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This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent. On Wednesday night, a passenger jet collided with a military helicopter over Washington, D.C., leaving no survivors.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump went before the cameras and blamed Democrats, diversity, equity, and inclusion training, and many other things for the disaster,

and seethed with anger at reporters who dared to ask tough questions about his claims.

We don't yet know what caused this crash, but Trump's rush to judgment is already demonstrating

how he will conduct this presidency. He's going to lead with far-right obsessions and

tropes at some of the most critical and sensitive moments. Trump's anger here was telling. It

visibly infuriated him when his efforts to push those obsessions and tropes were subjected to even

minimal questioning. Today we're talking about all this with Juliet Kayam, a former senior Department of Homeland

Security official during the Obama administration, who has a new piece for the Atlantic

looking at conditions that might have led to the crash.

Juliet, thanks for coming on.

Thanks for having me on.

So this jet had 64 people on board and crashed into the Potomac River after colliding with a military helicopter at around 9 p.m. on Wednesday night.

The helicopter appeared to be on a training flight.

Juliet, can you sum up what we know so far, why the crash happened?

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