, you know, have money to go to undergrad and go to law school. And even when I was a lawyer, I was a prosecutor. I'd want to get away and go do a week lumberjack show because there's something for me that was therapeutic. It's just, it's a really cool sport that has a lot of, um,
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
It's kind of in my genetics, I guess. I don't know.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
As I was going through the confirmation hearing, I kept telling everybody that I could fit it in six ways to Sunday. I'd be like, I got my CDL. I got my CDL holder. So, yeah, I had to have a CDL, a commercial driver's license, to drive our lumberjack trucks around the country. They were, you know, long trailers. And then we'd have these trees that where the butts would be on the back end.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Then we'd have a rack where the trees would shoot up over the top of the trucks. And so we needed to have commercial driver's license to drive these vehicles. And I've had it for 30 years. And when I got a New Jersey's driver's license, I sat so long in the DMV.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And they said, you can come back in three days and we'll let you keep your CDL license, but you need some other, you have to get a physical. And I'm like, I am not coming back here. You can take my CDL. I've always had it because I'm like, if something ever happens in life and I can't find a job, I'm like, I can always go back. I've got my CDL. I can be a truck driver. And so I gave it up though.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
This is someone trying to do it that can't do it. Can't do it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Yeah, she's real good. What happens is as you hit certain time limits, the diameter of the log gets smaller. So if you start at 15 inches in diameter and then it goes to 12 inches, 13 inches, 12 inches, and the smaller the diameter, the smaller the log, which means it's faster and it floats lower in the water. So it's much more difficult. And anyway, it is a great sport.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And by the way, if you haven't seen it, last weekend, usually it's the last weekend in July in Hayward, Wisconsin, is the Lumberjack World Championships. Go check it out. You'll be thoroughly entertained. There's great food up there. There's beautiful lakes. You can go fishing. In the summer, I get offered to go all kinds of places and I turn them all down because I think this is the,
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Yeah. So, um, information is shared, you know, I think in pretty quick timing from the NTSB, the NTSB is a, independent agency from the Department of Transportation. They do the investigations on all kinds of crashes or close calls or incidents. And so they've released a lot of information. They have a report coming out this week. It's going to be their preliminary report.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
the best place on earth that you could be in July or August, all over the country, but all over the world. It's beautiful.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
No.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Okay, let me go second. You go first.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
The final report will probably take another year, year and a half to get out. But what we do know is that we had an American aircraft coming in on its approach to runway 33. It comes in across the Potomac. and it's a short runway and oftentimes smaller airplanes will be asked to land there.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Okay, listen, so I disagree. I looked at the video and there's one effort that you can try to be cool and use Gen Z language. But if you get to a certain age, like you're not cool, right? And it seems like she was using the language and it was obviously a joke. She obviously, she's older and she's got purple hair and it's like,
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
of course he's using their language and it's, she's, she's a bit of a spoof and she's in on the joke. I thought I had an old colleague who's now retired from Wisconsin. His name was Jim Sensenbrenner. And again, he was old and they would, his staff would take pictures of him at his, at his typewriter typing.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And he was like, I'm writing up a tweet would be the caption on the video of Jim on his old, he had like, it was an old school typewriter where you, you guys don't even know what this is. You're young viewers, but you hit the side and go, whoop, you're going to push the, the bar back over and start typing the next line. So I do think there are things that can be endearing and engaging.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And she's old enough that I thought it was okay. You did. I did. But you make a different point. So on the cool side, that conservatism has become cool again. And cool people who really weren't Republicans have become Republicans because Democrats have gotten so crazy. Even Joe Rogan is a liberal. And he's endorsing Donald Trump because he's like, I can't vote for this crazy. This is so nuts.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
I can't do it. Elon Musk was a liberal, a Democrat. And after they tried to transition his kid and crazy policies, he's like, you know what? No, I'm going to go with Trump. I'm going to go with these guys that are far more common sense. I think you're seeing
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
A lot of traditional Democrats look at what's happened to the Democrat Party, and they're like, they don't represent me anymore, and I'm going to lend my voice to a more common sense movement, which is Republicans. And then with that, oh, there it is. Send it out a tweet. He's a wonderful friend of mine. But what I was going to tell you is that with them comes some coolness and some cachet.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
right? You get that when you bring in cool people. And again, Democrats, I think they don't know how to respond to this new Republican cool, because to your point, we've never been cool. Culture always crushes us. Culture hates us. And now we're part of culture that Donald Trump dances. And again, it's maybe not the sexiest, greatest dance out there, but he's got
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
the fists out, and he's kind of moving his hips and just shaking to YMCA. And it's so authentic. And it's so, he's not trying to be anything but Donald Trump at 78 years old, doing a little shake out there, authentically Donald, and that authentic nature, all of a sudden, football, football stars, football, you know, touchdowns are scored and, you know, in the end zone, it's the Donald Trump.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
You see Donald Trump taking off all over the country. because it was authentic. So Rosa DeLauro, she'll never take off. I can laugh with her, but do I think she's cool? No. But Donald Trump, because he's so authentic and so cool himself, it transcends culture.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
At the same time, you had a military Black Hawk that was flying a check mission where someone, one of the pilots needed to be checked out to be certified from the military. And they were flying instead of on the eastern bank of the river, they were flying out in the middle of the river. Now it was still in their lane of travel, they could be there, but most of the pilots fly closer
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And when Republicans play in culture, the left, I mean, they don't know how to deal with it because they're like, you can't play in culture. We own the culture. You can't play in this space. And now that we are and doing it well, and they're feeling at it, um, it's this unique dynamic shift that's happening in America.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
So it was my staff's idea. But what they recognized was, again, so I was just I was on the campaign trail. And I'll take selfies with everybody because I didn't have any. There was no one on my team.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
But I was I was taking pictures with people. And then selfies became a thing. And so when the song came out, let me take a selfie. It was easy. They're like, why don't we put together a montage of all your selfies, which we did. And I had all these selfies that I had taken over my term in Congress and before that. And so they just did this, did this compilation.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And, uh, but it was very authentic to me. And when I first ran again, you had to go back, this is what, 2009. And so Facebook was becoming a thing. And did that, you know, did Twitter exist at that time, but it wasn't really a thing yet. And so I would just be like, Hey, I pulled my camera, but it wasn't, it was not my iPhone. that's cracked right now.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
But it was like, I had like actual a video camera and I would do these videos of like, I'm in my car, I'm going here and I'm at this fair, I'm milking this cow, like walking through dairy barns. I'm Northern Wisconsin, by the way. That's why that's a, that's a thing. And then I'd have to transfer them to my computer and I'd post them. And people loved it. And no one was really doing it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And so we were innovative at the time. And it was, I think what it does is it lets people come in and share the experience of a campaign with the candidate. And they get to know you better through the videos that you post and the places that you go and the people that you meet. And I was doing it before it was really popular. And it was, by the way, you've seen our old videos, Evita?
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
to the bank, which is further away from runway 33. This helicopter was not. There is an elevation ceiling for those helicopters at 200 feet. They can't go above 200 feet. This helicopter was flying at over 300 feet. Not only that, they were flying the aircraft with night vision goggles. So night vision goggles, again, your peripheral vision is impacted. Lights are distorted.
The Dan Bongino Show
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I did this when Evita was a baby, when I met your mom, I would just get my old video camera and I just would walk around and talk about what was going on in the world and what we're doing and where we're going. Like I've just done this my whole life. So when I ran for office, it was easy to put a camera up and talk about what I was doing. And again, people loved it.
The Dan Bongino Show
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And people love it now as it's grown because it's letting people connect with you in a different way. And I think that's really powerful. Going back to the point on culture, I want to get your take on this too.
The Dan Bongino Show
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Um, I don't know if we're able to play differently because we've changed and we're better at it, or it's that we now have access to a platform that'll let us be ourselves and that's Twitter. And you know, that, that Elon has opened up Twitter for all of us or X, I should say. Um, I think it's given us a fair shake at sharing our stories, our messages, our videos, our thoughts.
The Dan Bongino Show
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you know, laughing at liberals, letting liberals laugh at us. It really is the marketplace of ideas, which is what we want. And I think that's a really good thing. And in that space, we've done really well. But we were suppressed for so long. Was it that we were so bad or is that we were never able to have a fair shake at culture because we were never allowed into culture?
The Dan Bongino Show
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Elon with X has allowed us in and we've done pretty well.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Well, there's two things. One, I had the ability because of X and I wasn't censored to respond to her and not only match her reach of her attack on me, but blow her reach out of the water and get, I think, two or three times the reach that she had.
The Dan Bongino Show
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Let's throw them up there, Mikey. Yeah, so this is her ridiculous attack on us. But I also think what happened was I went back at her hard. in my response to her attack. And I think most of the secretaries wouldn't have felt comfortable doing that. But I felt comfortable because Donald Trump communicates in an honest way. He's not afraid to punch back when people hit him.
The Dan Bongino Show
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And that gives me the authority and the opportunity to punch back at Hillary really hard as well. Donald Trump has completely shaken up the way that Republicans respond to left-wing media, how they respond to attacks, before they would just take them. Donald Trump has taught Republicans, you don't have to take the attack. You don't have to take the punch.
The Dan Bongino Show
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You can actually punch back with truth and you'll actually win. But I find interesting in all of this, again, we're playing in maybe, you know, Gen Z space. But you mentioned, you know, what happened in this last election with men. And I think it's really remarkable. But liberals have had the idea that they're going to have a lock on American politics. Just give us a couple extra elections.
The Dan Bongino Show
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And this thing is all going to be ours because we have the youth vote and we have the minority vote. And I think you saw in this election, that philosophy may be flawed because the youth vote trended significantly toward Donald Trump and Republicans and the minority vote, specifically Hispanics, but also black men. The shift was remarkable to Republicans away from Democrats.
The Dan Bongino Show
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And this idea that the young and the minority is going to be the coalition that drives the Democrat party.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
is flawed because it's not about you your age or your race it's about good ideas and if your ideas suck like democrats ideas suck well guess what uh they want to go with a set of ideas that are normal that are going to help their families and their lives and their pocketbooks and their jobs and their opportunities that's what they want and that's what we saw in this election it was not about a party it was about a guy that made a different promise to them
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And so those three things together brought the helicopter right into the flight path of the landing American Airlines flight. So I think when we see the report, there'll be a lot of blame on the military and on the air traffic control. Another thing happened. You usually have one controller for helicopters, another controller for civilian aircraft.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And they remembered back to the first four years and all the crap that the left gave Donald Trump. They said, you know what? But he still delivered for us. And by the way, he didn't make girls shower with boys. What a beautiful thing, Donald Trump. Pretty simple.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Anyway, it was it was a good response. I'm at I'm at SEC Duffy on X. If you want to go check out my spat with with Hillary. But it was it was it was it's nice to be able to respond and punch back. And again, I do think of each and you can tell me if I'm right or wrong. The young Americans actually like the debate.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
They actually enjoy the fight because they're getting, you know, goes back to Donald Trump's dance. you're having an authentic debate on X. Two different sides, really different points of views, attacks, responses, counterattacks. And that really is, again, we're not in the streets debating any longer. We're doing it on social media, but that is what we really want as a country.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Debate the ideas, have the free flow of a conversation, let the best ideas rise to the top, and X is letting that happen. And then it plays out in elections, which was pretty good for Republicans last November.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Can I make one? Yeah. So I'm at SecDuffy on Twitter. If you want FAA information, you go to FAA News on X as well. But here's the just there's been a number of different incidents in air travel. And all of them are unique. All of them are different. And none of them relate back to a cracking, eroded system. It's made us look at the system that has to be completely gutted and remade. That's true.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
But this is not because the system is broken. It's because other factors came into play. And once you had DCA, we even had the airplane of Motley Crue that had, I think it was a landing gear malfunction. There's a heightened attention on anything with aviation right now, where a year ago, a lot of things were happening, but people weren't paying attention the way they are now.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
So they think there's more incidents, but there's not. And so I'll just tell your viewers and listeners, I'm on it. We have a great plan. The president is 100% on board, and we are going to fix what the last administration didn't fix. We're going to do it fast. The Congress is going to give us the money. And we are going to make air travel great, making sure less delays, less cancellations.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And if I can make one last pitch, Evita, people might not think we're the greatest, coolest, sexiest department, but we are. Listen, we affect people's lives in a way that other departments don't. If transportation doesn't work, congestion on roads or in the air and delays, and you sit in traffic, That takes you away from your family, takes you away from the people that you love.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Well, if the weather is good and the traffic is down, they will consolidate those two controllers into one position. And that's what they did this night. The problem was that, yeah, it was a clear night, but there was quite a bit of traffic out of DCA. And that position probably shouldn't have been consolidated. And maybe had we had two controllers, this incident wouldn't have happened.
The Dan Bongino Show
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I was getting spammed, and I said, finally, yes.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And when this works well, you get more time with, uh, in the places that you want to be and with the people you want to be with. And so we're, we're doing that part of it on the infrastructure of, of transportation, but also we have, we have, we have drones, we have Eva tolls or Ubers in the air, autonomous vehicles.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
So the, the internet and the iPhone were revolutionary, but the next revolution, I think that's going to happen. in technology is going to be with regard to travel and how we move people and products. And it's going to come from autonomous. It's going to come from drones. It's going to come from these autonomous drones that carry people. And what's important is that we beat China.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And to beat China, we have to have rules in place that allow innovators to innovate in America and then incentivize them to build on that innovation. The products that we use build it in America. So we have American jobs. So we can't force sources to China. We can't let them con them control the technology.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
So we're, we're setting up rules now that are going to let the companies that innovate, not do it over in Dubai or some other in China or Vietnam. We want them to do it here and we're going to do our work to make sure they can do it here. And then when they get that technology, they stay here. So it's a very exciting department, lot of important things going on.
The Dan Bongino Show
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So, um, and I'm just, by the way, I'm just, I'm grateful. Donald Trump gave me the opportunity. You were supportive of Vita. Mom was supportive. The kids have been supportive because the family does serve when you do this.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And again, I think I work 14 hours a day, many days, and I couldn't ask for a better job or a better department to serve in government and to be part of this administration's cabinet. I get to serve with, I think, he's not the greatest president of our lifetime. He is one of the greats that we've ever had.
The Dan Bongino Show
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that's going to truly fix this country and put us on a different course, a different direction. And that I get to serve with him and get to see him in action is the most amazing honor and thrill. It's exciting. And again, we're six weeks in and this is all that's happened.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
I told him one day, I'm like, Mr. President, you can retire after two months and just golf because you're going to get it all done in two months. It's going to be over. Maybe you have to slow down. He's like, I'm not slowing down. And I think he thinks about every week, every day.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
He's limited in time and he's maximizing every single moment to fix this country, to make sure that we don't have to deal with the crap that's been going on for the last several decades. We get a fresh start and we get to continue to lead the world. We're not going to cede the future to China or anyone else. It's going to be ours.
The Dan Bongino Show
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And Donald Trump is going to make sure of it with his presidency, along with the help of his cabinet and other great minds.
The Dan Bongino Show
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Defyanax, check me out.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
But here's how, and I don't want to go into too, I don't want to bore you, but What happens is the air traffic controllers will reach out to the helicopter and say, hey, in essence, we have land and aircraft, do you see it? The aircraft, military aircraft or any helicopter in their region will say, yes, I see it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And then air traffic control will say, can you commit to maintaining visual separation? You see it and you'll stay away from it. The helicopter pilot will say, yes, I see it and I'll stay away from it. That's what happened in this situation on this night. Well, obviously, They must not have seen the landing American aircraft. And obviously they didn't stay away from it.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And I think just because accidents haven't happened, people have become really loose with the rules and have become lazy with regard to the rules. And this is what happened. 67 people lost their lives. And so after the crash, I directed the FAA to restrict the airspace around D.C., around this runway 33. So there's no helicopters that can fly up and down the river except for the president.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Or if there's a life-saving mission, there's a car wreck and you got to go pick someone up or bring them to the hospital, you can fly that route. And if you do fly along the river, whether it's the president or a life-saving helicopter mission, air travel is shut down. will divert aircraft, you do not now have landing aircraft. Yeah, helicopters are in the same airspace.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
So what we know is there was an experienced pilot in the helicopter, and then there was a more junior helicopter pilot who's doing what's called a check ride. And the more experienced helicopter pilot, I think, gave indication that they were too far out in the river, not close enough to the bank, and also indicated that they were too high.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
But again, that was not remedied before the two planes collided. And again, Evita, why on earth do you have the military flying a check mission with fishing goggles around one of the busiest airports in the country at 9 o'clock at night?
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Yeah, fly it at 2 o'clock in the morning when there's no aircraft coming in and out of DCA. But to fly it when we have that many planes in the air is absolutely idiotic. Go ahead.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
We have audio from both aircraft. And so we have recordings at air traffic control. But that is not necessarily what an aircraft might hear. So think on a walkie talkie, if someone's talking to you and you hit your talk button, right, you'll get keyed out. You can't hear what the other person is saying on your walkie talkie.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
The aircraft works the same way, so we need to know what they actually heard. And so we could hear what was happening in the cockpit. And yes, the helicopter pilot knew they were too high and they were too far out in the river, the experienced one, and told that to the more junior pilot. We also know that right before the crash, the American Airlines pilots saw the helicopter coming in.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
It was a second and a half, probably before impact and two seconds before. And we know that from what happened on the voice recorder, but also they try to take evasive movement. And it was there wasn't enough time. And so but again, but just one other point of each.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
pilots and the airlines have known this is a very dangerous space and there's been near misses in this airspace for years. And that this wasn't fixed is tragic, but one of the benefits that we get from a crash like this, if you can call it a benefit, cause it's, I mean, it's, it's, it's so horrible, but you learn lessons.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And so we look at what happens in the DC airspace and we look elsewhere on the country where we might have similar circumstances and situations and say, well, Let's learn the lesson to make sure we take that lesson and apply it to Anchorage, Alaska or in one of the airports in New York City and make sure we're keeping those aircraft separated.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And we just don't rely on pilots to stay away from each other when you have aircraft coming in and out of airports.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
There was enough time to change course.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Yeah, and remedy. And then a comment along those lines was made not long before the crash as well. So the experienced pilot was giving direction during this check ride. Um, and yeah, it was, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, I think it's so frustrating because again, the military made mistakes, the pilots made mistakes.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
We don't know if this would have happened had that position of air traffic control not been consolidated. And then it begs the question, if, if they said they saw the landing, uh, American airlines flight coming into runway 33, well, obviously they didn't see it. Um, what did they see? Um, What were they looking at? And would it have been different if they didn't have night vision goggles on?
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And so what we're going to see in the NTSB report, they'll try to recreate the cockpits of both airplanes and position them out in the water near the impact in the moments before and try to get a visual of what they would have seen at that time at night through their windows with their positioning as they collided.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
And that can teach us a lot about what they could have seen, what they should have seen, and what they might have thought they were seeing.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Well, to your point, right, I was just in the job. Everyone else had gone home from D.C. You actually were there in the hotel with me. And it's interesting, in today's social media, You would think I might know what's happening first, but I find out first on Twitter. Moments after the plane went down on Twitter, we were getting reports. And so it was what it probably took me 15, 20 minutes.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
So first off, it was 352 people that were let go at the FAA. And listen, there's a lot of critical safety missions at the FAA. Air traffic controllers are one of them. Those who inspect Boeing airplanes and the manufacturing floor and they inspect pipelines. None of those people were touched. And just for perspective, there are 45,000 employees at the FAA, 45,000, and 352 positions were cut.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
That's 0.8% of their workforce. This had nothing to do with safety. And again, it opens up an avenue for the left to attack Elon Musk and attack me and the president. But these were the probationary positions that wouldn't have driven any safety mission at the agency, number one. But, you know, number two, to say that air travel isn't safe, it is. It's the safest mode of transportation.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
But also to blame us. I had been there for less than 24 hours. What I inherited is what Pete Buttigieg left me, right? He gave me this system. And by the way, he should have seen there were errors in the system. There were cracks in the system. And he should have fixed those cracks. Instead, he didn't. And now I'm going to fix it. I'm gonna make it right. I'm gonna make it great.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
We're gonna rip out all of the old equipment and put new equipment in. And so to play politics with this, I think is disgusting with Pod Save America, but also others, because again, there are a lot of factors here, but to lay political blame, if we're gonna do it, it doesn't come at us. It doesn't come at Elon Musk or Sean Duffy or Donald Trump.
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
We should probably look to the past administration for what they didn't do. And finally, in regard to travel, Again, it's the safest mode of transportation. There's a key point here that, again, we do need air traffic controllers. None were fired. We actually hired more air traffic controllers. But if the airspace isn't safe, we don't just send you up in your plane anyway, right?
The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Your flight will be delayed or your flight will be canceled. We don't send people up unless it's safe. So if there's a walkout or a strike or someone's sick in a tower somewhere in America and we don't have enough staff, They'll delay the flights. So we only have so many as air traffic can handle. Or if you don't have enough, they'll shut down flights.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Fox News in Complete Panic as Trump Screws Them
You know, Joe, all these years I've been doing this, there have been elections that the candidate of my choice didn't win. And you know what? I didn't go out there and start singing. I didn't start saying F them, F them. I didn't go out there and say we're the resistance, a constitutional crisis. No. You know what? I pointed out their flaws and and and fought for better ideas.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Desperate Fox News Flips Out on Air as Trump Cracks
I've seen him in action. I know him pretty well, Steve, like you have known him 30 years. And there's no other human being like him. I will say that.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
To cast blame on this administration for the policy failures of the last four years and say it's our fault is outrageous, but it's rich. So I want to talk quickly about the FAA. So it's true that less than 400 people were laid off at the FAA. There's 45,000 employees there. So this is 0.89%.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
But again, air crashes happen, but they were more under Biden than Donald Trump. But the point here is we want to get to a place where we have zero crashes. We don't want people to die in aircraft, which is why what I've done is focus on how do you upgrade the system? But Will, you look at what's happened The airspace around DCA, that was allowed to stay open under the last administration.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
The inspections that were done of the aircraft that have crashed, that was done under the last administration. So it is rich that they would come at this administration for the mistakes that they've made and blame us for the crashes. We're going to fix what they refused to fix over the course of their four years. And that's the mission of this department.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
But again, air crashes happen, but they were more under Biden than than Donald Trump. But the point here is we want to get to a place where we have zero crashes. We don't want people to die in aircraft. which is why what I've done is focus on how do you upgrade the system? But, Will, you look at what's happened. The airspace around DCA, that was allowed to stay open under the last administration.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Fox News in Total Panic as Trump Approval Falls
The inspections that were done of the aircraft that have crashed, that was done under the last administration. So it is rich that they would come at this administration for the mistakes that they've made and blame us for the crashes. We're going to fix what they refused to fix over the course of their four years, and that's the mission of this department.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
Probably, in all likelihood. And according to reports, they are now planning to take this show on the road, and they want to have town halls in Republican districts across the country. You may want to go. It might be entertaining. You might have a few questions for them. I would ask that you not be like them and be polite.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
But beware, if you are in a conservative area of the country, which is most of the country, a radical Democrat might be coming to a venue near you to spread their message in support of men and their right to play women's sports.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
If I were to imagine how this deal unfolds, it's going to be the rare earth mineral deal, a component that keeps U.S. involvement and a presence in Ukraine. Maybe European troops can be in Ukraine as well.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
I would imagine that Ukraine being a part of NATO is not going to happen, and I would imagine parts, maybe the Donbas region in particular or areas that are heavily populated by people from Russia, THAT WOULD GO TO PUTIN IN ANY NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT. AM I WRONG IN MY CONJECTURE HERE?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
Today, the Attorney General Pambandi released phase one of the Epstein files. That's transparency. There are a lot of names in there. And Epstein was obviously a star chaser who wanted to hang out with people that are famous, people with money. So let me be very clear at the start here. And I said this on my radio show today. People, because they're in the Rolodex. They're on the list.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Can’t Escape His Past as He Tries to Hide Epstein Files
Does not mean they did anything wrong. On this show, and we have done it over and over again, we don't rush to judgment. We believe in the presumption of innocence. And I am appealing to people not to rush to judgment. Even though these names are now public information, there are names that I'm certain were not involved or knowledgeable of this. I could be certain of it.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Gets Smacked in Face as He Runs Away to Golf
We should do an investigation. I want to know, are there DI practices still in place? Because the president has been incredibly clear. He wants the best and the brightest air traffic controllers controlling our skies. I agree with him on that. So we're going to do an OIG investigation. We're going to have a law group.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Gets Smacked in Face as He Runs Away to Golf
We're working with a law firm who's going to do an independent investigation into our air traffic control system.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Panicked White House Holds Disaster Mid-Day Briefing
And no rail has been built. So if you want to go protest somewhere, if you want to shout at someone, go to the governor's mansion. Go talk to Democrats in the legislature who have brought us this crappy project. Right, so we've seen over the course of the last month what Doge has exposed with regard to fraud, waste, and abuse. And we're done with it. And you know what?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Panicked White House Holds Disaster Mid-Day Briefing
You're going to have people who love fraud, who love waste, who love trains to nowhere. But all of us up here, we do not love fraud, waste, and abuse. We are going to use the taxpayer money efficiently and effectively. And this is a boondocker. There is, and again, I would love if they built rail. It was supposed to be done in 2020.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Panicked White House Holds Disaster Mid-Day Briefing
Yeah, so the question was in regard to FAA layoffs. So to be clear, the FAA has 46,000 employees. This was, I think, 352 employees. And the employees that were laid off were employed for less than a year. So these are not the highest skilled members of the FAA.
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