during president obama's tenure, nbc news' peter alexander questioned white house press secretary sarah huck by sanders on whether president obama actually deserves some credit? >> look the president has raised the bar for our nation's aviation's safety and security. he certainly is very grateful. last 82er the president announced his initiative to modernize air traffic control and under his leadership the department of homeland security released enhanced security measures to ensure safer air travel. look the president is very happy there were no commercial airline deaths in 2017. we hope that trends continues well into 2018 and beyond. >> so john heilemann, he has a huge nuclear arsenal with a huge button and rescued the airline industry. not bad for a day's work, isn't snit. >> a number of people say