Welcome back to the Pod Force One podcast. I'm Miranda Devine and today I'm in the Department of Transportation Central Command Hub and I'm with Secretary Sean Duffy who has the enormous task of overhauling America's transit infrastructure.

Secretary Duffy, thanks so much for joining Pod Force One. It's great to be with you,

Miranda. I appreciate it. Pod Force One. Such an honor. Thank you. And we're in this amazing room,

the nerve center, I guess, of the department. Tell us what it's all about. Yeah, this is the talk,

is what we call it. So when crisis happens at the Department of Transportation, say like in East Palestine,

I wasn't here for that. But this kicks up and we have great communication and a great space to

coordinate all of our equities to make sure we can respond effectively. The FAA, which is also under

DOT, has their own talk like this. It's just not quite

as, this is a nice space. But again, you can't see behind the cameras, but there's a lot of

space where you can bring people in and be responsive. And East Palestine, Ohio was a disaster

for the people who lived there.

Were you amazed just sitting on the outside seeing your predecessor, Pete Buttigieg, ignored it?

The president, President Biden didn't go there for months.

Donald Trump went there as a candidate, you know, then not in office.

He went there to help the people.

So at the time I was working on Fox Business, the bottom line, which you came on quite a bit,

which I appreciate.

And I think we were the first TV show to cover it.

Right.

And the lack of response.

And again, half the job is showing up and seeing what's going on, putting your eyes on it, not reading a report, and seeing what people need as they're

trying to recover from what you're right was a tragic event. But what our mission is now is to

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