The Dan Bongino Show
Plane Crashes, Media Deception & Big Families | Evita & Sean Duffy (Early Edition With Evita)
Wed, 12 Mar 2025
In this episode of Bongino Report: Early Edition, Evita is joined by her father, Sean Duffy, Secretary of the DOT, for an eye-opening conversation on today’s hot topics. They break down the recent tragic plane crashes and the media's misleading spin on the situation. Both Evita and Sean reflect on their experiences growing up in large families, and together, they explore the Democrats' questionable new strategy to win over young voters. Check out our amazing Sponsor -Brickhouse - Go to FieldOfGreens.com and use my code EVITA for 20% off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who are the guests on today's episode?
Good morning and welcome to Bongino Report Early Edition. Today we have a very special guest, the Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, and my dad. Dad, thanks for being here.
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.
A debut on the Early Edition. I'm so honored to have a cabinet member here. It was a tough guest to get, so thank you.
I was getting spammed, and I said, finally, yes.
Yes, he'll come on my show. I appreciate it. And we're going to cover some serious topics today, some fun ones, but first we're going to start with some serious ones because there's a lot of mass hysteria right now. You're the Secretary of Transportation, and people are all over the internet, right and left, saying that planes are falling out of the sky.
And this narrative has been really, I think, ignited by your first day online. in office. You were sworn in by J.D. Vance. I was with you in D.C. That evening, you had this tragic, historic plane crash where an American Airlines flight collides with this military helicopter. What was going through your head that night?
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.
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.
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.
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Chapter 2: What happened during the recent plane crash involving an American Airlines flight?
There was enough time to change course.
And they didn't, OK.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Well, that'll be really great to hear, especially for the families to finally have some closure and to know what happened. And I think hearing you now as well for all the listeners, anybody else who's hearing this, to have it synthesized in a really cohesive way because there's just so many questions. And like I said, there's a lot of fear right now around travel.
And some people that are actually... fueling this fear happened to be the guys at Pod Save America. This is a podcast, a left-wing podcast run by former Obama aides and John Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer, I think his name is. They had an entire episode that seemed to be dedicated almost entirely to the FAA and DOJ and DOT and how they are making and you are making air travel just wildly more unsafe.
So I want to get your reaction to this. Let's just address this head on, right? Here's what they're saying and what's your response? Let's play that, Mikey.
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Chapter 3: How did social media impact the dissemination of news about the plane crash?
And so where can people go, Dad, to get updates on everything Department of Transportation? Where can they go to follow you and just stay in communication? Again, this is the whole point of, I think, President Trump picking expert communicators in this administration is you are constantly trying to message the people and keep them in the conversation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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