* Jack Bergman, U.S. Congressman (R) Watersmeet

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Well, good morning, Michael Patrick, and Patrick, and, you know, we will say he is risen and not too distant future here, and that's why we're faithful people on this earth who believe in something more powerful than us. Should we be saying a prayer before we get on commercial flights these days? No, I think you're still commercial traffic. Well, first of all, let's start with the horrific accident that happened at LaGuardia. And, you know, as a career pilot in another life, you have to always be vigilant and 75 to 80 percent of incidents, accidents happen on takeoff or landing. That's just the fact of the matter. And the mistake that was made in clearing that truck onto the runway, because the pilot landing, you really don't have any control at the speed you're landing and touching down and slowing down, so you can tax you off the runway. So that, I mean, again, it's horrific, hopefully the person who made the mistake will be able to resolve that in their mind, if you will, because that could be very, very heavy on them that they created something that people were killed. The pilots were the only ones that died if I have it correct, and you could hear the traffic controller telling the truck to stop, right? Yeah, I haven't read or I've just seen a couple of quick clips, but again, there was a mistake made, and again, the pilots had no control of what was happening and whoever, whoever, whether the truck was cleared onto the runway or the driver made a mistake, I mean, that's the case, again, there's no sadness in that, but it's the reality that everybody, no matter what we're doing, whether we're flying an airplane driving the truck, whether we're driving down the street or walking along, we always have to stay vigilant for something that could happen if we're not paying attention. Think about, no, I'm going off on a tangent here, but distracted driving scares the hell out of me when you have, you know, especially the younger folks who are more technologically savvy and get distracted, that to me is a pretty significant safety factor, so hopefully there will be lessons learned here and it will never happen again. God, I hadn't thought about the fact that the truck driver might have been texting. I guess we'll see. Thank you for that. By the way, Ron DeSantis, the Florida Governor, made a suggestion the other day that the TSA at the airports over the last decades, he speculated that maybe it hasn't made us any safer going through the, with our liquids and belts and taking our shoes off and all that, so why not privatize it and let the airports handle that instead of the government and maybe we wouldn't be susceptible to this kind of shutdown situation that has people waiting hours and hours and lines to get through. Well, I think about it this way since we're talking about, you know, aviation. The government has, the government is not a business, the government, the government creates the environment where businesses can flourish and do the job correctly. I would suggest to you, there has to be oversight taking it back into aviation. Last week, I chaired a classified briefing with armed services folks concerning the horrific airplane crash here in DC a year ago in January and we're still trying to figure out what exactly where does it fall apart, but more importantly, what do we need to change to ensure aircraft separation, aircraft not in spaces they don't belong? I would suggest to you to allow companies, because there are, for example, there are private companies to do airline training, they do all the different kinds of things that you would expect. Why not maybe do a pilot project and see in a few airports if that, if that was going to work, but we remember the first, the why we're doing this is because of things like 9-11 and before the bad guys and there are bad guys, they're going to try to wreak havoc and airplanes are flashy and it to make an airplane blow up or to do something running into a building like a 9-11, we have to remember that people like the Iranians, they're the ones that started this ball rolling and some other of the radical groups in that other parts of the world. We can never allow them the opportunity to use one of our airports or an airplane as an example of their horrific behavior that can't be allowed to happen. A different sort of aviation, if you will, Congressman Jack Bergman, General Bergman from Northern Michigan. The White House has registered the domain alien.gov. Are we about to learn everything that you know and they know? Well, you know, I did not know that they had registered that domain, but I, you know, I think for those of you, and I don't know if you watch it, strains your things. I mean, I think sometimes we're living in the upside down, Michael Patrick, so if you're in your strains, your things fans. But we have to assume that there is life in the universe that is not us. I mean, isn't that pretty depressing if you think human beings are the most advanced form of life in the entire universe? A fair point. Before we go, does Pete Hagseth consult with you at all and if you were the czar of Iran, what would you do? How would you solve this? Well, I've been dealing with this for 47 years. We know that unfortunately, President Carter fails back then to deal with it. And every president since then has failed to deal with it because of the Iranian regime. When you think about war fighting, you have enemies, right? Or who attacked you and you go to war with? Iran uses proxies. They have. I could get deeply into this and I know we're probably going to run out of time. But thank God that President Trump finally decided to deal with Iran because it was only getting worse and more dangerous for us as a country and for others because they're not quitting and we did the right thing by taking out their missile launchers first because you can have all the missiles in the world. But if you got nothing to launch them with, they're not going anywhere. Might as well be like a Fourth of July fireworks display that goes off on your dock and that's about it. Five seconds does Cuba fall within the next two weeks? Not in the next two weeks. Okay, thank you very much for the time and again, a blessed Easter to the Congressman and General Jack Bergman from Northern Michigan, Republican. People can have access to quality medical care without affordable health insurance. 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