and for those keeping score at home, it s two democratic appointees and one republican appointee who are hearing this case, which i think lends some optimism to the jack smith s team because of that makeup. it s also true, this argument for donald trump is a pretty extraordinary stretch. remember when we covered the mueller investigation. and there was much sdiscussion that there s is a justice department policy. not a law, but a policy, that says a sitting president should not be indicted. implicit in that policy, of course, he could be indicted later for something he did. that s always been the assumption. gerald ford pardoned richard nixon for his crimes in watergate. if he couldn t be prosecuted, there would be no need for a po pardon. for a former president, for conduct while in office. that s what the pardon was for. everyone assumed without the pardon, he could be prosecuted. once you are out of office, you are an order citizen like everyone else. interestingly
angeles and this is america s late news, fox news at night. and breaking tonight, the ntsb is now holding a briefing at this hour right now about the alaska airlines incident that broke on this show on friday night. we will bring you updates from the ntsb as soon as the briefing starts and we will dip into it live if there is any relevant or new information. meantime, it s crunch time in iowa with the gop presidential candidates campaigning into the night using every minute to make their final appeals to voters. as the iowa caucuses now just one week away, and there is so much on the line that even the front runner, former president trump, leading by 30, is now urging his supporters to get out and vote and ron desantis and nikki haley are banking on an upset victory. aishah hasnie is live for us on the trail in des moines iowa with the very latest on the pre caucus run-up. issue a, good evening. reporter: good evening to you, trace, we are live here from a very snowy and wi
correlation between the two. with respect to the etops restriction, alaska airlines reported to the ntsb that their internal policy is to restrict aircraft with multiple maintenance write-ups for certain aircraft systems from flying e-tops flights for a period of time. that s not required by the regulation, that is an extra step that alaska airlines put in place. now, e-stops stands for extended twin engine operations. what that means is that etops permits twin engine airplanes to operate over a rout that contains a point further than three hours flying time, three hours for this aircraft, from the nearest airport.
aircraft with multiple systems from flying etops flights for a period of time. that s not required by the regulation. that s an extra step alaska put in place. etops is extended twin engine operations. that allows twin engine airplanes to go over a route that is further than three hours flying time, from the nearest airport. the restriction was put in place for alaska to conduct maintenance p. as for the structures, i want to thank bob, that all of the media