00:00So at 3.36 p.m., we experienced instability for our radar and our communications and our centers and our
00:08TRACONs across the country.
00:10So if you don't know this, at airports we have towers. The next rung out is a TRACON. After that,
00:16we have en route centers.
00:18The TRACONs and the centers, we started to have inconsistency in the data from the radars and our communication with
00:24airplanes.
00:26And we have procedures for this. Our pilots are well-trained. Our air traffic controllers are well-trained.
00:32And at that point, we issued a ground stop. We had over 3,500 airplanes in the air.
00:37They all engaged. And last time I looked, we had less than 400 in the airspace as they were all
00:45coming in to safely land.
00:46And we navigated it with our well-known procedures.
00:49So what happened? I've heard a lot of the rumors like Mark Wayne has.
00:53But what we have is an incredibly old air traffic control system.
00:58I think every single one of your networks have covered the president and myself talking about this for the last
01:06two years.
01:06The president for the last year has been asking Congress to fully fund a full build of a brand new
01:13air traffic control system.
01:15So we have TDM telecom. So this is analog telecom.
01:20Our switches, our routers, actually got overloaded with data. And they went down.
01:26And I shouldn't say they went down. They started to give us inconsistency in the data from those routers.
01:34And because of that, we shut the system down. Now, I have already replaced some of those switches with President
01:40Trump.
01:40And our new IP switches did not go down. It's the old hardware that went down.
01:46And I think the question for the American people is, do you want your Congress to fund this?
01:52President Trump has asked for the money. He's asked the Congress on a bipartisan approach to say, give us the
02:00resources to build a state-of-the-art air traffic control system.
02:04Let's not do a patchwork, a fix to a system that's critical for every single family.
02:11It's not red. It's not blue. It's not Democrat. It's not Republican. It's American. Give us the money to fix
02:16it.
