🚨 BREAKING: THIS WAS A F**KING DISASTER

[0:00] All right, folks, in our final video of the day and hopefully our final emergency video on the nationwide ground stop imposed by the FAA, which basically forced all planes in the country to either get on the ground or stay on the ground, which was just lifted just a few moments ago. [0:16] Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen are wrapping up their press conference to try to explain what happened. [0:25] And it's Tweedledee and Tweedledum. It's amazing. [0:27] As a matter of fact, at one point, Mark Wayne Mullen suggests that actually it was the new upgrades to federal aviation by Duffy in the Transportation Department that was the catalyst for the problem that caused this emergency order to be imposed in the first place. [0:46] And we have to talk about it. But before we do, if you end up liking this video and you want to support the channel, please be sure to hit the like, subscribe and notification bells before you go. [0:55] All right, folks, let's dive in. [0:56] Well, good to see you guys again. Welcome to Friday the 13th, right? [1:02] You know, I want to make sure everybody understand. [1:05] Friday the 13th, I don't know if that was some levity or what. [1:09] I imagine most people on the ground in most airports across the country don't find it particularly funny. [1:13] Make sure everybody understands that there is no connection between this and Microsoft. [1:19] I know a lot of people are making that jump. [1:23] This is so far what we've seen. [1:26] There is actually no cyber attack. [1:31] We're still working through that process. [1:34] Our teams are working. [1:35] So you'll notice that they will repeatedly stress they can't they're not ruling out the notion of a cyber attack. [1:42] They just don't believe that that's what happens. [1:45] OK, so that's not the prevailing theory at the moment, but they explicitly do not rule it out. [1:49] And that's something that multiple reporters grill them on and press them on. [1:52] We're working. This is what the leadership of President Trump looks like by the organization and the team he's put together. [2:01] We're built to handle crisis like this. [2:04] And that's exactly what we're doing. [2:07] The jokes write themselves. [2:09] The SNL cold open tomorrow just writes itself. [2:12] They're probably right now as we speak in the Saturday Night Live writing room, you know, at NBC, just like shit. [2:19] We need to feed everything through the wood chipper and start over because these two idiots, two of the dumbest members of the Trump administration, former reality TV show star, former Fox News host Sean Duffy and Mark Wayne, Jim Bob Mullen. [2:33] Again, it's astounding. [2:36] We have a we have a nationwide aviation crisis that we haven't seen since September 11th. [2:42] And you're saying this is testament to the leadership of your administration and Donald Trump, who, by the way, was nowhere to be seen and was tweeting off random shit about random pieces of legislation about Hollywood and the film industry while all of this was going on. [2:57] And the closest he came to a public statement was telling Peter Doocy of Fox News over the phone. [3:02] And we got it under control. [3:03] Looks like it was some old, broken stuff. [3:06] And you're you're touting this as a as a testament of leadership. [3:12] Crazy state. [3:13] So right now, things seem to be working, as we can say, in the right direction, as you can see, to to my right state. [3:27] So he says it seems to be working in the right direction. [3:32] Now, again, as I speculated in the previous video, it seems even though the nationwide order has been lifted, this is going to take some time to unwind. [3:40] Well, they explicitly confirm that in one of the future clips. [3:42] But this is Sean Duffy trying to explain what he believes caused the issue, that instability because of abundance of caution and making sure we keep the American flyer safe. [3:53] We did the ground stop, but we were going to allow those life saving movements to still occur, as well as with law enforcement as well. [4:01] So what happened? [4:03] Right. [4:03] I've heard a lot of the rumors like Mark Wayne has. [4:05] But what we have is an incredibly old air traffic control system. [4:10] I think every single one of your networks have covered the president and myself talking about this for the last two years. [4:18] The president, for the last year, has been asking Congress to fully fund a full build of a brand new air traffic control system. [4:27] So we have TDM telecom. [4:30] So this is analog telecom. [4:32] Our switches, our routers actually got overloaded with data and they went down. [4:39] Okay. [4:40] Old system, upgrades, overloading the old system with data and they went down. [4:46] I want you to put a pin on that because Mark Wayne Mullen is accidentally going to suggest that that, which was done by Sean Duffy, was the cause of the problem. [4:54] And Sean Duffy appears to be admitting it, too. [4:57] Mark Wayne Mullen emphasizes it. [4:58] A reporter catches it later on and tries to ask a follow-up about it. [5:02] So just put a pin on that. [5:04] Okay. [5:04] Let's play another clip. [5:06] What we want to do. [5:08] I've asked, the president's asked for $30 billion. [5:11] I want $50 billion. [5:13] And by the way, if you look at how much money congressmen's, Peter, you've covered Congress. [5:16] They waste a lot of money. [5:19] What's more important than having an air traffic control system that actually works? [5:23] And so the president said, you know what? [5:25] Let's finish this job. [5:27] New hardware. [5:29] New software. [5:30] Okay. [5:31] Again, I want you to put a pin on that. [5:32] We need, we've been asking, we need more money, need more money. [5:36] As you're about to see, again, a reporter clocks it. [5:39] Well, wait a minute. [5:39] You've been in power for two years. [5:41] Who's in control of Congress? [5:42] You just, you keep that in mind, okay? [5:44] Because we're doing this in chronological order. [5:46] This is Duffy admitting that it is going to take time to unwind this situation, to clean [5:52] up this mess, even though the order has been lifted. [5:55] Now, you probably picked up that we've identified the problem. [6:00] We've got our centers and our TRACONs operational right now. [6:03] And so at 8.15 tonight, Eastern time, we've opened up the airspace. [6:08] Now, does that mean every flight is going to fly right now? [6:11] It's going to be slow, right? [6:13] So if you're watching, you're at an airport, check with your airline. [6:18] It depends on do we have crews available? [6:20] Do we have pilots and flight attendants available to fly your flight? [6:23] We're going to try to move as many of those as we can tonight if we have the capacity with [6:28] crews to move those flights. [6:30] If not, we're going to start tomorrow morning with our airline partners moving those aircraft. [6:36] But it's going to take us some time to unwind what's happened this afternoon, finally, with [6:42] general aviation. [6:45] So they're going to do what they can for tonight, but it's probably going to head into the morning [6:49] as well. [6:51] The American people have been waylaid at airports across the country. [6:55] Now, again, we're doing this in chronological order. [6:58] They are again asked about whether or not this was the consequence of some sort of cyber [7:03] attack. [7:03] What you're describing, routers overloaded with data that then start to show instability. [7:11] That sounds like something that could be caused by a cyber attack. [7:16] Can you say with 100 percent certainty that this was not caused by a cyber attack or a [7:21] rogue AI? [7:23] I'm going to give this to Mark Wayne. [7:26] All right. [7:32] One of the most terrifying statements a government official can make. [7:36] I'm going to get. [7:36] Oh, you're asking about a cyber attack. [7:38] A potential cyber attack that could cripple aviation in the most powerful nation on Earth. [7:44] I'm going to turn it over to Mark Wayne Mullen. [7:46] What a truly terrifying sentiment. [7:48] OK, let's go, Mark Wayne. [7:50] Jim Bob Mullen. [7:51] We are there's nothing completely certain right now. [7:54] It doesn't appear that way. [7:56] We are we've activated our teams. [7:59] This is what Department of Homeland Security is all about. [8:01] This is why we're stood up to have a continuity of government to bring all the resources together [8:06] in an emergency like this. [8:08] This is exactly what this is. [8:09] This is a national emergency. [8:11] We have all of our assets, be it from D.O.W. to CISA to all of our NOx. [8:18] Then all the other components we have inside of DHS. [8:21] NSA is working with us. [8:23] There is nothing that indicates it yet. [8:25] Now, when we start looking at cyber threats, cyber attacks, typically some people is going [8:31] to raise their hand up and say, hey, we did that. [8:33] There's no chatter. [8:35] We haven't seen any any footprints, as you would say, or identifications of people that [8:43] got into the system. [8:44] OK, so I'll translate to those of you who are not fluent in Mark Wayne Mullen. [8:50] They cannot rule out the possibility that it was a cyber attack, but no rogue actor, no [8:58] foreign adversary. [8:59] No one has claimed responsibility so far, and they have seen no evidence that it was caused [9:05] by a cyber attack. [9:06] I've seen footprints suggesting a cyber attack, and nobody's taking credit for a cyber attack. [9:12] Have you seen any evidence specifically? [9:14] Can you tell people who are watching? [9:15] We have seen, we have seen, we have seen zero evidence, we've seen zero evidence, uh, that [9:21] this was, that this was a cyber attack or, uh, SI attack. [9:25] So then it must be something else. [9:27] What is the other? [9:30] He did this at his earlier press conference, and it's really friggin' annoying that to him, [9:37] it's not even about answering the question. [9:38] Even now, in the state of this particular aviation emergency, which is, again, unprecedented, [9:44] at least since 9-11, that it's all about the nomenclature for him. [9:49] You suggested this is artificial intelligence, sir. [9:52] This is super intelligence, because by decree of God, Emperor Trump, we call it SI now. [9:57] That's more important than your question. [9:59] SI, SI, SI. [10:00] What caused the instability? [10:03] So it's very easy. [10:05] We have old, uh, old switches, old routers. [10:09] We use, uh, 1980s, uh, little copper lines. [10:14] It's an old system that went down and went down everywhere. [10:17] It got overloaded. [10:18] So, uh, so, uh, here, right now, we've opened up the airspace. [10:24] We've got our centers and our TRACONs operational. [10:27] Uh, it would be much, and I don't want to rule out that we didn't have nefarious activity here. [10:32] That's Mark Wayne and the, uh, cybersecurity team that works with us. [10:36] We were able to, uh, deploy fixes to, uh, reduce the overloading on our, on our, um, on our switches that were able to bring the networks back online and our TRACONs and our centers back online. [10:50] So I think our fix gives us a pretty good indication that it was a legacy, uh, network problem that went down. [10:59] Okay, so again, can't rule it out, but this temporary fix that we've established, which is what allowed us to lift the nationwide ban, uh, the nationwide ground ban, um, we don't think, we, we think that it's proof that just the legacy system was, was overloaded. [11:21] And this is why I find this so funny. [11:23] So then Mark Wayne steps back up to the podium and suggests that the thing that overloaded was Sean Duffy. [11:32] Again, we're still looking at it. [11:34] We're not, uh, ruling out anything. [11:36] What it appears to be right now is, as Secretary Duffy and FAA was going in and putting patches into the system, they were putting new equipment, um, and, uh, new, um, technology. [11:50] And that new equipment, new technology just wasn't, it was overwhelming the older system, which is why Secretary Duffy made it very clear. [11:59] The patchwork doesn't work. [12:01] We need one complete. [12:04] So Secretary Duffy was going in and it overloaded the system. [12:09] The new technology was overwhelming the system. [12:12] And that's what caused this catastrophe. [12:14] Oof! [12:15] Oof! [12:17] Love it. [12:18] Love it. [12:18] It makes you wonder if actually he's a secret, like, he sounds like an idiot, but it makes you wonder [12:22] if, like, deep down, he's actually a Machiavellian genius and he hates Duffy and just shanked him, politically speaking, on live TV. [12:29] Then, of course, because we're America, we have to ask about football. [12:32] Thank you guys for your coordination, Duffy. [12:35] Speaking of college, a huge industry that relies on top of college football. [12:39] Have you guys been in communication with these universities and do you plan to implement any sort of coordination in America? [12:44] Yeah, so, as I mentioned, we're going to allow for general aviation, those larger movements to take place as a priority, [12:51] smaller movements will take a lower priority. [12:55] And so if you talk about football teams moving, many of those are on charters and there's a lot of individuals on those charter planes. [13:01] So I would encourage those football teams to reach out to the FAA to schedule their flight times and make sure they can move to make sure we have games going off. [13:12] So I'm not a football fan. [13:15] My wife is. [13:16] She is a football fanatic. [13:17] So it looks like her weekend may be seriously disrupted as a consequence of this, as is the case for millions of Americans, right, in terms of their national pastime. [13:28] The people, obviously, who are the most impacted are the people at these airports, the people who are supposed to actually be traveling like the athletes, like just everyday Americans. [13:37] But for those who are not even traveling, the mismanagement of the transportation department by Sean Duffy is actually going to inconvenience basically the entire country whether or not you're at the airport. [13:48] OK, I've got other things I've got to show you here and I'm just I'm putting the clips together. [13:55] It's just it's truly remarkable that this is where we are. [13:59] So, of course, it's the Trump administration. [14:02] So they have to meet their quota of Trump ass kissing even in this situation. [14:07] But if you ask the question, what should we do? [14:11] Well, we should talk to our senators and our members of Congress to say we don't we don't deserve this, America. [14:16] This is the greatest country, by the way, with the greatest president. [14:19] Let's give the money to fix this very real problem. [14:22] And this is not the first time. [14:24] So, again, you have to talk about how he is the greatest president, right? [14:27] Oh, my God. [14:28] God, Emperor Trump cannot be cannot be failed at all. [14:31] Now, they'll come back to Trump again. [14:35] A reporter catches this. [14:36] OK, so this is Trump's leadership. [14:38] This is so important to Trump. [14:39] We have the greatest president. [14:41] God, Emperor Trump. [14:42] They'll come back to that. [14:43] Remember when I said earlier that Sean Duffy suggested that this was he inadvertently suggested this was his fault. [14:49] And then Mark Wayne Mullen made it explicit. [14:52] Well, the reporter picked up on that and then a reporter asked them about it. [14:55] Take a look. [14:55] Trained and know how to navigate the situation. [14:58] Are you saying that it was the F.A. patching a system that caused this outage? [15:05] Is that something that's happening constantly? [15:07] So, yeah, I want to clarify that this is our old TDM analog system that got overloaded with data and started to experience these issues. [15:22] And it was in our trade cons and our centers throughout the NAS. [15:25] Now, we do have some in our trade cons and centers that have been upgraded to to digital, to IP. [15:34] Those did not experience these issues. [15:36] So, again, he's instead. [15:37] I want to clarify what Mark Wayne said. [15:39] Actually, it's not my fault. [15:41] I had nothing to do with it. [15:43] Mark Wayne was wrong about that. [15:45] It was the old analog systems. [15:46] We didn't touch those. [15:47] The stuff that we touched, they didn't experience this. [15:51] And again, maybe that's true, but I have no reason to trust this administration and no to you, given us the most pathologically dishonest administration in American history. [16:00] But you know what? [16:00] We'll be able to find out once Democrats get the gavel on January 3rd and they'll be able to conduct hearings and oversight and force people to answer questions under oath. [16:10] So, I'm sure one way or another, we will eventually get these answers. [16:20] It happened twice. [16:21] How many times does this have to happen before Congress gives the money to fix it? [16:26] But this administration has been in office for all two years now, sir. [16:30] So, why hasn't this been a bigger priority for the president? [16:32] Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress and still do. [16:36] Wouldn't it work? [16:37] I'm with NBC News. [16:37] NBC. [16:38] So, maybe you haven't covered the 100 plus press conferences that I've done on this issue that have been led by the president. [16:48] But I know Fox has. [16:49] Peter's secured the story. [16:50] I know many of you have covered the story about the president's ask and my ask to get the money. [16:56] Right? [16:56] And so, I identify, well, because the Congress has to give it to us. [17:01] Right? [17:01] And you need a, you need a, well, oftentimes, it's a great point. [17:05] Oftentimes, you need a bipartisan vote. [17:09] Right? [17:09] So, I did get partial funding through one big, beautiful bill. [17:13] I got $12.5 billion. [17:15] And with that money, we are, we are, we are spending it and spending it well. [17:20] But the Congress. [17:21] So, again, she points out, well, you guys are in the executive branch. [17:26] You're in the White House. [17:27] Your party's in control of Congress. [17:29] You say this has been an issue. [17:31] Why haven't you gotten it done? [17:33] And his first go-to response is, what network are you from? [17:36] He goes with the Trump line. [17:38] That's, oh, shit. [17:38] That's too adversarial of a question. [17:41] That would make us responsible for the situation because we're in charge. [17:46] Oh, you're with NBC? [17:47] You must just not have been covering it. [17:49] We've been asking. [17:50] Okay, well, again, you guys have been in charge. [17:53] What's the issue? [17:54] What's going on? [17:55] Well, we got funding in the one big, beautiful bill. [17:57] Well, you've had two years. [18:00] You certainly have not been making this a top priority issue. [18:04] What's the holdup? [18:05] I can't wait for that. [18:07] Why have we not heard from him at all on this issue? [18:10] Oh, well, the two of us have talked to him. [18:14] He is, I've talked to him on the phone. [18:16] I've talked to him in the Oval. [18:18] So is Mark Wayne. [18:19] Oh, I don't run the president's comms. [18:21] I just know that Mark Wayne and I are going to come out and talk to you about it. [18:24] But I know. [18:25] So you see the stuttering and the stammering in real time. [18:28] Again, a perfectly valid question. [18:30] Why is Donald Trump tweeting about legislation pertaining to the film industry? [18:35] Why is he otherwise radio silent? [18:37] The closest thing he's given to a statement on this was via Peter Doocy of Fox News, via [18:42] a phone call. [18:43] Why isn't this a top priority for him? [18:46] And they have no good answer. [18:47] Trump doesn't give a shit. [18:49] Thank you, Mr. Secretary. [18:51] I'm curious. [18:52] I don't think we have clarity yet. [18:53] What was different about today specifically? [18:55] The system has been in place for a long time. [18:57] Why did today the system go out? [18:59] And can you give more clarity? [19:01] You're saying this will happen again. [19:03] Should Americans feel safe when they fly if these outages are still possible? [19:07] In what kind of vintage you'll have it happen again? [19:09] I don't know. [19:10] Right? [19:11] Is this exact thing going to happen again? [19:12] I don't know that this exact scenario will happen. [19:15] But I did have New York a couple months ago. [19:18] I had New York a year and a half ago. [19:21] So we're still working on the details of what went wrong today. [19:27] I'll be happy to give you more information when we have it. [19:29] I don't want to give you the wrong information. [19:32] That's good. [19:32] I mean, you shouldn't give the wrong information. [19:34] If you have to say, listen, I got to get back to you because I don't want to give you [19:37] the wrong information. [19:37] That's why I'm not speculating here. [19:39] I have no reason to believe it was a cyber attack. [19:41] I have no reason to believe that it was the issue with the SMART program, which is the [19:46] name of the new AI tool that they were supposed to be deploying either today or I think by [19:50] Monday. [19:50] I've seen conflicting reports on this. [19:52] And I think it's perfectly responsible of any administration, including the Trump [19:55] administration, to say, dude, we do not have all the answers right now. [19:58] As soon as I get them, I will give them to you. [20:00] But again, it's worth noting that even Sean Duffy says he can't rule this out. [20:04] So it's possible that this problem, if it really is a matter of like overwhelmed, antiquated [20:10] equipment, could occur again tomorrow or a week from now or a month from now. [20:15] And we are getting rapidly close to the holiday season. [20:18] Food for thought. [20:19] And again, we didn't experience the situation under the Biden administration and under the [20:23] stewardship of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. [20:27] Sean Duffy and Donald Trump had a lot of shit to say about Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden. [20:31] And then for Secretary Cohen, you said today that there was no one in any danger. [20:35] I'm curious for people who are frustrated right now about the fact that their flight's been [20:39] delayed or canceled. [20:40] Why was there a ground stop put in place for five hours if no one was in any danger? [20:44] Well, let me let me explain that one very easy. [20:48] No one was in danger because procedures we put in place. [20:51] The system went down. [20:52] We reacted the way that we were trained to react. [20:55] And everybody came together. [20:57] President Trump immediately had had people in his office. [21:01] We were communicating. [21:02] So people were in danger. [21:04] He's just saying because of procedures we put in place, the risk was reduced. [21:09] That's it's almost like saying I wasn't in danger because I was wearing Kevlar. [21:15] We had a procedure where we were wearing Kevlar. [21:17] So it's fine. [21:18] So instead of saying there was just no threat, it's a logistical nightmare, but no one was [21:29] in any danger whatsoever. [21:31] No, what he's saying is there was an actual emergency with risk, but because we managed [21:38] it competently, that's why we say there was no risk. [21:43] Sounds like you're overstating the safety of the matter, right? [21:48] You're saying actually the situation was dangerous, but the way we managed it rendered the danger [21:54] obsolete. [21:55] That's really not how that works. [21:58] Your competent management may have reduced the risk or reduced the danger. [22:02] But if the danger is there, it just means you're managing it. [22:06] And by the way, nobody believes you that this was competently managed. [22:11] And this press conference hasn't really encouraged people that that's happened. [22:15] Three thousand flights in the air, we had a ground stoppage and they were all able to [22:21] land safely, even with the communication problems. [22:24] And I just can't speak enough about President Trump's leadership. [22:28] This is what President Trump does. [22:29] He puts leaders in place and he allows them to lead. [22:34] They even ask. [22:37] It's amazing. [22:38] It's like somebody is like holding up a cue card in the back. [22:41] You've it's been 30 seconds since you've kissed Trump's ass. [22:46] Yes, do it again. [22:48] It's embarrassing. [22:49] OK, one final clip, and then I think we're going to wrap it. [22:52] Thank you, Mr. Secretary. [22:54] I'm curious. [22:54] I don't think we have clarity yet. [22:55] What was different about today specifically? [22:58] The system is. [22:58] Oh, this is from a reporter. [23:01] This is like basically the super cut here of all the questions. [23:04] We just played this clip. [23:06] So there's no need to relitigate. [23:07] But this is like the three the last three minutes just like condensed together. [23:10] So I will say just on a note of levity here while I've got it, we might do a video about [23:17] this tomorrow. [23:18] But transportation, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was speaking in Denver, and [23:26] he was asked to address the nationwide ban. [23:30] And we're going to end on this note of levity. [23:31] I just want to say not only was he an objectively far more competent transportation secretary, [23:56] as was President Biden, a far more competent president than Trump. [23:58] I want to say that the Biden administration and Pete Buttigieg did so much to try to increase [24:05] the convenience and rights of everyday Americans and air passengers across this country at, [24:15] you know, they took the side of the passenger over the airlines. [24:19] And the Trump administration has done everything in its power to roll that shit back because [24:25] they have no respect for you or regard for you. [24:27] They only care about the airline industry. [24:29] And the donations that come from within. [24:31] So again, the contrast could not be clearer. [24:34] All right, folks, I think we're done for the night. [24:35] This is the final video of the evening regarding this nationwide ground stop emergency order, [24:41] which again has been lifted and may yet be imposed again in the future. [24:45] Mark Wayne Mullen and Sean Duffy are on the case, and that should fill all of us with dread. [24:49] But in the meantime, let me know what you think in the comments. [24:52] And I am glad so far that everybody is safe.