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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Trump’s purge of the federal government reaches the FBI & Justice Dept.

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

NBC News

Policy, Msnbc, Politics, President, Washington, Congress, Government, Senate, News

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: A second federal judge blocks Donald Trump’s funding freeze. Also, Trump’s Justice Department fires dozens of prosecutors of January 6 cases. And Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation is in jeopardy after a testy hearing. Rep. Eugene Vindman, David Rhode, Joyce Vance, and Tom Nichols join Ali Velshi.

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0:00.0

Now it is time for the last word with our dear friend Ali Valshi, who's been working overtime all day and all night.

0:06.0

Good evening, Ali.

0:07.0

I wish I were not working overtime on plane crashes.

0:09.0

I have to tell you that.

0:10.0

Philadelphia Northeast Airport is where I trained to talk to air traffic control.

0:14.0

Because when you, I flew out of a little airport out of Philadelphia, which didn't have a control tower.

0:19.0

It's like a little rural airport. So you have to

0:21.1

train to talk to air traffic control, which is really hard. You know, it sounds normal, but they all have

0:26.3

their own language. And that's where I trained to do this. And one of the things they train you for

0:30.2

in flying is how to declare an emergency. There's ways to do it on the control panel. You squawk a signal

0:36.5

7,700 to say distress.

0:39.3

You say Mayday.

0:40.7

You say pan, pan, pan, if it's not life-threatening.

0:43.8

We're seeing air traffic control logs now, and none of that happened, which means they did not get a warning.

0:50.5

Air traffic control lost communications with this airplane.

0:53.9

And there was no, at least as of now,

0:56.3

and these things changed and develop and breaking new stories,

0:58.4

but there was no warning.

0:59.4

So it's a sad, sad story in the air and on the ground

1:03.5

where fires continue to burn.

1:04.9

And thank you for your great coverage of it tonight.

1:07.3

Well, you too, Alie.

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