he is under constant surveillance and given medication, as he recovers from injury suffered in a chase with police. the f.b.i. says he got the right man this time in the case of the ricin-laced letters. authorities arrested 41-year-old james everett 41-year-old everett dutschke at the home in mississippi. he is accused of mailing poise on the the president, a senator and local judge. he thinks he smarter than everybody else. he has a mensa certificate so i m not surprised at all. anna: tuesday, investigators dropped the charge against the first suspect. elvis impersonator kevin curtis. curtis claims he was framed by dutschke. dutschke is expected to appear in court tomorrow. the nation air traffic control towers will be back to normal, staff levels by tonight after the fur lowes forced the major flight delays last week. f.a.a. ending mandatory furloughs yesterday brought on by sequestration cuts. the lawmakers rushed a bill through congress to allow them
washington was that even among conservative republicans, they were very nervous about having small air traffic control towers closed in their communities. they were hearing from their residents about flight delays. so there was great urgency to fix it on both sides of the aisle. i want to play a little of what senator john mccain and bob cork he both today, their response to what happened. we should mention this was as they were boarding flights to get out of washington, d.c. let me play it. i think everybody on both sides of the aisle knew that the white house was purposefully trying to inconvenience people to try to force us to a different place as it relates to spending. it is a failure of congress, frankly, and the president to join together to prevent these really unnecessary hardships on the american public. so again you see the airport background there. how much of a role did the airlines play in all of this? the airlines had resisted
trillion budget this year, i m not buying that the administration and congress can t find enough money to keep our air traffic control towers staffed. joe, this is a complete no-brainer. we have a federal government that has more than doubled in size more than 100% growth in spending the last 12 years and now we are told we can t trim 2.5% of that. here is what i think is a little known fact that is pretty compelling about why the administration is clearly manufacturing a crisis for political gain. take a look at the faa budget. if the sqest goes through and stays in place the faa will have more money to spend in 2013 than what the president asked for in his budget submission. hold on. hold on. stop. because sometimes there are things that are said that need to be repeated. okay. i want you really? let s have three seconds of silence. then i want you to repeat that
political motives, thousands of people were stuck on tarmacs over the last few days. congress had an opportunity but republicans made a choice. and this is a result of a choice they made to embrace the sequester as, and i m quoting republicans, as a victory for the tea party and a home run. if the blame was partisan, the pain was not. long lines and missed connections raised bipartisan concerns with republican and democratic senators asking the transportation secretary and head of the faa how much funding do you need to avoid furloughing air traffic controllers and to keep the contract air traffic control towers open and what could you cut from other accounts to avoid or reduced air traffic controller furloughs and contract closures and there were bipartisan proposed solutions. what i believe is there ought to be postponement of these furloughs to give all of us a chance to revisit the con stained imposed by
a temporary delay for the faa s plan to close down air traffic control towers around the country. but a lawsuit brought on a lost-minute delay. these communities have until june 15 to a former investigator with the ntsb. greg, welcome to you, all of these air traffic controllers, like 100,000 of them might lose their jobs as a result of this. it saves the faa $30 million a year, but it says safety will be a top priority. how do you reconcile that? is that possible. well, it is and it isibility. there s two sides of this county, one it saves money but what about safety? and has secretary la hood has said, you need to ensure safety.