next guest says they re still far behind u.s. airlines in this respect. captain john barton is a pilot for a major airline, also a legislative representative of the airline pilots association, alpa for short. mr. barton, let me begin as a matter of fact by discussing alpa. alpa today released a press statement. they called for several improvements. two things they did not call for. they did not call for increasing the two-hour recording capabilities. nor did alpa call for cockpit placing of cameras in cockpits. can you speak to those two issues? why not increase the length of time that would be recorded from the two hours? well, mike, obviously you know i ve been working legislative issues with the coalition families and ellen sarasini on the hill. but those two issues there, wouldn t a video camera in the cockpit or increased video or voice recorder time would not
the wake of flight 370, but my next guest says they re still far behind u.s. airlines in this respect. captain john barton is a pilot for a major airline, also a legislative representative of the airline pilots association, alpa for short. mr. barton, let me begin as a matter of fact by discussing alpa. alpa today released a press statement. they called for several improvements. two things they did not call for. they did not call for increasing the two-hour recording capabilities. nor did alpa call for cockpit placing of cameras in cockpits. can you speak to those two issues? why not increase the length of time that would be recorded from the two hours? well, mike, obviously you know i ve been working legislative issues with the coalition families and ellen sarasini on the hill. but those two issues there, wouldn t a video camera in the
funyuns, which are delicious, scratching and looking like andy dig. and a non-essential employee is what you get when you feed cash into a bloat ed bureaucracy, without ever designating its necessity. it s a lot like the movie the blob, but without the happy ending. now for the top story, joining me from nashville, scotty hughes, and from washington, richard fouler, beautiful picture behind him. a radio talk show host and former policy director for the young democrats of america. scottie, wouldn t a private company with nine out of ten non-essential workers sink faster than michael moore in a ball pit? well, completely, that s the thing, greg, if a small business is in a crunch, what they do is literally go into survival mode. they cut out the fat and do what it takes to exist until they are
funyuns, which are delicious, scratching and looking like andy dig. and a non-essential employee is what you get when you feed cash into a bloat ed bureaucracy, without ever designating its necessity. it s a lot like the movie the blob, but without the happy ending. now for the top story, joining me from nashville, scotty hughes, and from washington, richard fouler, beautiful picture behind him. a radio talk show host and former policy director for the young democrats of america. scottie, wouldn t a private company with nine out of ten non-essential workers sink faster than michael moore in a ball pit? well, completely, that s the thing, greg, if a small business is in a crunch, what they do is literally go into survival mode. they cut out the fat and do what it takes to exist until they are ready to grow again.
you need an fbi agent sitting down there for five days, not five minutes you. need grand juries. you need subpoenas. you need toll records you. need the ability to immunize, if necessary, and congress is just not good at that. so, we can get answers but what can we do about it? has anyone been indicted? has anyone been brought before a grand jury? neil: would a prosecutor have any better luck subpoenaing information from the irs that shields itself under the privacy laws even athlete was the irs that invaded and took advantage of the privacy laws going after groups. how do you rectify that? wouldn t a prosecutor run into the same walls and blocks put up by an agency that claims privacy laws shield them from giving this type of information to you? i tell you this, neil, the one time in my life when i had the least amount of trouble