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Speaker 1: Stay tied. Richard Arnold, good morning. What do you make

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Speaker 1: only upside of this? I guess I've been reading extent.

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Speaker 1: It's been a long time since something this catastrophic has

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Speaker 1: happened on your soil. But I suppose it doesn't make

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Speaker 1: it any better.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the deadliest US plane crash in more

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Speaker 2: than fifteen years, so that's the time spread as they're

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Speaker 2: still trying to recover bodies from the icy Potomac after

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Speaker 2: the collision of this black Hawk helicopter military chopper and

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Speaker 2: an American Airline stead with all sixty seven people on board.

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Speaker 2: Those two aircraft believed to have been killed. More than

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Speaker 2: three hundred first responders and rescue workers are on scene.

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Speaker 2: They've recovered at least twenty eight bodies so far, no survivors,

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Speaker 2: say rescue officials. We are switching from a rescue operation

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Speaker 2: to a recovery operation. Yeah, this is grim work. They

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Speaker 2: have people on boats trying to find bodies and divers

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Speaker 2: in the frigid waters. The Potomac was only just starting

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Speaker 2: to thaw after weeks of being frozen over. You know,

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Speaker 2: with most air disasters it takes months, even years to

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Speaker 2: fully assess what went wrong. This time, blame games started

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Speaker 2: instantly to begin. Here is what witness Ari Shulman saw.

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Speaker 2: He was driving near the Reagan National Airport last night.

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Speaker 3: The plan was banked all the way to its right side.

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Speaker 3: I could see the belly the underside of it. It

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Speaker 3: was led up a very bright yellow and there was

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Speaker 3: a stream of sparks underneath the plane. I didn't know

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Speaker 3: what was going on. I could not see any sort

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Speaker 3: of helicopter or anything that had collided.

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Speaker 2: With Yeah, just those sparks. Then nothing, because the wreckage

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Speaker 2: of the two craft went down in the river where

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Speaker 2: the fuselage of the America of the Lane jet now

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Speaker 2: is in three separate pieces. The jet was coming into land,

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Speaker 2: and officials said it had been diverted to a second

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Speaker 2: landing strip while the military chopper had been alerted to

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Speaker 2: the jets path.

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Speaker 3: The helicopter was in a standard pattern.

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Speaker 2: So says Transport Secretary Sean Duffy, who's just what two

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Speaker 2: days into his new job. He says also of this situation.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think this was preventable, absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. That chopper, with its crew of three, was on

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Speaker 2: a training mission over what the busiest landing site in

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Speaker 2: the country. The Chief of American Airlines Robert Eism appears

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Speaker 2: to be blaming the military crew for being in the

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Speaker 2: wrong place. However, in a long statement in the past

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Speaker 2: our President Trump blamed diversity and Democrats diversity in hiring

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Speaker 2: air traffic controllers, and the Biden administration, including former Transport

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Speaker 2: Secretary Pete Buddha. Jetge says Trump is a disaster. He

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Speaker 2: was a disaster as a mayor. He ran his city

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Speaker 2: enter the ground, and he's a disaster now. He's just

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Speaker 2: got a good line of bullshit quote unquote from the

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Speaker 2: President politics. As Ever, there were a couple of previous

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Speaker 2: near misses at Reagan National, including one last May and

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Speaker 2: another in the previous April. In this case, the chopper

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Speaker 2: pilot was informed of the proximity of the jet by

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Speaker 2: controllers and said he was well aware of it, but

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Speaker 2: then neither aircraft moved out of the way. According to

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Speaker 2: the radar on board the American Airlines flight from Kansas

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Speaker 2: were a number of top ice skaters, fourteen of them

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Speaker 2: who had just been taking part in the US National

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Speaker 2: Skating Championship. A number of these skaters and others from

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Speaker 2: Russia are among those believed to have been killed in

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Speaker 2: the tragedy. Not on board was figure skater John Marra Villain,

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Speaker 2: who was denied boarding because he had his dog with

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Speaker 2: him and was told at the gate that the pet

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Speaker 2: was too big and could not come on board the plane.

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Speaker 2: At the time, the skater was furious, sent a message

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Speaker 2: on Instagram saying, quote get me the bleep out of

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Speaker 2: Kansas please. So he got in the car drove home

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Speaker 2: with his dog.

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Speaker 1: Amazing, unreal. I've been watching Cash this morning. He seems

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Speaker 1: more normal than yesterday's affair.

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Speaker 2: It's all relative, isn't it. Yeah, another big day of hearings.

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Speaker 2: This is also day two of the raf K hearings

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Speaker 2: for Health Secretary Ark has been hit with i would say,

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Speaker 2: blistering attacks for his opposition to various vaccines, and he

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Speaker 2: then revealed only then that he was, while voicing all

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Speaker 2: of his anti vaxxed themes, he had his own kids vaccinated.

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Speaker 2: Didn't tell anyone. This also comes after JFK's daughter Caroline

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Speaker 2: Kennedy went public with that blistering letter where she called

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Speaker 2: her cousin a quote predator and blamed him for introducing

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Speaker 2: other Kennedy family members to hard drugs.

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Speaker 1: So yeah.

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Speaker 2: Also at the hearings today, Cash Purtel for FBI and

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Speaker 2: Halsey GABBARTT who is up for National Intelligence Director. She

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Speaker 2: is facing questions about her meetings with Sirius Assad when

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Speaker 2: he was hanging on to power stool, and over her

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Speaker 2: past support for people like Edward Snowden who leaked national

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Speaker 2: security documents. So far, few Republicans have challenged Trump on

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Speaker 2: any of his picks, so we'll see if any of

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Speaker 2: this matters to the mostly irrelevant pollies on Capitol Hill.

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Speaker 1: See you mana ma'am, have a good week in Richard

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Speaker 1: Arnold State Side.

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