BONUS: Major Legislation to Protect the Flying Public, plus New Evidence FBI Complicit in Russia Hoax
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
🛫 1. Aviation Safety and the Rotor Act
- Incident Overview: The discussion begins with a tragic aviation accident that occurred on January 29, involving a collision between an Army Blackhawk helicopter and an American Airlines plane over Ronald Reagan National Airport, resulting in 67 fatalities.
- Personal Connection: Senator Cruz recounts how his wife was scheduled to land at Reagan that night and was diverted, adding a personal dimension to the tragedy.
- Legislative Response: Cruz introduces the Rotorcraft Operations Transparency and Oversight Reform (ROTOR) Act, which mandates that all aircraft operating in commercial airspace—military and civilian—must be equipped with both ADSB OUT and ADSB IN technology. These systems enhance aircraft visibility to air traffic control and other aircraft, potentially preventing such collisions.
- Bipartisan Appeal: While the bill was initially introduced without Democratic co-sponsors, Cruz emphasizes its nonpartisan nature and expresses hope for bipartisan support.
- Support and Testimonies: The episode includes remarks from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, affected family members, and Cruz himself, all advocating for the legislation as a necessary step to improve aviation safety.
🕵️♂️ 2. FBI and the Russia Investigation
- New Revelations: The second half of the podcast shifts to recent intelligence suggesting that the FBI played a complicit role in the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, allegedly driven by the Clinton campaign.
- Declassified Intel: Former CIA Director John Ratcliffe is expected to release classified documents that reportedly show the FBI’s involvement was predicted with “alarming specificity.”
- Calls for Accountability: Cruz and Ferguson discuss the need for legal consequences, particularly for figures like Andrew McCabe, whose alleged misconduct may still fall within the statute of limitations.
- Tone and Style: The segment includes a mix of serious political commentary and light-hearted banter, including jokes about podcast bloopers and a humorous aside about watching Happy Gilmore 2.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | Welcome, and it's verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. |
| 0:09.2 | And, Senator, it's nice to talk about a really important issue tonight that many Americans have become much more concerned about. |
| 0:16.6 | That's flying. |
| 0:18.2 | You fly a lot. |
| 0:19.1 | I fly a lot. |
| 0:20.0 | And you have introduced new legislation that's going to |
| 0:22.5 | deal with what happened with that helicopter crash into the airplane right there at Reagan. |
| 0:28.2 | Your wife was flying in that night. I remember that night well. And six months to the day, |
| 0:33.1 | you've introduced this. Well, that's exactly right. You and I are sitting here. It is Tuesday night, |
| 0:41.1 | six months ago to the day on January 29th is when the horrific accident occurred over Ronald |
| 0:47.3 | Reagan National Airport. Sixty-seven souls were killed in that accident. And this week, today, actually, I introduced legislation to dramatically improve air safety, to protect the flying public. |
| 1:00.8 | We're going to talk about that, talk about the need to avoid any accident like that going forward. |
| 1:06.7 | We're also going to talk about stunning evidence that's come forward, that the FBI was complicit |
| 1:13.7 | in the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. |
| 1:18.2 | The FBI knew what they were doing, and they played an active role. |
| 1:21.5 | We're going to lay out what the head of the CIA laid out this week. |
| 1:24.6 | All of that on today's verdict. |
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