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Welcome back to the "prime time." i will set aside my argument this should have been congresss decision from the beginning. lets talk about the process. if we accept the presidents reckoning. which i dont. i dont believe that the discussion of casualties only came up at the last second. if we accept it, he didnt think about to ask about what the human cost would be until the last second. surprising. >> i think its actually much worse than that. on military commanders understand proportionality. ...

Now, without data connection or connection to a cell tower your gps chip in your phone is not going to be as functional as it would be on the ground. >> okay. and the radar, the fact that radar is not as effective, i mean, its because if youre going to be out over a vast body of water, right, you need the towers on which to bounce off signals. right? >> thats right. you cant put a radar tower in the middle of the ocean which makes it really hard to pick up a plane when its flying both low or ove...

Question, but its on a lot of peoples minds i know because people have been asking me about it all day long. people are asking, you can find a cell phone. you can track down a cell phone through satellites these days. would it be possible to do that on any of the passengers cell phones to somehow get a gps location from any of the passengers cell phones if theyre out there? >> no. whats wrong with that youre not getting the signals from the satellite. the cell phones getting the signals from tow...

Controllers were caught sleeping on the job. the top official has now lost his job and the government is launching a top to bottom review. >> what happened in these control towers with controllers sleeping is outrageous, the kind of behavior we will not tolerate at the faa, we will not tolerate in control towers, safety is always our number one priority. >> air traffic controllers tell the associated press it is not uncommon for overnight workers to nap on the job and one whistle-blower says the...

To reassure travelers after several air traffic controllers were caught sleeping on the job. the top official has lost his job. the government is launching a top to bottom review. >> what happened in these control towers with controllers sleeping is outrageous, it eat kind of behavior that we will not tolerate at the faa. we will not tolerate in control towers. safety is always our number one priority. >> air traffic controllers tell the associated press that its not uncommon for overnight worke...