From New York, this is Democracy Now.

I understand that.

That's why I'm trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now

that diversity had something to do with this crash.

Because I have common sense, okay?

Without any evidence, President Trump blames the deadly Washington, D.C.

plane crash on diversity.

We'll speak to aircraft dispatcher Bill McGee on the big line

of aviation DEI, then to Capitol Hill for three high-profile confirmation hearings of Trump's

cabinet members. Before I conclude, I want to make sure this committee is clear about a few things.

News reports and many in the hearing yesterday have claimed that I'm anti-vaccine and any industry.

Well, I'm neither.

As Trump's pick for Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. insists he's not anti-vax. We'll go to Samoa, where experts

blame his campaign against vaccines for a deadly measles outbreak in 2019 that killed over 80

people, many of them children. Then to the confirmation hearings for Cash Patel, Trump's picked ahead the FBI.

Have you referred to the media as the most powerful enemy of the United States that they have ever seen?

And to the confirmation hearing for Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who repeatedly refused to call whistleblower Edward Snowden a traitor.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

The National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed all 64 people aboard American Airlines Flight 5432 were killed Wednesday evening when the passenger jet collided with the U.S. military helicopter and crashed

into the Potomac River as it made its final approach to Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C.

All three people aboard the Black Hawk helicopter were killed as well.

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