* Jack Bergman, U.S. Congressman (R) Watersmeet [0:00-5:05]

Join Americans for prosperity, the nation's largest grassroots organization, fighting to reignite the American Dream and help secure the border and inflation and make energy more affordable. Visit americansforprosperity.org and get involved today. United States President Donald Trump evoked Jesus this week urging Republicans in Congress to work through the Easter holiday to pass a voter ID bill that Democrats strongly oppose. He said, quote, I'm requesting that Republican senators do that immediately. Don't worry about Easter going home. In fact, make this one for Jesus. He said at a roundtable event in Memphis, Tennessee, before he visited Graceland. In the United States House of Representatives, we find Jack Bergman, the congressman, and general. On our radio stage, our AT&T line, write this very moment with lots to talk to him about today. Happy Easter to you, sir. 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.