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morning following a major computer outage at the faa. >> john: the white house set to brief in moments after the biden administration mixed messaging added to today's confusion. karine jean-pierre ruling out a cyber attack, only to have president biden say later that they don't know if hackers were to blame. >> sandra: will the white house have the story straight by the time the briefing takes place? it's scheduled for now, so we are watching for karine jean-pierre to take to the podium. when that begins, we'll get to it. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into hour two. hectic ...

Pilots are not happy about the FAA’s 2023 budget that outlines spending for "inclusive" language and "climate change" while ignoring system updates.

Karl, the sequestration, you fly a lot, i fly a lot. a lot of people across the country fly a lot. what's going to happen? >> well, this is not because of the sequestration cuts. let's look at the numbers. the faa budget is about $12.75 billion. they have to cut roughly just under 5%, around $600 million as a result of the sequestration. now what they have decide today do is to do it by taking ten percent of the workforce of the faa, air-traffic controller, and furloughing them but they have alternatives. they on their own authority could take two percent of their budget for consultants. they ...

Should come from elsewhere in the faa budget. >> these are all bad choices. i acknowledge that. but in order to comply with the guidelines of the sequester law, we have to take these actions. >> i wish you would have told us earlier so we had a chance to plan. >> lawmakers told him they knew the cuts were coming but only get the details of how they'll be carried out last week. >> shepard: with everybody in the country screaming and yelling and 3-hour delays, my guess is they're going to figure something out. >> well, that's what everybody's waiting for. which side will blink first. one lawmake...

Karl, the sequestration, you fly a lot, i fly a lot. a lot of people across the country fly a lot. what's going to happen? >> well, this is not because of the sequestration cuts. let's look at the numbers. the faa budget is about $12.75 billion. they have to cut roughly just under 5%, around $600 million as a result of the sequestration. now what they have decide today do is to do it by taking ten percent of the workforce of the faa, air-traffic controller, and furloughing them but they have alternatives. they on their own authority could take two percent of their budget for consultants. they ...