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

[0:00] Donald Trump just sent out his Homeland Security Secretary, Mark Wayne Mullen, and his Transportation [0:06] Secretary, Sean Duffy, for what may have been the most disastrous press conference in recent [0:12] U.S. history regarding the complete ground stop, which led to the cancellations and flights here [0:20] in the United States and abroad of thousands of flights, potentially as many as 13,000 flights. [0:27] Now, they claim that this ground stop is over, but when you actually heard what took place during [0:33] this press conference, it is deeply alarming. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mark [0:39] Wayne Mullen said that the upgrades that the Trump regime has been doing to the FAA system [0:45] overwhelmed the old system, and that's what created this issue, and that this can happen again, [0:53] that there's a possibility that we will see this outage continue to happen because of the patches [1:00] that the Trump regime is doing right now and how it is hurting the old system. The new technology [1:06] was overwhelming the older system. Listen to what Mark Wayne Mullen, Department of Homeland Security [1:12] Secretary, had to say. Play this clip. Again, we're still looking at it. We're not rolling out anything. [1:18] What it appears to be right now is as Secretary Duffy and FAA was going in and putting patches [1:24] into the system, they were putting new equipment and new technology, and that new equipment, new [1:35] technology just wasn't, it was overwhelming the older system, which is why Secretary Duffy made it [1:40] very clear. The patchwork doesn't work. We need one complete system. We need someone to come in and build [1:48] the whole system. Doing it nickel and diamond it together does not work. This is what happens when [1:52] that takes place. That's why the president has made it very clear. We can't do this. It has to be a [1:58] complete overhaul of the system, which we estimate to be about $50 million. More from Secretary Mark [2:06] Wayne Mullen over here on The Ground Stop. He says, but we want everyone to know that this just shows you [2:12] what a great leader Donald Trump is. This is what real leadership looks like. Here play this clip. [2:17] Working. This is what the leadership of President Trump looks like by the organization and the team [2:25] he's put together. We're built to handle crisis like this, and that's exactly what we're doing. [2:32] Then you had Sean Duffy, Transportation Secretary. He was asked, so if you're saying that this is a [2:38] priority for Donald Trump, why did he just send you two? Why haven't we heard from Donald Trump at all? [2:45] He hasn't posted about that. Why isn't he here addressing the American people? This is the first [2:51] time we've had this type of ground stop really since 9-11. What the hell is going on here? [2:56] Listen to what Duffy says. Let's play this clip. [2:59] I can't wait for that. [3:00] When you say this is the priority for President Trump, why have we not heard from him at all [3:03] on this issue since it happened? [3:05] Oh, well, the two of us have talked to him. I've talked to him on the phone. I've talked to him [3:10] in the Oval. So has Mark Wayne. Oh, I don't run the President's comms. I just know that Mark Wayne [3:16] and I are going to come out and talk to you about it. But I know he's fully engaged because he has [3:20] communicated with the both of us multiple times from the point that it happened to moments before I [3:26] came out. I was in constant communication. Mark Wayne and I were in the Oval with him, which, [3:31] by the way, I appreciate his leadership. And what's just unique about the President is he loves [3:36] aviation. He loves the airspace, which is why he has been so engaged on this. He understands it very [3:43] well. And he's been frustrated from my first before I actually was sworn in. He was talking about how old [3:50] the system is, how past administrations have failed and how he wants to fix the air traffic [3:55] control system in America and deliver the best in the world. And it takes a President's leadership [4:00] like President Trump to make sure we can ask the Congress and get the money and give the deliverable. [4:06] Next, Sean Duffy is asked by a reporter. So are you saying that it was the FAA patching the older [4:13] system that's now causing this outage? Is that so what you're doing now is what's causing the [4:19] problem? And then Duffy admits that that's what's happening. He says, this is our old analog system [4:25] that got overloaded with data, meaning what you're doing now, the patches that you're doing overwhelmed [4:33] and broke the system. That's what they're admitting right here. Play this clip trained and know how to [4:38] navigate the situation. Are you saying that it was the FAA patching a system that caused this outage? [4:47] Is that something that's happening constantly? So yeah, I want to clarify that. This is our old [4:55] TDM analog system that got overloaded with data and started to experience these issues. And it was in our [5:04] TRACONs and our centers throughout the NAS. Now we do have some in our TRACONs and centers that have [5:11] been upgraded to digital, to IP. Those did not experience these issues, which underscores the point [5:19] it's important that we're able to finish this work with additional resources. [5:23] But how can Americans be confident that this vulnerability won't be an issue again [5:27] in the coming weeks of what today took place? This is a great question. So listen, I can't, [5:35] I can't build things if I don't have money. Like this is, this is, this is a great question that [5:39] you ask. How can America be confident? Well, we do everything whether we have the, we have the [5:45] busiest airspace in the world bar none. We have the safest airspace in the world bar none. No one [5:49] competes with us on safety or complication of the airspace. But if you ask the question, what should we [5:55] do? Well, we should talk to our senators and our members of Congress to say, we don't, we don't [6:00] deserve this America. This is the greatest country, by the way, with the greatest president. Let's give [6:05] the money to fix this very real problem. And this is not the first time we had. Then Luke Radel, [6:11] the Midas Touch Network White House correspondent was asking some incredible questions. And you will see [6:16] Duffy flailing over here because we asked him, we said, so is this is going to happen over and over [6:22] again? Is it not safe to fly right now? It seems like you're saying that the U S is a place where [6:29] it's not safe to fly. And horrifically Duffy and Mark Wayne Mullen admit that they say like, [6:36] you can't fly in the United States, that this is a dangerous place to fly. Listen to what they say [6:41] in response to Luke Radel. This is the Midas Touch Network's White House correspondent asking these [6:47] great questions here. Play this clip. The deliverables. Thank you, Mr. Secretary. I'm curious. I don't [6:53] think we have clarity yet. What was different about today specifically? The system has been in place [6:57] for a long time. Why did today the system go out? And can you give more clarity? You're saying this [7:02] will happen again. Should Americans feel safe when they fly if these out of dues are still possible? [7:07] What kind of vintage you'll have it happen again? I don't know. Right. Is this exact thing going to [7:12] happen again? I don't know that this exact scenario will happen. But I did have New York a couple months [7:18] ago. I had Newark a year and a half ago. So we're still working on the details of what went wrong [7:26] today. I'll be happy to give you more information when we have it. I don't want to give you the wrong [7:31] information. Our team is working overtime trying to navigate what happened here. What was the cause [7:39] and how do we prevent it in the future should similar situations arise? [7:43] Do you know that anything you're doing with the AI program? You guys just introduced the SMART program [7:47] from the FAA. So as I mentioned, this is all the old legacy equipment. All of the new equipment that's [7:54] been deployed did not go down. Our SMART system, which is a system that we have a feed for the whole [8:00] airspace that's going to help us better manage trajectories of airplanes and better manage weather [8:05] so we can, one, drive safety in the airspace and drive efficiency in the airspace. But that SMART [8:12] system isn't plugged in to STARS and ERAM. This is completely disconnected. And I love that some [8:20] people have said this would be the root cause. By the way, if it was, I'll tell you that. But [8:23] this is not even plugged in. What this does is gives information from the airspace to a human being [8:31] and gives them a prompt on how they could better navigate weather or trajectories. Then the human [8:36] being will actually decide to accept or deny that prompt. So we're not even tied in. So there's no [8:42] possible way SMART would have impacted what happened today. Then Duffy starts to blame Congress and blame [8:48] former President Biden. He's like, well, it's the old system. It's the old system. And it's Congress's [8:54] fault. That's who did it. It's Congress's fault. Well, you just explained what happened. What you said [8:58] happen is that the way you were installing the new system screwed up the system that was working [9:04] before. Listen to what Duffy says. Play this clip. That instability because of abundance of caution and [9:10] making sure we keep the American flyer safe. We did the ground stop, but we were going to allow those [9:15] life-saving movements to still occur as well as with law enforcement as well. So what happened, [9:22] right? I've heard a lot of the rumors like Mark Wayne has. But what we have is an incredibly old [9:28] air traffic control system. I think every single one of your networks have covered the president [9:34] and myself talking about this for the last two years. The president for the last year has been [9:40] asking Congress to fully fund a full build of a brand new air traffic control system. So we have TDM [9:48] telecom. So this is analog telecom. Our switches, our routers actually got overloaded with data [9:56] and they went down. And I shouldn't say they went down. They started to give us inconsistency in the [10:02] data from those routers. And because of that, we shut the system down. Now, I have already replaced [10:10] some of those switches with President Trump and our new IP switches did not go down. It's the old [10:15] hardware that went down. And I think the question for the American people is, do you want your Congress [10:22] to fund this? President Trump has asked for the money. He's asked the Congress on a bipartisan [10:28] approach to say, give us the resources to build a state of the art air traffic control system. [10:35] Let's not do a patchwork, a fix to a system that's critical for every single family. It's not red. [10:43] It's not blue. It's not Democrat. It's not Republican. It's American. Give us the money to fix it. [10:48] Now, if you look to the past administrations, going back 25 years, $15 billion has been given to the [10:56] FAA to fix this air traffic control system. And guess what? Barely anything was done. We had a [11:03] down payment. President Trump asked for it in the one big, beautiful bill of $12.5 billion. We are [11:09] building in that $12.5 billion. That portion of the build will be done by the time President Trump [11:15] leaves office. We are moving at a speed that has never been seen before with regard to the FAA. [11:21] But that's a partial funding. I think America demands that the Congress give the rest of the [11:27] resources to finish the bill. And I think the Congress at a point looked to the history of the [11:36] FAA and said, we don't trust you. Well, with President Trump and what we've done, I think they do [11:41] trust because what we've done with that first tranche of money. And so with a brand new state [11:48] of the art system, you won't have these outages. So what you experienced today, but you can think [11:52] back, many of you covered the story. So then you have an NBC reporter asking questions of Duffy, [11:57] really good questions. And Duffy's like, what network are you from? Well, Fox knows what I'm talking [12:03] about. Fox knows what I'm talking about. Here, play this clip. It happened twice. How many times [12:09] does this have to happen before Congress gives the money to fix it? [12:12] But the Trump administration has been in office for almost two years now, sir. [12:16] So why hasn't this been a bigger priority for the president? Republicans control both chambers [12:20] of Congress and still do. Let me see. So maybe you haven't covered the 100 plus press conferences [12:29] that I've done on this issue that have been led by the president. But I know Fox has, [12:35] Peter's secured the story. I know many of you have covered the story about [12:38] the president's ask and my ask to get the money, right? And so I identified, [12:44] I identified, well, because the Congress has to give it to us, right? And you need a, [12:48] you need a, well, oftentimes it's a great point. Oftentimes you need a bipartisan vote, right? [12:55] So I did get partial funding through one big, beautiful bill. I got 12 and a half billion. [13:02] And with that money, we are spending it and spending it well. But the Congress at the time knew [13:09] that that was not going to be enough. By the way, this is bipartisan, but on that bill, [13:14] I didn't have Democrats that voted for it. We now have an opportunity in an emergency funding bill [13:20] before the end of the year to give the money. And I think the question should be from NBC [13:24] to every member, do you support actually modernizing, making a state of the art air [13:30] traffic control system? And it's going to take us some time. I can't snap my fingers and build a [13:34] network overnight, but do you want us to build this for America? And I think [13:39] every member of Congress should say yes, but every American, I guarantee you would tell those members, [13:43] yes, give President Trump, give Duffy the money, let them finish this job so we don't have to do a [13:49] press conference at 830 at night ever again. Then Sean Duffy says that what we need right now is [13:56] $50 billion. We need Congress to give us $50 billion, right? What $50 billion now? What are you even [14:03] talking about? You realize you just admitted that what you were doing caused this and you're saying it [14:08] could happen again and it's likely to happen again and you have no plan for it and your solution is [14:15] you want $50 billion? What are you? And by the way, as, as the question was said before, you controlled [14:23] all of the branches, you controlled both branches of government, but here he goes, we want $50 billion. [14:27] Play this clip. What we want to do. Um, I've asked the president's asked for $30 billion. I want $50 [14:34] billion. And by the way, if you look at how much money Congressmen's Peter, you've covered [14:38] Congress. They, they waste a lot of money. What's more important than having an air traffic control [14:43] system that actually works. And so the president said, you know what, let's finish this job. [14:49] New hardware, new software, new telecommunication. Uh, many of our towers are almost a hundred years [14:56] old. Uh, our, our air traffic controllers have leaky roofs, air conditioning that doesn't work. [15:01] They're high in the air. Their elevators don't work. Their roofs leak. Um, I want new towers. [15:06] Uh, we should also invest in many of the airports around the country, uh, that, uh, frankly, [15:12] many of them are embarrassing. Let's get the money. Let's invest. So we never have to come [15:17] at eight 30 at night and have a press conference on why air travel was shut down. Why we have [15:24] tens of thousands of people in airports, uh, separated from their families, uh, without, um, [15:29] with, without, uh, any knowledge of where they're going to sleep tonight. [15:32] Okay. Then Homeland security secretary, Mark Wayne Mullen says, well, [15:36] welcome to Friday the 13th, right? What are you doing jokes? I think is this fun? We're [15:41] welcome to Friday the 13th. What the hell are you talking about? Play this clip. [15:44] Well, good to see you guys again. And welcome to Friday the 13th. Right. Um, you know, [15:51] I want to make sure everybody understands that Sean Duffy then said, and I want everybody to know [15:57] this is the greatest country on planet earth. And we have the greatest president imaginable, [16:03] right? Am I right? No, you're wrong. You're wrong. You are all incompetent. You all need to go. I [16:07] don't care what political party you are watching this. These people are incompetent and they need to [16:13] go. We need smart people who know what the hell they're doing here. Play this clip. [16:17] But if you ask the question, what should we do? Well, we should talk to our senators and our members of [16:22] Congress to say, we don't, we don't deserve this America. We, this is the greatest country, [16:27] by the way, with the greatest president, let's give the money to fix this very real problem. [16:32] And this is not the first time we had this happen in New York when we had all global leaders were [16:37] flying in for the UN. We had a similar issue. We had an issue in, in Newark. It happened twice. [16:44] How many times does this have to happen before Congress gives the money to fix it? [16:49] More over here from Mark Wayne Mullen. He was asked, can you say with 100% certainty [16:55] that this was not caused by a cyber attack or AI? He says, there's nothing completely [17:00] certain right now. Play this clip. What you're describing, routers overloaded with data, [17:07] that then start to show instability. That sounds like something that could be caused by a cyber [17:13] attack. Can you say with 100% certainty that this was not caused by a cyber attack or a rogue AI? [17:21] I'm going to give this to Mark Wayne. All right. We are, there's nothing completely [17:27] certain right now. It doesn't appear that way. We are, we've activated our teams. This is what [17:33] Department of Homeland Security is all about. This is why we're stood up to have a continuity of [17:37] government to bring all the resources together in an emergency like this. This is exactly what this [17:43] is. This is a national emergency. We have all of our assets, be it from DOW to CISA, to all of our [17:51] NOX, than all the other components we have inside of DHS. NSA is working with us. There is nothing that [17:58] indicates it yet. Now, when we start looking at cyber threats, cyber attacks, typically some people [18:04] is going to raise their hand up and say, hey, we did that. There's no chatter. We haven't seen any [18:11] footprints, as you would say, or identifications of people that got into the system. It appears that this [18:20] was mechanically driven. However, we're still looking, so we're not going to rule that out. [18:25] Well, what he admitted before was that basically he did it and Duffy did it. The FAA did it. When [18:32] they were installing the patches for the new system, they overloaded the old system. They, they, [18:36] they did it. We didn't even need a hacker. They may have been AI. It may have been hacked, [18:40] but it's them. That's what they're, you get what they're saying, right? And Mark Wayne Mullen, [18:45] then he's wrapping up and he's like, this is what Trump does. This is how we lead. [18:51] Yeah. The worst way possible. Incompetently, destructively, horrifically. Here, play this clip. [18:58] 3,000 flights in the air. We had a ground stoppage and they were all able to land safely, [19:04] even with the communication problems. And I just can't speak enough about President Trump's [19:09] leadership. This is what President Trump does. He puts leaders in place and he allows them to lead. [19:15] To even ask, you know, why is the president not talking? It's because he's allowed Secretary Duffy [19:23] and us to go out there and explain to you what took place. President Trump trusts his leadership [19:29] and that's why we really lean in towards his leadership. And when Secretary Duffy said he's [19:34] the greatest president we've had, you've never had a builder and a leader like President Trump lead this [19:41] nation and have a vision and put the team together. Thank you guys so much. Appreciate it. [19:46] And then finally, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen says, [19:51] they seem, things seem to be working now, so we're just going to wing it. [19:56] It seems to be okay. Here, play this clip. [19:58] State. So right now, things seem to be working, as we can say, in the right direction. As you can see [20:09] to my right. Wow. I told you that was horrific. Folks, we need you now more than ever to subscribe [20:16] to this YouTube channel. 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