🚨Trump Admin Presser on FLIGHT SHUTDOWNS Made IT WORSE!!!

Donald Trump just sent out his Homeland. Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen and. his Transportation Secretary Shawn Duffy. for what may have been the most. disastrous press conference in recent US. history regarding the complete ground. stop which led to the cancellations and. flights here in the United States and. abroad of thousands of flight. potentially as many as 13,000 flights. Now, they claim that this ground stop is.

over, but when you actually heard what. took place during this press conference, it is deeply alarming. Department of. Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne. Mullen said that the upgrades that the. Trump regime has been doing to the FAA. system overwhelmed the old system and. that's what created this issue and that. this can happen again. that there's a. possibility that we will see this outage. continue to happen because of the. patches that the Trump regime is doing.

right now and how it is hurting the old. system. The new technology was. overwhelming the older system. Listen to. what Mark Wayne Mullen, Department of. Homeland Security Secretary had to say. Play this clip. >> again. We're still looking at it. We're. not uh rolling out anything. What it. appears to be right now is as Secretary. Duffy and FA was going in and putting. patches into the system, they were. putting new equipment. um and uh new um technology. And that.

new equipment, new technology just. wasn't it was overwhelming the older. system, which is why Secretary Duffy. made it very clear the patchwork doesn't. work. We need one complete system. We. need someone to come in and build the. whole system. Doing it nickel and. diamond it together does not work. This. is what happens when that takes place. That's why the president has made it. very clear. We can't do this. It has to. be a complete overhaul of the system.

which we estimate to be about $50. billion. More from Secretary Mark Wayne. Mullen over here on the ground stop. He. says, "But we want everyone to know that. this just shows you what a great leader. Donald Trump is. This is what real. leadership looks like. Here, play this. clip. >> Working. This is what um the leadership. of President Trump looks like by the. organization and the team he's put. together. We're built to handle crisis. like this and that's exactly what we're.

doing. Then you had Shawn Duffy, transportation secretary. He was asked, "So if you're saying that this is a. priority for Donald Trump, why did he. just send you two? Why haven't we heard. from Donald Trump at all? He hasn't. posted about that. Why isn't he here. addressing the American people? This is. the first time we've had this type of. ground stop really since 9/11. What the. hell is going on here? Listen to what. Duffy says. Let's play this clip. I. can't wait for that.

>> You say this is the priority for. President Trump. Why have we not heard. from him at all on this issue? >> Oh, well, I we the two of us have talked. to him. He's he is in I've talked to him. on the phone. I've talked to him in to. in the in the oval. So is Mark Wayne. Um. I don't run the president's comms. I. just know that Mark Wayne and I are. going to come out and talk to you about. it. But I know he's fully engaged cuz he. has communicated with the both of us. multiple times uh from the point that it. happened uh to moments before I came. out. I was in uh constant communication. Mark Wayne and I were in the oval with.

him, which by the way, I appreciate his. leadership. And what's what's just. unique about the president is he loves. aviation. um he loves the airspace and. which is why he has been so engaged on. this. Um he understands it very well and. he he's he's been frustrated from my. first before I actually was sworn in. He. was talking about how old the system is, how past administrations had failed and. how he wants to fix the air traffic. control system in America and deliver. the best in the world. And uh it takes a.

president's leadership like President. Trump to make sure we can ask the. Congress and and get the money and give. the deliverable. Next, Shawn Duffy is. asked by a reporter, "So, are you saying. that it was the FAA patching the older. system that's now causing this outage? Is that so what you're doing now is. what's causing the problem?" And then. Duffy admits that that's what's. happening. He says, "This is our old. analog system that got overloaded with. data." Meaning, what you're doing now,

the patches that you're doing, overwhelmed and broke the system. That's. what they're admitting right here. Play. this clip. Trained and know how to. navigate this situation. >> Are you saying that it was the FAA. patching. a system that caused this outage? Is. that something that's happening. constantly? >> So, yeah, that's I want to clarify that. Um, this is our old TDM analog system. that uh got overloaded with data and.

started to experience these issues. and. it was in our tracons and our centers. throughout the NAS. Now, we do have some. uh uh in our tracons and centers that. have been upgraded to um to digital uh. to IP. Those did not experience these. issues, which underscores the point. It's important that we're able to finish. this work with additional resources. >> But how can Americans be confident that. this vulnerability won't be an issue. again in the coming weeks if what today.

took place happened and still this is a. great question. So listen, um I I can't. I can't build things if I don't have. money. Like this is this is this is a. great question that you ask. How can. America be confident? Well, we do. everything by the way. We have the we. have the busiest airspace in the world, bar none. We have the safest airspace in. the world, bar none. No one competes. with us on safety or complication of the. airspace. But if you ask the question, what should we do? Well, we should talk. to our senators and our members of. Congress to say we don't we don't.

deserve this, America. This is the. greatest country by the way with the. greatest president. Let's give the money. to fix this very real problem. And this. is not the first time we have then Luke. Rael the mightest touch network white. house correspondent was asking some. incredible questions and you will see. Duffy fling over here because we asked. him we said so is this is going to. happen over and over again. Is it not. safe to fly right now? It seems like. you're saying that the US is a place. where it's not safe to fly and.

horrifically Duffy and Mark Wayne Mullen. admit that. They say like you can't fly. in the United States that this is a. dangerous place to fly. Listen to what. they say in response to Luke Rael. This. is the Midas Touch Network's White House. correspondent asking these great. questions here. Play this clip. >> The deliverable. Mr. Secretary, I'm curious. I don't. think we have clarity yet. What was. different about today specifically? The. system has been in place for a long. time. Why today the system go out and.

can you give more clarity? You're saying. this will happen again. Should Americans. feel safe when they fly if these outages. are still possible? >> In what kind of vintage you'll have it. happen again? I don't know, right? Is. this exact thing going to happen again? I don't I don't know that this exact. scenario will happen, but I did have New. York a couple months ago. I had Newark a. year and a half ago. Um, so, uh, I we're. still working on the details of what. went wrong today. Uh, I'm I'll I'll be. happy to give you more information when. we have it. I don't want to give you the.

wrong information. Our team is working. overtime uh, trying to navigate uh, what. what happened here, what was the cause, and how do we prevent it in the future. should similar situations arise. >> Anybody doing the AI program you guys. just introduced, smart program? So, uh, as I mentioned, this is all the old. legacy equipment. Uh, all of the new. equipment that's been deployed did not. go down. Uh, our smart system, which is. a system that we have a feed for the.

whole airspace, that's going to help us. better manage trajectories of airplanes. and better manage weather. Uh, so we can. one drive safety in the airspace and. drive efficiency in the airspace. But. that smart system isn't plugged in uh to. stars and ramp. Uh it's not this is this. is completely disconnected. And I love. that some people have said this would be. the root cause. And by the way, if it. was, I'd tell I'd tell you that. But uh. this is not even plugged in. What this. does is gives information um from the. airspace to a human being and gives them.

a prompt on how they could better. navigate weather or trajectories. Then. the human being will actually decide to. accept or deny that prompt. So we're not. even tied in. So there's no possible way. SMART would have impacted what happened. today. Then Duffy starts to blame. Congress and blame former President. Biden. He's like, "Well, it's the old. system. It's the old system and it's. Congress's fault. That's who did it. It's Congress's fault." Well, you just. explained what happened. What you said. happened is that the way you were.

installing the new system screwed up the. system that was working before. Listen. to what Duffy says. Play this clip. >> That instability because of abundance of. caution and making sure we keep the. American flyer safe. We did the ground. stop, but we were going to allow those. lifesaving uh movements uh to still. occur as well as with law enforcement as. well. Uh so what happened, right, I've. heard a lot of the rumors like Mark. Wayne has. Uh but uh what we have is an. incredibly old air traffic control. system. I think every single one of your.

networks have covered the president and. myself talking about this for the last. two years. The president for the last. year has been asking Congress to fully. fund uh a full build of a brand new air. traffic control system. So we have TDM. uh telecom. So this is analog telecom. Our switches uh our routers actually got. overloaded with data and they went down. and uh I shouldn't say they went down.

they started to give us inconsistency in. the data uh from those uh from those. routers and because of that we shut the. system down. Now I I have already. replaced some of those switches with. President Trump and our new IP switches. did not go down. It's the old hardware. uh that went down and I think the. question for the American people is do. you want your Congress to fund this? President Trump has asked for the money. uh he's asked the Congress on a. bipartisan uh uh approach to say, "Give.

us the resources to build a. state-of-the-art air traffic control. system. Let's not do a patchwork uh uh. uh fix to a system that's critical for. every single family. It's not red, it's. not blue, it's not Democrat, it's not. Republican, it's American. Give us the. money to fix it." Now, if you look to. the past administrations going back 25. years, uh $15 billion has been given to. the FAA to fix this air traffic control. system. And guess what? Barely anything.

was done. We had a down payment. Uh. President Trump asked for it in the uh. one big beautiful bill of 12.5 billion. We are building in that 12.5 billion. dollars. That portion of the build will. be done by the time President Trump. leaves office. We are moving at a speed. that has never uh been seen before with. regard to the FAA. But uh that's a. partial funding. I think America demands. that the Congress give the rest of the. resources to finish the bill. Um and.

I think the Congress at a point looked. to the history of the FAA and said, "We. we don't trust you." Well, with. President Trump and what we've done, I. think they do trust because what we've. done with that first trunch of money. And so, uh, with a brand new. state-of-the-art system, you won't have. these outrages. So, what you experienced. today, but you can think back, many of. you covered the story. >> So, then you have an NBC reporter asking. questions of Duffy, really good. questions, and Duffy's like, "What.

network are you from?" Well, Fox knows. what I'm talking about. Fox knows what. I'm talking about. Here, play this clip. >> It happened twice. How many times does. this have to happen before Congress. gives the money to fix it? >> In office for almost two years now, sir. So why hasn't this been a bigger. priority for the president? Republicans. controlled both chambers of Congress and. still do. >> What? >> I'm with NBC News. >> Let me see. So maybe you haven't covered. the um 100 plus press conferences that. I've done on this issue uh that have.

been uh led by the president. Uh but I. know Fox has, Peter's shared the story. I know many of you have covered the. story about the president's ask and my. ask to get the money, right? And so I I. I identify I I identify well because the. congress has to give it to us, right? And you need a you need a well often. times it's a great point. Often times. you need um uh a bipartisan vote, right? So I did get partial funding through one. big beautiful bill. I got 12 a.5 billion.

and with that money we are we are we are. spending it and spending it well but the. Congress at the time knew that um that. was not going to be enough. By the way I. this is bipartisan but on that bill I. didn't have Democrats that voted for it. We now have an opportunity in an. emergency funding bill before the end of. the year to give the money and I think. the question should be from NBC to every. member. Do you support actually. modernizing making a state-of-the-art. air traffic control system? And it's.

going to take us some time. I can't snap. my fingers and and build a network. overnight, but do you want us to build. this for America? And I think uh every. member of Congress should say yes, but. every American, I guarantee you, would. tell those members yes. Give President. Trump, give Duffy the money, let them. finish this job so we don't have to do a. press conference at 8:30 at night ever. again. And if you. >> then Sean Duffy says that what we need. right now is $50 billion. We need. Congress to give us $50 billion. Right?

What? $50 billion. Now what are you even. talking about? You realize you just. admitted that what you were doing caused. this and you're saying it could happen. again and it's likely to happen again. and you have no plan for it and your. solution is you want $50 billion. What. are you? And and by the way, as as the. question was said before, you controlled. all of the branches. You controlled both. branches of government, but here he. goes. We want $50 billion. Play this. clip. >> What we want to do um I've asked, the.

president's asked for $30 billion. I. want $50 billion. And by the way, if you. look at how much money congressman's. Peter, you've covered Congress, they. they waste a lot of money. What's more. important than having an air traffic. control system that actually works? And. so the president has said, "You know. what? Let's finish this job. New. hardware, new software, new. telecommunication. Uh many of our towers. are almost 100 years old. Uh our our air. traffic controllers have leaky roofs,

air conditioning that doesn't work. They're high in the air. Their elevators. don't work. Their roofs leak. Um I want. new towers. Uh we should also invest in. many of the airports around the country. uh that frankly many of them are. embarrassing. Let's get the money. Let's. invest so we never have to come at 8:30. at night and have a press conference on. why air travel was shut down, why we. have tens of thousands of people in. airports uh separated from their. families uh without um with without uh.

any knowledge of where they're going to. sleep tonight. >> Then Homeland Security Secretary Mark. Wayne Mullen says, "Well, welcome to. Friday the 13th." Right. Wait, you doing. jokes? You think this welcome to Friday. the 13th? What the hell are you talking. about? play this clip. >> Well, good to see you guys again. Welcome to Friday the 13th, right? Um, you know, I I want to make sure. everybody understands that Sean Duffy. then said, "And I want everybody to know. this is the greatest country on planet.

Earth and we have the greatest president. imaginable." Am I right? No, you're. wrong. You're wrong. You are all. incompetent. You all need to go. I don't. care what political party you are. watching this. These people are. incompetent and they need to go. We need. smart people who know what the hell. they're doing here. Play this clip. >> But if you ask the question, what should. we do? Well, we should talk to our. senators and our members of Congress to. say we don't we don't deserve this, America. This is the greatest country, by the way, with the greatest president. Let's give the money to fix this very.

real problem. And this is not the first. time we had this happen in New York when. we had all global leaders were flying in. for the UN. We had a similar issue. We. had uh an issue in in Newark. It. happened twice. How many times does this. have to happen before Congress gives the. money to fix it? >> More over here from Mark Wayne Mullen. He was asked, "Can you say with 100%. certainty that this was not caused by a. cyber attack or AI?" He says, "There's. nothing completely certain right now.".

Play this clip. Stephie, what you're. describing, routers overloaded with. data, right, >> that then start to show instability. That sounds like something that could be. caused by a cyber attack. Can you say. with 100% certainty that this was not. caused by a cyber attack or a rogue AI? >> I'm going to give this to Mark W. >> All right. We are There's nothing. completely certain right now. It doesn't. appear that way. We are um we've.

activated our teams. This is what. Department of Homeland Security is all. about. This is why we're stood up uh to. have the continuity of government to. bring all the resources together in an. emergency like this. This is exactly. what this is. This is a national. emergency. Um we have all of our assets. be it from DOW to SISA uh to all of our. NOX uh then all the other components we. have inside of DHS. Uh NSA is working. with us. There is nothing that indicates. it yet. Now, when we start looking at.

cyber threats, cyber attacks, typically. some people is going to raise their hand. up and say, "Hey, we did that." There's. no chatter. Um, we haven't seen any any. footprints, as you would say, or or or. uh identifications of people that got. into the system. It appears that this. was mechanically driven. However, we're. still looking, so we're not going to. rule that out. Well, what he admitted. before was that basically he did it and. Duffy did it. The FAA did it when they.

were installing the patches for the new. system. They overloaded the old system. They they they did it. We didn't even. need a hacker. It may have been AI. It. may have been hacked, but it's them. That's what they're see. You get what. they're saying, right? And Mark Wayne. Mullen, then he's wrapping up and he's. like, "This is what Trump does. This is. how we lead.". Yeah. The the worst way possible. incompetently, destructively, horrifically. Here, play this clip. >> 3,000 flights in the air. We had a.

ground stoppage and they were all able. to land safely even with the. communication problems. And I just can't. speak enough about President Trump's. leadership. This is what President Trump. does. He puts leaders in place um and he. allows them to lead. Uh to even ask, you. know, why is the president not talking? It's because he's allowed Secretary. Duffy and us to go out there and explain. to you what took place. President Trump. trusts trust trust his leadership and. and that's why we really lean in towards.

his leadership. And when Secretary Duffy. said he's the greatest president we've. had. You've never had a builder and a. leader like President Trump lead this. nation, have a vision and put the put. the team together. Um, thank you guys so. much. Appreciate it. And then finally, Department of Homeland Security. Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen says, "They. seem things seem to be working now, so. we're just going to wing it." It all see. it seems to be okay. Here, play this. clip. >> State uh so right now things seem to be.

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