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until then, i ll send it back to you, guys, from the bottom of the world. all right. the top of the hour on cnn newsroom, good afternoon, everyone, i m bianna golodryga. i m victor blackwell. we re beginning with another dangerous close call involving a commercial airliner on a u.s. runway. the faa is now investigating. so here s what happened, monday night in boston logan airport, a jetblue flight and a private jet reportedly came within 565 feet of colliding. just a weeking in burbank, california, a mesa airlines had to abort its landing because a southwest flight was on the same runway. there was a close call between a fedex carg honolulu. days before that, aiines flightt of a delta flight at jfk in new york. this is all taking place as president biden s nominee to lead the faa sits down for his confirmation hearing and it hasn t exactly been smooth sailing for him. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean joins us now. pete, if confirmed, he clearly has a lot ....
People as we talk about these disasters waiting to happen that we re far safer on a plane than we are in a car and other modes of transportation. and in talking about these category as. something i learned from you, mary. thank you. let s talk about phil washington, the president s nominee to lead the faa, confirmation hearing today. a ceo at denver airport, you talked about that. not much aviation experience before 2021. does he need that? is he a good fit for the faa? what do you think? well, i agree with his statement that they have to do something different and they have to do it you know, they have to look for new technologies and they have to do something better and new than what they re doing, ahead of the wrong direction. however, having spent so long in the department of transportation and trying to oversee an audit of the federal aviation administration, the powers that be there, the entrenched bureaucracy, will tend to eat him alive if he s not a pilot. ....
you have roughly two or three of the most sophisticated terrorist organizations on the earth in those mountains, so we can t take our eye off the ball there. until a time where there s a much greater maturity and strength within the afghan government. bret: mccarthy and the president s choice as air force secretary barbara barrett appeared at the confirmation hearing today. both are expected to be confirmed. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says continued rocket fire from gaza is making another war against power, which is in a coastal strip. inevitable, netanyahu is taking a tough stance against israel s enemies i had a big election next tuesday. meanwhile tonight, there are revelations about israel s treatment of perhaps its greatest ally, the u.s. state department correspondent rich edson has the story. a claim that u.s. officials caught a top american ally spying on the united states. ....
bill: quick last comment, mo. this is deeper than just politics. i m glad that we re having this conversation as gross as it is. we have a lot of racial division still in this country. the president has shown that this last weekend. the more we take about it, the better it is. bill: thank you all. you guys come back. sandra: fox news alert as president trump s secretary of defense faces questions at the confirmation hearing today. he became acting defense secretary a few weeks ago and formally nominated to lead the department yesterday. lucas tomlinson has the late freft the pentagon for us this morning. it has been seven months since the pentagon had a senate confirmed defense secretary. expect fireworks from some democrats on the committee from presidential hopeful elizabeth warren who wants to use his confirmation hearing to challenge trump s policies. he wants to continue to focus on the rising threats from ....
Dangling those pardons as he has done. he still hasn t taken off the table pardoning paul manafort. on the subpoena issue and why this is important today. given our reporting from last night, mueller still wants to talk to trump. it s clear that they still want information from him. they want to follow-up. right now the president and his team are saying, we have no interest in talking to them. what is going to happen in the end. this subpoena issue is could be a big one. a very significant development indeed guys. jessica, there s more we need to discuss right now, joining us, senator chris coons, a democrat who serves on the judiciary committee. he took part in william barr s confirmation hearing today. i want to get to the barr hearing, in a moment. lots of questions, i want to begin with your quick reaction to these late breaking developments in the mueller probe, what does it say to you ....