ali will be back next weekend. catch him from 10 am to noon eastern. stay right where you are, alex witt reports begins right now. eports begins right now. if you from msnbc headquarters in new york, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we have developing for you this hour, donald trump, trying to keep his hold on the republican party, giving it a nearly two-hour speech to close out cpac, after dominating the stronghold with 52%, the former president has some fiery words. in 2016, i declared, i am your voice. today, i add, i am your warrior, i am your justice. and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, i am your retribution, i am your retribution. the former president was also asked if you are drop out of the 2024 race if he is indicted. here is his answer. i would not even think about leaving. these are fake stories, these are horrible. the press is pressing them to do something. and i think it is very sad for our country, i think it is very dangerous for ou
and today, on a series of recent near misses being investigated by the faa, including this re-creation you are seeing there, of an incident in austin, texas. earlier today, publican senator gab sullivan stressed the need to take action to better prevent incidents like the one you are seeing. they much more aggressive focus on updating their technology and infrastructure that has come out in the hearings. i think that is something that we need to make sure. again, proactively, what we don t want happening is some kind of airplane disaster, and then congress is writing legislation to deal with it after. and new concerns today as fox news host tucker carlson prepares to air security footage from the january 6th attack. earlier today, house minority leader hakeem jeffries, sounding the alarm over what may be shared, and how it could be presented. it is not yet clear to me that material footage, that any