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>> sean: i'll come up with a new one. send me your ideas. >> laura: i got it. awesome show i'll pick it up where hannity left off i am laura ingraham this is ingraham angle from new york city tonight. now, life is getting harder and it's feeling more dangerous in the liberal utopias like san francisco where we just were, la, philly, chicago. regular, sane people are getting tired of paying through the nose for declining quality of life. and as we've seen in new york, well, they're just deciding, i'm going to pick up and move. seeing a lot of for lease signs, i have over the last few ...

Media's doing everything they can to elevate and prioritize characteristics that mean absolutely nothing and try to make the unlikable likeable. most people don't know who the head of transportation is usually. they don't know who you are that means you're probably doing a great job. who runs the department of labor not really that important unless you're messing up. that's not the way to go be a celebrity or waiting place. let's be honest they put him there bass he checked a box. >> laura: what was his experience i worked at dot, believe it or not, i actually worked in that building the chief...

Spending cuts. the president's secretary of transportation. >> it is a billion dollars faa has biggest number of plies at dot. >> trips to the overall federal budget has very, very small cuts. they have warned of things like massive airport checkpoint delays worse case scenario doesn't material lies some friday or shortly there after it will bolster republican claims. >> to not cut 2 and a half percent out of the total budget over a year when it was twice the size it was 10 years ago, give me a break. >> meantime the president insistence on raising tacks to avert the sequestor er is a nonstart...

You did with this company. so if you go to work for a company, if you go to work for toyota, you cannot communicate on issues that you dealt with at d.o.t. so, for example, if those employees worked at nhtsa, which they did, they can't come back and be talking about these things. they can talk about a highway project or, you know, something like that, i suppose, but -- and here's my pledge to all of you. if anybody here knows that there's violations, let me know. i'll refer it to the i.g. and there will be an investigation. we're not going to -- there has been no more higher standard set for e...

Only that, but they had a very sensible and robust-out mechanism to take people out of the system who did not have what it took to be a good and competent pilot. unfortunately in the civilian world, our washout system is not quite so good. our standards are if you meet the standards, you can have a license. it doesn't say if you pass the test first time, the third time, the eighth time. it doesn't say how many times you can flunk the test. it just says if you pass the test, you're in. all right, let me bring in former d.o.t. inspector mary schiavo. and that's a little scary to hear, it doesn...