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DEI Can Be Dangrous - January 30th, Hour 1

Sean addresses the tragedy in DC where an American Airlines regional airplane collided with a military aircraft.  Sean reviews President Trump's response and explains how DEI programs can be very dangerous.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we begin our thoughts, our prayers, our love sent to all the victims of this tragic plane crash.
Well, plane and helicopter crash that took place.
I happen to have a lot of friends that are into aviation.
I mean, I've got so much to share with you.
It's pretty unbelievable the amount of knowledge.
Pete Hegseth just said the military does dangerous things.
It does routine things on a regular basis.
Tragically, last night, a mistake was made.
I think the president is right.
There is some sort of an evaluation issue that we have immediately begun investigating at the Department of Defense.
And that has to take place.
This happened during my show last night.
We just aired what was part one of my interview with JD Vance.
And then I got reports and then a flood of videos being sent to me.
You know, we have to confirm them.
Obviously, we're a news organization before we put it on the air.
And I'm like, I looked at it and I'm like, oh no, because it was very obvious what had happened.
Here's the air traffic control controller saying, oh, Adam Schiff after the crash and giving directions to other planes.
Crash, crash, crash, it's an alert three.
Where's the alert three?
It is off the approach into runway 3-3.
Approach into runway 3-3.
Helicopter crashed.
I'm going to be out this morning.
No.
No, no mic there.
Got it.
Sorry, why is the building?
Come up here.
Alert 3.
Two helicopters.
Well, helicopters TRJ.
Approach into runway 3-3.
Helicopter.
It was a commuter airliner out of Wichita American Airlines flight and a military helicopter.
There's another audio of air traffic control saying, whoa, after seeing the plane crash.
American 470C walks down one star, 3230, 170.
American 4130, go around some left-hand 2505-1930.
Left hand 350-3000, American 3130.
Power Blue Streak 5347 is on file.
I'll request Runway 33, circle the 3-3.
Take a heading, American 3130.
American 3130, go around.
Some left-pane 270-519-3000.
37-0 heading, 3,000, American 3130.
Now, I make this statement, and it's just a fact when you think of the 100,000-plus commercial jets, never mind private aircraft that take off on a given day, plus, it is amazing that we have come very close to perfecting airflight, but we're not there.
I mean, every aircraft will have what's called the TCAS system, which is a traffic collision warning system.
And then you run into issues.
Okay, well, was air traffic control as active and involved in this as possible?
Now, it is very, very normal for a helicopter to cross a runway.
But that has to be cleared by the air traffic control.
And, you know, a lot of this, there's no other way to put it is so avoidable.
And I guess that's why we call them accidents.
And almost every air incident that you have, it's either it's 90 plus percent of the time, it's pilot error.
The way they've designed air flight today and the amount of redundancy in these jets, for example, private planes don't land at Reagan National anymore since 9-11.
So you're dealing with a lot of traffic because there's a lot of traffic going into Reagan.
But I can tell you, you know, as a matter of fact, I knew immediately this was going to be a commercial plane.
And once we knew it was a helicopter, but when you look at the last reported position, the airplane was just outside the runway.
And it is possible that the helicopter was cleared.
At one point, I believe that the reports are saying that the helicopter was asked if they saw the jet and to fly behind it.
But it just, it's not going to bring back anybody's life.
It just isn't.
And it's just sad.
And it's tragic.
President Trump had a moment of silence.
We'll play it later in the program for the victims of this helicopter plane crash.
He said, we're one family, one nation.
Our hearts are broken.
This DC plane collision, the victims include at least 14 members of the U.S. figure skating team, those that boarded the flight that went down on the frigid Potomac.
And as of now, we believe 67 lives were lost.
I'm not sure if that's the final number.
They've recovered about 30 of the bodies.
You know, of course, the predictable, repulsive, you know, instinctive nature to politicize this came out of the left.
You know, one CNN funded into leading a post blaming Donald Trump for the DC airplane helicopter crashed.
And I'm sure somebody said, maybe you should take that down.
And they go, oh, oops, I effed up.
A local columnist, similarly, longtime columnist, author, science professor, Tom Schaller, ripping Donald Trump, blaming him for future plane crashes hours after this had happened.
I mean, it just blows the mind.
Now, Donald Trump did bring up legitimate points in his press conference today that people are not going to want to talk about, but they have lowered standards.
P. Buddha Judge is a moron.
He was pothole.
P. couldn't be a mayor, never mind a transportation secretary.
We saw that in East Palestine, Palestine, and we've seen it on numerous other occasions.
And, you know, we went back and we took a look at the DEI mandates at the FAA and the information and about the language on their website about hiring people, even hiring people with severe disabilities.
Now, I'm all for helping people with disabilities, but I'm also for when you have such critical positions, DEI should not be a consideration.
You've got to hire the best people for the job.
The FAA under Buddha Judge was hiring workers who suffer, quote, severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency's website at the time.
It was taken down, by the way, January 22nd, two days after Donald Trump became president.
Targeted disabilities are those disabilities the federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis and recruiting.
They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism.
Do we really want people in the FAA with psychiatric disabilities and intellectual disabilities?
And I feel sorry.
I know friends that have experienced epilepsy, but there are certain jobs, positions that would not be appropriate, especially if perhaps an event might be triggered by a high stressful situation.
Anyway, it states people with severe mental, physical disabilities are the most underrepresented segment of the federal workforce because of diversity and because it's so critical.
FAA actively supports and encourages a variety of associations, programs, coalitions, initiatives to support and accommodate employees from diverse communities, backgrounds.
Our people are our strength.
We take great care in investing and valuing in them.
Now, am I saying, am I blaming Mayor Pete?
No, but what I am saying is this is why DEI can be dangerous.
It has the potential to be dangerous.
And we've got to be very, very clear about it.
There are certain positions in life that require the best people for the job.
And end quote.
That's it.
End of sentence.
The best people, the most qualified people for positions.
You know, being an air traffic controller happens to be a very, very, very critical, important position.
It's not the place where you want to include diversity, equity, inclusion, and people with psychiatric problems potentially taking over these positions.
And that was where their focus was.
Now, did it have an impact on this particular case?
I don't know if there's any telling or if we'll ever know, but it just shows the idiocy and the lack of thought that goes into it.
Now, it's not going to bring back anybody's life.
Our prayers are with these families, but it is also a moment to reflect on how to improve things to ensure that these things never happen again.
It's like allowing illegal immigrants into our country without vetting them.
You know, 14, 15 million, whatever the number is.
And now we have known terrorists, murderers, rapists, gang members, cartel members in the country because of, to this day, I don't even have a good explanation as to why the Democrats would do something to put our country at such risk.
Americans have been murdered and raped, victims of violent crime.
It has cost this country a fortune providing food, housing, health care, education.
I mean, it's impacted our criminal justice system.
It's hurt our kids' educational opportunities.
You know, we see the level of fentanyl has gone through the roof.
Opioids have gone through the roof in this country.
The amount of death associated with it has gone through the country.
There's going to be accidents.
However, we have to do everything in our power.
You know, if you're running a company, you want to hire the best people available and not be mandated.
It's sort of like mandating Ford to produce cars that their customers don't want that cause them to lose $4.5 billion in a year.
Okay.
I'm all for electric vehicles and companies that want to produce them like Tesla and you want to buy a Tesla, I'm all for the choice that you buy one.
If you want to buy a hybrid, I once owned a hybrid.
I'm all for it.
I didn't like it as much as a gas-powered vehicle, but I thought I'd give it a shot.
I want Americans to have the choice.
But I want if we're going to hire people in critical conditions, positions like air traffic controllers and people within the FAA, if we're going to hire doctors, if we're going to hire other professionals, you need one criteria, one standard, hire the best people.
Now, if there are people that are practicing discriminatory practices, that's a whole different ballgame.
But if you're hiring the best people, you shouldn't be having a checklist.
Okay, we need to hire people with disabilities.
We need to hire more women.
We need to hire people of this race or that race.
No, you hire the best qualified people for the job.
And we want to live in a society where everybody has an opportunity.
If you want me to place blame on minority hiring in this country, which thrived under Donald Trump's first term, as he set record after record low unemployment rates for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, African American youth unemployment.
It is, you know, we're failing young children, especially in predominantly minority areas by not giving them the educational opportunities they so richly deserve, predicated on a belief that the Latin derivative education to bring forth from within that God gave them talents and abilities, and we are not doing our job.
They spend more per capita in New York per student than any industrialized country with the worst results.
We're failing our children, God's children.
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John Solomon just put out a report that this mid-air collision between this American Airlines passenger jet and this Army Blackhawk helicopter at Reagan National was preceded by months of harrowing near-misses at airports all across the country, as well as increasingly shrill warnings that our nation's air traffic control and safety system is stretched to the limit.
Regulators acknowledged in 2023 there were 19 serious near-misses at U.S. airports that could have been catastrophic, one of the largest totals in many years.
Just 14 months before what happened last night, the FAA received a safety expert report that warned America's air traffic control system is suffering from quality control issues, staffing shortages that is putting safety at risk.
Great job, Mayor Pete.
That report warned that the challenges in the areas of the process of integrity, staffing, facilities, equipment, technology all have ties to inadequate, inconsistent funding.
These challenges contribute increasingly to a safety risk that should be regarded as a precursor.
This November 2023 report also warned that personnel shortages among air traffic controllers were forcing people to work longer hours and make sudden last-minute changes to flight plans that increase risks.
Overtime is at a historic high.
Well, that was under Mayor Pete and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's watch.
Okay, we're not allowed to talk about their policies, right?
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If you want to be a part of the program, I'll have some aviation experts on to talk more about this crash that took place in D.C.
It just is so sad on so many different levels.
And, you know, we have to wonder with all the near-misses whether or not some of this might have been preventable.
And I'm sure there's going to be a deep investigation into all of this.
And it's just, you know, with John Solomon's report coming out, it's a little shocking to know that mid-air collisions have been happening around the country and near misses have been reported at record numbers in 2023.
That would be under Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Mayor Pete Bootyjudge.
You know, 19 serious near misses at U.S. airports that could have been catastrophic.
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I've been watching for the better part of today these hearings, round two with RFK Jr.
with the fascination, fixation on all things vaccine.
I don't know how many different ways RFK Jr.
can say he's not taking away your vaccine.
I don't know how many different ways he can tell people that he wants to give the American people objective scientific information for health, wellness, fitness, nutrition, et cetera, so that we can make health a top priority for the American people.
There's no denying a simple truth.
We have an obesity problem in America.
We have a diabetes epidemic in America that leads to heart disease, where we have another epidemic that can also, you know, we have to ask questions, you know, about, you know, why Europe won't import our food because of hormones and pesticides.
I'll give you the answer right there.
And I know people from farming states don't want to hear that.
However, maybe there's a way to strike a balance between health and being the greatest producer of produce on the face of the earth.
Maybe there's a way to strike a balance between health and hormones in terms of the meat that we eat.
And maybe there are solutions.
And then people can make choices.
I mean, you can get grass-fed organic meat if you want, or you can get that which was with hormone injections and not care, but at least make an informed decision.
If you want to make decisions about your health as it regards to vaccinations, at least have information that is not provided by pharmaceutical companies.
You know, it was ironic to watch all of these sanctimonious people lecturing RFK Jr.
You know, he couldn't, he can't repeat himself anymore.
He's not taking away the polio vaccine.
He's not taking away the measles vaccine.
He's not taking away Donald Trump's McDonald's, KFC.
He's not taking away his Coke.
He's not taking away his pizza.
He's not taking away anybody's anything.
There might be certain things.
However, if we're going to spend the money, taxpayer money, on food for kids in school, which we do, maybe we shouldn't have all these sugary drinks for these kids that jack them up.
Maybe that's a bad idea.
And maybe we should spend it on more healthy food for them and take better care of our children.
As he pointed out, children are not Republican or Democrat.
Their kids are crying out loud.
In each case, there was a fixation.
There was Democratic talking points that they wanted to fixate on.
And with RFK Jr., it was very clear where they wanted to go with RFK Jr.
They wanted RFK.
They wanted to slug it out over the issue of vaccines mostly and whether or not he's going to ban things.
He's not banning anything from anybody, any place, anytime, anywhere.
Shifting the burden, he said, around between government and industry and corporations is like changing the decks of the Titanic.
Our country will sink beneath a sea of desperation and debt if we don't change course and ask fundamental questions.
Rand Paul came to his defense.
Well, that's what the country is about, what dissent is about.
I ask you to look at the larger picture and give the guy a break who says, I want to follow the science and see where it leads and not draw a conclusion ahead of time.
He said he would not change FDA vaccine approval and review standards.
He wouldn't change it.
Tim Kaine spends all his time questioning RFK on conspiracy theories.
I mean, RFK said he will rescind a rule on gender-affirming health care.
That was brought up by Josh Hawley.
Yes, it's just common sense.
If you're a patient, do you really want somebody performing surgery on you who is morally opposed to the surgery?
It doesn't make any sense.
No, you shouldn't force people to do that.
Patty Murray and RFK, you know, exchanging, have an exchange on HPV vaccines.
You know, she says they're, quote, you've called them dangerous and ineffective.
RFK, you know, I brought the little litigation I represent.
They don't let him answer.
They're just a bunch of windbags.
That's all they are.
And of course, Lisa Murkowski, predictably, you know, you would expect, I don't even know if she'll vote for a single Trump nominee.
And the people of Alaska need to reconsider how they vote there.
He doesn't win the Republican nomination.
And she, you know, because of this weird system that they have in Alaska, choice voting, you know, that you basically rank to order voting.
It's a hot mess.
How about you vote for the person that you want, and that's the election.
All the candidates, they can all run.
And then let, because if he did the system that way, she would lose.
Kash Patel, I love, he was calling people out left and right.
He was a rock star today.
Called out Dick Durbin.
All they wanted to do in the Kash Patel hearing was talk about January 6th.
That was their main focus on him.
January 6th and an enemies list that he doesn't have.
And so Dick Durbin goes after him about President Trump's pardons, and Patel had the best answer.
He goes, Senator, I have not looked at these individual cases, but I also believe America is not safer because of Joe Biden's commutation of a man who murdered two FBI agents.
And he mentioned Agent Kohler and Agent Williams and their family and how they deserve better than to have the man that point-blank range fired a shotgun into their heads and murdered them, released from prison.
So it goes both ways.
Oh, well, they serve time in jail.
And by the way, they're not free.
They're sentenced to home confinement.
Okay, that makes me feel better.
All of this is Democrats now have gone from complete shock and denial into a state of Trump rage.
And it's, you know, and we'll play some of these exchanges later in the program, but it's manifesting itself in these hearings because they know they don't have the votes.
Now, Republicans got to get a spine.
There might be a time this week where I give out the phone number to D.C. for you to call your Republican senator.
Give President Trump the nominees, the cabinet that he wants.
He was duly elected.
Anyway, so Chuck Grassley gave him a very strong endorsement, which is very, very important to restore the public's trust.
Look at what the FBI has been involved in.
No reasonable prosecutor would prosecute.
James Comey signed three of the four FISA warrants based on the dirty Russian disinformation dossier bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton, even after being warned not to use it, that it was a political document.
Was only years later after it was completely, it was debunked even before the second warrant was was issued, FISA warrant application.
Anyway, it's um you know, and and Cash was very clear.
I want to remain focused on the FBI's core mission.
And by the way, that core mission is not going after peacefully protesting pro-life moms and grandmas and grandpas.
It's not to go after parents at school board meetings that are upset about woke ideology being indoctrinated into their kids' brains.
You know, and, you know, Cash committed to protecting whistleblowers when he runs the FBI and supporting law enforcement.
And again, Dick Durbin only wants to talk about January 6th, January 6th.
We'll play it later, but Lindsey Graham, Lindsay's usually very good, and he was in this case in this hearing.
Asked Cash if he's been a victim of racism.
Where do you hear his answer and what he's had to go through?
And because of public hearings, how he had to move his entire family for his own safety and the threats that his family received.
And again, Sheldon Whitehouse, let's go back to January 6th.
Then Amy Klobuchar, let's go back to January 6th.
You can't even make this up.
And say what Richard Blumenthal.
And then, of course, Senator Hirano: Have you ever sexually abused anyone?
That's our number one question every single time.
Senator Kennedy, Louisiana, who I do like a lot, says it seems like you've made a lot of people mad.
Cash replies that he learned that if you're not ticking someone off, you're not doing it right.
Kennedy says, sounds like we need to get some new conspiracy theories because the old ones turned out to be true.
He pointed out facts matter.
The Russia collusion hoax, that was the Democrats.
FISA abuse, that was Comey.
Director Ray allowed open borders, but would go before the House and Senate and preach about how the threat level's never been this bad.
Anyway, some sparks flying, but I don't think they laid a glove on any of these people.
And I think that he will be a really good FBI director, vowing to restore trust in the FBI.
The erosion of trust in the FBI, only 40% of Americans hold a favorable view.
What have I been saying?
We've got to clean out the deep state, those that have weaponized and politicized the FBI and return it to its former greatness, the world's premier law enforcement agency.
It wasn't much different in Tulsi Gabbard's hearing that went on today.
I mean, they had their themes: Edward Snowden, Section 702, which is the FISA warrant issue, and 702, which, you know, has a lot of flaws.
Nobody, all the people that signed off on the FISA warrants to spy on candidate Trump, transition team Trump in 2016 and 2017, and President Trump, while they have made some adjustments, they haven't made enough.
And Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows the government to conduct targeted surveillance of foreign nationals living outside the U.S. without needing to obtain a warrant.
It has become increasingly controversial.
Now, I think, you know, the Americans are impacted, and it was created for all the right reasons post-9-11.
But as the provision currently stands, intelligence agencies cannot use warrantless Section 02 powers to target the American people.
That'd be a clear violation of our Fourth Amendment rights to the Constitution against unreasonable search and seizure.
But data on U.S. citizens is still collected.
They call it incidental collection.
I've been told in the past by sources that I've shown up on conversations.
And, of course, that there was a discernible effort.
Jim Jordan said it on this program to mitigate my social media presence.
I mean, it's unbelievable what people have done.
They've abused power.
And I don't know how many times Tulsi would have to say over and over and over again about Edward.
Here's one other thing about Tulsi.
She's been her life serving her country.
And it's like these Democrats are so filled with hatred.
You know, Senator Warner, Edward Snowden broke the law.
I don't agree or asking about her support for Edward Snowden.
She said, he broke the law.
I don't agree with or support all the information and intelligence that he released, nor the way in which he did it.
And Collins jumps in.
You know, would she support or recommend a pardon or clemency?
If confirmed as director, my responsibility would be to ensure the security of our nation's secrets and would not take actions or advocate for any actions related to Snowden.
He doesn't care.
Or the fact that, you know, everything about her is being mischaracterized.
I mean, it just goes on and on and on.
But this is all they have.
What it really means, if you break it down at the end of the day, is that they lost the election and they're bitter and they're angry.
They're out of their denial and shock stage and now they're in their revenge stage.
And this is how they think they can extract revenge.
And what they're hoping is they can get a couple of weak Republicans to go along and not give Donald Trump the full cabinet that he wants.
They want a scalp.
No other way to put it.
They want a notch in their belt so they can say, oh, we stopped so-and-so or so-and-so.
Do they really care?
No, they don't.
What they care about, I'll tell you one other factor here is everything that they've done that they know is wrong to Donald Trump and the weaponization of the DOJ and politicizing the FBI and our intelligence community.
They fear all of these things will now be done to them.
How interesting and ironic that they were all remained silent when it was happening to Donald Trump.
Not one of these people spoke out.
Not one.
All right, we have a lot of ground to cover.
When we come back, we'll check in with our aviation experts to talk more about this mid-air collision over DC between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet.
Also the latest on the Tulsi Cash RFK Jr.
hearings and how crazy the left is.
Straight ahead.
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