there was an unprecedented amount of obstruction iner the investigation into hunter biden s finances. watch. are you convinced, lookingck a back at this now, that this was an effort to protect president biden and his family ? i mean, we were conducting w investigation of hunter biden and we were tryingere tr to fole the normal process. we were trying to get to the bottom of it. itand ultimately, you know, if was going to lead to another individual, you know, we should follow that to to determine what was actually happening. but, you know, there werew ther definitely hindrances that i ve never seen before in my 14 y years concerning this investigation that didn t allow us to followea through an investigation of of of anyher in other individual to include president biden. so this guy seems credibldie according to the whatsapp messages. in 2017, hunter biden demanded that chinese energy company cfcc pay the bidensom more than doube what the ccp billing company was already of
welcome to our viewers in the united states and watching around the world. i m jake tapper. the fact she grew up as an immigrant child. her parents emigrated to the united states from india. she grew up in a situation where she did face challenges because she was different in her words in a video she will put out yesterday and talk about her time leading this state of south carolina as the first female governor, two-time governor in this state, what she did to bring people together after the awful shooting at mother emmanuel ame church that happened in 2014 while she was governor. that s just blocks from here. she will likely talk about her time as ambassador to the united nations and told that in the context of having worked with trump in the trump administration, she will raise the former president, but what she s not expected to do is really take him on or criticize him in this speech. that is in line with what we ve seen from her in recent comments where she s talked abou
your intro here said, listen, the problem really is the faa, the faa is understaffed. so when we have delays, whether it s basedffedhave on weather r mechanics, we were cut by incoming flights, by 40%.a o the faa couldn tul handle the flights coming in by 40%. they reduced them and flights taking off are reduced by 75%.75 pe the faa hasn t been staffed up. whrcent the y, though, what s g? i think that i think that s the million dollar question. so if you re petn-dollare but a, you don t really care about air travel. that s notg you your number one priority or mission. the number one mission for people to judg trae is climate change, global warming. so they don t want to travel in the how do they make it forer you to travel? the more painful, the more delaysy make, the less you re gg to buy that ticket and be willing to take, you know, you and now on a flight or you and your kids on a flight, you know, i ll just stay home. they don t want you to fly. they don t want you to fly driv.
these meltdowns, another national ground stop potentially. as you mentioned, there s also these safety issues that are on the table that are being discussed. two near collisions at jfk and austin and this recent incident we learned of a united 777 flight plunging toward the ocean just after takeoff from maui. we don t know why the pilots went into that dive. the faa hasn t said. take a listen to their acting administrator respond to some pointed questions about safety. overall, i have a good sense about where we are and i say to the american public that we are safe, the answer is we are. can we be better? the answer is absolutely and that s the piece we re working on. and a big part of that, nolan says, is a new sweeping safety review that faa is going to be doing, including a summit next month with partners from across the aviation industry, jake, and they want to figure out how many
airline seats are shrinking more and more. don t count on the faa to help you out. the federal agency is refusing to regulate airline seating size. yes, a consumer group sued the faa arguing that smaller airline seats combined with many passengers expanding waistlines could slow down evacuations. the faa s response is, not our problem. they say the issue is something that needs to be worked out between passengers and airlines. let s talk it over with cnn transportation analyst mary schiavo, the former inspector general for the u.s. transportation department. and mary, should the faa intervene here? reporter: the faa should intervene, but i find the interest extremely interesting. it has consequences i m sure the faa hasn t thought about. what s paramount is the 90-second rule. that is that airlines and aircraft manufacturers have to prove to the faa they can do it by testing or computer modeling that they can get everybody off