Welcome back to the weekend, folks. Were here, and House Speaker mike johnson is proving he is actually really good at one thing. Kicking that can down the road. Congress now has another week to avoid a partial government shutdown. But none of this is normal, and we cannot say that enough. If congress was actually functioning like it should, this would have been a done deal back in september. So, joining us have to discuss this and all other things happening with the governments Transportation Secretary pete buttigieg. Secretary buttigieg, welcome to the program. You are still in washington, d. C. Your colleagues on capitol hill, most of them, have gone home. Theres a chance that were gonna be here this weekend, figuring out if they can continue to fund the government. They kick the can down the road. They bought themselves about a week. Can you just give us a sense form your Vantage Point of what is at stake with the government operating in this way, with Congressional Republicans con
gaffes and a special counsel report highlighting his cognitive struggles. but as per usual, the mob, m the media, they raceedia to defense. take a look. i thought it was a ihot waught s good for him to show who he is. this is not handlers. this is no, thist pollsters. this was joe biden. you knowsters, t, sort of lettia everybody know kind of where he s coming from and how he feels. nd hows. i think that makes hm more youthful, more engaged, more humanaged, more relatable. do you want to give the age thing? because this is let s call it o what it is. this is ageism. snuck into a report clearing the person of any wrongdoing. if someone says you re too far left, you can tack to the centerfa. 0 year there s not. the man is 80 years old. he rides a bike. let me educate our friends in the mob, in the media, because this sea is very seri. according to the special counsel s reporto ,e bide biden presented was presented as, quote, a sympathetic, well-meaningn esented eld
Trump were seen at the department of justice. Also, the mysterious sonic boom heard around washington, what we know about the investigation into the scrambling of f16 fighter jets after a private plane was flying off course and into protected air space above the capitol. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. I want to start in washington with the latest on that plane crash and nbcs tom costello. Tom, whats happening right now . Reporter investigators are now on the scene. Ntsb investigators are on the scene of this remote plane crash in virginia. In a very thick, wooded forest. There is nothing left of this private plane, a Citation Cessna that went down midday yesterday. You can see the charred remains. Investigators say it literally is decimated there on the ground. Its so remote it takes hours to hike in. This will not be a quick or a fast or an easy investigation. This all started, of course, with a flight that seemed to be really confusing. The fligh
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thateverybody shirt. it s friday, so you know what that means. . let s welcome tonight s guests like a genie. she can also fit in a bottle. co-host of america s newsroom in the five, dana perino. ino. hide him from your wives, kil because they ll probably kill themselves. comedianl joe, he s my third favorite, lou. after breakout and. comedian author of that joke isn t funny anymore. read and she does her best lifting at the gym where she steals purses in the locker room. new york times best selling author. right. som yeah. okay. before we get to some nenewsw l. do this. greg s leftovers. yeah, me? th it s leftovers where i read the jokes that we didn t use this week. and asuse always it s my first time reading them. so if they , we ll throw macn into a meat grinder and make mac meatballs, and then, of course, feed them to steve doocy. all right, here, go.st first medical research to say nose picking can lead to memory. loss. i really don t have to sayking anything.