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SHOCK: New Plane Crash Video REVEALS Horrifying Truth About Tragedy | 'This was Preventable!'

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unidentified		Todd, good morning to you today.
		Divers are expected to return to the crash site as they work with the NTSB to begin debris removal as they also continue this investigation, trying to find what's left of both the helicopter and the regional jet involved.
		Overnight, we also learned through the NTSB that they've recovered both the cockpit data recorder as well as the cockpit voice recorder.
		They're now in a government lab for evaluation.
		These are photos from the NTSB.
		They say it'll be at least a month, if not longer, before a preliminary report is released about the crash.
		They also caution it is far too soon to know whether or not air traffic control staffing was at the level needed to prevent a crash or if there was communications issues between the aircraft involved.
		On Thursday, President Trump appointed a new acting head of the FAA, also signed an executive order to re-examination.
		Do you feel like what happened last night was preventable?
		I do, yeah.
		Oh, absolutely.
		Obviously, that was something that should not have happened.
		And we're not going to let it happen again.
		On Capitol Hill, some lawmakers are accusing Trump of politicizing the tragedy, but there's already talk from lawmakers about holding hearings to look into the crash.
		One of the big questions has been about whether or not there's too much congestion over the skies here in Washington.
		Not only do we have three airports around here, including Reagan National, behind me, but you have a lot of military traffic that is continuing to go up and down the Potomac.
		We haven't seen as many choppers out here, Todd, since the crash happened, but we'll look to see whether or not the traffic returns as the sun comes up.
		Very interesting.
		I see your hobbies are drinking, smoking weed, and all types of ill s***.
		Well, congratulations.
		You got yourself a job.
		Right on, huh?
		Right on, huh?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You're hired!
		Time for- For you to be the air traffic controller of the single most busy airport with the largest number of military and VIPs, senators, congressmen, Americans flying in and out right next to our most precious Capitol building and White House and monuments.
		And ladies and gentlemen, it's Free For All Friday.
		We're going to show you some crazy footage of the crash in Washington, D.C. that just...
		Shocked the country, and I guess it hits a little personal to me because we've flown in and out of Reagan like a hundred million times.
		I used to live in D.C., and so it is horrifying to see that this is possible.
		We're going to spend a little bit of time on it today and talk about how this could happen.
		The new footage...
		Raises a lot of very dark questions, ladies and gentlemen.
		We'll cover all of it today.
		However, we do have some good news for you also on this beautiful Friday, January 31st, 2025.
		We made it through January!
		The entire Team Benny here is like, thank you, thank you.
		January's been a hell of a year, and we're very excited to be successfully through this.
		News fire hydrant.
		Breaking news fire hydrant of a month.
		And we are eternally grateful for you.
		So massive heart to the chat.
		Much love.
		Here we go.
		Shocking new details about the DC plane helicopter collision.
		Trump signs executive order ending DEI in airlines.
		Good.
		Trump nominees, Cash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. knock it out of the park.
		Democrats weren't able to even lay a glove on them.
		Never seen Democrats, so depressed.
		So demoralized, so incapable of even efforting a single resistance point.
		You remember how coordinated they all were for, like, Kavanaugh and Russiagate?
		Man, Democrats are just in shambles right now.
		Very exciting time.
		Army combat veteran Alex Pleistis joins the program.
		Somebody who's worked at the Pentagon, somebody who's flown Blackhawks, flown in Blackhawks.
		Hundreds of times he's going to explain what was actually going on inside of that helicopter that slammed into a commercial airline.
		Also, Senator Ron Johnson, who's been asking questions at all of these hearings for Tulsi, Cash, and RFK Jr., will be on the program live.
		And he will be explaining to us the path forward for all of those.
		I don't think that Washington, D.C. understands the reckoning that will be loosed on it if they refuse to nominate.
		Correction.
		Confirm.
		And, ladies and gentlemen, Tom Fitton, who is inside of the Cash Patel hearing, sitting right behind Cash Patel, and who has been advising Cash Patel, will be on the program in order to give us the play-by-play from yesterday's bombshell hearing.
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		Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we'll begin with good news because there's going to be some darkness in this program.
		And so let's start off with the good news.
		Before we get into a horrific trend that we've been noticing, and I promise you that this show will do one thing better than any other show on the entire internet, which is noticing patterns.
		We're pattern recognition experts.
		I didn't go to the Ivy Leagues.
	I went to community college.
	I'm just a dude like you.
	I have kids at home.
	I just want to put a roof over their heads and bread on the table.
	What we do professionally here...
	Is notice patterns, ladies and gentlemen.
	We've been noticing some very dark patterns that have been emerging throughout the month of January, in fact, of individuals who are connected to the American military who have gone freaking ballistic, off the reservation, berserker mode.
	And we're going to dig into that today and what's actually happening inside of the halls and how we can fix it.
	We'll hear from Pete Hegseth as well.
	And a lot of the new changes, and they can't come soon enough.
	Ladies and gentlemen, speaking of not changing, we have a very special message to you from the outgoing DNC chairman that's breaking the internet this morning.
	That's very, very exciting for all of us to hear.
	We wanted to kick off the show on a happy note.
	Here's DNC chairman Jamie Harrison saying, oh, get ready.
	Kamala Harris...
	The person who brought us this, Kamala Harris, is back and better than ever.
	And she's going to be running till kingdom come for a president.
	Get ready!
	If this is something that you needed to put a little pep in your step.
	Here you go.
unidentified		So looking ahead, should Kamala Harris run again?
		Yes, she wants to.
		You think she could win?
		I believe she can.
		I mean, if I didn't believe Kamala Harris could win...
		Wouldn't have worked as hard as I did to help her win this last time around.
		You know, Donald Trump, and when you look at politics, Donald Trump and Barack Obama are just enigmas in politics.
		I think they do something different to the electorate every time they run, that you can't counter.
		But then when they are not on the ballot, it's almost like you go back to the political gravity pulls people right back into it.
		That's part of how we won, how well we did in the midterms.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You did great, buddy!
unidentified		Keep going!
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Whatever you did, keep doing it!
		I want you to keep doing it!
		Please!
		I beg of you, keep Kamala Harris running.
		Keep her running.
		I look for every opportunity to play this clip.
		I'm sorry to put you on the spot, producers.
		It's the only time I'll do it.
		Get me Kamala Harris on the cell phone.
		You have to get it for me, okay?
		Get me Kamala Harris and her cell phone.
		I can't help myself every time.
		I must have this clip.
		I have to play it for you.
		There's no greater clip that shows you exactly how critically low IQ Kamala Harris is.
		As the team is sourcing that clip, and we have it handy at all times.
		Here, check this out.
		This is amazing.
		404 from Kamala Harris' website.
		Look at that.
		The office of Kamala Harris.
		404 message.
		This page is unburdened by what has been.
		Now, my producer, ALX, informed me that this is not a troll from the Trump White House.
		I thought this was from the Trump White House, so the entire internet, that the Trump White House took over Kamala Harris's page.
		Allegedly, and ALX, I have this right, allegedly this is Kamala Harris's own team putting up this 404 message.
		Nonetheless.
		I think it's hilarious.
		The Office of Kamala Harris.
		It is real, by the way.
		This isn't a Photoshop.
		You can go there.
		And I think it's a great troll.
		Either way, if it's a self-own, fine.
		Kamala Harris is one to self-own.
		Here, please, is the number one campaign advert for Kamala Harris to run for the end of time.
		I mean, she's 60 years old, right?
		So she could presumably run for the next 20 years.
		Years.
		Joe Biden was like in his 80s when he was running.
		So you could have the next 20 years.
		Kamala, keep running.
		I'm begging you.
		Here's what I'm going to show you.
		A little piece of evidence here.
		If I told you that I was on, if I told you that I was on a phone call and I was faking a phone call and I was holding my phone like this, you would say, Benny, you clearly are not on a phone call.
		You are clearly, your camera app is open.
		Your camera app's open.
		You look so stupid.
		It's obvious that you're on your camera app and the phone doesn't work.
		And because we're human beings and because we've used cell phones before, do you need to wear a helmet to work?
		Do you need help breathing unaided?
		But ladies and gentlemen, the individual that was put up by the Democrat Party to run for the most powerful office on earth didn't know how to use a cell phone and lied.
		On camera, she's on CNN right now, in a room full of people about making a phone call.
		Here we go.
unidentified		How you doing?
		Have you voted already?
		Give me a second.
		You did?
		Thank you.
		Thank you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Ladies and gentlemen, as you can see there, Kamala Harris has the cell phone app on.
unidentified		laughs Shit.
unidentified		Shit.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		What kind of a sociopath can sit there and fake a phone call?
		And fake that she's having a conversation with just the voices in her head?
		Please!
		Run this lady forever!
		In a sad and...
		Depressing turn of events.
		Here's more footage of Kamala Harris faking phone calls.
		Here she is on the VP's plane.
		Clearly with her headphones not plugged into her phone, apparently on a very important, important disaster phone call to save Americans.
		Oh yes.
		Pretty depressing.
		This is the quality of individuals and quality of intelligence and IQ that was running our federal government.
		And you wonder why planes go smashing into each other.
		Here she is again.
		Like, here she is again, clearly a fake phone call.
		What is it with these people?
		Clearly a fake phone call.
		It's like you can see all around the studio.
		Clearly a fake phone call.
		She's on speakerphone, but she has it up to her ears, and she's talking to the Obamas with her what?
		You know the price.
		With her $70,000 necklace on.
		You know that necklace is $70,000 Tiffany's necklace right there.
		For the people.
		Kamala Harris, the working class.
		All right.
		We're not going to be able to get to anything before our first game.
		I just can't help myself, ladies and gentlemen.
		It's the greatest news.
		It just hit.
		This interview just dropped, and you had to see it.
		I needed to make sure that you had a little bit of, yeah, gunfire, gunpowder in your gut this morning.
		It gave me a little breath of fresh air because I want it back.
unidentified		I want this.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		We can improve on that.
		All right, ladies and gentlemen.
		On New Year's Day, there was an attack from an Army veteran that killed 12 Americans in New Orleans.
		We don't forget.
		This individual was radicalized by every available report by ISIS.
		Very strange that the federal government allowed media directly into his home.
		Why didn't we get this with Matthew Thomas Crooks, who shot Trump?
		We never saw in Matthew Thomas Crooks' bedroom or any of his mobile devices or anything.
		Then, on the same day...
		There was another truck used in a terrorist attack by somebody who spent 20 years in the armed forces, who was in the peak of service to the American military and government.
		He blew himself up in a truck outside of Trump Tower.
		This individual was active duty.
		He was working on drone, unmanned aerial drone programs.
		Very strange circumstances.
		According to all available evidence, this guy just went nuts, but we don't know.
		I mean, it'd be really nice to get some type of real rock-solid reporting from this.
		So America's already primed.
		This is called priming.
		So America's already primed with these two attacks to say, what's going on with our military?
		Is something wrong?
		We love our military.
		I don't want this to happen.
		We have to talk about bad things to prevent them from happening in the future.
		I have many military members of my family, and I've been on the call with them, and military members will be on the show today.
		And I've been on the phone call, on the horn with them, like, why is this happening?
		And then, 24 hours ago, we watched one of our most sophisticated pieces of military equipment that exists, helicopters that can fly actually like drones.
		They can fly autonomously.
		There's a big theory about that on the internet.
		Why not get into it?
		Why not?
		This is what people are talking about.
		Who was flying this Blackhawk helicopter?
		Why did this Blackhawk helicopter fly directly into a commercial airline?
		Jet, upon which I frequent weekly.
		American Airlines is like the airline that I fly every single week.
		I'm sure you've flown plenty of American Airlines flights.
		This one was coming from Wichita, Kansas.
		It was doing a relatively routine...
		And cleared route into Ronald Reagan.
		And then a Blackhawk helicopter flies like right into it and it's blaring like the sun.
		Here's the new footage, ladies and gentlemen, of this Blackhawk helicopter hitting this commercial flight and then crashing into the Potomac.
		Footage obtained by CNN.
		You can see the helicopter there.
		Pause, please.
		Pause.
		Pause.
		Okay.
		We're not here to show you disaster porn.
		I'm not here to do anything other than prevent this from ever happening in the future.
		Americans must be confident that we can travel securely.
		For our economy to run.
		Americans must be able to move.
		And we must be able to create.
		And we must be able to be confident that we are safe when we're doing that.
		Now, there have been 150 million commercial airline flights since the last deadly commercial airline disaster in 2009.
		But that was just the plane malfunctioning, okay?
		Is what it is?
unidentified		This...
unidentified		Look at the light.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Obviously, you can see there's the chopper.
		There's the commercial airline.
		Commercial airliner has those big, giant, glaring, fiery lights looking like a planet in the sky.
		And the Apache helicopter, which was flying way too high and was flying on an, now we know, an unauthorized route, just goes right into it.
		Right into it!
		Okay, let's play it.
		It's tough to watch, man.
		Watch.
unidentified		Jeez!
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You know, these Apache helicopters, the purpose of these helicopters are to protect our service members inside of war zones.
		Again, we're going to have veterans who served our military and fought in brutal and deadly battlefields joining the program to talk about this.
		So I'll bring on the experts, okay?
		We'll bring on the experts.
		We'll bring on a guy, a dude, who's flown hundreds of a Blackhawk helicopter missions, okay?
		The purpose of these instruments in our American military is maneuverability.
		The capacity to go up, down, sideways, stop in midair.
unidentified		I mean, literally, like, just stop!
unidentified		You can just hover.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		This is the most damning part of all of this, is that you saw none of that with this crash.
		You saw no adjustment or maneuverability in this, and there is in no universe the capacity for somebody to lie to me.
		You will not be able to lie to me or to this audience.
		This audience is smart, man.
		You will not be able to lie to this audience and to say, oh, it's just a mistake.
		That's not a mistake.
		If you get into a Tesla, what does a Tesla cost?
		Like 30 grand, okay?
		So you get into a new Tesla.
		Those things, it's like almost impossible to crash them because of the sensory detection capacities inside of those vehicles and virtually all vehicles that are currently driving on the road right now.
		You get these automatic braking, you know, automatic stops, right?
		When you're coming up too fast on another car, probably your car has them.
		They have them in minivans.
		Yet you have nothing.
		Apparently there were three crew members in here.
		God rest their souls.
		And everybody who perished here.
		We're not trying to politicize this.
		We're not trying to make this red or blue issue.
		We're not trying to do anything other than prevent this from happening ever again.
		And the problem is that people are primed now.
		So there have been three...
		And forgive me, I'm, dude, it's just, it is what it is.
		There have been three attacks, deadly instances, okay, let's just call them that, that directly involve either U.S. military veterans or U.S. military, literal physical active duty U.S. military implements here.
		There's no other way to interpret this than something went horribly.
		Purposefully wrong here.
		How do you explain it?
		Ladies and gentlemen, how do you explain it?
		A former air traffic controller was on Fox News last night.
		And he was like, bro, they have so gutted the capacity for us to do our jobs.
		They have so destroyed our ability.
		To actually prevent these kind of disasters?
		Apparently, the person who was supposed to be doing helicopter traffic left early at DCA.
		One guy was doing two people's jobs.
		This is one of the busiest airports in the world.
		Supervisor let air traffic controller leave shift early before DC plane crash.
		President Trump posting this morning, the Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high by a lot.
		It was far above the 200-foot limit.
		It's not really too complicated to understand this.
		Is it?
		Donald Trump with a heater last night saying, what the hell is going on?
		It was a clear night and the plane was shining like the sun.
		How do you fly directly into it?
		In no universe can you explain to me that they didn't see the plane.
		And then the lack of maneuverability is something that's really, really scary.
		Okay, ladies and gentlemen, really quickly.
		Air traffic controller.
		This was preventable.
		They've destroyed our capacity to keep Americans safe.
		DEI and hiring unqualified people based on their skin color or sex preference.
		That's what's leading to this.
		Here, from the source.
unidentified		This is a preventable disaster.
		The system has been under attack due to DEI.
		And the FAA bowing to wokeness since 2010, since the Obama administration.
		The lack of staffing is directly attributable to the Obama administration terminating the list of eligible, well-trained air traffic control statements in 36 universities across the country in 2013 because they were too white.
		The FAA also, at the same time, implemented an immunity program.
		So you think you're seeing legitimate statistics?
		You're not.
		In the old days, before 2010, the immunity program, if an air traffic controller got two airplanes too close, too many times they would be decertified and retrained.
		Now...
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		They just got rid of us because we were too white.
		Says the dude who's been an air traffic controller for 50 years.
		That guy has flown planes in.
		Thousands and thousands and thousands of flights.
		That dude's been up in the tower keeping Americans safe.
		That dude probably called one of your jets landing.
		He's stationed out of Chicago.
		I've flown in.
		How many times have you flown in Chicago?
		People go to Chicago.
		I've gone to Chicago a bunch of times.
		That guy is keeping me safe and you safe and your children safe.
		That dude says they got rid of all of my coworkers because they were white.
		What country do we live in?
		Do we live in South Africa?
		Are we in Rwanda?
		What country is this?
		These people are demons.
		They want something like this to happen.
		It's what it is.
		Listen to Pete Hegseth this morning breaking a lot of news on Fox.
		Pete Hegseth this morning is like, we didn't even realize how bad it got in the FAA with diversity hires and enjoy early retirement.
		Let's go.
unidentified		So I don't know exactly how the staffing occurred in that particular air traffic control tower, and it sounds like there was a shortage, and the investigation will tell us more about that.
		But the environment around which we choose pilots or air traffic controllers, as the president pointed out correctly yesterday, better be the highest possible standard, the best of the best who are managing.
		You know, multiple flights.
		I mean, a flight a minute and managing radio traffic.
		I think the closest analogy to military service, guys, is pilots or air traffic controllers.
		I don't care what background they come from, what their race is, what their gender is, if they're rich or they're poor.
		I just need them to be good at their job because I need my flight to land safely.
		The same thing applies to the Defense Department, to our military.
		I don't care about your background, your gender, or your skin color.
		I want the best.
		And that's why when the president says merit-based and colorblind, he's exactly right across government.
		So he's correct to point out at the FAA or in our flights, it should not be about anything other than excellence.
		That's it.
		Excellence.
		I don't care the color of the skin of the pilot on my plane or in the air traffic control.
		But we've, for too long, under Biden...
		Cared about those things.
		Emphasized those things.
		Pushed real or perceived quotas.
		At the Defense Department, we're ending all of that.
		It's been made very clear across all of our services and commands.
		It is merit only.
		And that means we'll get the best of the best.
		And that's what our taxpayers and the American people expect and deserve.
		And in the business of warfighting, which the Defense Department is in, if you don't have the best of the best, you lose people.
		And that's why this is so important.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Can I get some Pete Hegseth?
		We're in communication with Pete Hegseth's office.
		Expect us to be soon at the Pentagon.
		We'll be...
		We're working on something really cool for the program to be doing because we're massive fans of this.
		Look at this.
		This is Pete Hegseth.
		Please go watch this video.
		We don't have time to play it right now, but please go watch this video.
		When was the last time you saw the Pentagon do something this transparent?
		This bro is just sitting there at his desk...
		Like we do every morning.
		And he's like straight up just flipped his camera around doing a selfie video.
		Like, here's what's going on in your country.
		Here's this.
		Here's that.
		Here's evidence.
		Here's evidence.
		I'm going to read to you what's actually happening.
		Can I get Pete Hegseths in the chat, please?
		I know we have an emoji for Pete Hegseth.
		And just a shout out to become a member.
		Please, you get custom emojis.
		So many exciting, special little things that we're going to be doing on the program.
		Give me some Pete Hegseths in the chat.
		Yeah, I see him rolling through.
		I'm so proud of this dude, man.
		Check it out.
		Pete Hegseth with his little American flag jacket.
		That's right.
		Look at this, bro.
		He's just sitting there from the desk of the department.
		He has Dwight Eisenhower oil painting behind him from his defense department desk.
		He's like, here's what's happening with this mishap.
		Good for him, man.
		Good for you, dude.
		Such huge fans of Pete.
		Way to go.
		President Trump.
		Angry.
		It's the first time President Trump's been angry in the White House watching this.
		Who wants to see 70 Americans?
		Actually, we found out there were Chinese nationals.
		There were Russians.
		Who wants to see an international incident that was totally preventable?
		Nobody wants to see a single death ever.
		President Trump was really angry about this yesterday.
		Trump's FAA executive order will replace all employees not hired on merit.
		You must cut out the cancer.
stephen miller ▲ ● ▼		It is a betrayal of the American people to say that you are going to prioritize the hiring of people with severe intellectual defects to serve at the Federal Aviation Administration, the entity responsible for ensuring that every single passenger over American airspace safely takes off, safely flies, and safely lands.
		And what it does over a period of time to an agency is that it prevents...
		That agency from developing the new systems, the new protocols, the new programs, the new priorities to constantly adapt and evolve airline safety.
		Because instead, you're always playing catch-up.
		You're always playing clean-up.
		You're trying to put out fires.
		You're trying to stop things from falling apart.
		You can't build.
		You cannot learn.
		You cannot grow because you're not hiring based solely on qualification and competence.
		They have been playing games with America's public safety in a way that is unconscionable.
		And President Trump's made clear that he's not only, and he issued another order today, he's not only installing the highest standards possible, but the order President Trump issued today tells the Secretary of Transportation to review every hiring decision at the FAA over the last four years.
		And where someone was not hired, based on merit, qualification, or competence, then that person needs to be replaced.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Love Stephen Miller.
		Guests on this program many times.
		Looking forward to having him and Alina join.
		You know they'll be joining from the White House now, right?
		They're only 10 days in, so give us a second.
		Give them a second.
		They're drinking from a fire hose.
		But they're only 10 days in.
		They'll be joining from the White House lawn now.
		It's freaking awesome.
		President Trump following through.
		President Trump angry.
		First time I've seen him pissed was at his press conference yesterday.
		Now we were live for Kash Patel.
		Obviously, you knew where we were going to be.
		We're very vocal about this.
		Cash is our boy.
		All right?
		We're going to get our boy in.
		So we were live for six and a half hours with Cash Patel, and we weren't breaking for nobody.
		But Donald Trump was angry at his press conference yesterday and then followed through with an executive order.
		Here we go.
will scharf ▲ ● ▼		We have a presidential memorandum titled Immediate Assessment of Aviation Safety.
		In light of the damage done to aviation safety by the Biden administration's DEI and woke policies, what this presidential memorandum orders is for your secretary of transportation and FAA administrator, in this case acting FAA administrator,
		to basically ensure that we are actively undoing all of that damage, that we are assessing how much damage was done, and that we're ensuring that people hired within the FAA, in keeping with your memorandum of January 21st, are only the most outstanding, capable people for the jobs that they are being hired.
unidentified		In other words, competence?
will scharf ▲ ● ▼		Yes, sir.
will scharf ▲ ● ▼		Elevating competence over everything else instead of the DEI policies that were pursued by the Biden administration.
unidentified		I think everyone understands that.
		And Obama.
		Yes.
		Okay, but Biden much worse.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Not even a contest.
unidentified		What they've done is just crazy in so many other ways.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		We're about evidence on this program.
		We physically show it to you.
		We do our research for hours, days sometimes, like to ensure that we have all the physical evidence and get a load of what we were able to find in the old C-SPAN archives.
		Way back in the ancient times, ladies and gentlemen, we were able to pluck a little clip here, for your viewing displeasure, of a Joe Biden nominee for the FAA.
		This was the guy who was supposed to be in charge of running the Federal Aviation Administration, who was forced to withdraw.
		You can see here.
		When is this dated?
		2023.
		All right, so this would be within recent history.
		Who was forced to withdraw after a setback, according to NPR.
		Let's go ahead and check the setback.
		What exactly was the setback here?
		Senator Ted Cruz asking the questions.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Have you ever flown a plane?
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Thank you for the question, Senator.
unidentified		No, I have never flown a plane.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		So you weren't a military pilot or a commercial airline pilot?
unidentified		No, Senator.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Have you ever worked for an airline?
		No, Senator.
		Have you ever worked as an air traffic controller?
ron johnson ▲ ● ▼		No, Senator.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Have you ever worked for a company that manufactures airplanes?
ron johnson ▲ ● ▼		No, Senator.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		Have you ever worked for a company that fixes airplanes?
ron johnson ▲ ● ▼		No, Senator.
ted cruz ▲ ● ▼		FAA administrator is a specialized position.
		I'm not qualified to be FAA administrator.
		I have no idea how to fly a plane.
		No one in their right mind would put me in charge.
		Of aviation safety, because I don't have that experience.
		I suspect most of the members of this committee are in a similar position.
		The American people, when they think about aviation safety, when they think about, I played in this committee a Southwest Airlines and FedEx plane almost colliding at Austin's airport.
		They want an FAA administrator who knows why those planes crash and knows how to fix it to keep them safe.
		And with all respect, Mr. Washington, it gives no comfort to the flying public that their pilot might be a transgendered witch, but doesn't actually know how to prevent the plane from crashing into the ground and killing them.
		I believe your record is woefully lacking.
		And in fact, you have zero aviation safety experience.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		A transgender witch is a perfect way.
		To explain how the Biden administration hired.
		I could show you some various footage and imagery from the Joe Biden administration for who Joe Biden hired.
		Everyone from Sam Brinton to Rachel Levine to the gay porn that was being shot inside of the Senate hearing rooms.
		Hope they got a good squeegee and cleaner.
		Hope they have great maids.
		Hope you got plenty of Lysol in the Senate.
		I've been watching a lot of Senate hearings.
		That's the thing that always shoots through my brain, and I'm very angry that it does, because I really don't want to see that stuff.
		What a hellscape we have gone through of, like, just psychotic and suicidal diversity hiring.
		This guy, who had never flown a plane, who has...
		Zero experience with aviation is to be put in charge of all plane flights in all of America?
		Now, many people are saying, well, President Trump, where's the proof that he's a DEI hire, that you use DEI in the FAA?
		There's so much proof.
		We have so many clips of FAA administrators under Joe Biden saying it's so important to have equity.
		Equity?
		What the hell are you talking about?
		Equity means equal outcomes.
		It means you're going to have a quota system based on your skin color and who you like to have sex with for how your planes will be landing and if your children will fly either safely and get there or if they will perish.
		And we are heartbroken as a father, as a young father, to see some of the imagery of this plane, of some of the individuals who lost their lives.
		Some of them were small children.
		Some of them were little children.
		I want to play you the final result here and then we're going to jump over to Senator Johnson.
		This is the final result of Joe Biden's policies.
		And I will not tolerate.
		I will not tolerate.
		We've been nuking people and forcing them to delete their accounts and we have the power to do that and we muscularly use it.
		I will not tolerate people blaming President Trump who's 10 days into an administration.
		For the corrupt rot and failures of this suicidal worldview.
		Transgender witches.
		That's exactly right, Senator Cruz.
		Here's what it sounds like when your plane goes flying into Washington, D.C. in a military helicopter, effectively targets it, and they smash into each other.
		Here we go.
unidentified		Oh, did you see that?
		I don't know if you caught earlier what happened, but there was a collision on the operation, the 33. We're going to be shutting down operations for the indefinite future if you want to go back to the gate.
		Yeah, we witnessed the whole thing in the equation for months.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Oh, so just a bunch of gasps, huh?
		No one ordering the helicopter to hover in place since it can do that.
		Since the helicopter can geometrically move around in all three dimensions.
		Nobody's ordering that.
		Nobody said anything to the helicopter.
		You want to know why?
		Because the helicopter pilot was not informed.
		Was flying way too high.
		Flying on an unauthorized path.
		And the person who was supposed to be directing the helicopters...
		Was allowed to leave early.
		Sick.
		Truly.
		I mean, it makes our blood boil, ladies and gentlemen.
		Senator Ted Cruz asking how many transgender witches there will be in control towers all across America.
		Maybe the senator, great senator from Wisconsin, can answer that question.
		A man named Ron Johnson, a strong ally of this program and a person who speaks truth fearlessly in the Senate.
		Senator, thank you for being on the program.
		This has been a wild week in Washington, D.C. Nobody was expecting this, and since this is top of mind with the FAA, perhaps you can explain, like, from your position, how did this happen and what reforms need to be made?
ron johnson ▲ ● ▼		I'd say bureaucratic incompetence across the board.
		Why do they have any flight path of helicopters anywhere near Reagan National Airport, whether it's at the right altitude or not?
		I mean, that's just insane to do that.
		We know that the air traffic system has been broken.
		It's antiquated.
		We know it's not properly staffed.
		Why didn't the Biden administration do anything about it?
		So, no, these are problems that have been going on for years.
		People have known about it.
		But again, that's why I'm not a fan of government.
		It's completely incompetent.
		Really, under anybody's management, you cannot properly manage a $7 trillion a year entity and expect anything better than this, probably.
		It's sad.
		We've got to shrink the size of government so we can manage what we have a whole lot better, because right now it's completely out of control.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I will say, given the dark circumstances, at the very least, the Trump administration is being transparent, is telling us the truth, is coming forward with an enormous amount of information, and we can rest assured that we're going to get to the bottom of what actually happened here.
		Final question on this subject, Senator.
		What do you believe actually happened?
ron johnson ▲ ● ▼		I really don't know.
		It's completely inexplicable to me.
		It sure looked like that helicopter just purposely ran right into that.
		What was the pilot?
		Did they close his eyes?
		Again, you can't explain it.
		How can you not see an airplane?
		When you are flying a helicopter close to an international airport, how can you not be looking all over the place, much less right in front of you?
		You cannot explain this.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
		You know, Senator, we played earlier in the show the camera, EarthCam, from the top of the Kennedy Center, I'm sure a place that you've been to many times, and you can see this wide expanse for 67 seconds.
		The two aircraft fly towards each other.
		It's a very long period of time to notice a giant glaring light in the middle of the sky.
		I'm no pilot, but it seems like people's lives are being played with here, and it's very disturbing.
ron johnson ▲ ● ▼		We need to know a lot about that helicopter pilot.
		We need to figure out who that is and what his background was or her.
		I don't know anything about the pilot at all.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
		Well, sir, you are on various committees, and one that caused bombshell hearing this week was RFK Jr., and we really appreciated your questions and the questions on the side of the Republican dais that...
		We're about chronic health and our children.
		But your colleagues on the other side were obsessed with RFK's onesies, baby onesies, and of trying to protect vaccine manufacturers.
		And you've been such an all-star in the Senate for talking about America's health and one of the few senators that actually is really doing something to talk about chronic disease in this country.
		It must have been a breath of fresh air to hear RFK talk about it.
		How do you think that hearing went?
		First off, will RFK get confirmed?
ron johnson ▲ ● ▼		I'm pretty optimistic, Will.
		I think you did a great job in that hearing against all the hostility of the Democrats.
		Again, that's what I was reacting to.
		I'm kind of lower down in seniority on the Finance Committee, so I sat and listened to that vitriol for about an hour, hour and a half before I finally was able to make my comments, just talking about the fact that this is something the American people desperately want in a completely non...
		Partisan manner.
		And I have to admit, one of the things I was thinking as I listened to all that vitriol coming from Democrats is had Kamala Harris actually accepted Bobby Kennedy's outreach hand because he reached out to both President Trump and Kamala Harris, you would have had a completely different hearing.
		Democrats would have been completely in favor of RFK Jr.
		I would have been in favor of him because I know him.
		I think I know what's in his heart.
		I know he wants to focus on finding the Causes of solving the mystery of chronic illness, of autism.
		That's what the American people want as well, as I said, a completely nonpartisan basis.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So when you heard, this clip went thermonuclear center, when you heard him call out Bernie for taking big pharma money, did you go, holy smokes, like that's a heater right there.
		Bernie got very upset about that.
		You're the number one recipient of big pharma dollars in the Senate, which I think shocked many Bernie bros.
		Senator.
ron johnson ▲ ● ▼		Well, that happened in the next day's hearing with the Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee.
		But we knew that ahead of time.
		There were plenty of reports on X and other platforms showing all the millions of dollars of big pharma money that the Democrats have received.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It does seem relatively disqualifying, at least from a moral perspective, because Elizabeth Warren had a meltdown.
		That was her line of questioning that caused this viral moment where, you know, Senator, you're asking me not to sue vaccine companies and I won't agree to that.
		That's kind of my job, actually.
		And it seems very fraudulent.
		It seems like they're definitely dancing for dollars.
ron johnson ▲ ● ▼		Well, let's face it, the Democrat Party is in the back pocket of the trial lawyers.
		They've been in the back pocket for decades, and now she's criticizing a lawyer who has sued corporate interests and taken a contingency fee from it.
		That is their bread and butter.
		That is what funds the Democrat Party, is exactly that kind of trial lawyer activity.
		So again, I'm not a fan of lawyers in the judicial process, but I've certainly come to understand that you need an adversarial system.
		And you certainly need an adversarial system when it comes to science.
		You need skeptics.
		You need to examine what evidence, what data we get from research studies.
		When you pay for science, and the cell's been corrupted, when you pay for science nowadays, you get exactly the result you're looking for.
		That's not true science.
		That's corruption.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I know that there were two other bombshell hearings.
		I know the Senate's been working overtime right now, but two that, of course, we focused on yesterday, Tulsi and Kash Patel.
		Can you give us sort of the handicaps on where the Senate stands?
		Apparently, John Cornyn is now announcing he's going to be voting for Tulsi Gabbard.
		That's a big movement in the right direction.
		Kash and Tulsi, how did they do, Senator?
ron johnson ▲ ● ▼		Well, first of all, what all Trump nominees are doing is they're showing that they are intelligent people.
		They are articulate, they're unflappable, and they're fighters.
		But that actually is revealed in these hearings.
		That's why these hearings are important.
		You get to understand the metal of the individual that is going to be running these agencies, these very difficult problems they're going to have to deal with, like Sean Duffy.
		Not even a day on the job, and now Sean Duffy is Secretary of Transportation.
		He's having to deal with just a horrific tragedy that should not have happened.
		And he's got a big mess to clean up on his hands in terms of the FAA and air traffic control.
		So that's across the board.
		The Democrats have left so many large piles of messes all over this country.
		It's going to take a while to clean them up.
		It's going to take more than one term, quite honestly.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
		So just a final question here, Senator, to burrow in because I know this is your pet project oversight of the FBI.
		Arguably, I don't know if it's you or Chuck Grassley, Senator.
		I'm not sure which is the bigger thorn in the paw of the FBI and the Weaponized Justice Department.
		But nonetheless, you've been such a truth seeker for Matthew Thomas Crooks figuring out what happened with the Trump assassinations.
		You've gotten nothing.
		You've been stonewalled and blackballed the entire way through.
		Will Cash get this position, and what will be the first thing you ask of him?
ron johnson ▲ ● ▼		Well, maybe the first thing, now that we've uncovered the corruption of the whole January 6th prosecution, persecution of Donald Trump, we have the same thing going on in Wisconsin.
		We've got an attorney general who basically said that Trump's lawyer involved in that case did nothing wrong, and now he's trying to put him in jail.
		So I want the communication between the Justice Department, the corrupt FBI, and Josh Call, Wisconsin Attorney General, who's now, again, prosecuting somebody for doing something he ruled a couple of years ago is perfectly legal in terms of coming up with an ultimate slate of electors.
		So there's corruption.
		It's not at the federal level, but it also goes back down to state level.
		So that's why I'm very interested in our current oversight letters.
		You're showing that corruption of how that FBI individual and the FBI...
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I'm sure he'll be whistling Dixie when Cash is in.
		What's the over-under on Cash getting in?
		Is this going to happen, Senator?
ron johnson ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I think so.
		Again, he showed himself very capable.
		And again, his main goal is he has to restore integrity and credibility to the FBI.
		He'll give us the information.
		Congress will do our investigations.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Great.
		It's incredible to hear.
		I don't know how anybody could vote.
		Possibly.
		It seems like...
		Career suicide to vote against Tulsi in cash after the performances.
		Also, RFK, I think, did so honorable and did such a great job.
		Courage under fire.
		Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to see more of it in the Senate, you've got to follow one of the true actual fighters and truth-tellers, the great Ron Johnson.
		Follow him right here.
		Almost 700,000 followers on X. You're viral, Senator.
ron johnson ▲ ● ▼		Not quite, but I'm getting there.
unidentified		You're an influencer, Senator.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Thank you so much for all of your work that you do.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Godspeed.
ron johnson ▲ ● ▼		Have a great day.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Ladies and gentlemen, joining us in just one second is going to be the great Tom Fitton, who was at the Cash Patel hearing, who's been by Cash's side and arguably the final voice, the last word on...
		on weaponized departments of justice, and he's been fighting them for decades in Washington, D.C. Ladies and gentlemen, there's been so much news this week.
		We want to make sure that you are locked in and joining us and connected to us.
		We've been live.
		I don't know.
		Klein, have we slept in the studio yet?
		Yeah, I've pretty much slept in the studio, right, at this point, right?
		We just have a little apartment, have a little cot, right?
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		Ladies and gentlemen, locking and loading with a man who was standing next to Cash all day.
		We say stand with Cash in this program.
		The man who actually physically had Cash's back yesterday.
		was the great Tom Fitton joining the show live now.
		you you you Tom, how are you, sir?
		You're Cash's bodyguard, dude.
		Good for you.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Oh, man.
		You know, he had three sitting right behind him there.
		That was not noticed by the media.
		You know, the media didn't comment on it.
		I thought it was unusual to have three guys, at least three that I could see.
		Not standing off to the side or in the back, but front and center, right behind him.
		So he must be under significant pressure and threat because it's all about Trump in the end, isn't it?
unidentified		Yeah.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I mean, well, listen, if they can blow off a piece of Trump's ear, right?
		And you already heard, was it a man with a Molotov cocktail?
		I don't think we've even covered it on the show yet.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that came in the other day, yeah.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Bro, the Molotov cocktail, there was that guy with the machetes that were coming in to kill Trump.
		Like, these people are getting caught at the Capitol building.
		Ladies and gentlemen, listen to this.
		There have been multiple left-wing terrorists with deadly weapons that have been nabbed at the Capitol that are coming in to try and kill Trump appointees or nominees.
		And so it's a dangerous time.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yeah.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		And Hakeem Jeffries, I'm sure you saw, minutes ago, called for Democrats to take to the streets.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		We have the clip?
		If you don't mind, how about we pop it up?
		If you don't mind, Tom.
		We have the clip.
		Hakeem Jeffries saying, yeah, it's time for us to all, it's time for us to take to the street and for us to, oh, the producers are grabbing it right now.
		Okay, so.
		Oh, it's only 10 seconds?
		Let's do it.
		Okay.
		Hakeem Jeffries saying, yeah, this is the head, this is like arguably the most powerful Democrat in all of Washington, D.C. right now, saying it's time for all Democrats to march in the streets.
		To run cities down once again out of anger for Donald Trump.
unidentified		Here we go.
		We are going to fight it legislatively.
		We are going to fight it in the courts.
		And we're going to fight it in the streets.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Dude, these people are like, I mean, they're like a fifth column.
		They're like a paramilitary.
		It's like paramilitary.
		They know the orders that are being given right now.
		Although I will say the Trump Justice Department doesn't seem to be effing around, Tom.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		No, and, you know, we're reminded, you know, violence is a core left-wing value.
		You know, it's violence, anti-Semitism, hatred for America, and we're kind of seeing that all.
		And, you know, I was there in the Patel hearings yesterday, and it's clear, first of all, the hearings are a waste.
		I mean, if there's anything we should learn from this confirmation process is the Senate confirmation hearings are a vehicle to abuse good Americans and conservatives.
		And smear them and essentially just use the power of the Senate to abuse people for having speech that is odds with the D.C. establishment.
		And I think there's no reason to have these confirmation hearings the way they've been developed.
		And Senator Thune, if he's looking at the long game, should be curtailing these confirmation hearings in terms of their length and their reach.
		To ensure that good Americans don't apply for key positions or put themselves out there for key positions.
		Thankfully, we've got these brave hearts like Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard and Pam Bondi and the rest who are very Trumpian in their approach.
		It's not the typical Republican way.
		You know, what I saw yesterday and what was going on in Tulsi's hearings is that, you know, the left is desperately afraid of anyone who's going to ask the right questions about their corruption.
		And people like Patel especially are threatening to them because he knows what they did.
		He knows what they did and he knows what needs to be done to ensure it doesn't happen again.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		We live in a, like, obviously, we started on a bit of a dark note.
		There have been multiple, what you have to assume, like, assassination attempts on not just the president, but also on his nominees and appointees.
		We live in dark times, like serious times with serious topics.
		But all Democrats wanted to talk about yesterday was the January 6th choir.
		Bro, I heard like 20 questions about the J6 choir yesterday and about some supplement that Cash was selling.
		These are not serious people, man.
		I texted Cash.
		I go, the January 6th choir.
		I texted Cash as soon as the hearing was done.
		I was like, you are going to sell so many records from the J6 choir.
		This hearing, Democrats just sold out.
		All the records.
		It's going to go platinum now because Democrats couldn't stop flipping talking about it.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		By my count, five Democrat senators asked questions about that issue.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Is it an issue?
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		It isn't an issue.
		I don't know.
		It seemed to me they were just passing time asking questions about something they think might have a hook with the public.
		And I don't understand.
		And I'm being honest here because it's like, well, you know, you have to consider.
		Well, what does the left see in this?
		And if I were a leftist, I would see that this issue did not work in November.
		The public has rejected it outright, but evidently they think it's a big enough issue, and it raises questions as to what else they're going to do with it in terms of the lawfare and the abuse.
		And when you see Schiff screaming about it, you know, if the House, for instance, goes to Democrats in a few years, I guarantee you Trump is going to get impeached.
		Two or three more times.
		That's how crazed his opposition is.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		You saw some very interesting lines of questioning from Marsha Blackburn yesterday.
		She's like, why is the federal government protecting the foremost pederasts in the entire world, Jeffrey Epstein?
		And there's a dude, Dick Durbin, on the committee who has refused to allow the Epstein list to be released and refused to do any oversight on this.
		And Cash is like, yeah, man, we're going to release it.
		And he got very upset and a little nervous, and it was a bit of a tell.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, Durbin spent, out of the blue, spent five minutes explaining himself on Epstein.
		And I heard Senator Blackburn's questions, and it was very strange.
		It's like, what does this have to do with the price of tea in China?
		Or Cash's confirmation as FBI director?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Just so your listeners know, Cash's biggest reform, I think he highlighted, maybe more important than FISA reform or anything else, is that he wants to put the people who work in the FBI who were assigned here in D.C., a third of the 38,000 employees of the FBI.
		It should be a third of a lot smaller number, as you might imagine, from my perspective.
		He wants to put them out in the country.
		To solve actual violent crimes.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		That would be a significant reform.
		And with all due respect to Cash, he's going to do the right thing, I suspect.
		He'll push hard.
		I don't think the FBI is salvageable.
		And I half-jokingly say this, Benny, is that Cash Patel should be the last FBI director.
		This agency can't survive in its current form.
		Otherwise, it will be used time and time again to assault our republic.
		Just like the IRS has been used since its founding, essentially.
		Used by politicians as a tool to go after their opponents.
unidentified		We've just got to take the tools away.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Well, the FBI is an executive order, so it's never really an act of Congress, right?
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that's a good question.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		And of course, you say that to the senators in the Republican Party.
unidentified		Oh, you know, the FBI, this.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		We're all supposed to fall on the ground.
		I know what the legacy of the FBI is.
		They tried to put Trump in jail on pretext.
		They sent FBI agents to my home in retaliation for our speaking out against their corruption.
		They destroy anyone who opposes them internally.
		They're a threat to the rule of law.
		They do more to undermine the rule of law than to protect it.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Give me a score for Kash Patel yesterday.
		You were in the entire hearing.
		You were DMing me from the hearing.
		You're like, hey, they just shouted out your show!
		It was our great honor, actually.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		I look for exciting moments.
unidentified		It was our great honor to have our show shouted out.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Senator Booker's wearing a mask.
		Isn't that ridiculous?
		I mean, Cash did great.
		I mean, he knew.
		I mean, he's faced much worse in terms of questioning.
		And this was a lightweight questioning.
		And I think the Democrats didn't go after Cash as much as they might otherwise have because they know, as I say, he knows what they did.
		He knows what Schiff was doing.
		Schiff hates his guts.
		That was interesting.
		Schiff never left.
		He's sitting there the entire hearing.
		Showing that he's the good new school student as the new senator, pretending to pay attention to everything, and of course he does his histrionics.
		But he is the most mendacious member.
		As I tweeted out, he was the most mendacious and political operator there in the hearing room.
		And that says a lot.
		There are a dozen other senators and a lot of other people in the room watching.
		Schiff is the worst.
		And if I were Thune, I'd say, you know, what'd you get pardoned for?
		We're going to have an investigation.
		I can't trust you on committees.
		You're off.
		He should be a pariah in terms of ethical conduct in the Senate.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Here we go.
		Here's the tweet.
		You were this close to Adam Schiff, man.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Oh, man.
		Uh-oh.
		Hey!
		I got triggered by Cash Patel launching a watermelon from a...
		Oh, that's right.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Well, you know, and then Klobuchar was yelling at him because he was selling supplements.
		And he said, you know, she goes, well, did you conduct any clinical trials?
		She goes, well, I'm not a doctor, so no.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		We have Klobuchar here with the shout out for the show.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		And then I want one final question for you, Tom.
unidentified		Here we go.
unidentified		Also said you would put the entire fake news mafia press corps on your list.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Is that correct?
unidentified		Is that what you said?
		I don't have that in front of me.
		Danny Johnson's podcast 8-21-23.
		You have said that the FBI, including today...
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It is our great honor.
		It is our great honor to trigger your unhinged psychotic cat lady meltdown.
		Reach for your box of wine and your comb to eat your salad with.
		And whatever other abuses you will level upon, you will visit upon your poor, sad staff.
		I pray for them.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		They were asking him about his enemies list.
		I know, I don't know what the enemies list he's talking about.
		It was probably a list of deep state actors.
		I can guarantee you it's too short.
unidentified		Yeah.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so would you say 10 out of 10 for Kash Patel yesterday?
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Oh, sure.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah?
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, Durbin started off with the questioning, and I thought, oh, well, this is over already.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		They don't have anything.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, because it was like, you're a racist and a white supremacist.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I mean, the interesting thing about being in the room, the TV helps focus on the drama, right?
		But when you're in the room, you see it's all an act.
		It's like most of the people are ignoring, you know, Cash has to pay attention.
		Everyone else is thinking this is ridiculous.
		When is it going to end?
		And as I say, it's a way not to stop Cash Patel.
		But to try to smear him and prevent him and caution him against doing the right thing.
		So this is a tool for the left.
		This is why I think the confirmation hearing process should end as we know it.
		The conservatives don't have, they don't use the confirmation process to do that because they probably think it would be unethical.
		And it's only the right and conservatives who are victimized by it.
		And again, why is it?
		We just allow these processes that don't have any basis in the Constitution.
		They're not necessary to the functioning of the Republic.
		I mean, Matt Gaetz learned the hard way.
		You don't need a long confirmation process.
		He saw within three minutes he had no chance of winning, and it was over.
		Similarly, why can't we do that for people who are obviously going to win?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So, final question for you, Tom, here.
		Will Cash Patel be confirmed based on all of the available evidence that you saw yesterday in your conversation with senators?
		What do you want his first act to be as FBI director?
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		I think he will be confirmed.
		I think all of his key cabinet officials will be confirmed.
		I think that the opposition was always overstated by the anti-Trump media and their allies.
		You know, what Cash Patel should do is tell the president This FBI was so corrupted, I don't even think that we can be trusted to internally check ourselves here.
		Recommend Pam Bondi as well.
		Ask the President to appoint special counsels from outside the agencies to do a shakedown, a rundown of what went on in the FBI.
		Refer, in the least, the findings for criminal proceedings as required.
unidentified		To the agree appropriate, initiate...
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Grand jury proceedings outside the power and control of the FBI.
		I'm not sure how that might work.
		I love Cash Patel.
		I think he'll do what he can, but in the end, the FBI cannot be investigating the FBI.
		I don't trust him.
		There are too many James Comeys there for Cash to even be able to do it.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that's exactly right.
		Do a criminal investigation on myself.
		We found nothing.
		Guess what?
		You know, it's just us with the fire hose on the top of the AGR building in Butler, making sure that all the evidence gets sprayed off, cremating the body as quickly as possible.
		It's so evil, dude.
		It's so evil.
		I'm really looking forward to this era of transparency.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Mike Davis might get a job yet.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		The Viceroy.
		He just has to grow that mustache, right?
		Get his fancy hat.
		That's right.
		You have been the OG, ladies and gentlemen.
		You've got to follow him.
		If you don't follow Tom Fitt, I don't know what's wrong with you.
		Three million people follow Tom Fitt.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		I'm just literally a few thousand from three million, so everyone watching needs to start following.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Get me over the three million mark.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		We're going to do it right now.
		The man who has cash is back.
		The man who has been...
		Providing incredible oversight for us for decades in Washington, D.C., and may have his golden moment yet.
		And get what he actually wants, which is the destruction of the deep state.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Hey, wait, Benny.
unidentified		Yeah.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Congratulations on the new one.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Hey, man.
		That's right.
		Our golden boy.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		God bless you.
unidentified		God bless.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Another gift from God, huh?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That's exactly right.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		On Inauguration Day, no less.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Oh, wow.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Our cup overfloweth.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		So is his middle name Donald?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Wait, I actually told Don and Eric that if we had twins, I'll name them Don and Eric.
		No, no, it's not.
		It's not Donald named after his great-grandfather.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Oh, wonderful.
		Wonderful.
		Well, congratulations.
		I mean, that was the most important thing that happened in your year thus far, right?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That's a matter of fact.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
tom fitton ▲ ● ▼		Well, congratulations to you and your wife.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
		Thank you, Tom.
		We're both fighting to make sure that those kids can grow up in a functioning country, in a functioning Western civilization.
		So thank you, Tom.
unidentified		Godspeed.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		you you All right, ladies and gentlemen, we rock, we roll on this show.
		We bring on people who are experts in what we wish to talk about because when we see footage like this, you see the helicopter footage, it don't make no sense to us.
		What's going on here?
		We immediately get on the phone, we talk with our incredible team, our producers, our bookers, and we get the right people.
		I need, I saw this footage, I say, I need somebody who's flown in a Blackhawk.
		Give me someone who's been in war.
		Give me a man who has a pedigree as long as my arm on warfighting and understanding our military.
		Somebody who's had a chair and a desk at the Pentagon.
		Give me Alex Pleistis.
		Somebody who's served our country honorably in war zones across the world.
		Who's flown on these helicopters hundreds of times.
		Who's received enemy fire on these helicopters and knows so much of their functioning capability and capacity.
		So we can bring the experts to you.
		Ladies and gentlemen, joining us right now, live, Alex Pleistes.
		you you Alex, thank you so much for coming on and educating us.
		We've previewed some of the footage that's been shocking the internet world-round, and we had a senator on right before you, brother, that said, it looks like this helicopter just targeted the plane.
		That's what Ron Johnson said.
		I'm sure that's going to make quite a bit of news.
		So the floor is yours, Alex.
		Why don't you, first off, explain your history with these helicopters and these implements?
		And then explain, as we play some of the B-roll, what you believe happened here.
unidentified		Sure, I appreciate it, Benny.
		So, and just building off Tom there, congratulations to you and your amazing wife and the beautiful family and the successful quest not to raise little communists.
		So that's quite the feat.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Appreciate it.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		And to fly safe, to live in a safe country, exactly.
unidentified		And to live in a safe country.
		I purposely didn't say anything there just to let folks watch the video that's sort of coming in.
		So I want to provide some context.
		So as Benny mentioned...
		I've flown a number of combat missions in the back of these things and over Iraq, other places as well.
		And then particularly here in the D.C. area, I finished up at the Pentagon as Chief of Sensitive Activities for Special Operations and Combating Terrorism about 10 years ago or so.
		So what you're looking at there, obviously, is the helicopter, you know, T-boning.
		It looks like the side of the aircraft coming in.
		So just to give everybody some reference, there are several aviation units in the area, this one based out of Fort Belvoir, that provide executive transport to senior officials in the D.C. region.
		This particular flight, according to the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hezquez yesterday, was in the middle of an annual recertification nighttime flight as part of supporting what's called continuity of government.
		So if everybody remembers after 9/11, President Bush was flown around the country and one Air Force Base to another because they triggered that emergency.
		We train as we fight.
		In a real-time emergency, we would be in the middle of a downtown area like this, and the flights would occur.
		So that's the reason why it was happening.
		Now, the flight pattern that's normal for DC helicopters for moving, which by the way, fly every day, is the beltway, the Ring Road 495 that goes around the capital.
		And then to the west of the city, the Potomac River is there.
		And then the flight plan will also take you down the Potomac River, which does cross paths with the The runways at Reagan Airport, which is where the American Airlines flight was landing.
		So a couple other things to keep in mind.
		I think everybody's probably seen movies where they believe there's all these, you know, screens with these massive flashes and radars.
		It's a military helicopter.
		There isn't a really great warning system that they're about to run into something.
		So that's one.
		You hear the communication with the tower going back and forth saying, hey, helicopter, you know, the call sign, and you see it there, Pat-25.
		There's, you know, your incoming aircraft, you know, and he said, Roger, visual, you know, I'm going to maintain visual distance.
		And so that's his cue from the tower, letting him know there's a plane coming somewhere in the path.
		So there's been a couple of things that have been said, and then this morning's video adds a different angle to this and some potential different context.
		And that was that the pilots may have been looking at a potential different aircraft that was coming in.
		They also had night vision on.
		And for those of you who have not had a night vision system, they're literally tubes that look like this.
		You end up with tunnel vision.
		You also end up with a bit of depth perception issues with that as well.
		If they're the older nods, it could have been green as opposed to white.
		So who knows what they were looking at at the time.
		That's all sort of speculation what they were looking at.
		And they were told basically to come in behind the aircraft.
		So this looks like a straight shot as you can see it here.
		There's been some comments made about altitude potentially being off course, trying to find their way.
		They may have not been in the right spot.
		And as they were coming, is it a question of spatial disorientation where the pilot...
		You know, thought they were lower where they were, but the gauges are all there and trying to come behind the aircraft.
		You can also hear on the radio, they're perfectly calm in the communications with the tower.
		There's no hint of a problem.
		You don't hear anything from the co-pilot trying to chime in as if there's an issue or one way or the other that something's, you know, nefarious going on.
		And there's just an impact.
		And chances are, because the lighting on the helicopter, the American Airlines plane probably didn't even see the helicopter off to its side.
		So how that T-bone happened?
		And it looks like, again, a direct, you know, into the side of the aircraft.
		You'd hear engines roaring.
		You'd potentially see those flashing of the lights if you were looking with night vision.
		The video from this morning raises more questions than there are answers right now.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Again, I hate to be the person that puts all the patterns together here, but we've seen sort of crisis after crisis, and let's just call it deadly incident after deadly incident, that I think primes people to say, what's going on in our military?
		Is there a vetting issue?
		Is there a mental health issue?
		Is there nefarious fifth column activity going on?
		You just had a Senator Alex on the show saying this helicopter targeted that plane and it flew right into the side of it.
		Now here's a footage.
		Here's footage.
unidentified		Sure.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I prep my team for this because this is the footage that I think is almost the most damning where you can see, bro, the planes.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		This is a 67 second clip and you can see the planes flying at each other for the entire time.
unidentified		Sure.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		And it becomes almost impossible to say that these planes didn't.
		See one another.
		At least the military chopper didn't see the inbound plane or hear it.
		And so, again, it just raises some very dark questions.
unidentified		Well, I think you raised a couple of points because there's been a number of incidents lately.
		The terrorist attack we saw in New Orleans from a veteran there was absolutely somebody who had been indoctrinated as a terrorist afterwards, radicalized, and conducted the attack.
		The feedback on the Green Beret and probably one of the most bizarre incidents I've seen.
		In terms of the explosion in the Cybertruck outside Trump Tower, using like fireworks and like a propane tank.
		I mean, if we look at those things, you get a basic level of explosives training and special forces qualification courses and then your individual specialty, right?
		I mean, there's an engineer, a member of the team, the Charlies in terms of the 18 series who specialize in explosives, but everybody gets some basic training.
		I mean, anybody who's done basic explosives would know that the crap that was put in the back of the Cybertruck is not going to do any damage.
		It's not going to actually, like, it's not a bomb per se in that sense, right?
		You're missing a main explosive charge with something there.
		That guy had some serious mental health issues that came out afterwards.
		So you have one terrorist incident.
		This one appears to be mental health.
		In this particular case with the pilots, I mean, the explanation sort of going into it, you know, perhaps tunnel vision, looking at the wrong, you know, plane coming up to it, where there's a harder time.
		And I think, you know, that was the Senator's sentiment, is as you get closer, right?
		Okay, I missed the aircraft at first.
		I'm looking at the wrong one and everything else.
		But how did nobody see the flashing lights from the side of the aircraft, right?
		How did nobody hear the roar of the engines coming in?
		And even at the last second, if it was the last second, oh, my God, I'm about to hit.
		There doesn't appear to be in the video any movement to take evasive maneuvers from the helicopter itself.
		So that's where the major question point is right now.
		What was transpiring inside that aircraft at that moment that they didn't see it when it was that close in front of them?
		Neither the pilot or co-pilot were looking out the windshield to see that, and the crew chief didn't see it either.
		And unless there's communications they haven't released that suggest that the pilots or the crew chief saw it and didn't react, it just leaves more questions than anything else right now.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So I want to jump over to your post here on X when you were responding to Senator Josh Hawley.
		You mentioned that and referenced that.
		My production team grabbed it.
		This is something that President Trump has been saying, and he said again this morning, the helicopter was not where it was supposed to be.
		The helicopter was too high.
		It wasn't on an approved pathway.
		The commander-in-chief is saying this helicopter should not be there.
		But you're saying that this was...
		A training operation and that actually it was certified to be there.
		Who's right here?
unidentified		So both, actually.
		So Pete Hexgath yesterday said it was a continuity of government operation annual training certification flight.
		So the flight was supposed to be taking place.
		They were moving down the river, but they were a half mile off course, according to the president's tweets, I think, that were out and also 400 feet in the air when the ceiling is supposed to be 200.
		So they were outside of whatever their approved pattern was.
		And if you look at the flight map at one point...
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		If I may, Alex.
		I'm sorry.
		I don't have a habit of interrupting.
unidentified		No, go ahead.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		What the hell, man?
		Why then?
		How is that possible?
		How could you be twice the height that you're supposed to be flying?
		And you said veering quite radically off course.
		How is that permissible?
unidentified		Excellent question.
		So, I mean, if you look at, you have to take a look at a few things, right?
		So, lumination, was it dark where they were?
		Did they move up in the air because they were afraid they were going to hit something?
		What I haven't seen, so we've all seen the flight pattern.
		What I haven't seen is an elevation change to see if it went up or down at any point.
		That's the one piece of data that's missing.
		So, were they flying at that the whole time when they weren't supposed to be?
		And right before that, there was a rapid movement across the river over a period of land, over a piece of land.
		And the river is the visual checkmark for most of the pilots to let them know that they're on course when they're flying over, right?
		And you can see the lighting here, right?
		It's not pitch black at the time it took place.
		And it's also in a fairly, you know, dense urban environment.
		You can see the lighting in the background there across the river.
		You can see it.
		You see the plane in the foreground.
		So it's taken from DCA facing outbound towards the other side of the river, towards Maryland, towards what's actually Bowling Air Force Base, the headquarters of the Defense Intelligence Agency is right off the coast there.
		So as it's coming in and it hits the side of the aircraft, it's not pitch black.
		So again, the questions you raise need to be answered because why were they that high?
		Why were they off course?
		How did nobody see it right before it hit the aircraft?
		And again, even if you were off course and if you were looking at the wrong aircraft on approach trying to swing behind it, how at the last minute, there's no evasive actions being taken there.
		Like as you can see, we'll let it play again because it's in the background.
		watch the helicopter coming straight across there on the left right into the side of the aircraft there doesn't appear to be any movement to show that the helo was taking an evasive action so either the pilot again wrong thinking that they were going to be able to swing behind it and the plane was moving faster than it was but it's still accepted I want to establish just one more time your pedigree because you have been in war zones.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You've flown on these birds in war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.
		You've been fired upon inside of these.
		These instruments by the United States military are created and designed in order to keep you flying and in order to keep maneuverability and the capacity to evade any type of an RPG, a missile that is shot at you.
		These are sophisticated pieces of equipment.
		Am I correct in that assessment?
unidentified		You are.
		The pilots can take immediate evasive action, you know, and just a move that's thick, and they're able to move the aircraft in any direction they want.
		It's clear they're on a straight-line flight path from what's in that video.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It's like, they could hover.
		I mean, you could almost, you could be going forward, and you could almost hover almost instantly.
		Is this correct?
		Or you could move up or down very quickly.
		Yes?
unidentified		Yeah, and you'd see the nose of the aircraft would come up or the hairframe would come up a little bit and it would stop and then it would hover and bounce on its rotors a little bit.
		You don't see sort of any of that.
		You don't see the tail kicking left or right as if it's trying to turn.
		You don't see it pitching or yawing any direction trying to move.
		It's just a straight line.
		So, I mean, what it says is there's a couple of theories you can run down.
		Again, right now we have more questions than we have answers to.
		Did they really not see it, and how did nobody see that coming into it, or was there something else that took place inside that aircraft?
		And right now, we don't have the data to answer that.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Man.
		I mean, I guess watching this chilling footage and living in D.C., and I know you've lived in D.C., at least it's a gallows observation, but at least it didn't happen over, you know, at least this crash didn't happen over a neighborhood, right?
		Or a bunch of, or a government building, or a tour bus, right, full of children.
		And it could have been even more horrifying, frankly.
unidentified		I mean, again, you're right.
		So the good thing is that after 9-11, right, they restricted the airspace over the capital for commercial aircraft, although there was one that deviated directly over the capital during this incident trying to clear the airspace, which was unusual.
		And the helos are meant to go down the river.
		So if it was going to occur anywhere, this would have been the spot to do it.
		And I've been on the DCR National Guard helicopters that fly over that region as well.
		If you commission into a reserve or guard unit in the area out of Georgetown to the main ROTC, classmates of mine did, that's where you end up as an aviation unit.
		I've been fortunate enough to fly on that pattern.
		And it's really kind of beautiful.
		You fly over the river, you see our nation's capital, all of our instruments of power and democratic institutions that are downtown.
		You know, you can see the Capitol, the White House.
		It's really fantastic.
		So to see, you know, something like this happen, the tragedy unfolded is just it's awful.
		You know, the loss of life on board that aircraft is senseless.
		And I mean, it's very clear something went wrong because folks say, oh, it was, you know, why were you training there?
		We train as we fight if that's going to happen.
		Do training protocols need to be looked at?
		Absolutely.
		Or flight protocols to see what happened.
		But at the end of the day, we still need to be able to move people.
		And our adversaries in the event of an attack are not going to, hey guys, can you hold up on the terrorist attack?
		Or hey, let us wait 20 minutes to clear the airspace.
		That's not realistic.
		It's not going to happen.
		So these flights are going to need to start again.
		So somebody's going to have to get to the bottom of this and find out what the hell happened.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, okay.
		All right.
		I don't want to go to the dark place, right?
		I don't want to go to the...
		The last thing you want to put out there is that someone did this intentionally.
		It's just the evidence is starting to really become quite overwhelming.
unidentified		Yeah, it's raising questions.
unidentified		You're right.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Quite overwhelming that something truly dark happened here.
		I want to put up Alex's ex-profile.
		I need everybody to go over and follow Alex.
		This is him, actually, in the photo.
		This is him in the cover image right there in Iraq.
unidentified		Yeah, I lied to mom and told her I had a dust job in Kuwait, and then I ended up on the front page of the New York Times.
		That's the third battle scene, American Sniper, in Sadr City.
		So she was a little pissed, to say the least.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		While everybody goes over and follows Alex, we're going to get him up to 100,000.
		Alex is just one of these people that has such a strong voice and such a clear, rings like a bell, and is always, constantly, no matter who's in the White House, fighting for our...
		American service members and for the betterment of the men and women in our armed services.
		Give me a score for Pete Hegseth.
		He's only been in the chair for a couple days, but give me a score for the new SecDef.
unidentified		It's actually been quite impressive to watch in terms of, you know, his responsibility.
		For those who don't know, too, Pete's responsibility as a SecDef is outward facing.
		It's operations overseas, it's engagement with Congress and with the Hill.
		All the stuff with the anti-woke, DEI, all that, that's actually the deputy secretary in the services to handle.
		So right away, there was a crisis overseas which tried to extend the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
		You had to get the agreement back on track between the Israelis and the Palestinians and making sure the prisoner exchanges took place, having to react very quickly to the president's orders to expand the facility at Guantanamo to add more folks down there.
		Whether you agree with the policies or not, it doesn't matter.
		He is the Secretary of Defense taking orders in the White House, and he is doing what needs to be done.
		I mean, those were two significant tests overseas right away to see if the administration would be able to handle.
		And he did quite well in his part for getting those things done.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I love this, man.
		Just in closing, I love this.
		His conversations from the desk?
unidentified		Yep.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		From the SecDef desk?
		The transparency, the showing us of the documents and what's actually happening and the readouts.
		Man, it's like, based on what we've just been through for the last four years, where it feels like we've just been perpetually lied to or at least obfuscated by the Department of Defense and those in our government, it rings like a bell, man.
		It's just so beautiful to see.
		At least you feel like there's adults in the room.
unidentified		It certainly does.
		And you've got a guy who's a communicator, who's a Princeton graduate, who's sitting there in the chair, communicating directly, not going through the press secretary on this one.
		So you're hearing from the horse's mouth.
		This wasn't an attempt to sort of avoid responsibility.
		I'm in charge.
		Here's what's going on.
		And here's what's happening.
		You know, that's not much more you can ask for, right?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Not much more you can ask for.
		Godspeed, Alex.
		Thank you so much for your service.
		And please be a regular on the show.
		Be our, like, correspondent into all of this because we want to give people accurate information.
		You're the man for it.
unidentified		At your disposal, brother.
		Anytime you need.
		Congratulations.
		Thanks again for having me.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		my brother.
		you you you Ladies and gentlemen, we cannot, we cannot...
		And we have a lot to get to today.
		We're going to be doing a whole other live for a press conference that the White House will be having here.
		So I just want to let you know the programming for the day.
		We're going to be doing a whole other live about the press conference.
		I'm sure there's going to be a lot of questions about this.
		Carolyn Levitt will be back at the press dais.
		We covered Cash Patel for six and a half hours.
		Do you think I would not do assault that lib?
		For the Libs' reaction to Kash Patel yesterday?
		Oh, baby!
		Here we go!
		Lawrence O'Donnell, soon to be fired from his failing news network at MSNBC that will hopefully be bought by Elon Musk.
		Can't you wait for the Benny show?
		I'll be taking Rachel Maddow's position.
		And, yeah, I mean, Rachel Maddow's makeup person won't have to do, won't have to change much, actually, quite frankly.
		Oh man, that's so sad to say.
		Okay, here we go.
		Salt that lib.
		Get your salt shakers ready.
		Let's salt.
		Salty Lawrence O'Donnell.
		Screaming, crying, bitching, and moaning over Castro Tell.
unidentified		Let's go.
		Kashyap Patel is the kind of person who Donald Trump does not want to be a citizen of the United States.
		Kashyap Patel was born in the United States 44 years ago to immigrant parents, the kinds of people who Donald Trump says have poisoned the blood of America.
		But today, because of his unyielding personal loyalty to Donald Trump and possibly Donald Trump's gratitude for him committing crimes for Donald Trump, which were explored, In his confirmation hearing today, Kashyap Patel faced questions in the Senate Judiciary Committee as Donald Trump's choice to be the director of the FBI.
		He has made history as a nominee for that job in more ways than one.
		Mr. Patel may be, I don't know, but he may be the first nominee for FBI director in history who felt it necessary to plead the fifth.
		To say he wouldn't testify to a grand jury because it might incriminate him.
		Maybe the first nominee for FBI director ever to feel necessity.
		That's right.
		He is the first nominee in history to plead the Fifth Amendment as a nominee for director of the FBI because he believed his testimony to a grand jury could incriminate him in the commission of crimes with and for Donald Trump.
		The grand jury was investigating Donald Trump's illegal possession of classified documents, and that testimony to the grand jury remains secret.
		So hard to, like, honestly, it's so hard to watch.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I don't like these clips.
		I don't like, guys, we gotta not do clips from MSNBC anymore.
		It's almost too sad.
		It's like watching a grandfather in a graveyard, like, sitting there sobbing, crying, reaching for his pills.
		These people are unhinged!
		And we do an uplifting show on this program.
		And so, ladies and gentlemen, we have an uplifting meme for you of Kash Patel.
		We're going to...
		Give you the Kash Patel meme that broke the internet yesterday when Kash Patel informed one of the members of the committee who was having a hysterical meltdown on him that she was out of time.
		This is Amy Klobuchar who shouted out our program.
		Thanks, Amy!
		Thanks for watching!
		Eat your salad with a comb!
		Getting bodied by Cash for Telescope.
unidentified		Rest of the interview, this is why snippets of information are often misleading and detrimental to this committee's advice and consent process.
		If you consent, I would love to have five hours of questions and then I could read the whole transcript.
		You've got two minutes.
		Wow.
		Damn!
		Minutes.
		Wow.
		Damn!
		Wow.
		Ha ha ha ha ha!
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I've never seen them so demoralized.
		I've never seen them so sad, so off their energy and game.
		It's been eviscerated by this.
		It's a beautiful thing to see.
		It's what happens when you sell out your soul.
		It's what happens when you don't have an actual party that's founded on anything other than power.
		And then when you're out of power...
		Like, you have no values, actually, that you represent.
		When you're out of power, then you, like...
unidentified		You have nothing!
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You have nothing!
		Nothing to hold on to!
		Nothing to live for!
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		All right, ladies and gentlemen, we want to make sure that we are ready for the press secretary and the White House press That will be happening here.
		And so we're going to be doing our Ask Benny Anything for the week.
		We do it every single Friday.
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		You can ask questions during our Friday.
		During our Friday show, but then also we're going to be opening up the capacity to ask questions of various cabinet officials and people that we will be interviewing for a long-form version of the show.
		Some new products that we're going to launch.
		It's going to be very exciting.
		Here we go.
		Evan says, can we get a meme from Jerry that has scenes from Air Force One movie?
		Seeing the helicopters photographed from the Ospreys gave me a get-off-the-plane vibes.
		I think we actually have that, Jerry.
		Let me know.
		Jerry might be sending us this.
		Jerry might be sending us this.
		We'll see.
		Okay, so Evan, the answer is yes.
		And we might have one for you just yet.
		Joost Griffin says, how can we make a beautiful official renaming ceremony happen for the Gulf of America?
		And should President Trump do more pro-America ceremonies like new buildings?
		Yeah, a renaming ceremony for the Gulf of America.
		That's a great idea, Joost.
		Bro, we're gonna do it.
		I live on the Gulf of America.
		We will go there and we can do a massive party when they officially rename it.
		But it has to be renamed through some type of government nomenclature system.
		There's a government maps and namings, of course, because the courts are going to have something like that.
		We've actually put it up on the show before.
		It has to be officially certified through that.
		And once that happens, then it will turn into the Gulf of America.
		As of right now, the maps don't show that.
		So when that happens, that'll be a great date to actually pin down and then do like a big party on the beach or to do like the show live from there.
		That'd be really fun to do something.
		We can totally make that happen.
		And we'll be broadcasting live to you from the Gulf of America.
		How exciting.
	That's a great idea, Juice.
	Thank you.
	Cash Miller.
	Nice name, Cash Miller.
	Benny, will you visit Washington soon?
	Are you talking about Washington, D.C. or Washington State?
	The answer is Washington, D.C. I will be visiting Washington, D.C. probably on a weekly basis.
	We've already been invited.
	Yesterday we were supposed to be on a plane somewhere with somebody who you know, a cabinet secretary, but we weren't able to get into D.C. because there was a horrible accident there at the airport.
	So we weren't able to fly.
	But expect lots to be happening here on this program.
	In this space, ladies and gentlemen, this is the number one show, and this is the number one channel that will bring you the front seat to the golden era in our country.
	We're extremely excited about it.
	And we're extremely thankful for you.
	We just can't believe how quickly the show has grown.
	We are just utterly thrilled about it.
	Know that we are going to be locking in.
	It's going to be such a fun ride.
	We have calls today with members of the administration, with cabinet secretaries, with big-time VIPs.
	We're going to be locked in.
	We're going to be speaking at CPAC in D.C., I guess to answer further that question.
	We'll be speaking at CPAC.
	We'll be, man, we'll be all over.
	And it's going to be fun.
	And we're going to take you with us.
	We're so thankful for you.
	It is a profound blessing.
	To have this show and this channel.
	And we are locked in.
	This team is ready.
unidentified		Let's go!
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		We are ready!
		Get ready for the Benny Show live broadcast from the massive new detention center in Guantanamo Bay.
		I kid you not.
		Get ready.
		I shouldn't be telling you all this stuff.
		It's too exciting.
		I can't help it.
		You're like my family.
		I love you.
		Get ready.
		The Benny Show live from the new massive detention center in Guantanamo Bay.
		It's freaking happening.
		It's so happening and we're so back, baby.
		Our verse of the day.
		Here we go.
		For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his dear son.
		From Colossians 1.13.
		He's rescued us from the kingdom of darkness?
		You can't get more on the nose than that.
		Rescued us from the kingdom of darkness, ladies and gentlemen, and into the kingdom of our king, Christ is king.
		He has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness.
		That might turn out to be one of my new favorite Bible verses.
		Doesn't it feel like that?
		Man, it does for me.
		We are fighting on this program to ensure, with every waking breath, that we have a future for our children, that we have a country that we can give to them.
		And that we preserve this place and do something that only blessed generations do, which is to make their land better for their children.
		Better than how we found it.
		And so that is the goal and the mission of this show.
		And I know it's your goal too, and so I wish you a blessed weekend in this, the greatest country on earth.
		We'll be live in a little bit.
		We'll be live in a little bit for...
		The press conference at the White House, although these things have variable times, so just watch your notifications.
		We will be live, but we'll be starting with a fresh feed because we're unsure about when exactly that will start, but we'll be there for you, the front seat to the Golden Era.
		We have the meme?
unidentified		I'll play that.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Oh, wow, okay.
		Well, we have the meme, so here's throwing to the meme, just so that your wish is our command.
		Thank you so much, Evan, for asking for an Air Force One meme.
		And this is a great way to send you off into your weekend.
		God bless you.
		Have a great one.
		It's your boy Benny.
		Here's your main.
unidentified		Here's your main.
		Mr. President, I win.
		Get off my offspring!
		Rolling in with firelight.
		Flames igniting icy night Crimson glow in frozen land Heat wave from a warlike band Needed
		feel?
		We sail for number one.

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