Loyalty to Trump Isn’t Enough
Velshi
MS NOW, Ali Velshi
4.7 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. It is Saturday, April the 4th. I'm Ali Valshi. The search continues for one American crew member after a U.S. F-15 fighter jet was shot down by Iranian forces over Iran yesterday. You are looking at debris from the crash. |
| 0:23.3 | The jet was carrying two crew members. The military was able to rescue one of the two crew members. |
| 0:30.0 | A U.S. official tells MS. now that a second American jet, this one is an A-10. It's called a warthog, |
| 0:37.0 | is believed to have been shot down by |
| 0:38.8 | Iranian forces near the Strait of Hormuz. The lone pilot of that aircraft was rescued. |
| 0:45.1 | Additionally, at least one Blackhawk helicopter was fired on, and several of its crew members |
| 0:50.9 | have been injured while they were searching for the missing American |
| 0:54.5 | service member from the downed F-15 jet. So there is one pilot unaccounted for right now from |
| 1:01.8 | that F-15 jet. We do not know what his condition is, whether it's a he or a she. We don't |
| 1:08.0 | know where they are. The Iranians have not claimed that they have |
| 1:11.6 | got custody of this person. There is a search operation underway. We'll stay on top of these |
| 1:17.6 | developments. We're going to have live reporting from the region in just a few minutes. However, switching |
| 1:22.5 | gears to a seismic shakeup here at Donald Trump's DOJ. The Trump mega loyalist and personal lawyer Pam Bondi |
| 1:29.1 | is out as Attorney General. Now, you know the story, but there's a lot more to it. Some people are |
| 1:34.7 | celebrating, pointing to her chaotic tenure that turned the Justice Department into Donald Trump's |
| 1:39.8 | personal vendetta machine, which of course he promised during the campaign. But don't get too |
| 1:45.9 | comfortable. Donald Trump's reported shortlist to replace Bondi doesn't suggest that either reform |
| 1:51.4 | nor order is coming to the Justice Department. In fact, it's quite the opposite. You see, |
| 1:57.1 | Bondi was all about fealty, but it seems that fealty itself is no longer enough in this second Trump administration. |
| 2:05.1 | What Trump needs in an attorney general is a fixer. |
| 2:09.3 | Blind fealty is simply the starting point now. |
| 2:12.7 | The ceiling is how far you're actually willing to go. |
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